DC neighborhood that reminds you of NYC?

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Wall Street is like Capitol Hill

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Anonymous wrote:I know there's no comparison but is there any neighborhood here that makes you feel like you could be in NYC?

Any NYC neighborhood in particular?

Good luck with that, OP.

Signed, Love NYC

Good luck with your tiny apartment you probably don't even own.

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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.

+1 Porter has some Tudor rowhouses and there are a few on Ordway I think. Other parts of Cleveland Park have wonderful old Victorians with big front porches. The neighborhood scores high on walkability to Metro, shops and restaurants.

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Litchfield is like Middleburg.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh God, I hope the NYC is so much better folks don't come on here again. No one compares the two cities except New Yorkers. DC is DC, it doesn't want to be New York. Why not compare it to Miami or Morgantown, WV. Just enjoy it for what it is or move where you would be happier.

Agreed. I think that many people have chosen Washington over New York. I lived in NYC for a few years and enjoy visiting, but much prefer it here. I love the green spaces, the quiet neighborhoods, the free museums and galleries, the park-like settings downtown, the light and spacious feeling from the height limit, the fact that the Potomac is a wild river 3 miles upstream and the fact that it is somewhat less expensive to live here compared to New York. NYC is a better managed city that DC (unless DiBlasio screws it up and returns to the 1970s), is cleaner than it used to be. However, I don't understand why some want Washington to be much more like New York -- it's a free country, and if NYC is what gives you a buzz, why not move to Gotham?

still true

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Anonymous wrote:Litchfield is like Middleburg.

No it's not (thankfully!)

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Anonymous wrote:Litchfield is like Middleburg.

No it's not (thankfully!)

What do you mean?

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Anonymous wrote:

Agree. Why don't we compare DC to Paris while we're at it? Absurd exercise.

DC was modeled after Paris, not saying the cities are anything alike these days, but historically there is a connection in terms of how the older streets are laid out spirally out of downtown.

actually DC was modeled more after Versailles - which PS L'Enfant was intimately familiar with. DC is nothing at all like Paris circa 1800 which had a medieval layout of haphazard narrow streets. To the extent it share the wide boulevards, thats because Paris was rebuilt by Haussman in the late 19th C. Also the height limit makes some blocks of DC have a more Parisian feel than other US cities. So it is a bit like Paris, but for different reasons.

The only place in DC that reminds me of Paris are some residential streets in northern part of DuPont Circle, around the old Textile Museum, between Connecticut and Mass Avenues -- it reminds me of a residential area in the 16th, close to the La Muette metro station. That's it.

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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.

To me Chinatown/Penn Quarter (where I live) feels nothing like Times Square. Yes, there are giant screens at the Verizon Center, lots of chain restaurants and many tourists, but you would have to add comedy club promoters and street performers in furry costumes who demand to take a photo with you to make it vaguely feel like Times Square.
Though I think that some parts of DC (Logan Circle, Shaw) feel similar to Gowanus and Greenpoint.

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Foxhall Village in the Palisades has a similar esthetic to Greenwich Village.

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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.

To me Chinatown/Penn Quarter (where I live) feels nothing like Times Square. Yes, there are giant screens at the Verizon Center, lots of chain restaurants and many tourists, but you would have to add comedy club promoters and street performers in furry costumes who demand to take a photo with you to make it vaguely feel like Times Square.
Though I think that some parts of DC (Logan Circle, Shaw) feel similar to Gowanus and Greenpoint.

Gowanus was always such a dump (even the name is dumpy). I think Logan Circle denizens should be insulted by the analogy.

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Anonymous wrote:Foxhall Village in the Palisades has a similar esthetic to Greenwich Village.

Is this a joke?

DC is nothing like NYC. It never was and never will be. Just stop. If you pretend hard, you might convince yourself that Foxhall Village is like Pelham (which is north of the Bronx, and a long way in every sense from the Village).

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Anonymous wrote:Litchfield is like Middleburg.

No it's not (thankfully!)

What do you mean?

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Bedford–Stuyvesant = Anacostia

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