Improving Access to Parks with Public Art and Temporary Streetscape Improvements

On a recent Saturday morning, I joined a handful of residents from DC’s River Terrace and Kingman Park neighborhoods on a community walk to Kingman Island. We were brainstorming ways to improve the connection from these neighborhoods to Kingman Island, one of two beautiful island parks lying between these two neighborhoods on opposite shores of the Anacostia River.

We joined staff from the District’s Department of Energy and Environment, Department of Transportation, Living Classrooms (who coordinates programming and maintenance of the island) and other partners on our walk, which, despite the delightful company, was not entirely pleasant.