When did Georgetown die?

[Anonymous]

We are witnessing Georgetown’s slow demise. Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Say what you will about Georgetown but it’s so much better than the Navy Yard.
I know it has this and that and blah blah blah, but there’s something so creepy about it. It’s like a great-on-paper boyfriend but you keep having dreams that he’s an axe murderer. And yesterday he brought home an axe so he could “chop wood.”

Or like you got adopted and you told your new parents you like Disney and they got an Ariel to come for your birthday but now she’s just sitting in your living room not leaving and she seems afraid and you’re not sure if she’s a slave or what.

Anyway I have a lot of feelings about the Navy Yard.

It's a bizarre and inorganic neighborhood. Nothing feels natural about it; it's the type of place where you Uber in and out of your destination within the neighborhood. The super-sized streetscape does not feel designed for walking humans. It also doesn't help that the neighborhood is cut-off from humanity by highways and office buildings. And the Navy Yard is much better than the Wharf, which is so isolated. It's for people who don't want to leave their bubble of luxury apartment building-Uber-office-Uber-Soul Cycle-Uber-Home.

Georgetown, and even the revitalized portions of 14th Street, grew organically as human-sized, walkable neighborhoods. You can feel it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Say what you will about Georgetown but it’s so much better than the Navy Yard.
I know it has this and that and blah blah blah, but there’s something so creepy about it. It’s like a great-on-paper boyfriend but you keep having dreams that he’s an axe murderer. And yesterday he brought home an axe so he could “chop wood.”

Or like you got adopted and you told your new parents you like Disney and they got an Ariel to come for your birthday but now she’s just sitting in your living room not leaving and she seems afraid and you’re not sure if she’s a slave or what.

Anyway I have a lot of feelings about the Navy Yard.

It's a bizarre and inorganic neighborhood. Nothing feels natural about it; it's the type of place where you Uber in and out of your destination within the neighborhood. The super-sized streetscape does not feel designed for walking humans. It also doesn't help that the neighborhood is cut-off from humanity by highways and office buildings. And the Navy Yard is much better than the Wharf, which is so isolated. It's for people who don't want to leave their bubble of luxury apartment building-Uber-office-Uber-Soul Cycle-Uber-Home.

Georgetown, and even the revitalized portions of 14th Street, grew organically as human-sized, walkable neighborhoods. You can feel it.

I call the Wharf the Uncanny Alley

[Anonymous]

It died in St. Elmo's Fire.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Was just there tonight and it was completely hopping, totally busy. There are great light displays everywhere and more coming. Streets were packed. Perhaps few of you have been there recently?

Even if this is true and you’re not trolling—it was tourists who don’t know any better

Yes, because we, the residents, drive to VA malls to buy stuff.

No, us residents buy online like the majority of Americans these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It died in St. Elmo's Fire.

Lol all day long. Did you know they used wide shots of UMD's frat row to depict Georgetown's campus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are witnessing Georgetown’s slow demise. Sad.

This conclusion is sad. Georgetown will do fine - just check the real estate market. Sure, Gtown may not again be the only real nightlife district in Washington as it was in the early Reagan era. But that is because other parts of DC that were downright scary back then have gentrified and developed.

[Anonymous]

Here’s an upcoming Georgetown event: Georgetown GLOW Light Art Experience. Looks fun!

https://www.facebook.com/events/282305782392826/?event_time_id=282305785726159?ti=icl

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an upcoming Georgetown event: Georgetown GLOW Light Art Experience. Looks fun!

https://www.facebook.com/events/282305782392826/?event_time_id=282305785726159?ti=icl

https://www.facebook.com/events/282305782392826/?ti=icl

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Georgetown changed when Bill Clinton was president. I'm not sure why that happened but it did.

The bright-eyed clueless young Clintonistas thought they were too cool for Georgetown — and proceeded to invade — and ruin— the cool places in Adams Morgan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Georgetown changed when Bill Clinton was president. I'm not sure why that happened but it did.

The bright-eyed clueless young Clintonistas thought they were too cool for Georgetown — and proceeded to invade — and ruin— the cool places in Adams Morgan.

+1

The Bush folks ruined ???-> maybe steak and expensive wine places close to the White House
The Obama folks ruined???-> historically black neighborhoods with 'faux authenticity' gentrification, think Shaw+H Street
The Trump folks ruined???-> quiet money places like Kalorama???

Administrations always ruin something. Always.