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When I was around 10, my slightly older brother had a Summer Youth Job in Ft Greene. He was also beefing with some dudes over there about a girl. These dudes chased us all the way back across Flatbush back to Gowanus. LOL.
Kinda like how Wale is from DC, though never actually having lived in DC, except for the time he used to "stay with" his peeps in Petworth and kick it in the city on the weekends?
Uptown is considered everything past Howard University north in N.W. D.C. Across the park in Tenleytown, Cleveland park all the way up to the line is usually referred to as upper N.W. Most people from S.E., N.E. and S.W. consider all of N.W. uptown. The worst neighborhoods in D.C. were 16th and W st in S.E. which was the murder capital of S.E., the Clifton terrace area including 14th and W st which was the murder capital of N.W., and the Rosedale area off of Benning rd in N.E.
People say "Uptown" all the time. The Go-Go bands say it a lot. It generally means the area above Howard all the way up to Silver Spring between 16th Street and North Capitol. What part of DC do you live in?
Sounds like I'm not in the right crowd to hear it. I live downtown.
When I was around 10, my slightly older brother had a Summer Youth Job in Ft Greene. He was also beefing with some dudes over there about a girl. These dudes chased us all the way back across Flatbush back to Gowanus. LOL.
I interviewed for a summer internship at a non-profit in East New York in the early 80s and got picked for an internship on Park Avenue South instead. Someone must have sized me up and figured I'd last about a week on the #3 train to New Lots.
After seeing East New York and Bushwick in the early 80s, Adams Morgan - where I moved two years later - was like Disneyland.
Some of the catalysts that really spearheaded the transformation of run-down neighborhoods were:
* at 14th and U Streets which had been REALLY skid-row, "crime central", in the mid or late 80's the D.C. govt. boldly opened the big Reeves Center office building. Live theaters soon followed.
* the opening in, I think 1997, of the Verizon Center in Chinatown, and the Spy Museum, really transformed that neighborhood into a mini Times Square. The area was not dangerous, as much as just shabby and below its potential, following the closure of nearby department stores in the 1980s.
* More recently, the opening of the Nationals Baseball Stadium at South Capitol and M has caused a construction boom in the Navy Yard area.
* the opening of a red-line metro station in the NOMA area has contributed to new condo's and offices going up there.
My theory is also that the 14th street porno district may have begun partly due to the old Greyhound and Trailways bus stations being nearby, which carried soldiers/sailers and other transients. Now the station has moved to First Street N.E.
Granted, I may not be considered a local person as I only arrived 17 years ago, but I have never heard of anyone using the term uptown to refer to an area in DC. I would have assumed that it would refer to places like Cleveland Park had I heard it.
"Uptown" is used in the local black community. I've never heard anyone else use it.
"Uptown" is used in the local black community. I've never heard anyone else use it.
.... and "Southside" -- I only hear Black folks using that. Presuming it's SE in general, but maybe like Uptown it also refers to a specific part of SE or SW?
Another catalyst in the redevelopment of the Eastern side of DC was the closure of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. It divided the downtown area into a more West vs. East of the White House sort of thing and suddenly developers, armed with the confidence of the MCI Center going into Chinatown took a new look at places between Chinatown and 12th Street. They also reopened G Street NW by the library (it was a pedestrian mall full of odd folks) and traffic started moving and the area started bouncing back.
Another catalyst in the redevelopment of the Eastern side of DC was the closure of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. .
It wasn't about terrorism. It was to take over the neighborhoods.
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