The Lavender Rights Project team (Image: Seattle Foundation)
As it touts the success of the program in keeping people housed, King County’s “Health Through Housing” Capitol Hill apartment building is ready to welcome its first residents after nearly three years of planning and preparation.
Just off Broadway near Broadway Hill Park, the four-story, 35-unit Sharyn Grayson House has been prepared to provide supportive housing for “queer, transgender, two-spirit, Black, Indigenous, people of color” experiencing chronic homelessness as part of the county initiative,
The Lavender Rights Project and Chief Seattle Club residential building is named to honor Grayson, a Transgender advocate and Trans community icon.
The county says the opening of Sharyn Grayson House will add to the success of its Health Through Housing developments in helping to break the cycles of homelessness. Continue reading →
No, those stop signs were not another rogue project of the Capitol Hill Department of Transportation.
A new 4-way stop at 21st and John that appeared and then disappeared earlier this month is now permanently installed at this busy crossing near the Meany Middle School and Miller Playfield. Continue reading →
A stabbing aboard a Metro bus brought a large emergency response to Pike and Minor Sunday.
Emergency units were called to the area just after 4:30 PM to the reported stabbing. Seattle Fire responded to treat the victim reported still aboard the Metro coach. The victim was being treated for non-life threatening injuries according to emergency radio updates. Continue reading →
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Pedestrian hit on E Olive Way: A pedestrian crossing E Olive Way was struck by a driver and sent to the hospital and the driver was taken into custody by police in an overnight collision early Saturday morning. Seattle Fire and Seattle Police responded to E Olive Way in front of Hula Hula around 12:10 AM for the reported “significant impact” crash. SFD reports the 31-year-old man was taken to Harborview in stable condition. Witnesses reports say the driver was evaluated for drug or alcohol use and taken into custody by police. Continue reading →
So far, the power outage has remained limited after electrical equipment exploded and caught fire at E Aloha and Harvard Ave Saturday night.
Seattle Fire was called to Aloha and Harvard around 7:10 PM to the reported transformer fire.
Seattle City Light reported more than 700 customers without power including swaths of Broadway north or Roy.
Blustery winds and bursts of heavy rain were forecasted to continue through the night.
UPDATE 9:38 PM: City Light says another more than 6,000 customers are now without power in the Capitol Hill core.
UPDATE 8:00 AM: City Light crews worked through the night to restore power with some of the largest Capitol Hill outages coming back online around 1:30 AM.
As of Sunday morning, more than 100 spotty outages remained across the city with nearly 6,000 customers without power. At one point Saturday night, more than 30,000 customers were in the dark, City Light said.
Most of the major disruptions in the Capitol Hill area were handled by Sunday morning. The largest area still without power was reported around Leschi and the shores of Lake Washington.
Trees and non-electrical wires were reported down across the area including several along Lake Washington Blvd. Overnight, portions of a roof were reported down on 12th Ave near Madison.
Sunday morning, branches and wires remained down on E Pine south of Cal Anderson near the Black Lives Matter mural.
Multiple hazards were reported in SPD’s East Precinct overnight — you can view the most recent SPD service calls here:
A tree down along E Pine and the BLM mural Saturday night
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The Capitol Hill “Stay Out of Drug Area” leads the city in banishment orders. The challenger to Ann Davison in the race for the Seattle City Attorney’s office says she will not enforce it.
“This was a failed policy that my opponent championed back, despite experts opposing it,” Erika Evans tells CHS. “Banishing people does not work. Prosecuting someone’s presence is not effective.”
Evans says the policies are racist and inequitably applied. They are also having no impact on reducing the public drug use and street disorder they were intended to address. Continue reading →
One recent Sunday evening, writer and queer activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore was walking from her home near the Capitol Hill branch of Seattle Public Library and toward Volunteer Park when she spotted one of the neighborhood’s ubiquitous feral rabbits.
“Look at that cute rabbit,” she said, delighted by the small creature as it scurried along the sidewalk toward the protection of a row of hedges. “The rabbits are the best thing that’s happened to us in the last five years. They came right with the pandemic, too. I mean, we’ve always had rabbits, but you might have seen one a week, if you were lucky. Now, you might see ten a night.”
Neighborhood walks are essential to Sycamore’s creativity. This was especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic, a productive period when she wrote two books that proved popular among readers and critics. So, when the opportunity arose to interview Sycamore for CHS, it made sense to do so while on one of her regular neighborhood walks. Continue reading →
The Northwest School’s rooftop sports field above Pike and Bellevue (Image: Northwest School)
The city has announced $4.7 million Building Decarbonization Grants for 2025 including funding for work at Capitol Hill’s Northwest School.
“These grants will cover design or retrofits to reduce climate pollution and help buildings reach Building Emissions Performance Standard targets,” the Summit Ave private middle and high school said in a statement on the grant. Continue reading →
El Diablo calls (Image: Kristopher Shinn Photography)
A remarkable six-month flourish of food and drink activity at E Pine and Summit is complete Thursday as a Capitol Hill-nostalgia soaked finale is ready for its debut.
Bar Tango opens today, joining siblings Double O’ Burgers, Cantina del Sol, and Uncle Dom’s Italian Kitchen in the complex of bar and restaurant space at the corner.
