http://www.welovedc.com/2009/07/03/where-we-live-dupont-circle/ Your Life Beyond The Capitol Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.welovedc.com/2009/07/03/where-we-live-dupont-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-19316 Where We Live: Snowed In Edition » We Love DC Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:15:54 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=14842#comment-19316 [...] Neighborhood for Acting Like a Kid: Clearly Dupont Circle takes the cake, with its huge snowball fights during both Snowmageddon and Snowverkill.  Thousands [...] [...] Neighborhood for Acting Like a Kid: Clearly Dupont Circle takes the cake, with its huge snowball fights during both Snowmageddon and Snowverkill.  Thousands [...]

]]> http://www.welovedc.com/2009/07/03/where-we-live-dupont-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-13607 Five Favorites: Circles, Triangles, and Squares » We Love DC Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:39:03 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=14842#comment-13607 [...] Dupont Circle is immediately surrounded by a major commercial corridor with retail and offices, with beautiful residential streets just off the circle. The circle has a Metro station (which happens to be the Five Favorites #1 Metro Station), it’s in the middle of everything, and the park is always full of people. People playing chess in the park, a jazz band playing by the Metro station, groups of friends and couples hanging out on benches, dogs and kids running around and playing in the fountain– it’s really an ideal public space. But it is edged out of the number one spot because it’s not exactly a neighborhood place (it’s probably filled with just as many out-of-towners as nearby residents on weekends), and there’s just not much to do here besides sit and people-watch. Circle stats: 2.5 acres, lots of benches, a great fountain, near-constant games of chess going on. [...] [...] Dupont Circle is immediately surrounded by a major commercial corridor with retail and offices, with beautiful residential streets just off the circle. The circle has a Metro station (which happens to be the Five Favorites #1 Metro Station), it’s in the middle of everything, and the park is always full of people. People playing chess in the park, a jazz band playing by the Metro station, groups of friends and couples hanging out on benches, dogs and kids running around and playing in the fountain– it’s really an ideal public space. But it is edged out of the number one spot because it’s not exactly a neighborhood place (it’s probably filled with just as many out-of-towners as nearby residents on weekends), and there’s just not much to do here besides sit and people-watch. Circle stats: 2.5 acres, lots of benches, a great fountain, near-constant games of chess going on. [...]

]]> http://www.welovedc.com/2009/07/03/where-we-live-dupont-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-13347 Five Favorites: Metro Stations » We Love DC Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:02:16 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=14842#comment-13347 [...] Dupont Circle neighborhood is a mix of just about every use you could imagine within a 5-block radius.  The Circle itself is [...] [...] Dupont Circle neighborhood is a mix of just about every use you could imagine within a 5-block radius.  The Circle itself is [...]

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