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Charles Village may be known best for the Victorian-style rowhomes lined up along its streets. Some of these are the oldest standing buildings in the city and are called Painted Ladies for their brightly colored facades. These historic houses manage to coexist peacefully with the new construction going on in the area: a blending that probably provides the best metaphor for the neighborhood. It has both old-school charm and modern appeal, and as such is easily one of the hippest spots in the city. Although the area has a lot to offer beyond Johns Hopkins University, it would be difficult not to notice the world famous college that sits at the dead center of the community. It would also be im...
Charles Village may be known best for the Victorian-style rowhomes lined up along its streets. Some of these are the oldest standing buildings in the city and are called Painted Ladies for their brightly colored facades. These historic houses manage to coexist peacefully with the new construction going on in the area: a blending that probably provides the best metaphor for the neighborhood. It has both old-school charm and modern appeal, and as such is easily one of the hippest spots in the city. Although the area has a lot to offer beyond Johns Hopkins University, it would be difficult not to notice the world famous college that sits at the dead center of the community. It would also be impossible to deny that the students of the college have had a great influence on the area, from the trendy coffee shops to the 24-hour Kinko's copy shop, and that the college itself provides residents plentiful cultural and entertainment options. One focal point of the community even draws its name from the college -- Hopkins Square, where you can go to shop, eat or just enjoy a cup of coffee while you watch passers-by. Charles Village is basically a hop-skip-and-jump from wherever you happen to be in or around the city. It's a short drive up Charles Street from the Inner Harbor, or a short drive down from Towson. It's just as convenient to get there by bus, which, by the way, is highly recommended, since most of the area parking is always full, expensive or both.
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Reality dictates hiring extra cops
Who says you can't have a cop on every corner? If you have the money, you can buy your own. That's what the Midtown Community Benefits District is doing. Starting next week, the group, which taxes property owners over and above what the city takes, is...Tags: Mount Vernon, Rape, Station North, Walters Art Museum, Murder
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November was deadliest month of '08
A flurry of shootings and killings over the weekend capped Baltimore's deadliest month of 2008, prompting city officials and police to consider new tactics to curtail a spike of violence that threatens to undermine gains they have been publicizing all...Tags: Christianity, Baptist, Sheila Dixon, Gang Activity, Law Enforcement
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In living color
Special to The Baltimore SunIn the city neighborhood of Charles Village, dark-brick Victorian rowhouses are embellished with leaded- and stained-glass windows and fancy wood pediments. Wrought-iron fences enclose some front gardens, while others are defined by flowers and hedges....Tags: Sony Corp., Metal and Mineral, Land Price, Fells Point, Salvador Dali
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Louis Rankin
Louis Rankin, the retired manager of a well-known neighborhood supermarket, died of cancer Sunday at a nursing home near his St. Andrew's Estates home in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 96. For more than three decades, Mr. Rankin stood at the door of the Eddie's...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Death and Dying, Boca Raton, Roland Park, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company Incorporated
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Sister Ann Mercedes, schoolteacher
Sister Ann Mercedes Miller, a retired parochial school teacher, died of heart disease Nov. 19 at her order's motherhouse in Aston, Pa. She was 91. Born Rose Marie Miller in Baltimore and raised near Johns Hopkins Hospital, she attended the old St....Tags: Patterson Park, Cults and Sects, Rose Marie, Parochial Schools, Belair-Edison
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Hopkins isn't where gun tracking is needed
According to the article "System to listen for gunfire at Hopkins" (Nov. 18), Johns Hopkins University students will be among the first in the city to benefit from an innovative technology that pinpoints the location of gunfire. While campus shootings...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Pikesville, Murder
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Hopkins shuttle shows how transit can succeed
I hope everyone read the article on the success of the Johns Hopkins shuttle bus, which is reported to be reliable and is better than affordable since it's free for the Hopkins and Peabody community and, as the article suspects, many freeloading...Tags: Public Transportation
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Confusion and consternation over attacks in the Mount Vernon area
With every meeting and every statement from Baltimore police, we learn new and conflicting information about a series of rapes in Mount Vernon. Now we're hearing that not all the rapes occurred in that one historic neighborhood. At least one might have...Tags: Mount Vernon, Rape, John Bailey, Sexual Assault, Bolton Hill
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System to listen for gunfire at Hopkins
The Johns Hopkins University will become one of the first colleges in the country to use a system of sensors around its campus that will enable police to instantly pinpoint the location of shootings. City police were testing the system yesterday in...Tags: Assault, Colleges and Universities, Murder, George Washington University, Prince George's County
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Police defend timing of rape news
A Baltimore police spokesman defended yesterday the department's decision to delay notifying Mount Vernon residents of a string of rapes, saying that investigators worked to gather reliable information before notifying the public and that residents should...Tags: Assault, Mount Vernon, Rape, Health and Safety at School, Sexual Assault
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Hopkins launches gunfire detection system
Within seconds after each of the three gunshots rang out, the nearby laptop computer showed they had been fired just steps from the Union Soldiers and Sailors monument at Wyman Park. The shots, fired by Baltimore SWAT officer Chris Timms into a dump...Tags: Assault, Johns Hopkins University, Witnesses
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A safe haven for whom?
Nebraska was among the last states to pass a law letting parents abandon their children without the threat of criminal prosecution. And once the state did, children began appearing at local hospitals. But they weren't infants. And they weren't toddlers....Tags: Infants, Government Health Care, Society, Hospitals and Clinics, Fires
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