Yeah I've been with my kid a bunch and each time there's a little notice about renovating the exhibit or something

I don’t know if that bridge just east of Howard is even passable any more

I rode it a year or two ago and just in that time it’s gotten way worse

Facebook Groups and just go to playgrounds in your neighborhood

Honestly having young kid is like a second college. Everyone with kids the same age is desperate to hang out. When summer comes around you can just put a kiddie pool in front of your stoop and bam instant friends

There’s a banging Thai restaurant in Waverly at 33rd and Greenmount. It is called, appropriately, Thai Restaurant

We keep it at 70 and I am in boxers and tank top and my wife is layered up under a blanket asking for a hot water bottle

Thanks for the explanation!

Figured it was some kind of binning discrepancy - to be clear you’re saying the DoP one has the 5-10% margin? Or the one presented in the article

Hmm, both the Bolton Hill and Greater Mondawmin numbers on the map in this article disagree with the ones on this Baltimore City Planning Department map, and even just going on shape of the tract it looks like the boundaries match. Do wish the article did the Google Maps overlay like the BCPD map.

Anyway, I hope the City at least follows through with some of the Druid Hill road diet stuff to give Mondawmin residents better pedestrian access to the zoo and the rest of Druid Hill Park (this sadly is one initiative that is probably not helped by the neighborhood skewing older).

Korean places on 20th are open late (Kong Pocha, Jong Kak)

I use the non-bollarded one at Falls and Maryland to run down that hill against traffic all the time

If you have to obey traffic laws like a car it's just a slow, shitty, uber

Hell, my feet and knees thank me for running in bike lanes wherever possible.

I definitely started out just running in my neighborhood

Use your judgment, try and get a sense of which side streets are nice to run on, and build short loops to get started.

From there if you want longer routes you can build them out of whichever bike lanes or trails are close enough to be a leg on your loop. But I wouldn’t drive anywhere to run, starting and ending at your door is the whole appeal. And practically speaking don’t put a drive between the end of your run and pooping

Long pants, long-sleeve under armour cold gear (sleeves long enough to pull over my hands, which I do occasionally). I've been fine in this down to 29, haven't been out on any days colder than that.

I run between 6 and 7:15 in the morning and I would say earlier is probably safer, there are just a lot fewer cars out at 6 and my guess is that outweighs visibility, etc.

I definitely don't look at the rats I see around Mt Vernon and think "yeah, my cat could take that"

A couple years ago it was just my podcasts

Seeing it metastasize to Baltimore has been surreal, like, oh, now it’s above me when I’m running across the Maryland Ave bridge

If you like sports podcasts these gambling ads are all over that shit, and not just interstitial ads, the content is shot through with it as well.

I would guess there's a decent number of people using mobile apps with ads as well.

For punk I'd look at the venues in Station North. Joe Squared, Ottobar, Metro Gallery.

Also definitely hit the American Visionary Art Museum.

FWIW, I love the scooters (wife took them to OB appointments back in 2019), I just thought it made a neat photo

I also remember around 2019 being willing to walk a a couple blocks to use a Spin or a Bird instead of a Lime because their fleet had bigger wheels and more powerful motors

Wait, the one at Union Collective?

I just ate there like three weeks ago

It did, actually.

I just thought this made a neat photo.

Ha, I recommended the little pavilion across the Lake

Latrobe Pavilion it’s called apparently, according to Google Maps

Clicked into this thread to recommend that little observation deck at Round Falls. The deteriorated path down is key to keeping it private enough

In the same general area, I think the little faux-Asian structures with skyline views in Druid Hill Park could work if you go early in the morning. Maybe share your sorrow with some deer

It’s pricey per square foot compared to somewhere like Reservoir Hill or Waverly.

We looked at Hampden and homes in our budget were like 800 square feet smaller than what we wound up buying in Bolton Hill

Bolton and Reservoir Hill are similar in this regard.

Better values in Reservoir Hill and it’s more convenient to Druid Hill park, more amenities in Bolton Hill and it’s more convenient to the station and Mt Vernon / Midtown. More crime in Reservoir Hill but not, like, a lot