In the past four years, I've posted a heck of a lot of photos of Near Southeast on this site. (Though it's only a fraction of the number of photos I've taken of Near Southeast in the past four years.) As projects move forward, I tend to continue to display the oldest photos of a location but then pair them with newer photos as the landscape changes. The photos that "age off" a project page are still on my site, they're just not easily visible--until now, thanks to the new Near Southeast Photo Archive. You can either use this map to choose an intersection and compass direction to view ("show me all pictures at New Jersey and M looking northward"), or you can watch for the new icon now available throughout the project pages, which you can click on to see the archive of all photos at that particular location (like, say, South Capitol and P Street looking east-northeastward, which provides you with a pretty cool month-by-month photo timeline of the stadium construction). Be sure to read all my caveats detailing the many ways that this app isn't perfect, but I've always struggled with a way to harness the bazillion photos on the site without making the project pages any more unwieldy than they already are, and I think this is a good step; and I may now start to upload more photos even if they don't make it onto a project page, just to flesh out some intersections that aren't well represented on the site. Again, look for the icon to access the archive, and let me know what you think.

Jack Evans's office was kind enough to pass along a copy of the bill he introduced (along with David Catania) to abolish the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation and the National Capital Revitalization Corporation. There's no hearing date set yet, I'll let you know whenever I hear about it.

Thanks to correspondent John for passing along news that slipped through (no advisories from Metro or the Mayor's office, darn them!). Tuesday (Jan. 16) at 10 am Mayor Fenty will be making remarks at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Navy Yard Metro station's expansion project. This is to increase the station's capacity from 5,000 riders an hour to 15,000, and is to be finished by Opening Day 2008, while work continues above it on Monument Realty's mixed-use project along Half Street. And maybe after the mayor's remarks, everyone can parade over en masse to the Nexus Gold Club auction. (And I do see now that the event is buried on the Mayor's schedule. I thought that religiously checking the News Releases and the Advisories was good enough, alas.)

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