Blue chairs totally belong on the police & fire call boxes

Blue chairs totally belong on the police & fire call boxes

So this seems like it's a thing now.  

Walking around the Petworth neighborhood, I discovered someone is attaching small blue chairs to the tops of a couple of the old fire and police call boxes. And I approve! Love the street art nature of it. Here's a bit of back story on the historic call boxes...

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Toli Moli does another pop-up day featuring their acclaimed falooda

Toli Moli does another pop-up day featuring their acclaimed falooda

The mother-daughter team that makes up Toli Moli, Jocelyn Law-Yone and Simone Jacobson, are having another pop-up restaurant event, this time in Columbia Heights at Thip Khao (3462 14th Street NW) on Tuesday, March 29th, from 3:00pm – 10:00 pm. Their authentic layered dessert falooda drinks were met with a lot of love when they did a pop-up at Eat's Place back in January.

Now, they are looking to "sweeten snack time with the introduction of Burmese tea leaf salad and two new falooda flavors: Cherry Blossom and Bourbon-Cassis." 

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700 Quincy Street: Featured Listing of the Week

700 Quincy Street: Featured Listing of the Week

This week's Featured Listing of the Week comes from Yianni Konstantopoulos, one of the very first Sponsors of Petworth News when it launched last June. Yianni is offering a beautiful penthouse condo at 700 Quincy Street NW. It's really a nice home, it's close to Metro, shopping and restaurants and it even has off-street parking. I doubt it'll be on the market for long.

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Poll: What's your favorite Petworth area restaurant?

Poll: What's your favorite Petworth area restaurant?

I'm trying to do some research on Petworth area restaurants, and who better to ask than you?

Use the form in the article to submit sit-down restaurants along 14th Street, Upshur, Georgia Avenue, any area surrounding Petworth, like Park View, Brightwood, etc.  

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Stabbing on 14th Street on Monday night

Stabbing on 14th Street on Monday night

A juvenile Hispanic male (older teen) was stabbed along 14th Street late on Monday evening. 

The victim was stabbed just before 9pm somewhere along 14th Street, and made his way down to Mark's Market (3933 14th St NW) at the corner of Shepherd. Details inside...

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Attic DC: a Petworth resident is trying to help you shop DC’s independent antique and fashion retail

Attic DC: a Petworth resident is trying to help you shop DC’s independent antique and fashion retail

Writing about people like Tarek Anandan is one of the things I like best about writing Petworth News: profiling a local resident who is following his heart, doing something exceptional, and someone you might otherwise not have realized lived a few doors down from you.

Tarek and his wife Valentine combined their professional and personal passions and launched ATTIC DC, a website that promotes local, independently owned antique and fashion retail here in Petworth and around the city. Read more about Tarek and ATTIC...

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Reminder: East entrance of Petworth Metro closed tomorrow

Reminder: East entrance of Petworth Metro closed tomorrow

A reminder that the east side entrance to the Georgia Avenue / Petworth metro is closed starting Monday, March 21, 2016 for the next 45 weeks so WMATA can replace the escalators.

Read more about the closure.

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MPD responds to resident concerns, steps up bike patrols

MPD responds to resident concerns, steps up bike patrols

I heard from Lt Anthony Washington that MPD is planning to add a new mountain bike patrol in the area as a response to resident concerns and crime trends. Details ...

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Does your tap water taste funny? It's spring cleaning by DC Water

Does your tap water taste funny? It's spring cleaning by DC Water

DC Water, which runs the sewer and tap water system in DC, is temporarily changing the disinfectant they use to keep the system clean between March 7th and May 2nd. The change from chloramine to chlorine will result in a different smell and taste for tap water. DC Water recommends running the cold water tap for approximately two minutes and refrigerating tap water to reduce the chlorine taste and odor. Probably a good idea to use a filter. 

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MPD arrests burglary suspect, Georgia Ave homeowners can breath a bit easier

MPD arrests burglary suspect, Georgia Ave homeowners can breath a bit easier

Multiple home burglaries that occurred recently along the 3800 block of Georgia Avenue and one on Quincy have been closed with the arrest on Wednesday of a suspect. According to MPD, they arrested 33 year old Tremaine McDowell of Northwest DC. He was charged with three counts of Burglary One and one count of Burglary Two. Good work MPD!

Read the MPD press release.

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Wendy's on Georgia Ave closed Thursday for health violation

Wendy's on Georgia Ave closed Thursday for health violation

According to the DC Department of Health, the Food Safety & Hygiene Inspection Services Division (FSHISD) shut down the Wendy's at 3900 Georgia Avenue NW today for a health violation. 

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Metro to open 5am Thursday, here's what they found so far (video)

Metro to open 5am Thursday, here's what they found so far (video)

Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld held a press conference this evening to announce that Metro rail will open at 5am on Thursday, March 17th. After all day inspections, they found plenty of locations that needed repair

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Metro Closure afternoon update

Metro Closure afternoon update

WMATA's public relations team sent out an update email on the current status of the investigations they're doing on the rail tracks since they closed rail service yesterday. See more...

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