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Where We Live: Snowed In Edition
‘Braving the Snowmageddon’ courtesy of ‘theqspeaks’ Here at Where We Live, our focus is on neighborhoods and communities where people live, work, and play. But recently, there’s not been a whole lot of leaving the house, so this week’s feature is focusing on the best places to be snowed in. Sure, this may be the [...]
More »Where We Live: Chevy Chase
‘Chevy Chase Trolley Turnaround’ courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’ Welcome to another installment of Where We Live. As we’re wrapping up the District’s neighborhoods (if there’s one I haven’t yet covered that you’d like to see, speak now!) before moving onto Maryland and Virginia, this week’s feature tackles a town that sits in both [...]
More »Where We Live: Near Southeast/Capitol Riverfront
‘loves it’ courtesy of ‘NCinDC’ Welcome back to Where We Live, your bi-weekly tour of the District’s neighborhoods. This week the focus is Near Southeast, which is also commonly known as Navy Yard or Capitol Riverfront. This neighborhood has been completely transformed over the past several years, and the construction of the Nationals Stadium has [...]
More »Where We Live: The Palisades
‘dream house, pt. 4′ courtesy of ‘NCinDC’ Welcome to the last Where We Live of 2009! It’s been a fun year exploring DC’s neighborhoods, and to close out the year I wanted to profile one of the lesser-known neighborhoods in the city: the Palisades. This neighborhood is beautiful and scenic and has a real sense [...]
More »Where We Live: Neighborhood Superlatives
‘Foggy Bottom NH Ave.’ courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’ When I first started writing the Where We Live feature back in April, I didn’t know all that much about DC’s neighborhoods. I’ve had a lot of fun exploring DC’s neighborhoods and learning more about how they evolved into the great places they are today. [...]
More »Where We Live: Cleveland Park
‘ladybridgev1c’ courtesy of ‘melody.a.thomas’ Cleveland Park is the focus of this week’s Where We Live. This neighborhood has so much to offer, including great Metro access, proximity to major attractions, charming residential character, and some very cool neighborhood hangouts. It’s one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the city, with its views of Rock Creek [...]
More »Where We Live: Petworth
’1304 Monroe Street NW’ courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’ Welcome to this week’s Where We Live! So far, this feature has taken us to every quadrant of the District, and soon, we’ll be expanding to include Maryland and Virginia suburbs. But first, let’s look at a DC neighborhood that has a real sense of [...]
More »Where We Live: Georgetown
‘loves it’ courtesy of ‘NCinDC’ Hi, and welcome to another edition of Where We Live. This week, we’ll be looking at a DC neighborhood that is older than DC– Georgetown! Home to beautiful architecture, a thriving commercial district, and a major university, Georgetown probably draws more out-of-towners than any other DC neighborhood (except maybe Adams [...]
More »Your Rent Should Not Go Up This Year
‘For rent’ courtesy of ‘quinn.anya’ If you’ve gotten off the metro in any of the suburbs you’ve probably seen big apartment advertisements offering large giveaways. If that wasn’t enough confirmation for you that the rental market is a soft, perhaps a report on apartments in our region from Marcus & Millichap will help.[pdf, free reg [...]
More »Where We Live: Columbia Heights
’11th Street NW Rowhouses’ courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’ Another Friday, another neighborhood. This week’s Where We Live focuses on a neighborhood that has reinvented itself over the past ten years, Columbia Heights. Columbia Heights has a lot to offer, from beautiful residential areas to the massive new DC USA development, and it’s got [...]
More »Where We Live: Glover Park
‘Glover Park hawk’ courtesy of ‘Julie Lyn’ Welcome to another installment of Where We Live. This week we’ll look at Glover Park, a neighborhood that often gets overlooked because of its two loud neighbors: Dupont Circle and Georgetown. But there’s a lot of charm in Glover Park, and it offers residents a perfect balance: living [...]
More »When did housing turn into Freddie Kreuger?
‘Foreclosed House 3-21-08 IMG_7996′ courtesy of ‘stevendepolo’ Actually, the housing market may be more Jekyll & Hyde than straight-up slasher villain, given the way it’s seemed to flip between everyone’s financial salvation and the eventual ruin of our economy. Unfortunately the odds are that if I’m writing about it here it’s for frightening reasons, not [...]
More »Where We Live: River East
Welcome to another Where We Live. Today we’ll be exploring the communities of River East, on the other side of the river that DC sometimes forgets about: Anacostia, Congress Heights, and Barry Farm. These neighborhoods have rich histories, and are currently seeing massive new redevelopment projects. Read on for the places to go and things [...]
More »Where We Live: Shaw
‘so d.c.’ courtesy of ‘NCinDC’ Welcome to the latest edition of Where We Live. This week we’ll be covering a DC neighborhood with a storied history– Shaw! Shaw and the surrounding neighborhoods of Eckington and Bloomingdale have seen a great deal of reinvestment over the last decade, and many people are discovering the charm and [...]
More »Where We Live: Penn Quarter
‘Penn Quarter’ courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’ Another two weeks, another neighborhood! This week we’ll be looking at the neighborhood at the center of it all: Penn Quarter. This neighborhood encompasses much of the downtown/Chinatown area north of Pennsylvania between 5th Street NW and 9th Street NW. It’s a neighborhood that changed a lot in the [...]
More »Where We Live: H Street
‘H Street Life’ courtesy of ‘NCinDC’ Welcome to another edition of Where We Live. This week we’ll be looking at a whole section of the city that is rapidly changing: the section of Northeast DC north of Massachusetts Avenue and south of Florida Avenue. This area has a LOT of different names: Near Northeast, H Street, [...]
More »Where We Live: Adams Morgan
‘Adams Morgan’ courtesy of ‘citron_smurf’ Welcome to another edition of Where We Live. This week we’ll be covering the ins and outs of one of the District’s coolest neighborhoods, Adams Morgan. Adams Morgan is unique in DC in that it actually feels like a neighborhood during the weekdays and weekend days, and completely changes character [...]
More »Renting in the District
’070309 207′ courtesy of ‘dougtone’ If you don’t love your current place of residence you can at least take some comfort in knowing that others are worse off then you. There’s a question on a high-visibility advice site right now that I don’t want to link because I’d hate to draw the wrong attention to [...]
More »Where We Live: Dupont Circle
‘a hug on Riggs’ courtesy of ‘NCinDC’ Welcome to Where We Live: Dupont! Dupont Circle is one of the District’s best-known neighborhoods, and there’s so much history and beautiful architecture to love here. Dupont is home to everyone from recent grads in group houses to young professionals in condos to well-off diplomats with kids, and [...]
More »Where We Live: Mount Pleasant
‘Shrine of the Sacred Heart’ courtesy of ‘NCinDC’ The diverse and eclectic Mount Pleasant neighborhood is the topic of this week’s Where We Live. It was once a streetcar suburb and is now a mix of housing types with a main street of its own. It has great access to downtown and is right in [...]
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