NEWSLETTER April 2022
Hyattsville Community Development Corporation(HCDC)
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Our Mission:
₋ To develop arts and public spaces; ₋ To spur economic development and the quality of community life; ₋ To encourage widespread leadership for community revitalization; and ₋ To rebuild the City’s commercial corridors.
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Credits
Published by Hyattsville Community Development Corporation, April 2022
The Hyattsville CDC is a 501 c(3) non-profit organization. We are professionals, tradesmen, business owners, artists, and longtime and new residents. We work to reverse indifference and blight in the City of Hyattsville and surrounding communities. We recognize Hyattsville’s social, cultural, and material assets, and are committed to harnessing our community’s potential and talents to revitalize the City and neighboring areas. Our board and staff are comprised of Hyattsville residents and local stakeholders. We are always open and eager to interact with those interested in our community.
Address: 4314 Farragut St. Hyattsville, MD 20781 Telephone: (301) 683-8267 Email: admin@hyattsvillecdc.org For more information visit us at: Hycdc.org
All photographs are credited to the Hyattsville Community Development Corporation (CDC) unless otherwise noted below.
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Table of Contents Featured Restaurants in West - Hyattsville___________________ 4 COVID-19 Resources______________________________________________5 Fresh Off the Presses_____________________________________________6 Call for Artist Riverdale Public Park Art Initiative____________7 Bursting on the Scene____________________________________________8 Downtown Hyattsville Arts Festival____________________________9 Mapping Racism Website Launch Coming Soon__________ 10-11 Support Hyattsville CDC_________________________________________12
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Featured Restaurants in West - Hyattsville Are you looking for authentic Latin Food? West Hyattsville has three popular restaurants that have become the most prestigious restaurants in the area with great family atmosphere. Acapulco Spirit Restaurant 3100 Hamilton Street, Hyattsville, MD 20782 Acapulco Spirit Restaurant in Hyattsville, Maryland specializes in serving TexMex and Salvadorian style cuisine. The restaurant has been serving the area with authentic cuisine for 20 years and offers a family-friendly atmosphere.
Emeritas Carry Out & Restaurant 5408 Queens Chapel Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782 Latin American restaurant serving food from Central and South America. The small local resturant specializes in putting their own spin on Latin platters.
Casa Dora Restaurant 2 6211 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782 A chain of Salvadoran restaurants dedicated to serve the Latino community of Maryland with authentic Salvadoran flavor. Serving handmade products, high quality and unique flavors, with the objective of creating the experience of the familiar touch and taste of their homes.
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COVID-19 Resources
The City of Hyattsville is offering free, non-appointment COVID-19 vaccines and testing at the First United Methodist Church, 6201 Belcrest Road. Vaccine clinic: Every Tuesday from 11 am - 7 pm. (Except holidays) Vaccines and booster shots for everyone ages 12 and older are available all day, and vaccines for children ages 5 and older are available from 3 - 7 pm. Testing clinic: Monday, Thursday from 9 am - 3 pm & Saturday from 9 am - 1 pm. (Except holidays) Check the City's website for more information about special weekend vaccine clinics. PLEASE NOTE: Minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Anyone 12+ may receive a vaccine. Booster shots are offered at the vaccine clinic. Learn more here. The County is distributing COVID-19 rapid test kits at local community centers and libraries on a weekly basis. To find a location near you click here. The Federal government is giving away four free COVID tests per residential address. Request your tests by mail at covidtest.gov or Espanol covidtest.gov/es, or by phone at 1-800-232-0233.
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Fresh Off the Presses
Two of D.C.’s best pizzas aren’t at a restaurant. They’re on a front porch.
March 1, 2022 |Washington Post #1. The Sal from Ramona's Pizza Garden in Hyattsville
"The spot doesn’t even have a Yelp page or a listing on DoorDash and UberEats. Ramona’s Pizza Garden is one of the many pop-ups and underground kitchens that owe their existence, at least in part, to the pandemic, perhaps as an emergency moneymaker or an excuse to channel pent-up energy that might have been spent elsewhere during normal times." Pizza Pop-Up, Hyattsville, MD, ramonaspizzagarden@gmail.com, ramonaspizzagarden.com
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Call for Artist - Bursting on the Scene Mural The Hyattsville Community Development Corporation (HCDC) in BUDGET & FUNDING partnership with the WMATA Art in Transit Program seeks a muralist or muralist team to submit preliminary designs/sketches for the two The selected final artist will receive a stipend of $5,000. wall sections of the pedestrian underpass at the West Hyattsville Metro Station. NOTE: Muralists are encouraged to submit interest prior to submission.
Artists are encouraged to propose aspirational, dynamic imagery that evokes excitement and change. Abstract design approaches are highly encouraged. As a neighborhood at the brink of a resurgence of investment and growth, the West Hyattsville Transit District is poised to experience new commercial and residential development in the coming years. These investments will bring additional vitality and a mix of uses to complement the existing green spaces and tightly-knit residential neighborhoods. Once selected by jury, the winning muralist(s) will further develop and refine their design with HCDC staff. The design process will culminate in a day-long community place-making event on Saturday, June 18. The muralist(s) will direct youth and adult participants in a “resident paint project”. ‘Bursting on the Scene’ merges a festive community event with a high-quality paint-by-numbers mural installation: bringing together residents to beautify and engage the Metro Station’s public space as their own. This call is open to all muralists located within Maryland, Virginia, or the District of Columbia; consideration will be given to those who live/work/exhibit within the Prince George’s County Gateway Arts District. Spanish-speaking artists are highly encouraged.
Deadline to Apply: Thursday, May 9th, 2022, 4:00 PM Contact: Cristobal Slobodzian, Operations Manager, Email: cslobodzian@hyattsvillecdc.org
VIEW THE FULL CFA HERE
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BURSTING ONTHE SCENE
SATURDAY, JUNE 18TH 12PM-5PM
AINT COME P
WEST HYATTSVILLE METRO Public Mural Painting
hycdc.org/the-arts/festivals/bursting-on-thescene/
WITH US
Save the date: Bursting on the Scene Date: Saturday, June 18th, 2022 Time: 12 PM - 5 PM Bursting on the Scene is a community paint day at the West Hyattsville Metro Station. You're invited to come with your family/friends, join the fun come grab a paintbrush for a day of paint-by-numbers painting, refreshments, local music, and kids activities. The event is FREE and family-friendly for ALL AGES. Organized by the Hyattsville Community Development Corporation in collaboration with Washington Metro Transit Authority (WMATA) and local sponsors. Click here to view photos and videos of 'Bursting on the Scene' from 2017.
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9.17.22
TWELVE TO SIX PM Interested in being a SPONSOR for the '2022 Hyattsville Arts Festival? Reach out to cslobodzian@hyattsvillecdc.org for more information and sponsor rates!
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WE'RE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE COMPLETION OF THE SECOND PHASE OF MAPPING RACISM Doug Dudrow, by way of the book "Images of America: Hyattsville", edited by Andra Damron.
The Maryland Historical Trust (MHT), has graciously accepted delivery of Hyattsville CDC’s research paper: “Mapping Racism: An Historical Analysis of Residential Segregation in Hyattsville, Maryland From Abolition Through the Civil Rights Movement.” MHT helped finance our ongoing, comprehensive research into residential deeds and declarations of covenants. By virtue of an MHT’s non-capital grant, we employed Dr. Synatra Smith as our consulting historian. Once educational curator for Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center: she is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for African American Studies at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Other title searchers funded by MHT to work with our project team helped compile the data we used to develop our analysis. Our project team also produced an Addendum to the Analysis to supplement its findings with further localized information centering on Hyattsville neighborhoods. This addendum is far enough along to share, but remains an ongoing work in progress. In our Mapping Racism project animates research findings concerning the history of residential segregation and development in Hyattsville. Our seventeen years of project management in and around the City of Hyattsville, the CDC had discovered a series of previously unilluminated segregationist encounters in the development of neighborhoods and individual buildings or properties that we were shepherding to contemporary revitalization.
These Railroad Avenue homes were located in the Melrose section of town near the current day businesses Shortcake Bakery and Maryland Meadworks." Prince George's County Historical Society, by way of the book "Images of America: Hyattsville", edited by Andra Damron.
The post-World War I building boom brought the suburban dream to the middle class. This view is of the rapidly developing Hyattsville Hills neighborhood, brought forth by realtor OB Zantzinger, the originator and father of racially restrictive deed covenants in Prince George's County and Hyattsville, MD.
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(CONT.) In organizing our research around title searches and deed analysis we've uncovered a series of legal and social barriers to black residency and home ownership and we are currently identifying the lines of race demarcation that have shaped Hyattsville from its earliest days. Our study of the local use of racially restrictive deed covenants in the expansion of area suburban subdivisions in the early 20th Century has uncovered a documentable trail of exclusionary, racist housing practices that touch almost every corner of this City, while tracing those practitioners of local exclusion to all levels of regional influence or elected governance. Mapping Racism was initially launched in 2019 in partnership with Joe's Movement Emporium through the use of dance, theater, and film. Our partnership directed a series of public performances and community discussions meant to explore the local impact of segregationist housing practices in the early and mid-twentieth century Prince George's County that defined the very neighborhoods we live in today. By illuminating this difficult history, we seek to better enable future solutions leading to a more equitable community, fair housing access, and ending the sometimes-invisible discriminatory practices that are still embedded in the process of modern-day property acquisition.
Are you interested in reading and learning more about Mapping Racism contact us
We are hard work creating a website that will host the many layers of data and narratives that our research is generating. You can keep tabs of our progress by visiting: https://hycdc.org/community-building/mapping-racism/ 11
Do you love what we do? Please consider donating To support our various economic, community, and arts related programing. Hyattsville CDC is a 501 (C)3 tax exempt non-profit; as such, contributions may qualify as a charitable deduction for federal income tax purposes. Please consult with your tax adviser or the IRS to determine whether a contribution is deductible. visit: hycdc.org/donate
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