Wallingford, Seattle

Did you happen to get stuck with a ticket on Stone Way today? If not, call yourself lucky (or careful), as numerous vehicles were pulled over this afternoon after not immediately stopping for undercover cops casually crossing the crosswalk between 41st and 40th Street. The  Seattle Police Department Pedestrian Sting Operation was granted by the city council after complaints from neighboring businesses/neighbors.  There was a large police presence, including motorcycle officers hiding in a small condo driveway waiting to ticket vehicles.

Hello and welcome to the first installment of Wallyhood's new weekly contest, which we call (cue the theme music) "What in the Wallingford?" The idea came from Paul Dorpat, who mentioned that The North-Central Outlook used to run a What-Is-It-Where-Is-It contest, in which readers would try to correctly identify an object from the neighborhood featured in a photo (examples below). It has that playful, homey, small town feel that we so love, so why not? So, same deal: each week, we'll…

We chatted with Jude and Jen from Izilla Toys over the weekend, and they mentioned they'll be shrinking the footprint of their Wallingford Center shop by half in the next several weeks, moving out of the South side of their space entirely. "It's just too much space for us," Jen said, to which Jude added "the Wallingford store sells differently than the Capitol Hill store does, we have to adapt to that." They say Lorig, the Wallingford Center property management company,…