RSS FeedSmithsonian Reynold’s Center Crane Comes Down – Sidewalk Opening Soon?
We took the PQ Living helicopter up on Saturday and found workers busy dismantling the Smithsonian Reynold’s Center crane. This crane was used to construct the courtyard roof. It makes us wonder how soon the sidewalk at the corner of 9th & F St will be open?
Finger Licking Good In PQ?
This blogger has really been missing the Popeyes take out window that used to be on the corner of 11th & F. Always having been a big fan of fried chicken (better chicken and sides at Popeyes, better biscuits at KFC), when I first moved to DC I used to metro from the Hill to Metro Center just to get some Popeyes.
Well Popeyes has been gone for a while now, and I’ve not had a good bucket of chicken since. Sure you can get fried chicken from Central, but that’s not what I’m talking about.
Help a blogger out, where can I find some decent take out fried chicken in downtown DC?
New Poll! Favorite Street To Stroll
We’re interested in finding out where people like to go walking. Maybe you like taking an evening walk, walking the dog or taking baby out in the stroller. Let us know where you like to go!
The last poll asked about how long voters were Penn Quarter residents. Two to three years was the winner with about 32% of the vote. Here’s the tally of the 279 votes in descending order:
2 years to 3 years – 89 votes – 31.9%
1 year to 2 years – 55 votes – 19.7%
Just love reading about the PQ – 43 votes – 15.4%
Not a resident, but work in the PQ – 35 votes – 12.5%
6 months to 1 year – 19 votes – 6.8%
3 to 6 months – 13 votes – 4.7%
4+ years – 13 votes – 4.7%
0 to 1 month – 7 votes – 2.5%
2 to 3 months – 5 votes – 1.8%
Thanks for voting and check out the new poll!
Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership
Thursday afternoon a huge banner went up advertising the Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership on 10th street today. 514 Tenth Street NW is to be the future home of said Center, which is scheduled to open in 2011.
According to the website, one of the missions for the center is to “deepen visitors’ knowledge and understanding of Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency” which sounds pretty good to us.
Some might argue that Lincoln wouldn’t be thrilled with the ExxonMobil sponsonship, but we’ll leave that debate to the Lincoln historians.