Brookland News

The Post's online RootDC section has a piece that ran in the paper a few days ago, " Squabble over U Street restaurant offers close-up on city's constant change ," about how resident opposition to the noise from outdoor seating at The Islander, a many decades old Caribbean restaurant in the U Street corridor is racially-driven. From the article: ... (more)

Hyattsville resident Jim Groves, 46, said he used to ride his bike to his job in Washington D.C., until he got hit by a car in Brookland in an area with no bike lanes.

Federal Capital Partners , a Chevy Chase, Md.-based real estate investment company, has partnered with Self Storage Zone, an Orlando, Fla.-based operator and developer of self-storage facilities, to convert a former food bank into a three-story self-storage operation.

Coming to you live from the D.C. Board of Elections in beautiful One Judiciary Square in Washington, it's the results of the 2013 special election! Polls closed at 8 p.m. and the first results, from early voting, should be released shortly.