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Starting last weekend, and running through the summer, the BID arranged for sidewalks along M St. between 33rd and Wisconsin to become temporarily wider. This is an expansion of a pilot they’ve tested several times in the past year. It’s great that they’ll be running it every weekend all summer long, but it should be seen only as a stepping stone for a broader sidewalk expansion plan.

When the BID first arranged for the pilot (seen in the video above) the idea to do something more was already percolating. So long as the pilots were successful, rolling it out more regularly was the goal. And because the pilots were successful, the BID was able to get approval to do just that. This summer program is the result. Continue reading →

Photo by Joe Chawan.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Ugg store is closed.
• There’s going to be a grilled cheese restaurant opening in the space that the owner’s of Hu’s Wear claimed for years that they were going to open a fine restaurant.

1500 block of 33rd St.

This week in old Georgetown in Color, GM visits a Georgetown University football player named Otto Sauer. Sauer, a tackle originally from Bridgeport, CT, played for the Hoyas from 1923 to 1927. In 1940 he was given an honorable mention in connection with the alumni association’s selection of the all time best Hoya football players from the previous 60 years.

After graduating from Georgetown in 1927, Sauer enrolled in GU’s law school. He eventually returned to Connecticut to serve for many years as the state attorney for Fairfield County. In 1969, he was again honored by GU alums, this time as “Lawyer of the Year”.

Photo by Ehpien.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Sovereign adds brunch.
• Even wanted to find something odd off the beaten path in DC? Come to the Peabody Room at the Georgetown library this SaturdayApril 23rd at 1:00 pm to hear author Sharon Pendana reveal the Secrets of DC.

Dumbarton Oaks

There’s no L St. in Georgetown. You can walk straight from K St. to M St. without passing their middle sibling. And partially as a result of this, an odd numbering sequence reigns over south Georgetown. Some north-south streets have street addresses beginning with 1100, and some don’t. Here’s why:

Throughout DC, north-south streets are numbered according to the lettered cross streets. Thus the first block of, say, Fifth st. north of A St. is 0100. And once it crosses B St., the address numbers start with 0200. And so on.

The building numbers north of K St. in Georgetown are 1000. (K is the eleventh number, so you’d think the addresses north of it would be 1100, but because there’s no J street, there’s a shift after I St.) And the buildings’ addresses north of M St. start with 1200. Continue reading →

Photo by Daniel X. O’Neill.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Capriotti’s is closed. GM heard this was long in coming. They paid a huge rent and just never were very busy. Sadly, another cheap food option is gone from M St.
• Maybe the reason to have two Ferraris is that a tree might fall on one.

Dumbarton Oaks