You’ll soon be able to take a seaplane from College Park to New York City and Boston.

Starting in mid-September, Tailwind Air will fly eight-seat Cessna Grand Caravans with floats from the historic College Park Airport to the SkyPort Marina on New York’s East River. It’s the first ever seaplane service to fly from the Washington, D.C. area to Manhattan.

From there, you can continue on to Boston Harbor on an existing Tailwind route.

“Adding College Park, in the Washington, D.C., area to us is an exciting next chapter for us as we aim to bring the Northeast together again in a faster way,” Peter Manice, Tailwind’s director of scheduled services, said recently.

Started in 1909 as a military demonstration site for the Wright Brothers, the College Park Airport is the oldest continuously operated airport in the world. It’s 2,607-foot runway limits the size of planes that can use it, as have post-9/11 restrictions on D.C. airspace.

But for Tailwind, it’s a great option, since it’s across the street from a Green Line Metro station and, eventually, a Purple Line station. It could also help make the nearby Discovery District more accessible to New York business executives.

Flights will be once or twice daily and will take around 90 minutes, two hours shorter than a comparable Acela train trip and an hour shorter than a comparable commercial flight.

One-way tickets currently run $395, but you can get a free companion ticket if you book a flight before Sept. 10 using the code TWDCBOGO.

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Le Fantome food hall will open in Riverdale Park on Monday, Aug. 22.

Located at 4501 Woodberry St. in the Station at Riverdale Park across from MOD Pizza, the much-anticipated food hall and ghost kitchen facility will feature Korean and Indian street food, traditional Nigerian dishes, sushi and Southern comfort food, among other things, when it opens.

The first three tenants are Horu Sushi, the third outpost of a popular sushi eatery in Plano, Texas, and Nashville; Mökbar, the fourth outpoust of a casual Korean eatery with three locations in New York City; Sonny & Sons, a hot chicken sandwich eatery.

Le Fantome also announced new seven new ghost kitchen concepts:

-Alta Calidad Taqueria: An outpost of a popular Brooklyn Mexican restaurant featuring tacos, quesadillas and sides like corn esquites and yucca fries.

-Bombay Kitchen: Popular desserts from an Indian sweets shop in Jackson Heights, Queens and sides like kathi rolls.

-Dayo’s Kitchen: Chef and owner Ekundayo “Dayo” Ayeni’s traditional Nigerian cuisine, previously seen at the Riverdale Park Farmer’s Market.

-Fishscale: The second location of a popular Shaw eatery from Prince George’s County native Henry “Brandon” William based on D.C. carryout food.

-Laoban Dumplings: Co-owners Chef Tim Ma and Patrick Coyne serve modern Chinese dumplings with a variety of flavorful sauces.

-Mr. Bake Sweets: Kareem Queeman serves cupcakes, creative blondies and brownies, and his world-famous banana pudding, with vegan and gluten free options.

In addition, one of the ghost kitchen stalls will serve as a rotating community kitchen for up-and-coming chefs and small business owners.

“We are thrilled to officially be a part of Prince George’s County’s diverse dining scene,” said Akhtar Nawab, chef and co-chief executive officer at Hospitality HQ.

Named after the French word for “ghost,” the 8,500-square-foot food hall and ghost kitchen facility is the third along the Route 1 corridor, after miXt Food Hall in Brentwood and The Hall CP in College Park.

Delivery will be available through Doordash, Uber Eats and Grubhub. The food hall is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week.

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A Brentwood startup is using high-tech features to change the way public bathrooms work and they’ve already set up a pilot run on the Route 1 corridor.

Throne Labs makes a portable, solar-powered bathroom with flushable toilets, fresh water for washing your hands and robust ventilation systems. To enter, you type in your cell phone number and respond to a text.

The tech aspect helps the company keep track of when the bathroom needs to be cleaned — about once every 30 uses — or when it needs to have water tanks refilled — about once every 100 uses.

Sensors can also track if someone has been in the bathroom for too long, and people who don’t use the bathroom properly can have their phone number banned.

“You don’t have to pay someone to sit there all the time, but you still get the benefit of the accountability that creates, and the remote ability to say, ‘Hey, something needs attention, something’s not right,’” COO Jessica Heinzelman said.

Earlier this month, the city of Mount Rainier installed a Throne bathroom just off the roundabout on Rhode Island Avenue at the Perry Street Park and Ride Lot for use by people walking by and waiting for the bus.

Throne is looking to add 25 to 50 more bathrooms around the D.C. area over the next year, including new versions with a skylight and changing table.

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Community Forklift is looking for a new home after its longtime landlords have indicated they want it to leave its Edmonston location.

Located at 4671 Tanglewood Dr. since 2005, the nonprofit receives salvaged building materials and household goods from around the greater D.C. area and resells them in a 40,000-square-foot warehouse in an industrial area just off Baltimore Avenue.

Its landlord, Washington Gas, plans to discontinue intensive commercial use of the three-acre property, though it’s allowing Community Forklift to remain open while it searches for a new home.

Community Forklift is currently working with real estate experts, local government officials and other professionals working pro bono to come up with a plan.

“We may be searching for a new physical location, but that’s not going to diminish our commitment one iota to serve our community, said Community Forklift CEO Nancy Meyer in a release sent to the Hyattsville Wire. “In the end, it’s not about the stuff but about the people.”

To help with the effort, the nonprofit announced Forklift Forward. Supporters can donate money on a one-time or monthly basis online or they can send any information on possible locations or other help they can offer to forkliftforward@communityforklift.org.

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More townhomes are coming to the area just north of the Mall at Prince George’s in Hyattsville.

Stanley Martin Homes is building 331 homes in the Gateway West development, which will also have a playground and a wooded conservation area with walking trails next to the football field at Northwestern High School.

The homes will be three and four stories, ranging from 1,643 to 2,631 square feet, with a private garage, just off Belcrest Road and Toledo Terrace. Prices are anticipated to start in the mid $400,000s for the homes, which will go on sale this fall.

Overall, the design looks similar to the Riverfront development next to the West Hyattsville Metro station and the townhomes at the Station at Riverdale Park next to Whole Foods Market.

Developers are also working with the Hyattsville Community Development Corp. to decide on a $35,000 “iconic” piece of public art for the entrance, which would be installed this December.

The development will be just inside the crucial half-mile of the Hyattsville Crossing Metro station, next to the mall and across the street from University Town Center, adding to the walkability and transit access.

The land, including where the new townhomes will be built, was once part of the largely forgotten Heurich dairy farm.

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An NFL-player-turned chef featured on Guy Fieri’s shows who is a Prince George’s County native is opening an upscale American fusion restaurant in Hyattsville.

Located at 6541 America Blvd. in University Town Center, Huncho House is the creation of Chef Tobias Dorzon, who played with the Tennessee Titans and Tampa Bay Buccaneers before retiring from football in 2012.

Dorzon then studied at the Culinary School at the Art Institute of Washington and in Sicily, eventually working as head chef for an upscale Houston restaurant and winning several Food Network competitions hosted by Fieri.

In this year’s Tournament of Champions, Dorzon finished third in the country overall.

A sample menu includes amuse bouches like deviled eggs with bacon jam and fried shrimp, sushi specials, 16-layer oxtail lasagna and jerk crab cakes, among other dishes.

The restaurant also features what is being billed as Prince George’s County’s first chef’s table, seating by the kitchen that has to be specially reserved where you can talk with the kitchen staff directly.

Huncho House will hold a series of soft openings starting on Friday, Aug. 12, but it’s already been listed as one of the greater D.C. area’s most-anticipated restaurants, as the Route 1 corridor continues to be a foodie haven.

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A Hyattsville music teacher’s new EP is getting attention in the crowded D.C. music scene.

Called “The Fork Universe of Funky Love,” the five-track EP has already been written up by the Washington Post and Washington City Paper after it came out on July 29 on the the local nonprofit label This Could Go Boom!

The pop-punk band is called Professor Goldstein, a nod to lead singer Aeryn Goldstein’s day job as a music teacher at an elementary school in Bowie. One track, “The Ballad of Alfred Wegener,” is a nod to the originator of continental drift theory.

Goldstein jokingly describes the sound as “Weezer-core,” after the popular 1990s band that has spawned a thousand imitators.

“I’d love to find my niche in the Weezer-core genre,” she writes. “Whether it’s a nasally, stream-of-conscious screechfest of a song or a carefully crafted ballad that subtly describes how Dinosaur documentaries shaped my childhood.”

Goldstein, who grew up in Berwyn Heights, now lives in Hyattsville, where she and bandmate Venkatesh Ananth Batni run a DIY venue from their home called The Classroom, which records and streams shows from bands like Spring Silver.

You can buy the EP for $4 on Bandcamp here.

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