14th and Columbia Road NW, Washington DC (840 hits)
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Submitted by Axolotl (View user info) at 2009-09-25 15:50:53 EDT
The party that night was in a row house on a small side street in Park View, just a few hundred feet from Georgia Avenue. Four people lived there, paying $150 a month each for two expansive floors and amenities, all the space and street cred a 20-year-old hipster of 2009 could desire. It was incredibly cheap; the drawbacks was the location, sandwiched between the violence of Petworth and Columbia Heights, robberies on the block, and constant arrests and knifings all surrounding. Around the house were some empty lots, vestiges of the upheaval of the 1968 Riots; the main strip of the Georgia Avenue corridor hosted a medley of liquor stores, drug dealers, and a housing project located nearby.
Georgia Avenue NW, Washington DC is one of the few places in the District that I'm afraid of. I've walked around most of the city at night, from Adams Morgan to Shaw to H Street NE to Petworth to even the strip of Pennsylvania Avenue in Southeast. Only on Georgia Avenue did I ever run into any trouble.
"Yo, check out whiteboy here. You look rich, you wanna give me a dollar?"
"No."
"You wanna give me a cigarette? Yeah, nigga, don't you run away! Grab him, get his coat!"
I didn't think I had looked rich. Jeans, a t-shirt and sneakers are all for par, but maybe it was the coat, a Christmas present from the year before. Going to the party tonight, the rule was 'when you're walking from the metro or bus stop, don't look gentrified.'
Don't look gentrified.
We were at Cali Yogurt in Adams Morgan, a neighborhood with a large collection of clubs, bars, and restaurants. We had been visiting my friend Rachel's apartment on 17th Street; I had always considered Adams Morgan safe due to the constant tourist and local presence, but the northwest house on 17th and Euclid was a crack house, with people constantly going in and out, gang members selling drugs. She'd had three drive-by shootings on her block since 2007, and even more stabbings and assaults.
"We're not going to make it back to get ready for the party, you wanna leave now?"
"Sure, we can walk," I said. "It's about half an hour, just up Columbia Road."
So we had set out, not bothering to change clothes, walking through north-central District of Columbia for a night of relaxation, spent in a haze of smoke and alcohol, an oasis of young college kids in a neighborhood of crime and poverty. I kept thinking what they had told us...don't look gentrified. My friend Conor was wearing a Georgetown Cupcake t-shirt - goddamn, people would assume he meant it sincerely. That's the problem with wearing ironic t-shirts in the hood.
As we walked on Columbia Road, the neighborhood shifted quickly from a bustling commercial district to a poorer and more low-key area. The District is funny in that way; a single block might be a nice street full of well-maintained rowhouses, but turn the corner and it would be a sight not unfamiliar in downtown Newark or Baltimore.
We passed the run-down apartments past 15th, leading up to one of the most dangerous sections of Columbia Heights. This was where the metro was, where gentrification had been highest. On 14th and Irving there's a Target, a Best Buy, a CVS, high-rises, a Five Guys, a Ruby Tuesday - all the trappings of a suburban strip mall, imported to the ghetto. Two blocks in any direction will take you to crackheads, homeless people, and abandoned buildings. The Columbia Heights metro has had about five or six shootings within a block of the entrance this year.
We almost visited this house back in June, but right before we left we got a call saying "don't come. Someone's been shot in the head by the metro, they've closed it off." His name was Raheim Moore, it was June 10 2009, and he was thirty-seven. Other women have fallen, struck by bullets meant for rival gang members.
Here at the intersection of gentrification and urban decay, white hipsters in skinny jeans walk the same streets as the homeless and gang members. The hipsters, who normally would have disassociated themselves with corporate chain stores like Target and Ruby Tuedays now flock to the ones in Columbia Heights. Somehow franchise stores seem a lot cooler when there's a chance you could be shot or mugged outside of one. And the gangsters of NW, the children and grandchildren of the Riots of '68, bang and fight not out of deprivation, but out of the expectation that that is what they do. Their former ghetto is becoming richer, whiter, and safer; they're not selling drugs to make money anymore, they're not dying in drive-by shootings for a gang, they're doing it for their identity. It's a fucked up situation all around.
On 14th Street, between Columbia and Irving, a man was begging for money. "Help a poor man out. I accept debit cards, I got no shame. Young man, you see I have a problem, you need to help me out."
"What's your problem?"
"I have a disease. But it's the disease that I caused myself, you know what I'm saying? Like, one month I had a phone bill for two thousand dollars. But I hadn't been talking on the phone, if you know what I mean."
I looked at the track marks on his arm and understood; some of the others walking with us were confused.
Three hundred feet ahead, young people and families were bustling into the entrance of the Target, and walking out of the luxury condos just built on the corner. Here where we stood, idle men stood about, several congregated around a car drinking forties, attempting to fix the engine. One young man was playing with a switchblade, leaning up against the fence to a run-down apartment. As we walked upward, we were surrounded by a canyon of superstores that would not be unfamiliar in a New Jersey megamall.
At the party, we were early, and helped the hosts set up, tap the keg, mix the jungle juice. Gradually, it seemed like the entire sophomore class showed up, and the house was packed in no time. The host had invited some local guys from the neighborhood, who had brought friends, who had brought friends.
We could tell who they were because the black people from the college who had been invited were scared of these other black newcomers. There was a gaggle of young teenagers from Petworth and the Park-Morton Houses wandering about the party, eyeing girls, acting belligerent. I was with my friend Lauren when one began hitting on her.
"I have a boyfriend," she said.
"Girl, I ain't trying to be your boyfriend." He continued, talking about his cousin who had smoked boot, about how in Deanwood there were a lot more girls that boys, about how if she was single she'd go for him. She looked offended.
"I'm sorry, I realize I can't be talking to beautiful intelligent ladies in that disrespectful manner," he said. "But the girls where I'm from, you could describe them in one word: slutty rodents. Can't respect a bitch who'll suck your dick in the bathroom."
He stopped, spotting another female friend of mine, who was black. "Why don't you introduce me to that dark-skinned cutie over there?"
"I don't think she's interested."
At the end of the night, about six or seven girls realized that they had been robbed. The young men had gone through their purses, taking cameras, phones, wallets, and ipods, anything of value. The 45-year-old hooker who had been asking if kids had wanted a good time and offering PCP had been replaced by a homeless man trying to break through the door looking for money. The party ended on a sour note; the suspects made themselves scarce.
Me and Conor took a cab ride home back to the enclave east of Rock Creek that night. As we watched the rowhouses and vacant lots replaced by mini-malls and mansions, I thought about the kids who had come uninvited, who had robbed the party. Is it inevitable, when middle-class white kids move into a formerly 99% black neighborhood? Was it because we seemed rich, or because they realized the gentrifying effect we would have on their community?
Leaving the bipolarity of the Heights behind me, I went to sleep in the soulless suburbs of Massachussetts Avenue. The District gentrified a little bit more that night because of me.
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Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2009-10-06 18:06:31 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2009-10-06 15:44:40 EDT (#)
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Hairless below.
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What an asshole
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2009-10-06 15:44:40 EDT (#)
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Hairless below.
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2009-10-06 13:55:52 EDT (#)
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you should NEVER wear ironic t-shirts in the ghetto.
check.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-10-04 19:29:52 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Realpolitik (user info) at 2009-10-04 02:07:05 EDT (#)
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Axolotl, you and I both know we both go to GWU.
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Think further north.
I get sketched out giving personal info out on Uber, don't mind my evasiveness haha
Submitted by Realpolitik (user info) at 2009-10-04 02:07:05 EDT (#)
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Axolotl, you and I both know we both go to GWU.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2009-09-28 18:37:58 EDT (#)
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carousing with wild Negroes!
our lil' clogger is growing up!
I can hardly wait for the 678,472 word essay that he'll post when he smokes hash for the first time...
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-09-28 11:36:02 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Realpolitik (user info) at 2009-09-27 23:49:31 EDT (#)
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There are some places you just don't go in DC. I always get a little nervous anytime anyone suggests heading up to Ben's Chili Bowl around Ust or Oohs and Ahhs. One time, around move in weekend, my mother wanted to head up to the target at Columbia Heights. Knowing the reputation of Columbia Heights, I strongly protested, only to be shocked when we arrived at that suburban oasis smack dab in the middle of the ghetto. One of the things that always stuck with me was how the carts would lock at certain part of the store, so that you physically couldn't bring them out the door. A subtle reminder that you are in their world. Good to see someone presenting the real side of DC on uber - the side of DC that is the truth.
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What part of the DC Metro are you from? I mean, in the daytime I'd walk anywhere in DC. I'm used to back where I'm from, I used to deliver pizza in some shitty areas in Hudson County NJ, but the thing is nobody would ever try anything in the daytime. at night its another story, it's like a whole new city.
Even at night, U Street has been so cleaned up and gentrified, I've never think to just not go there...Bens Chili Bowl is awesome for drunken 2am feasts haha.
Submitted by Realpolitik (user info) at 2009-09-27 23:49:31 EDT (#)
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There are some places you just don't go in DC. I always get a little nervous anytime anyone suggests heading up to Ben's Chili Bowl around Ust or Oohs and Ahhs. One time, around move in weekend, my mother wanted to head up to the target at Columbia Heights. Knowing the reputation of Columbia Heights, I strongly protested, only to be shocked when we arrived at that suburban oasis smack dab in the middle of the ghetto. One of the things that always stuck with me was how the carts would lock at certain part of the store, so that you physically couldn't bring them out the door. A subtle reminder that you are in their world. Good to see someone presenting the real side of DC on uber - the side of DC that is the truth.
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2009-09-27 07:52:50 EDT (#)
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Labored the point in places.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-09-27 03:27:06 EDT (#)
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I'm not sure anything else on uber makes me realize how long I've been here than the fact that in some ways I've watched you grow up through your writing. Your innocence lost is a bit sad but inevitable, and I know you're smart enough to take care of yourself.
This is one of the few posts I've even bothered to read recently. Always good to see you here, Ax.
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2009-09-26 13:19:50 EDT (#)
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This was great.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-09-26 01:07:27 EDT (#)
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you've really grown up, it seems.
wierd
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2009-09-25 23:25:25 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 19:20:10 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-09-25 19:17:06 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 19:07:45 EDT (#)
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Also, screw Hookah bars. They use the cheapest products for the highest prices. Every DC resident should own a hookah if they ever plain on entertaining.
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Oh believe me we all do haha, we got hookah down to a science, ordering tubes and exotic flavors off of the internet...but I do like the atmosphere of (most) hookah bars. Old ethiopian men smoking and playing chess and whatnot, and azela's $10 per hookah, not per person.
The hookah bars in Paterson and Clifton NJ are really shitty in comparison, but it seems that hookah in general isn't as big up there.
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You're right about the atmosphere. It's pretty much the whole reason for going to a hookah bar. Every once in awhile it's nice to go to one for nostalgia purposes, but they're just not the same to me anymore.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-09-25 19:18:37 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 19:06:49 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:47:21 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:04:31 EDT (#)
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Dude, white hipsters are moving to Columbia heights because it's the nicest area they can live in for the low price of rent there right now. I'm guessing within the next couple years rent will go up so high that there won't be many hipsters there anymore, and it will be all the suburban moms. There will be a new place like it for the hipsters to move to a little further out when that happens. Actually, Logan Circle is reaching the suburban mom point at the moment, and it's kind of lame.
Also, Columbia heights, in the area around the Metro and Target is really not all as bad as you make it out to be. And considering the way they're building up 14th street North of U, it's only a matter of time before the gentrification entirely connects. There are only really 2 or so sketchy blocks between U st. and Target anymore.
I think maybe the reason you feel so intimidated by these areas is because you seem like the sort of person that belongs in either the Suburbs or Georgetown. Just a guess, though.
I'm actually wondering if I know people that know you.
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:( That bothers me. I can't stand the Georgetown/GWU/Bethesda crew of people that I know, aka rich preppy conservatives who club in Dupont and judge you if you don't have a trust fund. I'd rather hit up house parties in Columbia Heights and Petworth than go to Spank any day. It's not so much that I'm intimidated by these areas rather than it fucks me up to see and hear of the amount of crime that happens by the place where friends of mine live...I'm not going to avoid every street east of Rock Creek because of it though. And the atmosphere in Parkview/Petworth is wayy different than that in CH, there are no suburban moms on Georgia Avenue.
I've never been to Logan Circle, but I've heard of the area. The neighborhood of Shaw/U Street by the 9:30 Club and the Black Cat isn't bad at all. Me and a friend of mine were actually kicked out of the 9:30 Club (not badass, just stupidity on our part) and wandered from U Street to Azela hookah bar in Adams Morgan hitting up Bens Chili Bowl on the way. Azela is also incredible and has the best price by far of any hookah bar I've been to either in DC, NYC, or NJ.
You might know people that know me. I'm sure we've walked and hung out in the same places, in any
case.
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Like I said, really just a guess, I wasn't necessarily saying, "YOU MUST BE A PREPPY GWU STUDENT" or anything.
There's really no reason for you to have ever been to the actual circle at Logan, only because it's all residential, and we're the only people that live on it that ever really throw parties bigger than small gatherings. As far as a place to live though, it's my favorite part of the district.
I imagine you must have heard of BYT, or know people in that group? Considering they're pretty much the biggest group of self proclaimed hipster party kids in the city.
I imagine you have Facebook. I'm curious who you are now. Hit me up. I'm Stanley William Moore II.
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Nah it's cool. BYT, never heard of them though. I'll find you on facebook, I'm kinda wary about putting personal information on Uber.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-09-25 19:17:06 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 19:07:45 EDT (#)
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Also, screw Hookah bars. They use the cheapest products for the highest prices. Every DC resident should own a hookah if they ever plain on entertaining.
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Oh believe me we all do haha, we got hookah down to a science, ordering tubes and exotic flavors off of the internet...but I do like the atmosphere of (most) hookah bars. Old ethiopian men smoking and playing chess and whatnot, and azela's $10 per hookah, not per person.
The hookah bars in Paterson and Clifton NJ are really shitty in comparison, but it seems that hookah in general isn't as big up there.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 19:07:56 EDT (#)
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PLANAPLAPANAPLAANPALANANAPA
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 19:07:45 EDT (#)
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Also, screw Hookah bars. They use the cheapest products for the highest prices. Every DC resident should own a hookah if they ever plain on entertaining.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 19:06:49 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:47:21 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:04:31 EDT (#)
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Dude, white hipsters are moving to Columbia heights because it's the nicest area they can live in for the low price of rent there right now. I'm guessing within the next couple years rent will go up so high that there won't be many hipsters there anymore, and it will be all the suburban moms. There will be a new place like it for the hipsters to move to a little further out when that happens. Actually, Logan Circle is reaching the suburban mom point at the moment, and it's kind of lame.
Also, Columbia heights, in the area around the Metro and Target is really not all as bad as you make it out to be. And considering the way they're building up 14th street North of U, it's only a matter of time before the gentrification entirely connects. There are only really 2 or so sketchy blocks between U st. and Target anymore.
I think maybe the reason you feel so intimidated by these areas is because you seem like the sort of person that belongs in either the Suburbs or Georgetown. Just a guess, though.
I'm actually wondering if I know people that know you.
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:( That bothers me. I can't stand the Georgetown/GWU/Bethesda crew of people that I know, aka rich preppy conservatives who club in Dupont and judge you if you don't have a trust fund. I'd rather hit up house parties in Columbia Heights and Petworth than go to Spank any day. It's not so much that I'm intimidated by these areas rather than it fucks me up to see and hear of the amount of crime that happens by the place where friends of mine live...I'm not going to avoid every street east of Rock Creek because of it though. And the atmosphere in Parkview/Petworth is wayy different than that in CH, there are no suburban moms on Georgia Avenue.
I've never been to Logan Circle, but I've heard of the area. The neighborhood of Shaw/U Street by the 9:30 Club and the Black Cat isn't bad at all. Me and a friend of mine were actually kicked out of the 9:30 Club (not badass, just stupidity on our part) and wandered from U Street to Azela hookah bar in Adams Morgan hitting up Bens Chili Bowl on the way. Azela is also incredible and has the best price by far of any hookah bar I've been to either in DC, NYC, or NJ.
You might know people that know me. I'm sure we've walked and hung out in the same places, in any
case.
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Like I said, really just a guess, I wasn't necessarily saying, "YOU MUST BE A PREPPY GWU STUDENT" or anything.
There's really no reason for you to have ever been to the actual circle at Logan, only because it's all residential, and we're the only people that live on it that ever really throw parties bigger than small gatherings. As far as a place to live though, it's my favorite part of the district.
I imagine you must have heard of BYT, or know people in that group? Considering they're pretty much the biggest group of self proclaimed hipster party kids in the city.
I imagine you have Facebook. I'm curious who you are now. Hit me up. I'm Stanley William Moore II.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-09-25 19:05:44 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:04:31 EDT (#)
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And I'm still blown by the fact you work at Steak n Egg. I'm in Tenleytown a lot, and have ended many a drunken night/begun a hungover morning at Steak n Egg.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:47:25 EDT (#)
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Horrible title and too many street names used.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:47:21 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:04:31 EDT (#)
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Dude, white hipsters are moving to Columbia heights because it's the nicest area they can live in for the low price of rent there right now. I'm guessing within the next couple years rent will go up so high that there won't be many hipsters there anymore, and it will be all the suburban moms. There will be a new place like it for the hipsters to move to a little further out when that happens. Actually, Logan Circle is reaching the suburban mom point at the moment, and it's kind of lame.
Also, Columbia heights, in the area around the Metro and Target is really not all as bad as you make it out to be. And considering the way they're building up 14th street North of U, it's only a matter of time before the gentrification entirely connects. There are only really 2 or so sketchy blocks between U st. and Target anymore.
I think maybe the reason you feel so intimidated by these areas is because you seem like the sort of person that belongs in either the Suburbs or Georgetown. Just a guess, though.
I'm actually wondering if I know people that know you.
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:( That bothers me. I can't stand the Georgetown/GWU/Bethesda crew of people that I know, aka rich preppy conservatives who club in Dupont and judge you if you don't have a trust fund. I'd rather hit up house parties in Columbia Heights and Petworth than go to Spank any day. It's not so much that I'm intimidated by these areas rather than it fucks me up to see and hear of the amount of crime that happens by the place where friends of mine live...I'm not going to avoid every street east of Rock Creek because of it though. And the atmosphere in Parkview/Petworth is wayy different than that in CH, there are no suburban moms on Georgia Avenue.
I've never been to Logan Circle, but I've heard of the area. The neighborhood of Shaw/U Street by the 9:30 Club and the Black Cat isn't bad at all. Me and a friend of mine were actually kicked out of the 9:30 Club (not badass, just stupidity on our part) and wandered from U Street to Azela hookah bar in Adams Morgan hitting up Bens Chili Bowl on the way. Azela is also incredible and has the best price by far of any hookah bar I've been to either in DC, NYC, or NJ.
You might know people that know me. I'm sure we've walked and hung out in the same places, in any case.
Submitted by willartstorg (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:23:44 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:21:58 EDT (#)
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WHERE CAN A GUY PICK UP THE CLIFFS NOTES VERSION???
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Uninvited jigaboos showed up and stole shit. You're welcome.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:21:58 EDT (#)
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WHERE CAN A GUY PICK UP THE CLIFFS NOTES VERSION???
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:07:03 EDT (#)
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Also, when you throw a party in DC, and Sketchy pieces of shit show up who you did not invite, YOU KICK THEM OUT. Who doesn't do this?
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:04:31 EDT (#)
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Dude, white hipsters are moving to Columbia heights because it's the nicest area they can live in for the low price of rent there right now. I'm guessing within the next couple years rent will go up so high that there won't be many hipsters there anymore, and it will be all the suburban moms. There will be a new place like it for the hipsters to move to a little further out when that happens. Actually, Logan Circle is reaching the suburban mom point at the moment, and it's kind of lame.
Also, Columbia heights, in the area around the Metro and Target is really not all as bad as you make it out to be. And considering the way they're building up 14th street North of U, it's only a matter of time before the gentrification entirely connects. There are only really 2 or so sketchy blocks between U st. and Target anymore.
I think maybe the reason you feel so intimidated by these areas is because you seem like the sort of person that belongs in either the Suburbs or Georgetown. Just a guess, though.
I'm actually wondering if I know people that know you.
Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2009-09-25 17:16:50 EDT (#)
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"I have a disease. But it's the disease that I caused myself, you know what I'm saying? Like, one month I had a phone bill for two thousand dollars. But I hadn't been talking on the phone, if you know what I mean."
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You should have told that guy to quit texting so much.
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2009-09-25 16:24:10 EDT (#)
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Here at the intersection of gentrification and urban decay, white hipsters in skinny jeans walk the same streets as the homeless and gang members.
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If you've gotten used to it by now you'll really enjoy San Francisco.
BTW, there was a meth dealership (they're franchised, right?) down the street from me for about a year. I learned of it after the fact. Nice people. Never caused any ruckus, never played their stereo too loud.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-09-25 16:22:46 EDT (#)
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I really liked this story.
I had written a 3 paragraph response to the way you'd described gentrification as if it were a new trend, but then I realized how young you were, and how well written this was.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-09-25 16:13:37 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2009-09-25 16:05:39 EDT (#)
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Terrible ideas all around.
You know it's a bad night when "we should have stayed in Adams Morgan" is the thought of the hour.
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Well, the party was still fun, I'm glad we went. Adams Morgan would be more fun if we were over 21 I feel. I just wished that certain young ladies had watched their shit when they knew there was a gang of hoodrats roaming about.
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-09-25 16:12:06 EDT (#)
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Now you have a seed of distrust in you, for people you don't know. Try as you might to kill it, it will always be there. You didn't put it there, but there it is.
As long as someone is willing to steal what someone else has earned, we will all never just get along.
Didn't make me smile, but +1 nonetheless.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2009-09-25 16:05:39 EDT (#)
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Terrible ideas all around.
You know it's a bad night when "we should have stayed in Adams Morgan" is the thought of the hour.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-09-25 15:53:52 EDT (#)
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It's also really fucked up having a serious heart-to-heart with someone in an alleyway outside the party and being interrupted by someone wanting to sell you crack.
College problems =/= real world problems