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Montrose Park

Last week DC went live with a system to automatically track when people may have been exposed to individuals who test positive for Coronavirus. But it only works if people actually use it. The good news, though, is that if you follow these simple steps, you’ve done all you need to do.

The system works by sitting in the background and logging whenever you come near someone else using the system. If any of those people later test positive, you will get a notification.

Worried about how this affects privacy? Watch this:

There are two different sets of instructions, depending on whether you have an iPhone or an Android-based phone. Continue reading →

Photo by Vincent.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Some GU students still holding out hope to go-abroad in the spring.
• If you want those Levain Bakery cookies, but are too lazy to go to M St., you can pick them up at Harris Teeter.

3200 block of M St.

This week for Georgetown Time Machine, GM checks out a real estate news article from 1917. And, as you will soon see, things weren’t that different back then.

The article concerns the construction of two new apartment buildings along Wisconsin Ave:

The article mainly discusses one of the two apartment buildings, specifically a building at the southwest corner of Wisconsin and Garfield. It doesn’t seem to have survived to the current day:

But GM is more interested in the second building, which only gets a photo, seen up top.

If you read the caption, you’ll see it’s a building at the corner of Wisconsin and Hall Place. It’s still there; it’s where the Starbucks was until recently. But what it certainly is not is in Georgetown, as the top of the photo suggests. Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Halcyon House is going international.
• The Hoya interviewed me for my ANC run!

Potomac River

The scene outside Lutèce and the George Town Club over the weekend was absolutely lovely. Sitting in comfortably warm mid-autumn weather and underneath jaunty umbrellas, patrons enjoyed tasty lunch al fresco. And GM was struck with one clear thought: we could’ve been doing this all along.

Covid is forcing restaurants to explore outdoor options, and some, like here, are doing it better than others. But there was no good reason not to be trying out ideas like this even without the backdrop of a deadly pandemic. Continue reading →

Photo by Vincent.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Georgetown public library will reopen on November 9th!
• Reminder: Tonight CAG is hosting a meeting on the state of Georgetown retail and will allow ANC candidates to speak.

1500 block of 33rd St.