The Georgetown Metropolitan

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Moroccan fans take to M St. to celebrate their monumental win over Portugal.
• New Water Street hotel gets final approval.

Back in October, I explored what an artificial intelligence might come up with when asked to draw Georgetown. The results were mixed! But as you may have heard, the same website that offered up AI-generated art is now offering an AI-generated text.

So I got to wondering, “Hey I might get a little busy with the new ANC position next year, maybe I could outsource the website to AI?”

So I gave the chat-bot a simple request: “Write an article in the style of the Georgetown Metropolitan where you discus why there used to be two different Gay Streets in Georgetown.” That’s just the very article I would write! So what did it come up with?

Well, let’s just say I’ll be still writing these myself for now. This is what it produced:

Georgetown residents may have noticed that there are two different streets named “Gay Street” in the neighborhood. This may seem like a confusing and unnecessary duplication, but the reason behind it dates back to the city’s history.

In the early 1800s, Georgetown was a bustling port town and the center of trade and commerce in the Washington, D.C. area. One of the main streets in the town was named “Gay Street” in honor of the family who owned much of the land in the area.

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Although it was supposedly going to first open on Saturday, Yellow is already open. Check it out!
• Rare chance to buy a canal house.

3300 block of O St.

Today for Georgetown Time Machine, we’re visiting with a little girl who had just become a big sister. It was November, 62 years ago, and the girl had just got back from a walk with her dad, who was about to change jobs on top of everything.

If you haven’t guessed yet, the little girl is Caroline Kennedy, and her new little brother was John Jr. According to the text with the picture (from the Dec. 5 1960 Life magazine) “Caroline Kennedy peers out from her Georgetown home on the afternoon of her brother’s birth. Kennedy [her father] had just taken her for a walk and was about to tell her she had a little brother.”

The home she’s peering out of is 3307 N St. JFK lived here with his family while he was a senator and during his run for the presidency. In fact he gave impromptu press conferences on the steps of the home during those weeks between his successful election and his move to the White House.

Of course, tragedy befell the family and the nation. But for a little while they were just another young Georgetown family:

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Yellow opens this Saturday, and it looks delicious.
• I was feeling pretty confident, but just for the record the final election results were officially released and there were no surprises from the preliminary results. I am now officially commissioner-elect. Now the work begins!

Tudor Place

Georgetown GLOW has returned once again, as you may have already seen. The light exhibits will be on display until January 22nd. This year the sculptures are grouped in the southern part of the neighborhood, as you can see in this map:

The most striking display is All the Light You See, by Alicia Eggert. It stands along the river right at Wisconsin Ave.:

But the other exhibits are worth checking out too. Here’s Light Falls at 2918 M St.:

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Meet the students who will be on the ANC and what they’re interested in pursuing.
• Remembering Alan Rubin, who opened the Biograph movie theater in Georgetown.

Georgetown Waterfront