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Posted Decade in Review: Senior Citizen Real Estate Tax relief to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
In 2006, I wrote a post about the Senior Citizen Real Estate tax relief deduction. 2008, I mentioned that I used the senior relief deduction mentioned in the DC Real Property Assesment and the Social Security Death Index databases to...
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Posted Decade in Review: Bikes to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
This morning I spotted the following at R and New Jersey Ave NW. New CaBi station! Well since this is a decade in review this is a far cry from the old ugly bike. Bike Handle Originally uploaded by In...
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Posted Decade in Review: Bloomingdale Farmer's Market to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
One of the great things about the neighborhood, and I say "neighborhood" in the general walking around space, ignoring political and civic boundaries, is the Bloomingdale Farmers Market. The BFM is coming back for another wonderful year of fruit,...
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Posted Decade in Review: Dream vs Present to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
I keep looking at my old 2003 post "My Dream of Shaw" trying to figure out what I could say to the person who wrote that entry ten years ago. Is my block diverse? Is my neighborhood diverse? There was...
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Posted Decade in Review- Miscellany to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
Blog Issues-I haven't been posting anything lately because of the flashing warning signal from my host saying how much space I was running out of, so I deleted a bunch of stuff, including, the old "This meeting never happened" entries....
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Posted Neighbor Alert- House may be coming up for sale on my block to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
I could search the past times I've done this, but I'm just going to break my own rule, just this once. Unless something like this pops up again.... Chatting with a neighbor, I discovered another family will be leaving our...
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Posted Decade in Review: That Damned Firehouse to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
Well I think I've found a pattern. I see something new, I search my blogs for when I posted about it, and write up something short and post it. This is the case with the North Capitol Street firehouse. Yes,...
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Posted Decade in Review: Parcel 42 to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
I saw on the Shaw Neighborhood Yahoo list ANC Kevin Chapple mentioned that the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) selected the Shaw 42 Developers as the developers for Parcel 42. This confused me because I thought some...
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Posted Decade in Review: New Stuff in Bloomingdale to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
Last night we drove past the new Italian Bloomingdale restaurant Red Hen, and man that place was crowded. It looked fun but crowded. We'll probably wait a week or two before checking it out ourselves. But this got me to...
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Posted Decade In Review: Individual Taxes to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
Happy Federal Income Tax due day. When I have blogged about taxes, I tend to stick with the real estate taxes because I can look that up on the city government's website. I have only mentioned the individual tax return...
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Posted Decade in Review: James Berry, ANC 5C & BACA prez. to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
Part of me wants to write about leadership, but I can see where that can lead to hurt feelings. I discovered a post on the ToT blog about a current leader's outburst that I found disappointing. But I'm going to...
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Posted Decade in Review: Joe Mamo and the Zombie/Vampire Project to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
I was actually looking into writing about someone else but something else popped up and sparked some memories, posts from 2005 about developer/entrepreneur Joe Mamo and his spot of dirt at the corner of Florida Ave NW and North Capitol...
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Posted Decade In Review- 2007-2008 City Services to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
I tried to find a post that marked when the neighborhood turned a corner for the better, when it went from being a transition where one could question how long it would be transitional to a point where you could...
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Posted Decade in Review: Your Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealers to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
This photo is one of the things I have to keep an eye on as I plan to delete things off the inshaw.com/blog directory. I can't delete this, photo P1010007a.jpg. Anyway, I always fear jinxing myself when I write that...
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Posted Decade in Review: April Fools to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
My favorite April 1st post isn't even mine. Regardless, I'm gonna link to Inked 4/1/08 post "Local Historians Just Make Sh*t Up". I did mention her wonderful post that I still think of fondly. Mainly because I find a lot of...
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Posted Decade in Review- Characters- DM to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
I honestly don't know what to make of some of my early posts where I named some folks and well gave names to some, one being Drama Momma, whose actual name I have forgotten. Then there was a nickname I...
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Posted The Long Goodbye- 10 years of InShaw blogging to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
10 years is a good number. The earliest blog entry I can find dates to March 18, 2003, but I don't think that was my first entry. It may have been the start of bothering to archive my posts, and even...
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Posted A Program for Bates Street to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
This is not another pre-WWII photo, this is from the 60s. 1960s. Now I am sure I posted the publication by the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency (RLA) before, but just in case, I'll put it out there for...
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Posted It's not there no more, and that's okay to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
This woman lived in an alley that no longer exists. Since the photograph was taken sometime between 1934-1941, there is a possiblity, that's she is long dead and isn't too concerned with housing. The alley is Reeves Alley, sometimes...
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Posted History of Basketball in DC to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
I was happy to spot neighbor Dr. Brett Abrams mentioned in today's Washington Post. It is for his newish book The Bullets, the Wizards and Washington D.C. Basketball. Also I must mention, because it bugs me, there is a typo...
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Posted Wednesday Misc to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
This intersection in Penn Quarter is dangerous. When the pedestrian walk sign is on for people to cross the light at 7th and Indiana might be red, but the cars in the box don't see it, they see the...
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Posted Not Truxton Circle. Not NoMa. Maybe Not Even Mt Vernon Triangle to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
I know neighborhoods are confusing. With the shooting that occurred in front of Taylor House, it was first mentioned that the shooting was in Truxton Circle (original wording on BACA blog). Thanks for using the name, but no. The article...
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Posted 1530 3rd St NW- After the Fire to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
To be crossposted at Vacant Properties blog. My own memory of 1530 3rd St NW is that there was a house fire, and the story I had heard was that the woman who lived there was out for Bible...
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Posted 310 P St NW- Vacant and Condemned to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
Crossposted with the Vacant Properties Blog I am confused as to why this is not charged at the vacant or blighted rate for 2013. This property, owned by Allision Bennett of Largo, MD since 2006, has been a vacant shell...
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Posted Race, class and poop to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
I'm going to say this directly and plainly.White people with dogs, pick up your dogs poop. When you walk out with your dog be prepared to pick up poop.Here is what just happened, I was chatting with a neighbor...
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Posted Jazzy Date Night @ Big Bear to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
Big Bear Cafebigbearcafe-dc.com/1700 1st St. NWWashington, DC 20001Bus- None, walked.Cost (with tip) = $81 It began with the Bloomingdale Blog's post announcing jazz at Big Bear, which I passed to the Help, as he was hoping to see if there...
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Posted Thursday Misc to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
ANC5E-05 SMD Meeting- Covering the area that is predominately the Hanover part of the TC and whatever is south of Q St. Anyway a meeting on March 12th at the New York Ave Playground. Dog Treats- You know Sandra of Painted...
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Posted War on Terror, War on Drugs to In Shaw (the historically gentrified blog)
I don't like drug dealers. More specifically, I don't like what drug dealers do, which is selling poison to people. Shaw, has had, and is still struggling with drug dealers. They are not as bad in the areas that I...
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