Neighborhood Wiki Watch

• My Hyattsville website/Community wiki
• "Where the neighbors know virtually everything: Residents turn to the Web to strengthen communities" -- Gazette article shines light on local listservs and wikis
• "‘Bytes’ of Hyattsville culture available at networking site" -- Hyattsville Life & Times article by Laurie White discusses growing role of Hyattsville and Riverdale Park wikis
  

Blogs of local interest

• RP-TownTalk blog (archive of all TownTalk posts)
  
• Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space (Richard Layman's blog)
  
• Dwight Holmes' RP Coffeehouse blog
  
• Route 1 Growth (for concerned citizens & officials in NW Prince George's County, MD)
• Rethink College Park - Helping imagine a great college town for a great university
• Marc Molino’s RP arts blog
• David Hiles’ Riverdale Park Ward 2 blog

Local newspapers

• The Gazette (Port Towns)
• Washington Post
• Baltimore Sun

• Topix.com newsfeed for items about Riverdale Park
  

Local news items

• RP Farmers Market in the Prince Georges Gazette
  

Local web sites & groups

• MARCTracker (Online train status)
• WMATA (Metro trains/Metro bus)
• Hyattsville Bikers Unite
• also see "Hiker-Biker Stuff," below
  

• Town of Riverdale Park MD Interim Website
• Town of Riverdale Park’s official TownTalk email list signup
• Prince George's County Official Website
  

• Riverdaleparkies Yahoo Group (“Freely discuss living in Riverdale Park)
• Riverdale Park Farmers Market
• RIverdale Park Holiday Market
  
• HOPE_in_Hyattsville • H.O.P.E. Hyattsville, MD -- Good, active email listgroup with an environmental bent
• Hyattsville H4X ('Hyattsville Hacks') Community Podcast
• My Hyattsville website/Community wiki
• Hyattsville Bikers Unite
• Riverdalerailfans Yahoo Group (“Riverdale Railfans Association”) -- Great local photos from a traincentric point of view!
• Opussum Society (thanks, Alan!)

• "ZIPskinny" - demographic data on 20737 zip code along with comparative data for surrounding zipcodes

• Route 1 Gateway Arts District http://www.mncppc.org/cpd/arts.htm
• Cafritz Property's Website
• M SQUARE: UMd/College Park/Riverdale Park "M Square" Development http://www.msquare.umd.edu/thepark/images/master_plan/81506_site_planlg.jpg
• EYA EYA (Rt. 1) Hyattsville
• EAST CAMPUS UMd/College Park "East Campus" Development http://www.eastcampus.umd.edu/
• Riverdale Park's Mixed Use Town Center Zoning Map http://www.mncppc.org/cpd/riverdalepark.htm#map
• University Town Center (Hyattsville) http://www.universitytowncenter.net/interactive_map.html
• Landy Property (Hyattsville)

Maps & Imagery

• Gmap-pedometer: Measure (& save) your walk or bike ride on the map!
• Map of Riverdale Park MD Trolley Hiker-Biker Trail and Cafritz Property
• pgatlas.com - MNCPPC's Prince George's GIS Atlas where you can look up who owns what and lots of other good info (apparently you must use IE to use this)
• Area Bike-Ped Transportation Map (Rethink College Park)
• College Park Area Development Map (Rethink College Park)
• Historical Marker Database List of Historical Markers in Riverdale
• Anacostia Trails Map (and Info)
• Route 1 Gateway Arts District Map
• Metropolitan Branch Trail (incl West Hyattsville Spur Connector
• WashCycle Bike Trail Map (Google Overlay - All Metro Area Trails
• TerraServer Imagery: Riverdale Park

Hiker - Biker Stuff

• ACTION ITEM: Sign on to WABA letter to the Powers-that-Be in PG County to fund the many bike friendly projects
• Map out and measure your route using Gmap -- and save the map, too.
• MARC Trains (live tracker & other info)
• WMATA (Metro trains/Metro bus)
• Heard of a "Bike Bus"? Read about this eco-friendly commute idea from Australian website
• Bicycle and Trails Advisory Group (BTAG, PG Co. Planning Dept)
• Washington Area Cycle News Updates
• College Park Area Bicycle Coalition
• Washington Area Bicyclist Association
• Hyattsville Bikers Unite (Yahoo group)
• Rails to Trails Conservancy Group

History, news articles & documents

• ERCO Field (Airport) & Factory History (with photos and maps)
• Trains: A "railfan's" photo journal of the CSX tracks, with some good historical links
  
• Online Community Survey for Riverdale Park (July 2006)
• Hyattsville Legacy Trail, Concept Plan (PowerPoint) 2/17/04 - includes Trolley Line Hiker-Biker Trail
• "Seeing a Future Along Old Tracks: History, Opportunity Intersect in Rail Town Housing," Washington Post article 7/8/06
• Residents want retail, restaurants at Riverdale Park town center (article in The Gazette,Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007)
• Gazette article shines light on local listservs and wikis (Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007)
• Washington Post article on Good Luck Rd - listing many historical hints that maybe its luck isn't so good after all... -- Good Luck Rd is one of those rare roads in our area that gives you the illusion of not being captive in a metropolitan area that is plagued by the metastasizing cancer of chain stores and big boxes...