RSS FeedDC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
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Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC. Sound off about anything neighborhood oriented in the comments.
Convention Center – The photo above says it all – the Nuclear Security Summit is on. Roads around the Convention Center were closed around 10 pm last night and the security fence is in place. [Penn Quarter Living]
Downtown – A few evening photos of Funxion on F Street NW. [Urban Marinade]
Mt. Pleasant – There’s a fuss being made over the temporary relocation of the Mt. Pleasant public library while its normal home gets renovated. [New Columbia Heights]
14th Street – Sorry restaurants and bars who want to open on 14th Street NW. You’ve used up your allocated frontage. [Beyond DC]
Cleveland Park – We’ve heard of sushi bars and oyster bars but cereal bars? [Wonkabout]
Capitol Hill – We learned about free corkage Fridays at Charlie Palmer Steak at Constitution Ave and 1st Street NW. Nice! [The Hill is Home]
Photo credit: MVT Resident
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I love this summit. The neighborhood is quiet, there are squads of cops on bikes everywhere…..it’s really nice to have a respite from noisy traffic and hordes of people.
While its nice and quiet, this isn’t an ideal location for a summitt of this magnitude. The ideal location would be someplace like Colorado where security wouldn’t have to be as stringent. The security alone is costing taxpayers millions of dollars and its costing local businesses in DC money too while the blockades reduce foot traffic.
as much as this Summit causes inconvenience for the neighborhood it also generates revenue for DC and puts a feather in the cap of the Convention Center demonstrating their capacity to pull off something of this caliber. it’s also a diplomatic honor to host a first order ministerial conference. I see both the plusses and minuses as balancing each other out.
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FYI– The Carnegie Library pictured above has registration banners for the Food Safety Summit. http://www.foodsafetysummit.com/
The Food Safety Summit is scheduled for the Convention Center for April 13-14 overlapping the Nuclear Security Summit. It should be the most secure Food Safety event of all time.