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Local outlets- Events: Building a better Ward 3 and RFK for all
- From the MPD Blotter
- The Week Ahead…& Some Photos from the Past Week
- Café 8’s Deal to Reopen Doesn’t Help Neighbors – ANC6B Committee Continues Discussion Monday Night
- The To Do List, Week of October 30, 2026
- A Look Back At 2025’s Pottery on the Hill
- DC Open House List for This Weekend: October 30, 2026
Nearby
- Anyone Know What was Filming on Swann Street?!?
- Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been? Revisits the Red Scare of the McCarthy Era
- In Happier Coffee (and more) News – Grounds & Gatherings (G&G) coming to 13th and Florida Ave, NE
- Inside the October ANC Meeting: Stadium Roof Discussion and New Homes on M Street SW
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Coming up
Next 14 daysFurther out: Nov 20, Nov 21, Nov 27, Nov 28.
Getting around
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On the street this week
Curb space reserved35 curb-space permits start in the next 7 days; 185 are active this week, reserving 26,004 ft of curb in all.
- Nov 3–51300 block of East Capitol Streetnot mapped
- Nov 3–Dec 15Unit block of 7th StreetD2
- Nov 4700 block of East Capitol Streetnot mapped
- Nov 4–Dec 27400 block of E StreetC4
- Nov 4200 block of East Capitol Streetnot mapped
- Nov 4–6100 block of 4th StreetC3
- Nov 4–21500 block of A StreetC2
- Nov 5–Dec 4700 block of Massachusetts AvenueD2
- Nov 5–7300 block of North Carolina AvenueB3
- Nov 5–71300 block of A StreetF2
- Nov 5–7100 block of Kentucky AvenueE3
- Nov 5Unit block of 7th StreetD2
- Nov 5500 block of 2nd StreetB4
- Nov 5–Dec 30Unit block of Gessford Courtnot mapped
- Nov 5–9400 block of 4th StreetC4
- Nov 5–9100 block of Duddington PlaceB4
- Nov 5–9500 block of E StreetC4
- Nov 6500 block of 5th StreetC4
- Nov 6300 block of G StreetB4
- Nov 6400 block of 8th StreetD4
- Nov 6–8100 block of 3rd Streetnot mapped
- Nov 6Unit block of E StreetA4
- Nov 6300 block of 11th StreetE3
- Nov 6–Dec 4200 block of 2nd Streetnot mapped
- Nov 7–9100 block of 4th StreetC3
- Nov 8–Dec 7200 block of E StreetB4
- Nov 8–Dec 7400 block of 2nd StreetB4
- Nov 8600 block of G StreetC4
- Nov 8–Dec 71200 block of Walter StreetE3
- Nov 8–Dec 7500 block of G StreetC4
- Nov 9–11500 block of 9th StreetD4
- Nov 10300 block of G StreetB4
- Nov 10–Apr 11000 block of Independence AvenueD3
- Nov 10600 block of A StreetC2
From DDOT’s public-space occupancy permits, at hundred-block precision. Streets
Bigger projects
Last 30 days118 permits were issued Oct 6–Oct 31. Most are trade work; these 4 are additions, demolitions or new buildings.
- 422 3rd St SEB4
Removal of boiler room and group restrooms to allow for new addition to be located on the open portion of the site to the north of the existing… Plus 1 other permit at this address.
- 201 Pennsylvania Ave SEB3
Historic- cfa this project is an interior renovation of a bank building. Scope includes partial demolition of interior spaces, addition of new…
- 507 D St SEC4
Historic rear two-story addition with roof deck to existing three-story single-family attached residence at 507 d st SE in washington, d.c. Includes…
- 1001 G St SED4
This code modification is to the 2017 DC Building Code which adopts and amends the 2015 IBC. Specifically, this code modification requests relief…
Today’s condition
Nov 3311 requests in Capitol Hill fell to 2,686 in the last 30 days, from 2,977 the 30 days before (−10%). The biggest swing: missed recycling pickups fell to 31 from 140. Biggest rise: dockless vehicle parking complaint rose to 192 from 87.
12 rising / 16 easing / 10 steady, across the 38 kinds of 311 request with at least 10 in either period. A change within 10% (or 2 requests) counts as steady.
Measures
Latest period vs the one before- Crime reports
- 38
- 3 more; small counts swing month to month
- 35 the 30 days before
- Last 30 days · counts only, never mapped
Homes
Sales, OTRMonthly median house price; blank months had under 3 sales. Last 60 days: $1.35M median from 16 sales. 82 of 133 sales in the past year closed above assessed value.
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 315 E St SEhouse, 2 bd, 1,432 sq ft | Oct 20 | $1.12M |
| 23 5th St SEhouse, 2 bd, 1,660 sq ft | Oct 20 | $1.03M |
| 1348 South Carolina Ave SEhouse, 3 bd, 1,368 sq ft | Oct 19 | $1.03M |
| 1302 A St SEhouse, 3 bd, 1,888 sq ft | Oct 18 | $1.63M |
| 233 Kentucky Ave SE # 21condo | Oct 13 | $625K |
Sales are tied to Capitol Hill through OTR assessment sub-areas Capitol Hill A, B and C and Old City 1 M in OTR's Integrated Tax System Public Extract, not through the DC Health planning-area boundary used elsewhere on this site, because the tax extract has no coordinates. The two areas overlap but do not match exactly. Fit with the Capitol Hill boundary, measured this run by tax square (a square counts as inside if any DC address point on it falls inside the DC Health polygon, so edge squares make these upper bounds; measured 2026-11-04): 88% of the 3,572 house and condo parcels in the OTR area(s) sit on squares inside the boundary, and 91% of house and condo parcels on in-boundary squares belong to the OTR area(s). Homes
Top 311 requests
Last 30 daysLast 30 days, bar; the tick and small number are the 30 days before. 541 requests are still open.
Permits by type
Oct 6–Oct 31Street trees
DDOT inventoryMost common
Red maple 466, Sugar maple 179, Willow oak 178, American elm 177, Red oak 144
Biggest trunks
- Red oak, 61 in across
- American sycamore, 55 in across
- American elm, 54 in across
- American elm, 52 in across
DDOT urban forestry inventory, Oct 29. Ask DC to plant a tree · Streets
Around the house
For all 242 blocks; look up your own- Trash day
- Monday/Thursday for most blocks (215 of 242); Tuesday for 7DPW collection routes. Recycling: Monday for most blocks (222 of 242); Tuesday for 8; Thursday for 1.
- Leaf collection
- Not started yetZone 6C (160 blocks), Zone 6A (49 blocks), Zone 6B (28 blocks), Zone 6D (2 blocks), Zone 7C (1 blocks). We have not reached your section yet. Each section will receive two weekends’ notice of when to rake your leaves to the tree box or curb. Please check back on Friday for an update on our collection schedule. DPW leaf collection
- Street sweeping
- Check the posted signsDC doesn’t publish a current block-by-block sweeping schedule; residential sweeping runs March to October. DPW street cleaning
- Snow emergency routes
- Pennsylvania Ave, South Capitol St BnNo parking on these streets once DC declares a snow emergency; cars are towed.
- Public schools (zoned)
- Brent, Peabody-Watkins, Tyler and 3 moreElementary, depending on the block. Middle: Jefferson, Stuart-Hobson, Eliot-Hine. High: Eastern. DCPS boundaries from 2025–26.
- Residential parking zone
- Zone 6 and 8458 block sides have residential permit parking.
History
Capitol Hill in the recordIn 1912, one builder put up 36 buildings on the 1200 block of Walter Street SE under 4 permits. The largest permit alone covered 10 buildings at an estimated $17,000. E3
4,609 historic building permits on record, 1872–1989, by decade (DC Historic Preservation Office).
This week in 1926: the Evening Star
“Wood and Dr. Havenner. Lincoln Park Is Ac*’* e The Lincoln Park Citizens Asso ciation has appointed committees and outlined plans for its membership drive, which will be given impetus at a meeting the night of November 9, …”
Nov 2, 1926, page 7
Machine-read text from Library of Congress scans; misspellings are the scanner’s. More from the archive
Who represents you
Capitol Hill overlaps 6 single-member districts in 2 advisory neighborhood commissions. Each district elects one commissioner.
- Gerald "jerry" Sroufe
- David Sobelsohn
- Brian Gorman
- Samuel Pastore
- Anna Krebs
- Jay Adelstein
Names of elected officials are public record. What your ANC is discussing
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Elsewhere in DC
- It should soon be easier to exit metro and hit Total Wine
- Anyone Know What was Filming on Swann Street?!?
- “Was that a Drone over Mount Pleasant last night? Did you see it?”
- The Last Straw Grand Opening on 14th Street this FRIDAY!!
- “Tsehay Restaurant will be temporarily closing its doors by the end of this year.”
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