Comments on: What’s Wrong in LeDroit Park?

By: Downtown Rez

Downtown Rez — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:15:04 +0000

IMGoph’s descriptions sound about right. I’d think a trip to 941 N Cap would seal the deal.

By: IMGoph

IMGoph — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:16:30 +0000

alright, i think i qualify here, for a few reasons.

1) i’m a cartographer, so i’m always looking at maps.

2) i’m a DC neighborhood nerd, so i’m always talking to people about how they would define neighborhoods in the city. i mean, hell, i think i want to replace NoMa with swampoodle more than anyone else out there.

3) i just know this, because i have been looking at buying a house, so i’ve been well-versed in DC neighborhood maps for too long.

so here’s the deal: old city #2 is basically everything in the l’enfant city, south of florida, north of mass, and west of north cap.

old city #1 is basically the rest of the l’enfant city, minus the capitol hill historic district, NoMa, and the southwest urban renewal area.

By: cminus

cminus — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:35:23 +0000

I’m going to disqualify myself from consideration for any award, since after I posted I went and hauled out the maps for a refresher.

(And I wouldn’t have gotten it right. I had Old City II close enough for government work, but left off a big slice of Old City I. And, if Erik has a map himself, he can probably guess which part.)

By: Erik Wemple

Erik Wemple — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:02:00 +0000

Hmmm, that is not the convincing command of this arcane geography that I was looking for. But if no better prospects come in over the transom, we’ll be talking. Let’s give it till Monday.

By: cminus

cminus — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:35:58 +0000

Are all people who for professional reasons have to know where Old City I and II are ineligible, or just those who work in the tax office?

(In all honesty, I only know the general locations of Old City I and II, not their boundaries, so I can’t claim the t-shirt unless I bust out the maps, which is just a lower-tech form of using Google to cheat.)