We Spoke with D.C.’s Homeless Residents
• August 18, 2021

Most of us may not have noticed them — tent encampments popping up around the city.   Family-size tents with furniture suggestive of more permanent stays. The unhoused people in the parks and in the fringes appear to be preparing for the worst […]

Homelessness: A Growing Neighborhood Concern
• September 3, 2020

Positive developments regarding the issue of homelessness include the reopening of Georgetown Ministry Center, which is offering “modified window services.”

Homelessness Meeting at Grace Church, Jan. 22
• January 21, 2020

The guest speakers at the Wednesday evening program will be Lindsay Curtin of D.C. Council on Homelessness, Sean Read of Friendship Place and John Wiebenson of the Georgetown BID.

Rising Homeless Presence Requires New Focus
• July 25, 2018

With the warm weather, the tents of presumably homeless people are increasingly visible along the river walkways, in the new bikeways and under the freeways and bridges of Georgetown. Their […]

Crime and Public Safety July 11, 2018
• July 11, 2018

On July 2, Capt. Ashley Rosenthal of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District, Sector 3, briefed Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E on crime trends in the Georgetown area. “Our crime stats […]

Downtowner DC May 16, 2018
• May 16, 2018

Talkin’ ’Bout My ‘innoMAYtion’ D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser kicked off the 2018 “innoMAYtion” campaign, an annual month-long celebration of people and companies shaping innovation in the District, at a May […]

The Other Man in That Joe Biden Photo That Went Viral
• March 15, 2018

It was the photo that went viral within hours of being posted on Facebook March 8: former Vice President Joe Biden’s well-known face captured on a bystander’s cell phone camera […]

Downtowner Feb. 7, 2018
• February 7, 2018

Discovery Communications Exiting Silver Spring The company that runs the Discovery Channel will vacate its headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, probably in 2019. Many employees will move to a new […]

Georgetown Ministry Center
• September 28, 2017

If you’re a Georgetown resident, chances are you’re familiar with any neighborhood establishment that has been around for three decades. In the ever-evolving landscape of Georgetown commercial doorsteps, such places […]