The Georgetown Metropolitan

Photo by Joe Flood.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Nice piece on Gypsy Sally’s.
• GM tried Blue Bottle last week. Eh. It was fine, but not really worth the price or wait.

1600 block of 31st St.

This morning a family of ducklings made their way from upper Georgetown all the way down to the river:

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• DONUTS COMING TO VIA UMBRIA.
• Georgetown has 8 of the 16 oldest homes in DC. (Which frankly is more a testament to how many original homes in Georgetown were torn down over the years. Georgetown ought to have 100 of the top 100 oldest homes, really.)

2700 block of P St.

The ANC would typically be taking the summer off, but they announced a special meeting for August 9th at 5:00 pm. The commission hasn’t released an agenda for the meeting, but GM believes the purpose of the meeting is for the body to vote on one or more projects that need input before the next scheduled meeting in September.

Separately, the ANC has formed a new ad hoc committee to address concerns over the Hyde-Addison construction. They wrote:

On July 20th ANC Commissioner Rick Murphy convened a working group to proactively deal with the Hyde-Addison School Construction Project. ANC Commissioner Murphy included Community leaders; Hazel Denton, Leslie Maysak and Constance Chatfield-Taylor. ANC Commissioner Murphy brought in DCPS/DGS representatives and the MCN General Contractor. This robust meeting achieved substantive and concrete results which will allow for an efficient and commonsense approach to the construction process. This ongoing working group is committed to providing the public with transparency, real time answers and accountability.

The ANC clearly doesn’t know how to take a summer break.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• A little bit more on that Kendrick Lamar Pop Up shop.
• Postmodern Foods goes Post-Postmodern.

Potomac River

This week for Now and a Long Time Ago, GM returns to the fantastic Wymer’s collection and picks a photo of the old Georgetown waterfront. It was taken from the banks of the Potomac slightly down river, across from where the Watergate is now.

While there are a bunch of buildings along the Georgetown waterfront in the picture, the one with two tall smokestacks stands out. That’s the Capital Traction Powerhouse. It truly was a marvelous building and it’s a shame they tore it down in 1968: Continue reading →

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• An Everything Bagel donut sounds terrible.
• Great story of a local DC kid making it at Georgetown University.