If it's anything like NY, lowering rent would revalue the property lower, which the property owner probably doesn't want to do; so they let it sit empty and write it off as a tax loss. Its a terrible end result for a community.

Oh this is fun! I'm looking it up. I hadn't heard that this was going to come in. thanks for sharing

Discovered Bread Furst last year and it's easily my favorite coffee shop/bakery in DC

cracked eggery has coffee. plus 7-11

I was arrested for fare jumping in nyc twenty something years ago (had tokens, had money, but that station had gone to card only. No machine to buy the card, so a friend tried to get a few of us through on his). I’m not angry if someone randomly jumps, but it was absurd to see almost everyone at several stops do it, and have no one care. No one needs to go to jail over $2, but what message does it send when the people in charge are literally looking the other way? Move on to the next post where people are complaining about being assaulted or harassed, and nothing is done. The point is that the people being paid to watch out for us give zero fucks and aren’t even pretending to do their jobs .

Also agree that public transit should be free.

Nothing wrong with it, per se. In fact, it is exactly what I wish we had lots more of in DC: regular ole delis.

However, I'd like to see a great bagel place in the hood, and if the best we can do is CYM, then so be it.

Folks in the Palisades have no one to blame but themselves.

It’s always rich when I hear someone from the Palisades complain about having to drive for groceries.

Safeway was going to build a brand new store on the site of the old one with housing on top and the community said hell no and Safeway packed up…the NIMBYs won the battle but last the war.

IIRC, something similar happened in Spring Valley a while (~10 years) back. Safeway wanted to build a store with housing on top and the community pushed back.

Gotcha. Safeway on sangamore isn't that far but your right, not in the neighborhood. Used to have a Safeway a few years back.

I agree, is very annoying and one of the reasons why these type of roads are bad for communities. But the idea that the area is too dangerous to support a coffee shop is inaccurate and unproductive.

There was a Starbucks, and Palena, and some coffee shop in Sam's Park & Shop that also sold bagels that I forgot the name of. For some reason, they've never lasted.

I agree this is a little hyperbolic, but not by much. I walk a lot in this neighborhood and I don’t cross Connecticut when I don’t have to because I’ve had a lot of close calls in those intersections, particularly with people blowing red lights. Feels dangerous both as a pedestrian and as a driver.

Yeah, but think about how long the cycle is and how you’ll be dodging people turning right or running the light. You can certainly do it but the extra hassle adds more weight than it might seem.

To be fair I’ve never gone but I’ve heard they’re fun!

Luxembourg and Malta so far. Nothing wrong with being ahead of the trend.

Connecticut Avenue was designed to serve suburban car commuters, not residents. There’s pretty much always traffic, it’s unsafe and unpleasant to walk around with all of the speeding cars and their pollution (who wants to eat outside with 110dB of car noise?), and if you’re already driving the parking situation is a mess so you might as well keep going to the suburbs with better pricing and easier, cheaper parking. The redesign should help a lot since it’ll make it safer for the majority of customers who live in the area.

TBD what will happen with the Al Volo location/how long it will be there. The Tenleytown SakuSaku is where they’re moving all the production + they have their own lease.

The new location has a legit barista! I had a good latte there yesterday!

1000% agree. Is this you?? https://twitter.com/cpneedscoffee?s=20

> I don't feel safe crossing CT ave to get a coffee.

I agree that large roads are detrimental to urban communities, but that is simply absurd. There are crosswalks with stop lights every block.

IDK, the commercial area of CP is pretty hard on the eyes. Residential area is very pretty.

That was it, I forgot to mentally walk down Upshur.

Also the Starbucks in Safeway and Dunkin Donuts, if you’re feeling corporate.

Sadly this is it. Cleveland Park is a place set up to drive through, not to walk around in.

CYM does not count as a proper bagel shop 😁

Much of that stretch of Connecticut has been circling the drain for a decade or two. Few businesses survive the vagaries of the people who live their, complain about every single thing that does open and then whine about how no businesses want to sink their money into that place.

Best baguettes in the city imo