We’ve started a Carver and Jackson Ward Flickr group, if you have any photos that you’d like to share.

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The Sector 413 report for May (PDF) includes an upadate from Lt. Gary K. Ladin, a Top Wanted for the area, and info on recent initiatives.

Jerry Miles, 56, of the 3100 block of Third Avenue, was fatally shot just before midnight last night at 3rd and Hill Streets. Richmond Police are looking for Verdon Taylor, described as 5 feet, six inches tall, 166 pounds., and with a shaved head. [via]

For June’s First Friday, Gallery5 will be hosting Disrobed 2: The Connection. Billed as an “All-Nude Art Exhibition and Gallery5 Benefit”, this follow-up to last years’s popular exhibition is being used to raise money to help Gallery5 become ADA compliant.

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I wasn’t planning on really launching ths site yet, but since it has been outed I may as well try to be a good host. There are parts of the site that don’t work yet, but I’m getting there. Please let me know if you are interested in contributing to this site.

The National Park Service hosts an archeological context study of the area surrounding the Maggie L. Walker House for the years 1900-1920, including a neat
chart of info on heads of household for a few blocks of Clay, Leigh, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Streets.

Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States. The animations use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities over time. View the map.

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Today’s RTD has a multipedia article about the current big projects downtown (with a factsheet, a video, and a photo slidewhow). One of the projects highlighted is the $350 million Philip Morris USA research and technology center at North 5th Street. [via]

Jackson Ward, the story of “a young cop walking a thin moral tightrope… [who] spends his days patrolling the streets of his small southern town … [and] finds occasional company in a neighborhood prostitute named Glora” is set to begin filming June 1.