Stories with 'neighborhoods' tag

Who gets to decide how Seattle’s neighborhoods are mapped?

How does Google pick the Seattle neighborhood names it displays on its maps? And who has official, ultimate authority over where our communities’ boundaries are and how they’re named? We have some answers.

/ January 12, 2018

Video: Longtime Seattleites are relearning their city

People who are from Seattle sometimes worry that people who are not from Seattle don’t get what it’s like to feel attached to the place. And people who are new here? They wonder what it takes for their view of the city to not be discounted.

/ July 26, 2017

Your Voice, Your Choice: Help Seattle spend $2 million

The Your Voice, Your Choice: Parks & Streets program lets you decide which of your neighbors’ city improvement project ideas become a reality.

/ June 8, 2017

Seattle’s 56 Buy Nothing Facebook groups are bringing neighborliness back one free thing at a time

When an acquaintance recommended that my boyfriend and I join our local Buy Nothing Facebook group, where my neighbors give and receive free food, furniture, and tickets to events, I was skeptical. Did I really want to let those awkward, hurried exchanges extend into my online life?

/ April 3, 2017

What Washington Republicans think of Trump and two more things to know today

Hear state Republicans talk about Trump’s transition, then learn why the city of Seattle cut off ties with the neighborhood group it was working with to start fresh with another.

/ December 13, 2016

Dear Seattle: A love letter by Evergrey readers

Dear Seattle: We love that you’re such a weird, out-there place where ambition is mashed up with love of nature and a sense that anything’s possible…

/ October 28, 2016