Mapping Georgetown: Rose Park Neighbor’s Heroic Work for Access
• April 18, 2022

It’s that spring time of year again – time to celebrate the reopening of Rose Park as a neighborhood favorite spot for fresh air and warm weather camaraderie. But, sometimes, […]

Mapping Georgetown: Growing Up on Poplar Street, NW
• January 31, 2022

In our Mapping Georgetown project, it’s been a delight to discover how Georgetown’s alleyways have yielded such fascinating local histories. Poplar Street, NW in Georgetown. This dead-end street with the […]

Mapping Georgetown: Six Generations of Local Family History
• January 18, 2022

As a tribute to the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and our local Black history, Mapping Georgetown is pleased to share this particular Georgetown mapping story from Neville […]

Mapping Georgetown: The Magic of Our ‘Stoop Culture’
• January 10, 2022

If you drive down too fast – You will miss the magic.        -Judith Bunnell When we received Judith Bunnell’s map-story for our Mapping Georgetown project, her evocations […]

Mapping Georgetown: Forever Grateful, From Lebanon
• December 13, 2021

  Never for a moment did I not feel at home….      From Ramzy’s Mapping Georgetown Story   If there were a contest for cutest person in Georgetown, Ramzy […]

George’s Neighbors Rage and Praise 
• November 8, 2021

The fate of a Georgetown neighborhood popular restaurant’s unique late-night hours – until 3 a.m. on weekdays and 4 a.m. on weekends – continued to be the subject of investigation, rage and […]

Shots Fired: Off-duty Cop Stops Carjacking on 28th St.
• October 20, 2021

Updated 5 p.m., Oct. 20: See additional information at the end of the story. An off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officer intervened in a robbery on the 1200 block of 28th […]

Georgetown Celebrates the Arts Program Heightens Fall Colors, Moods on Book Hill
• October 14, 2021

With autumn’s arrival, splashes of color have been spotted along Wisconsin Avenue — but of the artistic, not the arboreal kind. In a pilot public arts program sponsored by the Washington […]

Police Host Coffee Chat and K-9 Storybook Time
• October 7, 2021

  More than a dozen small children and their parents gathered around Officer A. Rodriguez, a 26-year veteran Metropolitan Police Officer, in Rose Park Wednesday afternoon and listened to her […]

Mapping Georgetown: Interfaith Understanding of the Sukkah
• September 24, 2021

Did you know Kesher Israel is the only historic orthodox synagogue in its original location in the District of Columbia? And they’re proud to be Georgetown’s synagogue. We had the […]