Our last sidewalk photo proved quite a challenge as no one got the location at 32nd Street looking toward Virginia Avenue. Here’s a new sidewalk photo ready for guesses in the comments.
Local News
- Could road side art help calm traffic in Butchertown? (Historic B-town)
- New flower shop coming soon to the Douglass Loop (Consuming Lou)
- Take a look inside the new Downtown Qdoba (Consuming Lou)
- The problem of affordable housing in Louisville (LEO)
- Analyzing why the Chick Inn went out of business (Mojo, C-J, Fox 41)
- Loan will help Habitat & Youthbuild expand headquarters (C-J)
- What will become of Louisville’s most polluted nabe: Rubbertown? (Fat Lip)
- Spray ground planned at Breslin Park, swimming pool to be filled in (C-J)
- The tale of the Phoenix Hill shotgun house that didn’t get torn down (C-J)
- The West End School gets grant for expansion (Fox 41)
- Havana Rumba opening another location in Middletown (C-J)
- And other local restaurant news and rumors (Mojo)
- Norton Commons could get a new public school (C-J)
- Changes could be in store for Louisville condo law (C-J)
- More on Tafel Motors’ plans for Shelbyville Road (C-J, V-T)
Events
- Fundraiser to help West Louisville churches go green on April 6 (Green Guide)
- Meeting to plan Petersburg Park scheduled for Monday, March 15 (Metro Parks)
- Neighborhood planning group plans meeting on ORBP on March 27 (C-J)
Transportation
- Louisville is on Google’s new bike route planning service (F Gas)
- Planned dedicated bus lanes in New York look pretty cool (StreetsBlog)
- Can Louisville get in on this streetcar manufacturing game? (CNN Money)
- Watterson exit at Westport Road won’t open until after Derby (Lou.com)
- A map of the human body if it were a subway system (Info Aesthetics)
- This device powers a bike light from the movement of the wheels (Inhabitat)
- Ten transportation blogs worth looking at (The Source via CART)
- A bus stop you could call Home, Sweet Home (Apt. Therapy)
- A horrific picture of trampled bikes (OMFG, Bikes)
- Let’s build one of these between the Ali Center and the Belvedere (Space Invading)
- Imagine a traffic jam of books – not cars – on your street (Mocoloco)
- The state of the union for cycling and walking (Urban Velo)
- Lexington plans a Tweed Ride before Louisville has one (F Gas)
Everything Else
- Keep the next Yucca Mountain out of Kentucky (LEO)
- Considering branding strategies for cities (Urbanophile)
- Must see Rube Goldberg music video by OK Go (Boing Boing)
- Guerilla artist turns potholes into mini-gardens (Inhabitat)
- How to build a backyard chicken coop (Boing Boing)
- Urbanophile considers the downsides of consolidated government (Urb1, Urb2)
- The greenest building is the one that already exists (TreeHugger via tipster)
- American Enterprise Inst. talks about risks of ignoring beauty (AEI via Twitter)
- Cities need to promote & create ‘urban innovation hot spots’ (Biz Week)
- San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks initiative peels back the street (Inhabitat)
- More on the continuing General Growth saga (Biz First, WSJ1, WSJ2, WSJ3)
- And a few flickr photos of the day here and here and here.
The picture of the day is Washington St looking east toward Spring St and St. Joseph Church
plus, Third house on the left was Thomas Edison’s.
Edison’s House is five or six blocks west of here. Finally one I know and Jaarad beats me to it.
Yea…one in my hood just down the street. East Washington street in lovely Butchertown!
Jaarad beat me to it. It’s E. Washington in the block where St. Joseph’s is looking toward Spring. That’s a real cute neighborhood.
That’s down the street from my neighborhood. I’m back on Franklin closer to the Skatepark.
The last one was a challenge. I’m glad to see a picture from somewhere other than places we all seem to know. I should have gotten that one – my friend Michael lives right there. That is just past the railroad crossing I guess.
It’s actually E Washington looking toward Adams, not Spring. 🙂
That foto is taken from the corner of E. Washington and Webster in Butchertown. I used to live in the red brick home at 1405 E. Washington. Amazing little house from the 1880s with exposed brick walls on the interior and a cute back yard in a great neighborhood. Hopefully there won't be a new bridge downtown that would impact this special neighborhood. That would be a huge shame.
I forgot that it's "Adams" on that side of the creek.
That is the 1400 block of Washington. The Thomas Edison House is in the 700 block.