calling neighbors out
this might become a semi-regular feature where i can gripe about things from the safety of my computer, since i'm a wimp and don't want to get in a fight out in the street...
anyway, the neighbors i'm calling out today are people who live on rhode island avenue and whose back yards open onto seaton place and t street. i walk around the neighborhood a lot, and one of the things i notice quickly is who takes care of the public space around their house, and those who don't.
it seems like these houses (and condo buildings) aren't doing a good job of keeping the weeds down in tree boxes, or picking up garbage, or, in the case of one specific house between 136 and 140 rhode island ave nw, raking leaves on the sidewalk, leaving it dangerous enough for people walking down the street to slip and fall, and maybe leaving themselves open to a lawsuit in the process...oh heck...138 rhode island ave., please rake the leaves behind your garage on seaton place!
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Have you organized a cleanup, or a community project, garden club, beautifying effort? Check in with Frozen Tropics and the Ivy City-Trinidad Garden Club.
When I was involved in H Street stuff, I tried to reorganize the Near Northeast Citizens group (for failure at this effort, cf your post about the sculpture...) into standing committees focused on broad topics of high neighborhood import. One committee proposed was on public space and included an attempt to create community gardens at particular places that were highly visible. If that were the only thing I did, I could have probably pulled off the org. restructuring but ...
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