Update: The businesses featured above have now all been gentrified out of existence as of December 2012. The evening of the day of Martin Luther King’s assassination saw the largest riots in Washington, DC‘s history. Beginning at 14th and U St NW, the rioters quickly spread up and down 14th Street, destroying everything in their…
Month: February 2010
You Call This a Chinatown? Washington, DC
Chinatown in Washington, DC, really doesn’t exist anymore except for a couple of low-quality holdouts from the 1960’s. In its place rose what is basically an outdoor, urban shopping mall, where you can go from Starbucks to Fuddruckers by simply crossing H Street. Even more absurdly, all businesses are required to have their names written…
No One Else in the World
An umbrella left in a hallway of my old apartment building Adams Morgan in Washington, DC, down the way from my friend’s apartment.
Logan Circle, Washington, DC, Part 1
My favorite neighborhood in Washington, DC was Logan Circle. More on it tomorrow.
The Old Hood, Mount Vernon Square, Washington, DC
Many of you do not realize I lived in one of the most crime ridden areas of Washington, DC back from 2002-3. I realized, only after I had moved in that I was a pawn in my landlord’s gentrification scheme for the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood. I was mere blocks from the infamous Sursum Corda…
Lerner Shops, Facadotomized, But Still There, Washington, DC
This building sat empty, coated in layer upon layer of crusty yellow paint. I often overheard people say it should be torn down as they walked by, and seeing it fully restored on the front is heartening. Now, to be honest, they chopped off the back of the building and combined all the other buildings…
Central Industrial Drive, McRee Town
Update: See pictures of when I went back to photograph the street. The most awkwardly named street in St. Louis, Central Industrial Drive worms its way through the lowlands south of Chouteau and Vandeventer Avenues.