Downtown was insane tonight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do I get a supervisor when I visit DC?

New poster here
That's a weird question. OP said right in her post that she was there because she was volunteering at an event. It's pretty common to have someone in charge (a supervisor) at events with volunteers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was Navy Yard around Half Street.

I live in DC and I would never call that downtown. Downtown to me is around K st and maybe Penn Quarter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do I get a supervisor when I visit DC?

New poster here
That's a weird question. OP said right in her post that she was there because she was volunteering at an event. It's pretty common to have someone in charge (a supervisor) at events with volunteers.

Typically called a coordinator when volunteering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My young adult son got home last night saying it was a lot - people lighting off fireworks in the street so driving was hard and dangerous.

I mean.

I drove home around 11. It WAS hard and dangerous. It’s a night where you need to drive really carefully! And the smoke was very thick and impacted visibility - I think it was a bad year for that because of the weather. Tons of pedestrians, of course.

But the closest thing I saw to “fireworks in the street” was just people setting them off on residential streets to be away from buildings/vegetation with informal traffic control. It’s illegal and I wish they wouldn’t. But it wasn’t chaos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was Navy Yard around Half Street.

I live in DC and I would never call that downtown. Downtown to me is around K st and maybe Penn Quarter.

To me as a local from the burbs, “downtown” is whichever neighborhood your parent(s) worked in when you were a kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was Navy Yard around Half Street.

I live in DC and I would never call that downtown. Downtown to me is around K st and maybe Penn Quarter.

To me as a local from the burbs, “downtown” is whichever neighborhood your parent(s) worked in when you were a kid.

It’s a catch all. It’s like “upstate” in New York. There is “the city”, “the island” and literally everything else is “upstate.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was Navy Yard around Half Street.

I live in DC and I would never call that downtown. Downtown to me is around K st and maybe Penn Quarter.

+1

Plus everyone knows Navy Yard is sketch and has had ongoing issues with teens.

[Anonymous]

Georgetown?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downtown?

Yeah, that struck me too. If you asked anyone where they were going and they said "downtown DC", you'd just give them a blank stare because that is a meaningless statement.

We’ve said “downtown” for decades. Are you new here?

[Anonymous]

I had a different experience and it was the first time I was in DC for the 4th in over 25 years. We went to fireworks near the mall and stayed in a hotel close by. We had a nice night and didn’t experience any of that.

[Anonymous]

Navy yard is always a mess in the summer. That’s mostly why the mayor rolled out the new curfew rules

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do I get a supervisor when I visit DC?

New poster here
That's a weird question. OP said right in her post that she was there because she was volunteering at an event. It's pretty common to have someone in charge (a supervisor) at events with volunteers.

Typically called a coordinator when volunteering.

Maybe, but surely you could figure out what OP meant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downtown?

Yeah, that struck me too. If you asked anyone where they were going and they said "downtown DC", you'd just give them a blank stare because that is a meaningless statement.

We’ve said “downtown” for decades. Are you new here?

Downtown means K St. Are YOU new here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was Navy Yard around Half Street.

I live in DC and I would never call that downtown. Downtown to me is around K st and maybe Penn Quarter.

Isn’t Navy Yard where all the republicans live? Maybe they think it’s downtown because they never go anywhere else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was Navy Yard around Half Street.

I live in DC and I would never call that downtown. Downtown to me is around K st and maybe Penn Quarter.

To me as a local from the burbs, “downtown” is whichever neighborhood your parent(s) worked in when you were a kid.

It’s a catch all. It’s like “upstate” in New York. There is “the city”, “the island” and literally everything else is “upstate.”

No, everything else is Northern NY.