My DC neighborhood in the snow

[novawolverine]

Originally Posted by llamaorama

You know for a place that's supposed to be borderline "mild", DC sure gets kicked in the ass with blizzards a lot. This happened on my high school trip to the city in spring 2003. Brown snow piles everywhere.

We get good storms every few years or so. This one coming through today and tomorrow will be the second 2 fter of this winter. It's been a wetter winter, I think last year may have been colder though. While a lot of people treat DC like it's the south basically, snowstorms happen frequently enough that it shouldn't be a surprise. It's not upstate NY or anything but we get the same storms that Philly and NYC get for the most part, some track a bit north of us, sometimes the difference of a couple degrees means rain instead of snow. Usually if it's been mild for us, it's been mild for a good deal of the east coast.

There's another smaller system coming through early next week, so that'll be interesting.

I'm looking to get an apt. in the Dupont area, which is funny because I live in Cirrus' old neighborhood now. There's already a facebook group for the big snowball fight that's supposed to take place tomorrow in Dupont Circle.

[simms3_redux]

I will be in DC in a couple of weeks and saw more forecasts for snow after this one. Can't wait because I won't have to drive LoL! Hopefully it finishes before I actuallyy arrive

[OhioGuy]

Originally Posted by Cirrus

Golden Triangle and Mt Vernon Triangle are BIDs, not proper neighborhoods. Nobody in the city would ever say they live in the Golden Triangle, even if they live inside its boundaries.

That first map is the best one I know of, although as you mentioned it's not totally right. On the ground in the city, some neighborhoods are bigger and some are smaller.

Here are some things I'd change:

• Penn Quarter, Judiciary Square, Swampoodle, and the eastern half of Foggy Bottom should just be folded into one larger downtown.
• Capitol Hill could be split into subdistricts, but it could just as easily stay that size.
• "Shaw" is really only the southeastern corner of that area. Split it in three and call the southwestern part "Logan Circle" and the northern part "U Street".
• "Sheridan-Kalorama" and "Kalorama Triangle" don't exist. "Sheridan Circle" is the southern part of what on the map is "Sheridan-Kalorama". You could get away with calling the area right along Connecticut Avenue simply "Kalorama", but most people think of it as a nebulous zone between Dupont and Adams Morgan.
• "Atlas District" is beginning to catch on a little bit, but even so it's only the eastern part of that area. The whole area really ought to be called "H Street".
• "Southwest" is really only the northern 2/3 of that area. The southern part (the little peninsula) is "Buzzard Point".
• The area near the new baseball stadium where Southwest (Buzzard Point) and Navy Yard come together by the river is sort of searching for a new name. There have been lots of proposals, but so far none have solidly caught on.
• "American University Park" is really just more of Tenleytown.
• The southern third or so of Chevy Chase should be "Van Ness".
• Burleith is really just northern Georgetown.
• So-called Berkley, Kent, Spring Valley... all those neighborhoods west of Archibald Glover Park and south of Massachusetts Ave are just "Palisades" if you live anywhere else in the city.
• McLean gardens is just more of Cathedral Heights.

Of course, other people may disagree. It's all a little nebulous.

Thanks Cirrus!

[dktshb]

Gorgeous! I love the snow when it is snowing and fresh but it can get pretty dirty and ugly really quick.

[hokiehigh]

Awesome! I love it when it sticks to the limbs on a tree. You should frame some of those shots!

[vertex]

Bummer, we were just there 10 days ago; stayed at the Palomar hotel on P street. 28 degrees and raining :-(

Great location though...

[jomaled]

beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing them.

[JCON]

Originally Posted by OhioGuy

Nice photos, Cirrus!

I know this is off topic, but do you know of any good DC neighborhood maps? For instance, I've found this one, but then if you look at this one, you'll see it identifies a smaller section of a neighborhood which is identified as the Mt. Vernon Triangle. Meanwhile, this map identifies the Golden Triangle, which comprises blocks that are included in two different neighborhoods on the first map. So I'm wondering if any maps exist that give even greater detail by showing all of these sub areas of overall neighborhoods? I would assume for example the Shaw neighborhood is split up into different districts and the Capital Hill neighborhood is also split into various districts? And are there any maps that highlight the main corridors for retail/restaurant/bars in each of these sub areas?

A lot of these sub-titles like NOMA, Atlas District, Penn Quarter, etc are based on real estate schemes. I have found that ADC has the best detailed maps of DC and the surrounding area. As far as retail districts, most are simply referred to by the street they are on. For example, if you live in Adams Morgan you would say we are going out to 18th st. Chinatown/Gallery Pl- 7th st, etc.