Saturday, October 30, 2010

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Friday, October 29, 2010

Anacostia DC Fotoweek 11/6 to 11/13



Anacostia Fotoweek- Take Three.For the third year in a row, Anacostia will become a mini photography enclave in recognition of DC Fotoweek. Five separate exhibitions and ancillary programs will give the historic district something contemporary to enjoy.

The Gallery at Vivid Solutions presents a solo exhibition of works by Vietnamese born artist Khanh H. Le. Neither… Nor includes 14 large scale images using the multiple plate polymer photogravure etching technique. Le examines identity, through the bits and pieces of personal memory, the collective history from two cultures; Vietnamese and American.

For more info go to; http://www.congressheightsontherise.com/2010/10/press-release-anacostia-dc-fotoweek-116.html


Contact: Briony Evans Hynson
Phone: 202-536-8994
1227 Good Hope Road SE
Washington DC 20020
arts@archdc.org

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Optimism is alive in Southeast D.C. neighborhood of Fairlawn



The first thing that becomes apparent upon meeting residents is that Fairlawn isn't necessarily Fairlawn. Sure, the Fairlawn Citizens' Association has clearly outlined the neighborhood's boundaries on its Web site, but talk to people who live there and you'll hear a number of other names for the area. To some, it has always been called Fairlawn; to others, there's no doubt that the area is Anacostia. A few call it Twining.

In part, that might be the result of the disparate smaller communities that make up the neighborhood, which straddles wards 7 and 8 in Southeast Washington. Bordered by the Anacostia River (which many insist is rightfully named the Eastern Branch), Pennsylvania Avenue, 25th Street, Naylor Road and Good Hope Road, Fairlawn is a mix of traditional D.C. rowhouses, detached single-family homes and apartment buildings. Near the river, the rowhouses line up in long, tight chains, but uphill and eastward - in an area that some (but not all) call Randle Heights - homes in groups of twos and threes graciously rise above groomed lawns and gardens.

The second observation that comes with spending time in the neighborhood is that no matter where they live or what they call it, residents seem to share a sense that their community has been profoundly affected over the decades by forces beyond their control - and that the future is as likely to bring more upheaval as it is to bring positive changes.

Today, Fairlawn is an almost wholly black neighborhood, but it wasn't always. In the early part of the last century, the majority of residents were white, but nearly all of them moved out of the neighborhood in the 1950s and '60s.

Walter and Katherine Graham and their four boys were one of the few white families that stuck around. They moved into an apartment in Fairlawn in 1950 and, 10 years later bought a home around the corner. They're still there, the longest-standing residents on a block populated largely by senior citizens.

"We were convenient to everything and were buying our house, so why pick up and move?" said Katherine Graham, 81. "We're all children of God, and we should be able to live together regardless of race."

Graham slips easily into reminiscing about the neighborhood: the fun her boys had playing in Anacostia Park (which she and neighbors still call Fairlawn Park), the shops - hardware, a five and dime, furniture - that lined Good Hope Road and the neighborhood's other commercial streets. Working- and middle-class black people had bought the homes vacated by the departing white population, and the area was bustling.

By Amanda Abrams
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, October 22, 2010

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

DDOT unveils streetcar funding plan



The D.C. Department of Transportation has identified nearly $200 million to build and operate its first two streetcar lines, one serving H Street NE and the other, Anacostia — the start of a network that may one day run 37 miles across all eight D.C. wards.

DDOT on Tuesday released a plan detailing the logistics and funding, such as an $8 million annual operating subsidy, of the earliest streetcar service. Council Chairman Vincent Gray had stipulated in the 2011 budget that DDOT must develop concrete plans if it wants $34.5 million set aside for construction of the H Street line.

The two lines nearing launch will run from Union Station to Oklahoma Avenue NE, via the H Street/Benning Road corridor, and from the 2750 S. Capitol St. SE to the Anacostia Metro Station. Both, DDOT said, will be extended — along Benning Road NE to the Benning Road Metro station, and from the Anacostia Metro to the 11th Street Bridge.

The two, fully extended lines will cost about $194 million to build and equip. The “anticipated operating subsidy,” according to DDOT, will be $7.9 million per year, with an estimated 3 percent increase annually — roughly $80 per hour of operation. The project is expected to create 200 jobs.

The streetcar “would cost roughly the same as Metrobus but provide higher capacity and a higher-quality ride,” the report states. The service will operate Monday through Thursday from 6 a.m. to midnight, Friday from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m., Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m., and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The Anacostia line will use only one car, running in 15-minute loops “due to the relatively limited demand for service in the existing corridor,” DDOT said. The H Street line will run a 10-minute circuit with at least three cars, if not more. DDOT considers that line’s success as critical to the burgeoning H Street corridor.

“The corridor needs new transportation services for residents and workers within the District that will connect activity centers, facilitate intermodal transfer opportunities, and relieve crowded Metrorail and Metrobus lines,” the report reads. “The corridor also serves an area that the District has targeted for commercial and residential redevelopment.”


DDOT is proposing to build a maintenance facility at the western abutment to the H Street Underpass. It will turn its 66-foot-long, eight-foot-wide, 11-foot-tall cars around at First Street NE and the H Street Underpass on the western end, and in the Benning Road median on the eastern end.

The initial segments of both lines are fully funded, assuming the council releases the last $34.5 million.

To fund the future extensions, DDOT is pursuing federal dollars and proposing to tap into the revenue stream that it currently uses to pay down the debt service on bonds that funded the original Metrorail system. That debt, according to DDOT, will expire in the next four years.
Washington Business Journal - by Michael Neibauer
Read more: DDOT unveils streetcar funding plan | Washington Business Journal


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Anacostia Gets $3 Million Shot in the Arm


Posted by Lydia DePillis on Oct. 20, 2010 at 7:42 pm

While we’re all mourning the loss of the TIGER II grants, which would have funded transit improvements from Bikeshare to Union Station, today brought something to celebrate in the world of federal largesse as well: A $3 million chunk of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Sustainable Communities funding, awarded to the District’s Department of Housing and Community Development. That’s more than any other awardee.

What’s DHCD going to do with the money? A lot of things. The main goal: “Anchor the existing residents of Historic Anacostia, which will not be affordable in another decade unless direct, explicit and significant actions and investments are made to ensure a continued supply of affordable housing.” Specific actions include home purchase and renovation assistance, acquisition of vacant and abandoned properties for resale, small business startup help, and rehabilitation of commercial buildings. Also in there: A branding and community engagement campaign, which seems to have already started, as well as the rebirth of either the Historic Anacostia Main Street program or a new Business Improvement District.

So, all of a sudden the quiet purchase of buildings along Martin Luther King Avenue starts to make sense, and Duane Gautier’s vision for brightened storefronts up and down the commercial avenues even closer to reality. And the streetcar will make it eventually, TIGER or no TIGER.

Photo by Darrow Montgomery.


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Friday, October 15, 2010

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City Officials and Community Leaders to Break Ground for New Affordable Housing



Matthews Memorial Baptist Church, city officials, community leaders, development and finance partners and residents are broke ground on October 8, 2010, for Matthews Memorial Terrace, an innovative new affordable housing rental development for seniors, working families and individuals in Anacostia.

“Matthews Memorial Baptist Church has taken a leadership role in Ward 8, in both the faith community and, now, in providing affordable housing. This project will provide additional replacement public housing to move us closer to revitalizing Barry Farm as part of the District’s New Communities Initiative.

For more info go to http://www.washingtoninformer.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4738:city-officials-and-community-leaders-to-break-ground-for-new-affordable-housing&catid=50:local&Itemid=113.


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Monday, October 11, 2010

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Mental Patients, Secret Rendevous and Scandal on ANACOSTIA-THE SERIES tv show.




The second episode of Anthony Edwards' addictive, 20-minute soap opera Anacostia premiered online this weekend. In this heart-stopping-yet hilarious installment, Mia (Tamieka Chavis), the most long-suffering heroine to hit a soap neighborhood since Valene Ewing (Joan Van Ark) on Knots Landing, stops by the funny farm to pay her BFF Sean (Edwards) a visit. Sean was institutionalized following his attempt to kill himself, after finding out his homo thug boyfriend from Season One had been paid by the villainous Michael—Mia's ex—to seduce him. Little did Sean know, his one true love, the presumed dead Julien Grey (Darnell Lamont Walker) is very much alive. You see Julian, who was once Michael's business partner, faked his own death when Michael's treachery began to threaten the lives of Sean and Mia. Um, yeah, why isn't Edwards writing for The Young and the Restless?!

Click for more http://www.tv.com/mental-patients-secret-rendevous-and-scandalous-neighbors-on-outrageous-black-soap-opera-anacostia!/webnews/159092.html

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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

ANACOSTIA RIVER REALTY'S HOMEBUYERS CLUB October Meeting



One of the most important investments you will ever make is the purchase of a home. The process of getting into a home can be long, frustrating, and confusing for many homebuyers. Get educated!

Anacostia River Realty Homebuyer's Club Meeting


Saturday, October 9, 2010
12:00 P.M.– 2:00 P.M.

This month's topic:
CREDIT & BUDGETING
Guest Speaker: John Corrigan of America Trust Funding

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Anacostia River Goes on Pollution Diet



Watersheds in the mid-Atlantic region are getting "pollution diets" that focus mostly on nutrients, like phosphorus and nitrogen.

Scientists figure out how much of a particular substance a stream can handle, based on its flow and other factors, and then divvy up how much each entity that discharges the substance - a sewage treatment plant, for instance - can discharge in a given period of time.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland are taking things a step further by recently announcing a "trash diet" for the Anacostia River. Officials said it was the first interstate river in the nation with such a Clean Water Act trash limit.

The new limit requires capturing or removing more than 600 tons (1.2 million pounds) of trash from the watershed annually. If you figure that most of it is plastic bottles, that's one heck of a lot of bottles.

The plan of attack is mostly to address the storm sewer systems, which allow stormwater to wash litter through the system and into the river.

The action contributes to the larger goals of the Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative: www.fergusonfoundation.org/trash-initiative/trash-index.shtml.

By SANDY BAUERS
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/04/1856402/dcs-anacostia-river-goes-on-a.html#ixzz11SVaYBuL


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