The Georgetown Metropolitan

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GU’s nursing school program is getting really popular with undergrads in the wake of the pandemic.
• New “speakeasy” upstairs of Flavio.

Potomac River

As GM was writing his article earlier this week concerning the future (and past) of Hardy Middle School, he dove into the history of the various names the building has had over the years. And it occurred to him that he has yet to gather all the names of the various historic school buildings in Georgetown and note the inspiration for their names. (Although he did once run a series on all of the buildings themselves). Here they are:

Hyde – Constructed in 1907 as a white school and named after Anthony J. Hyde, a Georgetown businessman and schools advocate. Still in use as school.

Addison – Constructed 1885 as a white school and named for former mayor of Georgetown, Henry Addison. Still in use as school.

Curtis – Constructed 1875 as a white school and was named for President of the Board of Trustees for Georgetown schools, William Wallace Curtis. It was demolished in 1951. It stood where the Hyde-Addison playground is now. Continue reading →

Photo by Vincent.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Eastbanc is bringing a “retail lab” to the old Brooks Brothers building.
• Some more details on the shooting murder on Thomas Jefferson St. last week.

1600 block of Avon Place

ANC 2E returns for their March meeting next Monday night via Zoom at 6:30 pm.

There are several interesting items on the agenda, including a reconsideration of the topic of requesting lower speed limits on side streets (which was initially discussed last month) and the question of the future of Hardy Middle school (discussed here yesterday). But the item that particularly caught GM’s eye is a discussion on whether to request DPW return to ticketing cars in Georgetown.

You may or may not know, but DPW has essentially stopped writing tickets throughout the city for many common parking violations. This unofficial policy was adopted for several stated reasons. The first is that with the pandemic, people are having a tougher time taking steps to keep their cars properly registered. For example, if you just moved to DC, getting new DC plates would involve a trip to the DMV, which was considered too much of a burden (at least as of last year when this policy was quietly rolled out). And since DPW ticket writers couldn’t tell whether a car without DC plates (or a Zone 2 sticker) was a genuine resident who simply had not been able to get properly registered or just an out-of-towner, they stopped writing tickets for violating the 2 hour parking rule. Continue reading →

Photo by Thomas Hawk.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Jack Evans car was stolen. (No, not the blue Sebring).
• What the Georgetown professor learned when she became a cop.

3200 block of M St.

Georgetowners have been about the most successful DC residents in terms of obtaining the Covid vaccine. This conclusion comes from the release of data by the city detailing how the vaccine has been rolled out to residents by neighborhood.

As GM has explored previously, the city breaks Georgetown into two neighborhoods for the purpose of health tracking: Georgetown and Georgetown East. (“Georgetown” is west Georgetown, plus Burleith). And East Georgetown is doing particularly well. As of yesterday, 925 East Georgetown residents have received both doses of the vaccine, which represents 6.6% of the population. This makes the area the fourth highest across the city in total numbers and second in terms of percentages.

West Georgetown lags a bit. On that side, 296 have been fully vaccinated, representing 3.4% of the population. The total number puts it in the bottom half citywide, and as a percentage basis about in the middle. Continue reading →

Photo by Victoria Pickering.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• That lovely Second Empire home at 32nd and P finally sold.
• 47 students living in the neighborhood tested positive for Covid over the last week.