In the D.C. metro area scramble for offices, restaurants, and retail, some established neighborhoods are falling behind newly-gentrifying upstarts. According to the Washington Post, real estate scholar Christopher B. Leinberger thinks that Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan are poorly poised to take advantage of development, while H Street and NoMa show potential.
“Adams Morgan needs to [...]

Criminal Underground: A woman groped on the Metro tracked down her attacker until police could intervene, according to a story posted on Collective Action for Safe Spaces.  +3
Email Shadiness: An open-records group is suing the D.C. Council in an attempt to force the release of Council emails sent using personal accounts. +1

Speaking of famous bears, there's now one fewer in Adams Morgan: ex-New Republic editor turned blog king Andrew Sullivan. The longtime Adams Morgan resident and Newsweek/Daily Beast blogger moved out of the neighborhood two weeks ago and headed to New York.
Sullivan-spotting has been a long-running  pastime in Adams Morgan, where it seemed none of his meals was [...]

Adams Morgan, October 9

Pity the businesses at Adams Morgan's southern end, built around the maddening Florida Avenue-U Street-18th Street intersection, far from Metro, and just a little too far from the rest of the area's nightlife. While the individual businesses in the sub-neighborhood can be good, put together they just aren't as fun as the rest of Adams [...]

Adams Morgan, October 4

Ex-Capitol Hemp co-owner Adam Eidinger has recovered the hobby drone he lost over Adams Morgan last month. And while Eidinger says the drone can probably only be used for spare parts now, he still plans to fly drones—just not in the District.
Eidinger was trying to use the drone to shoot video of the Adams Morgan [...]

2200 Block 18th Street, NW.  © 2012 Matt Dunn

2000 Block 18th Street, NW.  Sept. 9th.  © 2012 Matt Dunn

2400 Block 18th Street, NW.  Sept. 9th.  © 2012 Matt Dunn

August 6, Columbia Road NW

2300 Block of Champlain Street NW, March 13
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Turn Out The Lights: It always feels a little Christmas-y in Adams Morgan, thanks to the illuminated martini glass, music note, coffee cup, and shoe that have been hanging from lightposts in the neighborhood for the last decade. But like a tree that's dropped all its needles and needs to go out to the curb, [...]

1700 Block of Lanier Place NW (Rear), January 18
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Bicycle use, quite famously, has exploded in the District over the past decade. And it's equally well known that the force of that blast has caused some political divisions.
But not all of the bike brawling has been of the electoral variety: In May, after a Camaro accidentally rammed a bike in the 1800 block [...]