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Old 11-19-2011, 06:15 PM
 
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Parts of Anacostia would be similar to Harlem, yes, but being removed from Downtown DC, I'd tend to put Anacostia more in line with neighborhoods in Brooklyn as it is separated from the central business district by the river, and Capitol Hill. Anacostia is also not as dense, and is majority African-American, which is similar to parts of Harlem, but the socioeconomic diversity of Harlem's various neighborhoods does not easily translate to Anacostia, though there have been many positive strides in the community in recent years.

Chevy Chase is technically suburban, as are many Upper NW neighborhoods that border Virginia and Maryland, and would be analogous with Larchmont, but in terms of the five boroughs, it would be demographically similar to the UES. Chevy Chase straddles the border, and there are areas of Upper NW that are Chevy Chase as well, but the area tends to function as a collection of neighborhoods that are interrelated on both sides of the District line. On the MD side, Connie Morella was a Republican congresswoman in this district, who was in the school of Rockefeller Republicans politically, not unlike the UES, since her husband worked for Rockefeller among other in the more progressive end of the Republican party. In Queens, Chevy Chase would also be similar an area like Douglaston, since it's more single-family residential with shopping streets as opposed to taller buildings and/or planned suburban developements.

Williamsburg and East Williamsburg are similar to Adams Morgan, parts of Mount Pleasant, and parts of Columbia Heights. East Williamsburg is generally also referred to as being part of Greenpoint and Bushwick by many, and parts of it are pretty gritty. The hipper area, Williamsburg, is more analogous to Adams Morgan.

Prospect Heights reminds me of a Southeast-Southwest, not far from Nationals Park, especially given the Barclay's Center currently under construction, which is not unlike proximity to Nationals Park in DC. There are a mix of townhouses and apartments in that area of DC, not unlike Prospect Park's brownstones, and a degree of economic diversity. I would not include the entire Navy Yard area in that description in DC, just parts of it that are closer to SW if that makes any sense. The housing stock in Prospect Heights has many brownstones which are prized in Brooklyn, not unlike the bayfront Victorian row houses in DC, so that would be a key difference when looking at the Navy Yard-Nats Park area for comparison. In NW, I'd say that you could draw a comparison between some streets in Mount Pleasant, especially areas below Park Road/Klingle. A friend of mine lives in that area of Mount Pleasant, and does also remind me of Prospect Heights, though Mount Pleasant is a tad bit more serene with the parks nearby, as opposed to a sports arena, especially when on the tree-lined blocks west of 16th Street. Since New York is so much larger, you can find areas that overlap when looking for a DC neighborhood in NYC, hence why I wanted to add to this post to add that there's not too much difference from parts of Prospect Heights and Mount Pleasant, especially since both areas have been recently gentrified.
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