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Friday, March 15, 2013

News Neighborhood News: Naming Baby Lions and Losing Street Cred

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:34 PM

Posted by news intern Ben Steiner

Last Chance to Name Giant Kittens: My Ballard warns that the deadline to submit names for the Woodland Park Zoo's new baby lion cubs is today at 5 p.m. Caveat: The names have to be recognized in the African languages of Zulu or Sotho. Guess I'll have to save "Baby Ben Steiner" for that roadkilled crow on 12th and Pine St.

The Central District Loves Bikes More Than Capitol Hill: The prized title of Seattle's "Bikiest Neighborhood" is quickly slipping out of Capitol Hill's fingerless glove-adorned hands. Central District News even has a "block-by-block heat map" to prove it.

Hurray For Megan Seling, Hockey Trendsetter: The Angry Beaver is fast becoming the bar to find a conglomeration of Seattle's teamless but tenaciously passionate Hockey fans, Phinneywood blog reports.

Man Suspected of Wielding Knives and Snatching Purses in ~~Wedgewood~~ Wedgwood Remains Jailed: His bail is set at $250,000, the Wedgwood View reports.

Developers Set Sights on Vacant Capitol Hill Lot: The empty lot between Harvard Ave and Broadway once known for its impressive wildflower fields is now slated to become a seven-story apartment complex, Capitol Hill Seattle Blog reports. This is a distantly-sad story of lost wildflowers and weeds, but the article's commenters are more interested in discussing the project's relative superiority to dog poop, aPodments, or views of the Space Needle.

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Harvard and Broadway don't intersect--they run parallel to each other.

Posted by sikandro on March 15, 2013 at 12:42 PM

Wedgwood. Only one e.

Posted by I Got Nuthin' on March 15, 2013 at 12:50 PM

Glad to see The Angry Beaver has taken off. Just imagine how electric it's going to be when Seattle finally has an NHL team.

I really appreciated Chris Hansen's hockey post on the arena site yesterday. Sure, the guy's a businessman trying to make a deal, but you can't deny he's a genuine sports geek.

Posted by cressona on March 15, 2013 at 12:58 PM

And it's just Broadway, not Broadway Ave.

Posted by bigyaz on March 15, 2013 at 1:03 PM

And it has N and S additions too. Little things like that help, because Harvard changes up on the Hill and you can be off by 40 blocks if you get it wrong.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on March 15, 2013 at 1:16 PM

The Angry Beaver was an excellent experience. It was so cool to find a place that actually puts hockey first. Thanks Megan for putting together the Slog Hockey Happy there. It was a lot of fun.

Posted by SeattleKim on March 15, 2013 at 1:33 PM

Here's hoping for more quarter-million one-bedroom condos no poor working people can afford. No more of that horrible, tenement-style, shared-space affordable housing.

Other than that, I welcome the density.

Posted by floater on March 15, 2013 at 1:43 PM

@1 They intersect at Madison.

Posted by Dougsf on March 15, 2013 at 2:03 PM

We need hockey SROs.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on March 15, 2013 at 2:09 PM

@9 The mortgage in the situation you described is >$1,200 per month. A teacher, a bartender, nurse, a cop, a garbage collector, a social worker; hell, probably a tattoo artist, etc. could all afford that on one income. For those that can't afford it, at least they won't be competing for limited apartments with those that can.

Posted by Dougsf on March 15, 2013 at 2:13 PM

Shit, I meant @7, Floater. I have no idea what @9 is talking about.

Posted by Dougsf on March 15, 2013 at 2:48 PM

Umm... Can the Unpaid Intern read a map? Did he/she even click through to the original Seattle Times article?

Neither Capitol Hill nor the CD are even close to being Seattle's "Bikiest Neighborhood." North University, Ravenna, and Wallingford all have rates on the map about 2-3 times either neighborhood. Actually, looking at that map, the strongest pattern I see is that neighborhoods within a short ride of the Burke-Gilman Trail have the highest ridership rates. The story here isn't some weird CH vs. CD thing, it's that dedicated bike trails work.

Unless, of course, the Intern is implying that nothing outside of the Capitol Hill area is even part of the city, as so many CH residents seem to believe. If that's the case, carry on then.

Posted by lopes on March 15, 2013 at 3:03 PM

I will admit, however, that "slipping out of Capitol Hill's fingerless-glove-adorned hands" was a nice flourish.

Posted by lopes on March 15, 2013 at 3:05 PM

@8. Yeah, I was wondering if they did farther south where the streets get weird, but knew the lot in question and that they definitely didn't intersect there.

Posted by sikandro on March 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM

@14 - While I thought I was being helpful, I was misreading the post as well. The weird little triangle that Harvard and Broadway make was the "lot" I thought was being mentioned, when what Unpaid Intern is talking about was a lot BETWEEN the two parallel streets. So you're right, and I guess I'm right, too (about something unrelated).

Posted by Dougsf on March 15, 2013 at 3:26 PM