DC neighborhood that reminds you of NYC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a DC native who lived in NYC for 5 years and am up there weekly, I think about this too much. Here's my best approximation.

Capitol Hill/Eastern Market = Brooklyn Heights (Strollerati)
H Street = Alphabet City
U Street = Chelsea (too new for the Village)
Georgetown = Hudson Street (far West Village)
Baltimore = Williamsburg (cooler coffee, beer & food)
Rehoboth = West Hamptons/Fire Island
Bethesda/Potomac = Westchester / MTA North line
Virginia = New Jersey

Great post. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP- there are NO places in D.C. that remind me, or anyone I know, of NYC. Period.

Don't try to replicate even a smidgen of NYC, you will be severely disappointed each and every time. Just except the fact that DC is DC and there is no place like NYC so if you want to scratch that itch, just go up for a weekend and enjoy it. It's never going to happen here.

Signed,

Former NYC'er.

Lol you have issues

[Anonymous]

Adams Morgan and Penn Quarter

[Anonymous]

M/Westerner who has lived on both coasts, but now in NYC and DC for nearly 15 years. I think some folks ask the comparison question because they are seeking to replicate much of what they like about NYC, basically easy access to amenities, whether it is a grocery or a fab park. I own a car, but will walk if I am able to accomplish my errands that way. While my walk score from my last DC neighborhood is comparable to when I lived in NYC, still feels as if the latter was so much more convenient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What DC really needs, that NEVER gets mentioned in the NYC is better rants, is a quiet neighborhood of Tudor style townhouse and apt building close to a metro station - something like Forest Hills. developers, here's your cue.

Hum. Cleveland Park between 27th and ~34th, Devonshire Pl up to Rodman.

Not 100% Tudors, it is true. But all constructed during the exact same period of the 20tj century.

You are welcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a DC native who lived in NYC for 5 years and am up there weekly, I think about this too much. Here's my best approximation.

Capitol Hill/Eastern Market = Brooklyn Heights (Strollerati)
H Street = Alphabet City
U Street = Chelsea (too new for the Village)
Georgetown = Hudson Street (far West Village)
Baltimore = Williamsburg (cooler coffee, beer & food)
Rehoboth = West Hamptons/Fire Island
Bethesda/Potomac = Westchester / MTA North line
Virginia = New Jersey

Great post. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a DC native who lived in NYC for 5 years and am up there weekly, I think about this too much. Here's my best approximation.

Capitol Hill/Eastern Market = Brooklyn Heights (Strollerati)
H Street = Alphabet City
U Street = Chelsea (too new for the Village)
Georgetown = Hudson Street (far West Village)
Baltimore = Williamsburg (cooler coffee, beer & food)
Rehoboth = West Hamptons/Fire Island
Bethesda/Potomac = Westchester / MTA North line
Virginia = New Jersey

Great post. Thanks!

Agree w you. I'll add

Middleburg VA / Rappahannock county ---> litchfield county, Connecticut

Wheaton > Langley park > Adelphi > White Oak = the Flushing local 7 train

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If anything, Adams Morgan.

Yes, there's that urination in public space odor that used to infect the NYC subway, pre-Rudy Guliani.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gallery Place China Town is vaguely like Times Square (contemporary disneyfied TS that is)

Dupont/Logan/Shaw has a feeling comparable in some ways to the quieter gentrified parts of North Brooklyn.

Takoma Park might pass for a quieter version of a LI or NJ railroad suburb. But hipper (as Logan is less hip than Boerum Hill, etc)

Parts of S arlington look a bit like parts of queens, but are still pretty different.

What DC really needs, that NEVER gets mentioned in the NYC is better rants, is a quiet neighborhood of Tudor style townhouse and apt building close to a metro station - something like Forest Hills. developers, here's your cue.

This sounds a lot like Woodley Park (absent the faux Tudor).

[Anonymous]

DC sucks. Theres no comparison.

[Anonymous]

The central part of Adams Morgan where the men sit around on the street drinking in public reminds me of the south Bronx or certain streets in Harlem -- and not in a good way.

[Anonymous]

Don't forget urinating in public too.

[Anonymous]

Maybe Washingtonian, grew up in palisades, went to school and worked in New York (Harlem and union square). Currently live on park view, which reminds me puff Brooklyn with its funky foodie culture, and the petworth.farmers market is like a small greenmarket with its local purveyors.

[Anonymous]

So many typos! Meant to write "native" not "maybe" darn autocorrect

[Anonymous]

Blue Plains in Southwest reminds me Freshkills in Staten Island. Smell about the same