The Neighborhood Hot List: Little

5 Points

1. Little 5 Points Halloween Festival

Dress up and party with your friends while watching the annual parade. It’s a ghoulish good time!

2. Wrecking Bar Brewpub

A historic house transformed into a restaurant and bar where they brew their own craft beer.

3. Variety Playhouse

Bands of all persuasions find a welcoming stage in this historic venue on Euclid Avenue.

4. Charis Books and More

One of the country’s last feminist book stores, Charis recently celebrated 40 years in business.

5. Vortex

The iconic skull draws you in, the beer and burgers keeps you coming back.

6. Wax’n’Facts & Criminal Records

Vinyl has made a big comeback and both of these shops have huge selections, whether you’re looking for Miles Davis or Lady Gaga you can find it here.

Meetings

Neighborhood Planning Unit-E (NPU-E), which covers the neighborhoods of Ansley Park, Ardmore, Atlantic Station, Brookwood, Brookwood Hills, Georgia Tech, Home Park, Loring Heights, the Marietta Street Artery, Midtown and Sherwood Forest, meets the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at Peachtree Christian Church, 1580 Peachtree St. NE.

Community meetings, news & events

NPU-F, which covers the neighborhoods of Virginia-Highland, Piedmont Heights, Morningside-Lenox Park and Lindridge-Martin Park, meets the third Monday of each month at the Hillside facility, 1301 Monroe Drive, at 7 p.m,

NPU-B, which covers the neighborhoods of Brookhaven, Buckhead Forest, Buckhead Heights, Chastain Park East, Garden Hills, North Buckhead, Peachtree Heights East, Peachtree Heights West, Peachtree Hills, Peachtree Park, Ridgdale Park, Pine Hills and South Tuxedo Park, meets the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Cathedral of St. Philip, 2744 Peachtree Road.

The Atlanta City Council will meet Oct. 5 and Oct. 19 at 1 p.m. at City Hall, 55 Trinity Ave.

The Decatur City Commission meets in open session on the first and third Mondays of each month at City Hall, 509 North McDonough Street, at 7:30 p.m.

News

The Midtown Alliance has announced the last in a series of four streetscape enhancement projects on Peachtree Street between the Fox Theatre and Emory University Hospital Midtown. These latest Peachtree Street enhancements between Ponce de Leon Avenue and Pine Street include new sidewalks, pavers, ADA ramps, pedestrian light-poles, expanded tree wells, new bike racks and landscaping. Construction will begin later this fall. A new mid-block High-intensity Activated Crosswalk Beacon (HAWK) will be located near Emory University Hospital Midtown. The HAWK signalized crosswalk functions similarly to a stop light, halting car traffic when a person walking pushes the button to cross Peachtree Street.

As part of a plan to ease overcrowding in the “Grady cluster” of Atlanta Public Schools, Superintendent Meria Carstarphen has proposed reopening historic David T. Howard High School in the Old Fourth Ward as a middle school. The Grady cluster, which includes Grady High School, Inman Middle School, Mary Lin Elementary School, Hope-Hill Elementary and Springdale Park Elementary, is one of the district’s most overcrowded. Howard High School, which was attended by Martin Luther King Jr., first opened as an elementary school in 1924 but was later converted to a high school. It closed in 1976 and was used as administrative offices up until 2008. Its sports fields are still regularly used by soccer teams.

The Fulton County Tax Assessor’s Office has opened its new location in the Mall at Peachtree located at 235 Peachtree Street, North Towers, Suite 1400. The move put all tax assessor offices in the same building. “We are certain that this move will provide our residents with more efficiency and better customer service,” said David Fitzgibbon, Chief Appraiser. “This new location provides more parking options and since MARTA comes directly into the building, residents can use the train system to easily access our offices.”

The Decatur City Commission elected Commissioner Patti Garrett Mayor Pro Tempore at its Sept. 8 meeting. The previous Mayor Pro Tempore was Kecia Cunningham, who resigned her District 2 seat on the City Commission last month to take a job out of state.

Dist. 8 Atlanta City Councilmember Yolanda Adrean said she plans to use $250,000 from her discretionary budget in partnership with the Atlanta Police Foundation to have more surveillance cameras and vehicle tag readers installed in District 8, which covers a large swath of Buckhead. Adrean made the announcement at last month’s Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods meeting. Adrean said she was meeting with the foundation to design a strategy for installation of the cameras and tag readers to create what she calls the “District 8 Safety Net.”