The Week Ahead..Photos & Help Name the Folger Library Cafe
By Larry Janezich
Posted February 11, 2024
A Go Fund Me effort to raise $150,000 to keep Barracks Row’s Queer café/bar in business has raised $165,000 in six days. The owners made the appeal for urgent support as they faced some financial hurdles after a slow season at the end of last year. The funds raised will go toward catching up on overhead costs and debts. Here’s a link to the Go Fund Me page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-as-you-are
Barracks Row MainStreet Executive Director Brian Ready led the Second Line Band in a sidewalk parade on Barracks Row Friday Night to kick-off weekend activities celebrating Mardi Gras.
The shelves are stocked and the new Eighth Street Beer Wine Spirit at 725 Barracks Row looks set to open.
The iconic Barracks Row building at 8th and G SE – the former home of landscape architects Oehme van Sweeden is up for sale. The asking price is $5.5 million, and includes the adjacent and attached row house on G Street (far right). The former bank (built in 1900) and the row house combined total 7,000 square feet.
According to Wiki, notable works of the landscape firm include the National World War II Memoria and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial.
Here a view of the building’s first floor looking toward 8th Street. Image credit: Real estate companies MLS images.
Here are the winners in Hill Center’s 2024 Regional Juried Exhibition. 1st Place: “Uplift” by Abol Bahdori; 2nd Place: “ADHD Enter Formula” by Jeff Bohlander; 3rd Place: “Golden Hour” by Cincin Fang. Image credit: Hill Center.
The Week Ahead..Photos & Help Name the Folger Library Cafe
By Larry Janezich
Posted February 11, 2024
Monday, February 12
ANC6D will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.
For info on how to join the meeting, go here: https://www.anc6d.org/virtual-meetings/
Among items on the draft agenda:
- Community Concerns
- Public Safety Report from MPD
- DPR Summer Camp and Town Center Park Updates
- TOPP Planning
- Additional Trash Can Requests
- Cherry Blossom 5K
- Purple Stride 5K
- ABCA Applications
- Chair’s Report
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
ANC6B will hold an in-person and virtual meeting at 7:00pm.
Meeting location will be 700 Pennsylvania Ave SE; First Floor (entry adjacent to Trader Joe’s).
For info on how to join the virtual meeting, go here: https://anc6b.org/
Among items on the draft agenda:
- Presentations
- Scott Goldstein, Executive Director of EmpowerEd
- Community & Commission Announcements
- Alcoholic Beverage & Cannabis Committee
- Update on status of Settlement Agreements for No Kids Allowed, 637B Pennsylvania Avenue SE; New Medical Cannabis Retailer; DC Dash, 727 8th Street SE, New Medical Cannabis Retailer; UpnSmoke 427 8th Street SE, New Medical Cannabis Retailer.
- Transportation Committee
- Request to Endorse Report on Sidewalk Safety
- Request for ANC Support: Capitol Hill Classic 2024
- Testimony for Council Oversight Hearing on DDOT
- Letter Regarding Traffic Safety Input at 14th & C Street SE
- Planning and Zoning Committee
- 1362 K Street, SE Project. Zoning Adjustment Application. To construct a two-story addition to an existing accessory building, of an existing, semi-detached, two-story, principal dwelling unit in the RF-1 zone.
- 633 E Street, SE Rear Project. Historic Preservation Application. To construct a two-story addition to an existing accessory building, of an existing, semi-detached, two-story, principal dwelling unit in the RF-1 zone.
- Update from Subcommittee on Alley Closings
- Public Parks and Recreation Spaces Task Force
- Response to CM Allen Regarding MOA on Management of Eastern Market Metro Plaza Park
- Support for Request for Pickleball Space at VA Avenue /Garfield Park
- ANC 6B Administrative Matters
- Election of ANC 6B Representative to the Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee
- Appointment of ANC 6B Resident Members and Alternates
- Election of Committee and Taskforce Chairs
ANC7D will hold a virtual meeting at 6:30pm.
For info on how to join the meeting, go here: https://7d0761.wixsite.com/anc7d-1
Among items on the draft agenda:
Community Speakers
- TBD, Prologis
- TBD, Pepco
DC Government Updates/Presentations
- Lawrence Davlin, Mayor’s Office of Community Relations & Services (MOCRS) Ward 7 Representative
- Francis Campbell, Office of Ward 7 Councilmember Vincent Gray
Community Presentations
- Tara Morrison, Superintendent, National Capital Parks East
- Kathy Harrison-Crews, Parking Enforcement, DC Department of Public Works
Public Safety Committee (Chair Brynn Barnett)
- January 2024 Committee Meeting Update
New Business
- Recommended Motion: ANC 7D send a letter to relevant DC Government Offices requesting enforcement of DC traffic violation reciprocity.
- Letter to Zoning Commission Regarding Hearing Rescheduling Date Request for ZC 23-28 beyond March 11, 2024
- Letter to Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) Reaffirming ANC 7D Support for an Anacostia River Arboretum Bridge
- Resolution in Support of Extending the DC Streetcar
Wednesday, February 14
ANC6C will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.
For info on how to join meeting, go here: https://anc6c.org/hot-topics/
Among items on the draft agenda:
Consent Calendar
- TBD
Transportation and Public Space Committee
- Bus priority/safety improvements on H St NE (3rd St. to Benning Rd.)
- Request for resident-only parking on certain blocks
- Public alley closure, C St. NE
- Proposed Capital Bikeshare station at 601 Mass. Ave. NE
- Capitol Hill Village/sidewalk survey
- Union Station expansion project update
Planning, Zoning, and Economic Development Committee (Mark Eckenwiler, Chair)
- 700 A St. NE (installation of plastic panels on exterior of stained-glass windows)
Capitol Hill Corner would like you to know about:
Help name the new Folger café
When the Folger reopens on June 21, it have a brand new café in the Great Hall. The Folger will offer grab-and-go breakfast options, coffee, tea, soups and sandwiches, snacks to eat in the garden, and drinks and light dinner fare in the evenings. The Folger would like to crowdsource the name of the café.
They are looking “for clever wordplay worthy of the building that houses the world’s largest Shakespeare collection.” Poetic turns of phrase that fit having coffee or a snack just steps from the stacks of rare books. Folger staff will share their favorites starting February 16 for Folger followers to vote on.
The form below will close at 11:59pm ET on February 12. Check back on February 16 to vote for the finalists.
https://www.folger.edu/blogs/folger-story/help-us-name-the-new-folger-cafe
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