Neighborhoods

There have been several studies outlining the magnitude of gentrification and displacement over the past few months, with some concluding that DC is one of the most heavily-gentrified cities in the country. Far less consistent across these…

The pièce de résistance inside one of Christian Zapatka’s recent home renovations isn’t a large-scale painting or an ornate lighting fixture. The highlight is a continual wall of floor-to-ceiling steel and glass windows that separate the…

Founded in 1958 by an interracial group of Manor Park residents after their neighborhood citizens association refused to admit black members, Neighbors, Inc. opposed blockbusting and sought to foster stable, integrated, middle-class…

In 2005, Malissa Freese took an eye-opening trip in search of a new home. Coming off DC’s Interstate 295, she hit the block of Benning Road NE that houses an unsightly Pepco facility and made a left turn on Anacostia Avenue into River…

WASHINGTON — While hundreds gathered in rural Pennsylvania for Punxsutawney Phil’s annual weather prediction, his lesser-known, somewhat lesser-animated cousin had his own ceremony in D.C.’s Dupont Circle.

The District has always been home to a large contingent of transplants. Some of these new residents never leave, while others remain here for only a short period of time. D.C.-born residents have never accounted for a large majority of the…

The long and little-known story of how neighbors and developers used a plan for a park to push a thriving African-American community out of Fort Reno.