The Georgetown Metropolitan

3400 block of P St.

As part of his annual store survey, GM always likes to look just at restaurants and see how much variety of styles there is. Above are the results for this year.

There’s not too much change since last year. Sweets keeps the lead this year with 18 (one more than last year). American still trails at 17. For an overall picture, GM puts all Asian cuisine into one category so to better represent the prevalence of Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese restaurants. Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Amazon locker now available at the P St. 7-11.
• Speaking of east Georgetown, there will be some Hollywood film crews using the old Graham house at 30th and R St. later this week. Watch out for a bunch of no parking signs.

3400 block of Water St.

GM was walking around Georgetown Friday morning when he saw this:

The line wrapped all the way from about 30th to 31st. A few minutes later, the line stretched down 31st. Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• As the photo above indicates, it appears that the Calvin Klein Underwear shop is not closed, but is simply renovating.
• 24 hours in Georgetown (when a hotel is paying your way…)

Potomac River

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Georgetown has a Business Association and a Business Improvement District. Could it have a business-boosting Main Streets program too?
• New robot cop on the beat. But now crooks know in advance that all they have to do it run to the water to get away, like in old prison break-out movies.

1300 block of 31st St.

A looong time ago, GM wrote about the fact that Georgetown was still a long way away from getting FIOS service installed. (FIOS is essentially TV over telephone cables). At the time, GM was mostly lamenting the low definition quality of English soccer feed over cable and pining for the higher fidelity of fiber optics. That was six years ago, and the availability of high definition Premier League soccer over cable or satellite has mooted some of that concern. But it’s still nice to have options. Sadly, we’re still a long ways from getting them.

According to an article from 2014, Georgetown is still last on the list to get the service. And that means we’ll see it no earlier than 2019. If GM were a betting man, he’d take the over on whether Verizon will meet even that extended deadline.

There is some history for this. It will probably come as shocking to people who haven’t lived in DC for thirty years, but cable television itself only reached all of DC in the early 90s. And guess which neighborhood got it last? Georgetown. Continue reading →