RSS Feed*Update* – DDOT Traffic Advisory Due To March For Life
Here’s the skinny on tomorrow’s (Monday, January 22) intermittent street closings pertinent to our area due to the March For Life.
Parking – 7 am to 2 pm…
- No parking from 7 am to 2 pm on both sides of 7th Street from F Street, NW to Jefferson Drive, SW.
March For Life – 9 am to 1 pm…
- Main march assembly area is on the Mall between 4th Street, NW and 7th Street, NW. Official March For Life material indicates that the rally will start at Noon at “the Mall at 7th Street.”
March For Life – 1 pm to 4 pm…
- March takes place for approximately 3 hours with the march route starting at the Capitol building and finishing at the Supreme Court. The march route is not directly in the Penn Quarter.
- 7th Street, NW between H Street, NW and Constitution Avenue, NW may experience intermittent closures to allow “feeder marchers” to pass through the area.
The Washington Times covered the story and cites an estimate of 20,000 marchers for the event.
Street Closures On January 22 – March For Life
This is a reminder to PQ residents that the March for Life will be on Monday, January 22, the 34th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling. There will be intermittent street closures as the organizers are instructing marchers to use 7th Street to enter the Mall area to get to the starting point of the march. This means 7th Street is very likely to be closed for some portion of the day and parking restrictions will be in place. We will try to get more details and post them tomorrow.
What Visitors To Washington DC’s Chinatown Are Saying
Note: Keywords used were “chinatown washington”. These references represent all relevant results until we got tired of searching. We also recommend that you refrain from drinking any fluids while reading this post.
Source: Kireet’s Blog
Date: January 17th, 2007
Finally an oddity. Nhi and I met her friend in DC’s chinatown. Here is a sign from the starbucks: [image] Notice the Chinese sign as well as the English one. It’s more prominent than I’ve seen anywhere else but it wasn’t that surprising at first. But then I took a look around. There were no Chinese people. At all. Zero. Yet sure enough every sign was in Chinese and English. It was like a theme park. Later we found out that the basketball arena built there a few years ago had basically tripled real estate value in the area and most Chinese people had sold their property. Being used to Chinatown here in San Francisco I found the whole thing pretty amusing.
Source: Rachel’s Studio Blog
Date: January 15, 2007
Me in Chinatown ~This is not at all like the Chinatown in San Francisco, where freshly killed chickens dangle by their feet with their heads chopped off. Here, you’ll see Benetton and Ann Tayler Loft, except with Chinese writing on the signs!
Source: enoch-moses
Date: January 11, 2007
Eventhough the Chinatown in DC is alot smaller than its New York cousin, it’s still a great place to take a walk. I always enjoy watching people walking in and out of various businesses on the few busy streets in Chinatown. I also love the fact that there is so much “Americana” in a place surrounded by Chinese signs. It’s unique. To top of my Chinese experience for today, I went to the California Tortilla to eat one of their unique burritos with the complimenting spice sauce.
Source: American Tales
Date: January 09, 2007
We took a 2D1N tour to Washington D.C. – it was what they called a “Chinatown tour” – the tour group comprise mainly of Chinese people (both staying here in US and tourists from mainland China). […] The tour guide is of Chinese nationality as well and he conducted the tour 70% in Chinese but he speaks decent enough English for the benefit of those on the tour who don’t understand Mandarin. We set off on a tour bus from Chinatown in Manhattan, the largest Chinatown in the East Coast (the largest one in the US is apparently in San Francisco).
[The tour and blog is void of any mention of Washington DC’s Chinatown]
Source: Xuan’s Howdy Days
Date: December 29, 2006
Washington DC’s Chinatown, 1 of the observations I made of this Chinatown was that it is really CLEAN and the other would be that almost every shops that I saw had a Chinese name to it……I wonder if these were “artifical”, like making a Chinatown for tourists….
Penn Quarter Calls All Inventors Tomorrow
The PBS show “Everyday Edisons” is looking for America’s next great inventor. Bring the prototype for your invention, a sketch, or the concept to the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, tomorrow, Jan. 20. Registration starts at 7a. Get there by 1p to be guaranteed an interview. (more details at www.EverydayEdisons.com or www.BouncingBrianProductions.com)
Who knew stuff like this happens in the Reagan building?
(P.S. We already know the Reagan building is a little bit of a stretch to be included in the “Penn Quarter” neighborhood, but we are the most logical neighborhood to stake a claim!)