The Georgetown Metropolitan

After repeated police raids, the shop selling pot has decided to move on.

Mr Nice Guys, which operated out of 1660 33rd St., opened in November, ostensibly selling t-shirts with a bag of marijuana thrown in for free. This fiction arguably allowed the shop to get around the fact that selling pot is still illegal in DC, even though possessing it isn’t. The police raided the shop in December. Continue reading →

Photo by Joe Flood.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• New butcher shop coming to replace the Neopol Smoked Fish shop on Grace St.
• Georgetown reasserted itself as one of the priciest neighborhoods in 2019.

3300 block of Volta Place

While the temperature is still dipping below freezing here and there, the warm sun makes it pretty easy to believe spring is right around the corner. And with spring in Georgetown comes a series of annual and beloved events. Here are GM’s favorites:

The Georgetown House Tour

First of the two grand dame tours, the Georgetown house tour will be held this year on April 25th. It is held every year to benefit St. John’s Episcopal church. As the title states, this tour gives you a chance to walk through 8-10 of Georgetown’s nicest homes. The patrons party is always the place to hobnob with the nobbiest hobs.

The Georgetown Garden Tour

Of the two tours, the Garden Tour is probably GM’s favorite. Like the house tour, you get a chance to look behind the gates of 8 or so homes, but GM just thinks there’s something more interesting about gardens than interiors. This year the Garden Tour will occur on May 9th (just like it did the day GM got married!). Continue reading →

Photo by Ted Eytan.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The story behind the new Allbirds store in the former Ben & Jerry’s.
• GU weighing in against the proposed cut of the G2 bus.

1300 block of 33rd St.

Tonight the City Tavern Club is hosting what should be a fascinating talk by Yvette LaGonterie. Ms. LaGonterie is a retired federal employee who has used her time to research her family’s history. And in particular, she is exploring her family’s connection to the building that now houses the City Tavern Club.

As the name suggests, the building was once a tavern. And at least three generations of LaGonterie’s family worked there enslaved. This is an incredibly important aspect of Georgetown’s history to delve and highlight. To do so inside the building itself should be all the more moving.

The event is free and open to anyone, but you need to RSVP to membership@CityTavernClubdc.org. See you there!

Photo by Geoff Livingston.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Update to an article GM ran earlier this week: he misread a report from the OGB. The Parrot Ropewalk tennis courts aren’t being totally eliminated. It is just being reduced to a single court with a new north-south alignment. The Lover’s Lane courts will be rebuilt with their current alignments.
• The skeletons found under the Q st. home do not include Yarrow Mamout’s, but are likely from an African American burial site.

3100 block of P St.

The ANC is meeting for its March session next Monday at 6:30 pm at Georgetown Visitation.

The agenda, below, has a couple interesting items. The first is the proposed cuts to bus service (which GM has already discussed). Presumably the Commission will come out strongly against the cuts. It’s too early to tell whether pressure against the cuts will reverse the agency’s position. The cuts are largely driven by budgetary pressures, particularly new rules pushed by Virginia that limits the amount of money WMATA can get. Thanks jerks! How about we cut a lane of traffic on I-66 coming in to DC as thanks?

Anyhow, the ANC is also introducing a new feature where they highlight a small independent business. This month they are featuring Georgetown Cafe, a small coffee shop on N St. just east of Wisconsin Ave.

Here is the full agenda:

GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E
ANC 2E Public Meeting
Monday, March 2nd, 2020

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