Where U At?
Yesterday I tried to make a map from the DC Gov site to figure out where different neighborhoods are. The picture on the side is of the different real estate assessment neighborhoods (tags are mine). I broke Old City 2, up into it's subneighborhoods because it is so big.
There is a funky way of adding neighborhoods but you can't get an outline of where a neighborhood is. You'd have to go block by block. In Old City 2 A the blocks above S Street and south of Florida are in Cardozo/Shaw. South of S, west of New Jersey is Logan/Shaw. But suprising to me Truxton Circle is east of New Jersey, south of Florida, north of New York AND (the surprising bit) includes the area on the other side of North Capitol.... according to the DC Citizen Atlas map.
Off the top of my head and skimming the newspaper databases, Shaw, as it was defined was the Shaw Junior High Urban Renewal Area. According to 5 Housing Plans Win Approval; 1,589 Housing Units Cleared Here by RLA in the Washington Post May 16, 1974. p. C1 areas in the NW side of Truxton are in Shaw.
Well that's enough for today, I'll investigate neighborhood borderline some more later.
posted by Mari @ 24.1.05
2 Comments:
you left out bloomingdale.
boundries south of michigan. west of north cap, east of 2nd, north of florida
There are assessment neighborhoods and neighborhood neighborhoods. Bloomingdale is a neighborhood neighborhood, located in the assessment neighborhood of LeDroit and Eckington. My crappy little map just shows assessment neighborhoods and assessment subneighborhoods, not neighborhood neighborhoods.
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