Wrong turn in Broadmoor

This was the scene in Broadmoor around midnight on Monday after a man who claimed to be driving to Everett crashed his car into two parked cars at high speed, flipping his car in the process.  A witness estimated that the man was traveling at about 50 miles per hour when the accident happened. The photo shows the man's upside-down vehicle, with a fire crew poised in the background. The incident occurred on the 1400 block of Broadmoor Drive E.Police...

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September Police Blotter

Another hazing incident, but it was pretty quite otherwiseIt was at about this time last year that police were called to the area near Madison Park's "Beaver Lodge Sanctuary" (at 37th Avenue E. and E. McGilvra) to investigate a hazing incident involving Garfield students. Although there were post-event admonishments and disciplinary actions by the school's principal after that incident, it became apparent this fall that those earlier attempts to...

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MAD Pizza to close shop

"Committed" to Madison Park no more, exits SundayLong a mainstay on the neighborhood quick-cuisine scene, MAD Pizza this morning announced in an email to its Madison Park fans that it will cease being a pizza-purveyor in Madison Park at 8 pm on Sunday, October 20, though the Seattle-based company said it will still deliver pizzas to the Park from its Capitol Hill location.MAD Pizza has been under increasing competitive pressure in Madison Park since...

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Madison Park: in print and online

Turn-of-the-century "Amusement Center" hereThat great website, Vintage Seattle, has unearthed the historic photograph above, which it dates as circa 1907, showing an "amusement center" located in Madison Park. Vintage Seattle was unable to identify the context, but it is almost certainly a photo taken of the "White City" amusement park which briefly flourished in Madison Park during the Alaska-Yukon Exhibition of 1909. On the 100th anniversary...

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500,000 pageviews and counting

New milestones for Madison Park BloggerBlogger.com, which hosts this site, reported today that Madison Park Blogger has surpassed 500,000 pageviews, after just four and a half years of posting:Quantcast, an independent third-party evaluator of site statistics, meanwhile, shows that Madison Park Blogger currently receives over 1,500 unique visitors per month on average (down from over 2,000 for the month ending September 15).  MPB now has...

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Events in October

Tour the neighborhood's trees with an expertMadison Park (the neighborhood) is aptly named, not only for the City park that is our primary attraction, but also for the park-like nature of much of the community that surrounds our park.  Residents of Madison Park live within the warm, green embrace of the many lovely trees that dot the neighborhood, though many of us probably don't take the time or don't have the right sensibility to notice.Those...

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Goodbye village, hello 'contemporary styling'

Taking butt ugly to a whole new levelCommentary by Bryan TagasThose Madison Parkers who were already bemoaning the loss of what they believe was the "village-like character" of the neighborhood now have something to really wail about: these twin duolithic three-story block houses, which have arisen at the northeast corner of E. Lynn St. and 42nd Avenue E. Village-like, they're not.In the more than four years that I've been writing about Madison Park...

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Crossing fix underway

The City takes actionReaders of the frontpage headline in this month's Madison Park Times ("Accident spurs crosswalk improvements") may have had the impression that improvements had actually been made to the pedestrian street crossing in front of our neighborhood Wells Fargo. The serious accident there involving a pedestrian and a bicyclist in late August certainly warranted some changes.Yet in spite of the fact that the Seattle Department of...

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The view from here

HIdden BeachMother Nature reverses courseAfter enduring the torrential downpours of last weekend, Madison Parkers were no doubt stunned to find that this weekend was downright balmy, with the sun shining steadily and temperatures rising to the low 70's.Madison Park BeachIt seemed, though, that there were fewer of us around to enjoy the surprise return of "Indian" Summer, with many residents having gotten out of Dodge for the weekend. Their...

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Rent versus buy

Is now the time to buy this house?One of the possible outcomes of the housing market debacle is that young people who once assumed that owning a home was a smart idea may now have come to a different conclusion. After seeing the precipitous decline in housing values brought about by the stupidity of banks and failed government oversight, many Millennials (those who have come of age in recent years) have concluded that a house is not a good long-term...

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