Riot corridor becoming condo canyon

Bill Troy opened his Ruff & Ready shop in Adams Morgan back in the 1980s. I was one of the many Washingtonians who browsed and bought the solid, used furniture — desks and bureaus and lamps and art — that spilled out onto 18th Street. The neighborhood changed, lost its funky feel, got whitewashed by bars and restaurants — so Troy moved to 14th below U Street in the summer of 1991. “We were going to have our 20th anniversary sale on Aug. 21,” Troy told me last Saturday. “Now we’re having a closing and moving sale.”

After two decades, Troy is pulling up stakes again, because another neighborhood has changed. This will be his last weekend; he closes Aug. 31.