New Kid on the Eckington Block

The Fan Cost Index , Now in its 14th year, it tracks what a typical family of 4 might purchase at a game, tracks the cost, provides the for ...

I have the pleasure of travelling daily through a zone patrolled by speed cameras. I dont particularly mind the camera, as it isnt difficult...

Over the next week, I will have a houseguest. This will be a great way to see what it will be like to have someone living with me in the ho...

From the MPD: Last night there was a homicide in the 2000 block of 3rd Street N.E. There was an arrest for Carrying a Pistol Without a Licen...

One reader has asked about transportation around Eckington, specifically from RI Ave Metro. I have not used that metrorail station, and thus...

Hope all of you had a wonderful Easter. It was a great weekend for working in the yard and garden. I spend the majority of the time weeding...

A $350,000 project approved by the D.C. Council last week will hire and train homeless and low-income District residents to clean the U Stre...

As mentioned last week, there was an article written about the St. Martin's project in the Washington Post. The article was a bit sensat...

Interesting article on proposed development, and neighborhood activism against it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006...

Here are just a few random things for this am: -My yard is a disaster. Have been trying to plant grass seed in the barespot in the front ya...

This is a non-eckington post, but I have to divulge a little bit of information about myself. I am a baseball fan. The grand game that is pa...

Many of you were as shocked as I was to hear that an elementary school student had brought a loaded gun to Emery Elementary school in Ecking...

Below is the text of the Washington Post article on the battle between St. Martin's proposed development, and (us) the concerned residen...

http://www.ncrcdc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147&Itemid=2 As many websites have mentioned, the McMill...

Please review this article from the post on H St NE. It brings up interesting points, from different views. What is progress, and how does t...

Here we go again. I have stayed out of the arguments on the St. Martins PUD project for the most part. The following letter was sent from ...

This is the only word that can be used to describe the weather front that moved in last night. Looking up as i departed VA, the weather fron...

This weekend someone broke the globe and lightbulb from the streetlight on First and Todd Pl. I have called the city call center to report i...

After a couple of months of no problems, things are starting to happen. As you read in the last post, there was a fraudulent check, which t...

As a new resident in Eckinton, I take my responsibilities to heart. I want to be a part of the hood, a good neighbor and one who is involve...