The Georgetown Metropolitan

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

Photo by balaji shankar venkatachari.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Key Bridge to be painted pink during upcoming renovations.
• Sidewalks on M St. to be widened on weekends all summer long (thankfully not a lame joke!).

3200 block of P St.

The liquor license moratorium is dead. Its death was announced yesterday by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. It was 27 years old.

It leaves behind a much smaller tavern moratorium, which limits the number of taverns in Georgetown to six.

The moratorium was born in a much different Georgetown than we have today. As a result of a delayed increase to the D.C. drinking age, Georgetown became a regional destination for partiers in the 1980s. Even after D.C. joined the rest of the nation with a 21 year old drinking age, Georgetown continued to be dominated by party and college bars. So neighborhood leaders worked with the city to pass legislation enabling a moratorium, and then adopted one in 1989. Continue reading →

Photo by balaji shankar venkatachari.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Hackers attack GU Hospital’s computer servers.
• Cappella Hotel will become a Rosewood hotel.

3100 block of Dumbarton St.

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