Designs for suicide-proofing Aurora Bridge
WSDOT has formed an advisory committee and released three designs for creating a fence along Aurora Bridge that’s designed to put a stop to suicides. Someone jumps off the bridge …
Phinney Ridge-Greenwood
News and events for Seattle’s Phinney Ridge and Greenwood neighborhoods.
Elephant protest planned during fundraiser
Tonight is the Woodland Park Zoo’s largest fundraiser of the year, known as the “Jungle Party,” and hundreds of protesters are hoping to make a statement. The Friends of Woodland …
Democrats still divided over Burbank vs. Carlyle
The blue and yellow campaign signs are everywhere in the neighborhood. Democrats John Burbank and Reuven Carlyle are vying for the state representative seat in the 36th district in a …
Phinney Ridge zoo mural back to life
At midday today, restoration crews finished their work on the zoo mural in the 57th St. underpass. The grey paint is gone. And the familiar animals are back, in brilliant …
Mayor calls for design review of townhouses
The invasion of cookie-cutter town homes has been the subject of much discussion recently. And now Mayor Nickels is proposing that city planners review all designs for new townhouses, essentially …
Zoo mural is coming back to life
Update: We just returned from the 57th St. underpass on Phinney Ridge where workers are using a high-tech spray to remove the grey paint that covers the zoo mural. It …
Greenwood at wits end over graffiti
We’ve written several times about the steady rise of graffiti in Greenwood, and now the Seattle PI has written a story about the problem. The hardest hit area is Greenwood …
House fire on Phinney Ridge
When we went to bed at 11:30 p.m. or so, we were beginning to think our expanded neighborhood would escape any Fourth of July house fires, but sirens headed to …
The weekend events calendar
– Today (Friday), the Seattle Civic Band will be playing marching music at the Summer Concerts at the Locks at 2 p.m. – Not quite in the neighborhood, but the …
Thunder rumbles through North Seattle
Updated: Thunder and lightning put on quite a show all night long, and My Ballard readers (below) reported hail, flickering lights, power outages and an accident at 85th and 15th. …
Strut opens in Greenwood
There’s a new shoe store on the Greenwood/Phinney line. Strut just celebrated its one-month-anniversary, and it’s not your trendy, high-fashion, puttin’ on the ritz kind of boutique. This one focuses …
Ballard ranked Seattle’s 51st best neighborhood
What gives? Just a couple months ago, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine named Ballard the “hottest hood” in Seattle. Now Seattle Magazine has released its list of best Seattle neighborhoods, and Ballard …