While the uber-trendy H Street Corridor draws residents of Northwest DC into Northeast, the rest of that quadrant is generally treated as a pass-through. Most DC residents wouldn’t guess that there’s a national park within Northeast DC, let alone one as gorgeous as the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Past warehouses, parking lots, and Soviet-style buildings with [...]
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Somewhere New: Visiting Harvard Square
10:20 am It’s a windy, bright Thursday morning when my friend drops me off near Harvard Square on her way to work. Before I explore the center of the oldest college town in America, I walk east along the paved path that hugs the Charles River, where bikers and joggers are enjoying the first warm [...]
Somewhere New: Exploring DUMBO
Somewhere New is a summary of a writer’s first impressions about a neighborhood, one that he/she has never been to before. 2:58pm I get off the A train at High Street on Monday afternoon in the sleepy calm of Brooklyn Heights. I am on my way to DUMBO. There are birds chirping and children playing [...]
