Sidewalk signs hyping Capitol Hill apartments hit with Independence Day...
A 15th Ave victim In the meantime, the Central District has taken anti-development angst into a much more creative direction. We don’t know exactly what set it off but somebody was busy with a spray...
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Jason shares the latest Capitol Hill street art commentary on the state of the neighborhood, above. He found it on 12th Ave though we’re sure it also appears at several other nearby locations. It...
View ArticleWashington’s Most Wanted? Show on hunt for Capitol Hill tagger
The TV program Washington’s Most Wanted is leading the hunt for this Boylston Ave tagging suspect caught on surveillance video early Monday morning: Justin Christie was in bed when the motion sensor on...
View Article‘LOVE WINS’— Neighbor’s quick work covers anti-semitic graffiti targeting...
A Capitol Hill neighbor took things into his own hands after anti-semitic graffiti was found Friday morning near 14th and Union on the property of Temple De Hirsch Sinai. UPDATE 2:30 PM: SPD’s Arson...
View ArticleSynagogue hate graffiti part of string of Trump-echoing vandalism around...
Another case of hate tagging — thanks to EV for the picture “LOVE WINS,” read the sheet quickly put up by a neighbor to cover the hateful graffiti found Friday morning targeting 16th Ave’s Temple De...
View ArticleWith ‘graffiti clean,’ Harrell to unveil ‘major community service...
Bruce Harrell does not like graffiti. The new mayor will be in the Chinatown-International District Monday morning to unveil what his administration says will be a new “major community volunteer...
View ArticleMayor’s ‘Day of Service’ includes Cal Anderson and Capitol Hill street clean-ups
(Image: City of Seattle) Dozens of volunteer efforts this Saturday to “turn the values” of Mayor Bruce Harrell’s One Seattle vision “into shared action and meaningful improvement” will include...
View ArticleWe know where the body portraits in Cal Anderson came from but have no clue...
Thanks to @SarahEMyhre and other CHS readers for asking about the faces (Image: Seattle Office of Arts and Culture) A new temporary art installation has added colorful portraits to Cal Anderson Park....
View ArticleSeattle launches Storefront Repair Fund to battle busted glass — UPDATE
BECOME A CHS SUBSCRIBERSubscribe to CHS to help us pay writers and photographers to cover the neighborhood. Become a subscriber at $1/$5/$10 a month. Scratched windows, tagged walls, busted...
View ArticleDecision in East Precinct chalk protest case halts Seattle’s war on graffiti
A free speech case stemming from protests outside the East Precinct on Capitol Hill has temporarily halted Seattle’s war on graffiti. The injunction from a federal court judge hearing the case of four...
View ArticleSeattle free to try to crack down on graffiti after appeal in East Precinct...
Seattle’s lawless days as a graffiti free for all are over after a federal appeals court ruling in a Capitol Hill free speech case. The <strong”>United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth...
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