Washington, D.C. recent comments:

It was not the first STORE but it was the first Home Depot.

Climb on his lap and get your picture taken!

Learn more at crestwood-dc.org

The "sixpack"--six Asian small-clawed otters who are brothers--are also on exhibit on the zoo's Asia Trail

The restaurant is closing soon...and will become (really) a Walgreens

That would be the Italian ambassador's residence

fixed.

i added all the firehouses in the city. theyre all listed. im doing police stations as well. i think this firehouse, engine 17, 20, 28, and 27 are in the process of, or are going to be remodeled in the near future. i added some schools, and im gonna add all the police stations. I found it sad that when i logged on here, there is nothing, no building highlighted on the east side of the anacostia river within city limits. theres a few, but there should be much more. mackel

i changed it, they also have st e's a bit farther north of king ave mislabeled. It coveres both sides of king avenue with over 130 buildings. they only focus on the 'jail' side (East side Buildings 122 & 117 - John Howard Pavilion) -mackel

This is actually Ballou High School

A brief guide to about the Supreme Court is available from the THOMAS legislative information Web site, maintained by the Library of Congress. See < http://thomas.loc.gov/teachers/supremecourt.html >.

This building is a historical landmark.

Azi and her coffee shop are a G-dsend to this blighted neighborhood. We wish her the very, very best. Please patronize her business.

This really is the site of the Woodson house.

Note: one building is still a viable Black-owned business, Mark's Electric, who Shiloh Baptist has been offering paultry sums for years as an incentive to move. Mark's refuses, so Shiloh blames them and "gentrifiers" for their not fixing up their other properties, which their latest "I Have a Scheme" scam involves getting gubmint money to build a seniors' home.

My goof. The real ruin of the Woodson house is one building the north. DC Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton had Congress appropiate funds to buy the two vacant tenements to the north of the Woodson House from Shiloh Baptist as an "interpretive center" when the Park Service gets around bye-and-bye to fixing up the properties (they hint possibly 2016). Most of us in the neighborhood see this as simply a handsome payoff from Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton to Shiloh and the Woodson association (ASALH) for neglecting their properties for decades.

This is the Kennedy Playground built on the ruins of the arson and looting of mostly Jewish-owned stores that took place on Seventh Street after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. It was the site of three schools that were part of the segregated school system that had fallen into disuse. The building in the northwest corner is the new community center. Councilmember Jack Evans hauled away the large hill built from the ruins of the riots and replaced it with a baseball lot that no one uses.

Contains a large collection of reptiles and amphibians from around the world. Some of the highlights include anacondas, gila monsters, cuban crocodiles, Burmese pythons, and native snakes and turtles including cottonmouth moccasins, copperheads, and box turtles. Well known herpetologists have worked here including Trooper Walsh, Dr. James Murphy, and others. The building is very old and is considered an historical location; it has some of the finest carvings and inlaid tile in the zoo.

My dad grew up in DC (SE) and I've been around DC my whole life and have been living there a few years now. Although the first description may be a little harsh, SW has indeed struggled with poverty and crime for decades. Significantly more so than what afflicts the average large city. The second comment, the long one, is a little too rosy than merited. The area immediately to the south of I-395 is nice, among a few others, and conditions have improved somewhat in recent years. However, much change, investment, and redevelopment need to occur before the area is rehabilitated, as much as folks dislike hearing that. Hopefully the new ballpark will help spur some of the changes needed to renew SW. It really could be a very nice area.