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Greater Georgetown - Open Table Edition « — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:18:18 +0000

[...] Georgetown – Open Table Edition Jump to Comments As part of an ongoing, if infrequent, series the Georgetown Metropolitan attempts to document the more egregious examples of people and places [...]

By: IMGoph

IMGoph — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:49:10 +0000

thanks for sticking up for the other, little neighborhoods on the periphery of big, bad georgetown. burlieth needs the public recognition!

By: GM

GM — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:05:03 +0000

Georgetown is one of the few (only?) neighborhoods in DC to have its limits defined by Federal law, From the Old Georgetown Act (Pl. 808-81):

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby created in the District of Columbia a district known as “Old Georgetown” which is bounded on the east by Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway from the Potomac River to the north boundary of Dumbarton Oaks Park, on the north by the north boundary of Dumbarton Oaks Park, Whitehaven Street and Whitehaven Parkway to Thirty-fifth Street, south along the middle of Thirty-fifth Street to Reservoir Road, west along the middle of Reservoir Road to Archbold Parkway, on the west by Archbold Parkway from Reservoir Road to the Potomac River, on the south by the Potomac River to the Rock Creek Parkway.”

In English that means that Georgetown is everything between G.U. and Rock Creek from the Potomac up to:

a: Reservoir Road on the west of Wisconsin &
b: Whitehaven on the east of Wisconsin

Plus that triangle of land north of Reservoir, east of 35th and west of Wisconsin.

By: Mari

Mari — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:08:10 +0000

For those of us who don’t live in G-town, what are the borders?

By: bdh

bdh — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:15:19 +0000

While the appearance of variations of “North Georgetown” is much more common on CL, last summer when I was looking for a new place to live, I came across several postings with headlines for properties in a mysterious location called “South Georgetown”, which might be better known to most as Arlington, VA.

That pretty much takes the cake, as far as I could tell.

By: GM

GM — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:14:33 +0000

You’re right. I always think of those as condos, but I forgot it’s also a hotel. Nonetheless, according to the Post, the Ritz in question was the West End one. I suppose the existence of the Georgetown Ritz makes the mistake a lot less egregious. Oh well, it’s not a science…

By: lnr

lnr — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:47:37 +0000

There is a Ritz in Georgetown — on South Street. Just saying. Like the blog!