Shaw, LeDroit Park & Bloomingdale in Washington, D.C.: An Oral History

Shaw, LeDroit Park & Bloomingdale in Washington, D.C.: An Oral History
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9781467149693
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Book Synopsis Shaw, LeDroit Park & Bloomingdale in Washington, D.C.: An Oral History by : Shilpi Malinowski

Download or read book Shaw, LeDroit Park & Bloomingdale in Washington, D.C.: An Oral History written by Shilpi Malinowski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let residents tell you what it's been like to live in D.C.'s most gentrified neighborhood. When Gretchen Wharton came to Shaw in 1946, the houses were full of families that looked like hers: lower-income, African American, two parents with kids. The sidewalks were full of children playing. When Leroy Thorpe moved in in the 1980s, the same streets were dense with drug markets. When John Lucier found a deal on a house in Shaw in 2002, he found himself moving into one of four occupied homes on his block. Every morning, he waited by himself on the empty platform of the newly opened metro station. When Preetha Iyengar became pregnant with her first child in 2016, she jumped into a seller's market to buy a rowhouse in the area. Journalist and Shaw resident Shilpi Malinowski explores the complexities of the many stories of belonging in the District's most dynamic neighborhood.


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