Lieutenant Lisa Drew reports “another great month for Sector 413 and thanks to the cooperation of our community - crime is continuing to go down! Violent Crime was down 50% this month. We are still continuing to have a problem with property crimes (mainly thefts from autos) but even property crime was down 6%. Thank you to everyone for your continued support from everyone here at 4th Precinct!” Check out the Sector 412 report and the Sector 413 report for October. (PDF)

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Photographer F33 has a great before/during/after set of a house on Leigh Street.

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After linking to the cache of photos from the 1990s, photogrpaher F33 was able to identify a set of abandoned houses in Carver and provide us a more recent photo, towards a great then&now set of photos of a renovation on Bowe Street.

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The Virginia Film Office has a location library of shots with panoramas from around the neighborhood from what appears to be the early 1990s. Local images are also included in the set Slums of Richmond…

We’ve heard that the new construction at Harrison and Leigh Streets will end up totaling around 15 houses, with the buildings themselves being 2 or 3 house units.

A look back at the great Style Weekly article Conspiracy Theory about Operation Crackdown, “an innovative drug-conspiracy case that resulted in the indictment of 21 drug dealers, cleared at least two homicides and did much to clean up crime-plagued Carver”, makes the point that the area has really gotten into a new place these past few years.

The 1200 block of West Marshall (at Harrison Street) is a low, open space between a crush of apartment and university buildings to the west and rows of historic housing to the east. Which way will this space go?

A perfect storm of just EVERYTHING happening in one week: Tuesday Verses, First Friday Artwalk, Tricycle Gardens Community Workday, The Carnival of 5 Fires, Second Street Festival…

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VCU’s Commonwealth Times has confirmed earlier reportsthat starting in January parking decals will be required to park in Carver for more than an hour. In an attempt to cut down on VCU-related parking congestion in the neighborhood, only vehicles with one of the $25 resident decals will be able to park on the street for more than an hour between 7AM and 10PM.

After a move over to the Children’s Museum, Bill Pantele’s 2nd District Meeting opened with just over 60 people in attendance. He touched in district concerns and the Richmond city government, and then opened the floor for questions…

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The Carver-VCU Partnership is seeking helpful and friendly volunteers for the Carver-VCU Partnership After School Program. They especially need volunteers with skills in foreign languages, math, and science for the homework assistance and tutoring lab. They are also collecting classroom supplies for Carver Elementary School. Contact Ron Brown @ 827-1904 or rbrown34@vcu for more information.

VCU Division of Community Engagement has updated their pages for the Carver-VCU Partnership (which includes info about CACIL, the Carver Master Plan (PDF) and a History of the Carver-Newtowne Neighborhoods (PDF)).