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KOMO reports that one of our local apartment buildings on the 1100 block of 8th Avenue has been "under siege" by a group of youths since January, apparently repeatedly breaking into the same building over the past month or so. Hijinks ranging from inconvenient to genuinely terrifying include having sex in the laundry room, camping out in the front lobby, and trapping a tenant in the elevator for 45 minutes.
After a month of unseemly gaffes, the building owner has hired private security to keep an eye on things....
As our sister blog Capitol Hill Seattle reports:
A man was robbed at gunpoint near 10th and Madison Thursday afternoon in a drug deal gone bad, according to a bulletin sent out to the Seattle University campus.
The bulletin says two students witnessed the hold-up just after 2:30 PM and that the getaway car -- a blue Ford Taurus -- was found by police a half-mile from Seattle U a short time later....
You have experienced the extreme traffic blockage and easy jaywalking of the Madison St. branch of the future light rail. Now watch it start to pay off in timelapse! Video courtesy of the Seattle Channel, SDOT and Stacy and Witbeck, who we hope are much better at light rail construction than font choices.
Watch the video here! (Technical difficulties prevent us from actually embedding it here.)
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The Seattle Housing Authority board unanimously decided to start negotiating with Paul Allen's real estate giant Vulcan in the Yesler Terrace redevelopment, an unsurprising decision not likely to quell fears about the dedication and expansion low-income housing in First Hill....
While you're going to have to trek all the way to Queen Anne (so far!) to see it, Matthew Lillard-directed comedy Fat Kid Rules the World will be screening here later this month. At a couple of points over the past year, you may have noticed film crews at the Broadmore Apartments near Harborview...
The Seattle PI is reporting that Johri Ferguson, the college runningback already booted from UW for resisting arrest, has been charged with felony assault after allegedly punching a 15-year-old in the face at Ferguson's alma mater, our own O'Dea High School. According to charging documents...
On September 22, 1912, Seattle First Baptist Church held service in the brand new sanctuary at the corner of Harvard and Seneca on First Hill. This “Earthly Temple for Spiritual Service” celebrates 100 years of service on Sunday, September 23rd. While the building is now a century old, Seattle First Baptist church has been with us since 1869 –- a pioneer by Seattle standards. Sunday services begin at 11 A.M. if you’d care to join the congregation in celebrating.
Seattle has plenty of early 20th century church and temple buildings. Many have gothic arches, towers, organs, and stained glass windows, as does First Baptist. This church, however, has a steeple rising high above the building on a height of First Hill ridge, “In order that from every high point in Seattle, people might see its finger pointed heavenward, directing their thoughts to God” described by Rev. Dr. Harold V. Jensen years after it was built. The copper -sheathed spire tower still rises the original 168 feet. In 1912 it was hoisted up with wires; a crane was used to repair the spire after the Nisqually earthquake of 2001. It is still pretty easy to see from many vantage points in the city....
The First Hill Improvement Association will hold their monthly meeting tomorrow, Tuesday September 11th, at 6pm.
The agenda features Jim Napolitano from the King County Major Projects Office and a rep. from the Sabey Corporation. They will speak about the continuing Harborview Hall project.
An additional topic for discussion is the ongoing sidewalk repair issue on First Hill....
Potbelly is opening BEFORE it's grand opening -- VERY briefly -- to test out their sandwiches and raise money for Gilda's Club. You might be a little late for lunch (it ends at 2 p.m.), but starting at 5 p.m. they will once again be handing out meals (a sandwich, chips and a fountain drink) for $5 total.
First Hill institution Town Hall Seattle is under consideration for nomination as a landmark by the Seattle Landmark Preservation Board.
Town Hall Seattle, officially...
Adding to its already formidable cocktail roster, the Hideout will be stepping up its craft cocktail game by bringing in a series of local celebrities of the boozy variety. As reported by Seattle Met, they quietly kicked off the series last week with Nabil Sharif of Rumba, and a seriously...
City 911 response data is showing that mutiple emergency vehicles were dispatched to Broadmore Apartments at 423 Terry Ave in response to a fire in the residence. Our sister blog Capitol Hill Seattle is reporting on Twitter the fire was limited to the roof and has been "tapped" with...
Seattle Housing Authority executive director Tom Tierney writes on Crosscut today about the process of the Yesler Terrace renovation plan: the early stages, collaboration with the city, and what the project will look like moving forward:...
The Department of Planning and Development has granted the demolition permit for one of the most intriguing -- and dangerous -- abandoned structures First Hill has to offer. What remains of the Alfaretta Apartments, just a first floor and some remaining foundation, has perched precariously...
A dispute lead to a man being rushed to Swedish First Hill before being taken to Harborview with gunshot wounds to his abdomen and buttocks early Monday morning as officers arrived to break up a street fight involving around 50 people near 12th and Main. Details from SPD are below....
Lunch Room, First Hill, Seattle by Jeff Turner (from our Flickr pool) gives equal love to both First Hill and the titular lunch room.
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Just before 9 p.m. on Monday, a hospital employee flagged down an officer to report a fight on Broadway Ave in front of Swedish. According to a police report, upon arriving at the hospital's entrance, a man bleeding from both his right shoulder and the back of his head approached the officer and said that he'd been "shanked."
Despite approaching the officer in the first place, when the officer asked the bleeding man who had done the alleged shanking, he quickly responded that he isn't a snitch, but acknowledged that...
If you're sick of trekking up to the U-District to get your Indian food fix at Cedars, worry no more! Their new location on Broadway and Jefferson has officially opened its doors -- and, according to Kelton Sears on our sister blog, Capitol Hill Seattle, it's right on par with the cuisine...
We can't say we're surprised that cocktail connoisseur and Food & Wine cocktail writer Jim Meehan named Canon one of the ten best new bars in the United States; both Murray Stenson and Jamie Boudreau have been national media darlings for quite some time, after all. But that doesn'...
Local photographer and writer visited our own 12th Avenue Vietnamese eatery and drinkery Ba Bar, and returned with some great shots of both their establishment and their food. Highlights include their open, airy, light-filled yet industrial atmosphere, a crowd that represents many different...
Originally posted Thursday afternoon. Moved up with comments from Seattle Housing Alliance.
As reported by the Slog today, the Seattle City Council has made good on some of...
Yesterday, supporters of Stand With The Sisters marched to St. James Cathedral in support of our local nuns, who are under fire for caring too much about helping the needy and not enough about Catholic doctrines on sexuality. The Vatican has said the U.S. nunnery landscape is rife "radical feminist themes" (like not actively working against homosexuality or abortion, which we all know is the most radical thing) and wants U.S. nuns to get in line, but critics, including the around-500 people who marched yesterday,...
The structures that make up Seattle Housing Authority's Yesler Terrace are long past their expiration date; when SHA itself is describing 561 as "still functional," you have an issue. But unless you've been living under a civic-issues rock for the past couple of weeks, you probably noticed...
A huge thank you to everyone that came to our Night Out block party to make it a rousing success of pizza, bingo, hopscotch and community! People of all ages and dogs of all sizes showed their faces, and a few of you got to take home cozies from the Quarter Lounge and gift certificates to...
From our sister blog SeattleCrime, we received this SPD report of a 5'11" 250 pound woman who assaulted her neighbor in the 800 block of Columbia Street for slamming the door in the early morning hours of 8/5/10:
I responded to an assault with injuries at 8 Columbia St. I contacted the victim who stated that she lives across the hall from the suspect, Officers are familiar with suspect from prior contacts. has a history of and is masculine of build and strength standing...
