Mt Pleasant just keeps getting better and better

[Anonymous]

Why don’t you marry it then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t you marry it then?

Only hardcore religious folks expect you to get married before you mount pleasant.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m glad that there have finally been changes in Mt P but I find it the least accessible area of the city, between the lack of metro, hills that are hard for bikes, overcrowded buses, and constant construction on FCP.

You do know about the Columbia Heights metro at 14th and Irving, right? It's barely 2 blocks from Mt. Pleasant street, and about a 15 minute walk to the most distant point in Mount Pleasant from it (Rosemount Ave) according to Google Maps. There are also busses, and you can drive, bike or walk to lots of places, including Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, U Street, and Cleveland Park, to name just a few places that are within easy walking distance. I'd hardly call that the "least accessible area of the city".

That said I personally find the development east and south of 14th street to be a lot more interesting in the last decade or so. But to describe Mt. Pleasant as "inaccesible" is pretty absurd.

Agreed. It's too far from the action to have first-rate retail but it's not hard to get other places from there.

The point is that you HAVE to get to other places for everything other than artisanal stuff, 40 ouncers and papusas, not that I have anything against them.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m glad that there have finally been changes in Mt P but I find it the least accessible area of the city, between the lack of metro, hills that are hard for bikes, overcrowded buses, and constant construction on FCP.

You do know about the Columbia Heights metro at 14th and Irving, right? It's barely 2 blocks from Mt. Pleasant street, and about a 15 minute walk to the most distant point in Mount Pleasant from it (Rosemount Ave) according to Google Maps. There are also busses, and you can drive, bike or walk to lots of places, including Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, U Street, and Cleveland Park, to name just a few places that are within easy walking distance. I'd hardly call that the "least accessible area of the city".

That said I personally find the development east and south of 14th street to be a lot more interesting in the last decade or so. But to describe Mt. Pleasant as "inaccesible" is pretty absurd.

Agreed. It's too far from the action to have first-rate retail but it's not hard to get other places from there.

The point is that you HAVE to get to other places for everything other than artisanal stuff, 40 ouncers and papusas, not that I have anything against them.

Fair enough, but that does not make it unique among DC neighborhoods; hence, the statement that Mt. P is the "least accessible area of the city" was, at best, hyperbole and, at worst, flat-out misleading.

[Anonymous]

it's so hilly, your nanny will have calves of steel.

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Anonymous wrote:it's so hilly, your nanny will have calves of steel.

I don't get this at all. I lived there for a number of years back in the day. It's not especially hilly compared to almost anywhere in DC. There's a very mild up hill from west side to east. North to south it's basically flat.

The only big hill is Porter Street, but that's not actually in Mt. Pleasant, that's going through RCP. Adams Mill road is also a hill going down to the zoo, but again, not really Mt. Pleasant. Then there's a big hill to get down to U Street area, but that's not Mt. Pleasant either, that's just Meridian Hill. That's a lot more associated with Columbia Heights.

So what makes Mt. Pleasant actual so hilly?

[Anonymous]

It’s only hilly if you’re arriving from the west, the zoo, etc.

[Anonymous]

I'm new to Mt. Pleasant but not so enamored. Neighborliness seems lacking, people don't make eye contact. During my first month of ownership neighbors called in bogus complaints to DCRA: a vacant property notice, a stop-work order for replacing some rotted porch floorboards (which doesn't require a permit), and a fine for letting my grass grow while I was trying to get settled in. Similarly I heard that police were called on a neighbor who had a punching bag on their back porch. Mt. Pleasant not really living up to its name for me.

[Anonymous]

I liked Mt Pleasant when I first moved here in 2005 because it kind of had a down-to-earth NYC neighborhood feel where regular people had regular businesses. Haven’t been there in a while, but the addition of a $uper trendy re$taurant and specialty ice cream doesn’t seem like an advance. the movie theater sounds great though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:it's so hilly, your nanny will have calves of steel.

She'll have calves like cantaloupes.

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Anonymous wrote:it's so hilly, your nanny will have calves of steel.

She'll have calves like cantaloupes.

Or HE! It’s a very progressive neighborhood, gawd!

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Anonymous wrote:AND THE 7-11 IS THE HOTTEST ONE IN THE CITY! Their taquitos are lit, son.

....now if only you could do something about that pesky group of drunk dudes who is everpresent on the corner, whistling at everyone walking by.

My sides are hurting...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AND THE 7-11 IS THE HOTTEST ONE IN THE CITY! Their taquitos are lit, son.

....now if only you could do something about that pesky group of drunk dudes who is everpresent on the corner, whistling at everyone walking by.

Uh, the powers that exist did do something. The drunks are getting a landscaped corner for chess and 40s. http://greenspacesfordc.org/amigos-park/

Interesting that they get this, but still no public space for a playground. Thanks, Jack McKay. https://www.popville.com/2016/12/mount-pleasant-anc-pop-ed/

[Anonymous]

Seriously, is OP Mandy Mills or one of the Lows? Get off DCUM and back to your clients.

Not like you have to really work to sell properties in my neighborhood, but you can at least pretend.

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Anonymous wrote:AND THE 7-11 IS THE HOTTEST ONE IN THE CITY! Their taquitos are lit, son.

....now if only you could do something about that pesky group of drunk dudes who is everpresent on the corner, whistling at everyone walking by.

Uh, the powers that exist did do something. The drunks are getting a landscaped corner for chess and 40s. http://greenspacesfordc.org/amigos-park/

Interesting that they get this, but still no public space for a playground. Thanks, Jack McKay. https://www.popville.com/2016/12/mount-pleasant-anc-pop-ed/

Oh, so you're saying that the crowd standing in front of 7-11 is a figment of my imagination?