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when we were looking to buy a house, we looked at a couple houses in Brookland. Fortunately they were pretty messed up internally (too many bad renovations) and overpriced (the market was still at peak), because for the moment we had forgotten that the "discourse" political and otherwise in Ward 5 is pretty damn wacked, and I didn't want to have to live in it-through it-with it.

While there are legitimate concerns about car barn location (and note to Thayer D--a similar car barn to the one you're talking about used to be on the 1600 block of Benning Road (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rllayman/15327779/) and an extant one, converted to housing is on the 1500 block of East Capitol NE) the way the issue goes beyond to be incredibly reactive against streetcars (similar stuff happened with regard to the Metropolitan Branch Trail--and the idea was originally was conceptualized by a then Brooklander) is another example.

One of my lines about neighborhood decline is that it is not only a function of disinvestment but of backwards looking legacy leadership.

W5 illustrates this point to a "t."

by Richard Layman on Jun 29, 2012 7:09 am • link • report