Listen to jazz every night, participate in poetry readings, be instrumental in a community re-ignited, distinct, eclectic, modern and celebrating it’s history, and live just a few minutes from downtown Washington, DC, when you call the city’s U Street Corridor, or its surrounding Shaw District, home.
Gentrified but balanced, diverse, and affordable, you’ll know your neighbors and can together shape the community’s future. U Street condominiums for sale are deals rarely found in DC that are rich with history, vibrant nightlife and a close-knit family feel. U Street condos for sale rise in value and are found in converted townhouses and brand-new high-rises. They sit proudly in the Corridor bordered roughly by 9th Street, NW, to 18th Street and Florida Avenue.
Shaw condos extend to modern mid- and high-rises and converted 19th Century row houses, along, approximately, M Street, NW, to New Jersey Avenue, Florida Avenue, and 11th Street, with a panhandle including 16th and S Streets.
Rent a U Street condo and your check will be lower than in many DC areas while you’ll be steps away from nightclubs people from all over line up to hear acclaimed jazz in into the wee hours. Rent a Shaw condo and you’ll also be soothed by the rate, especially because of all for which you’ll be first in line, including events at Howard University. From Howard to nightclub scheduled discussions of the day, Shaw inspires with its intellectuals.
Be like others in DC who covet a U Street condo for vacation or short-term business or a Shaw condo for vacation rental and Metro subway, bus, ride or walk to the National Zoo, Smithsonian museums and the Potomac River.
Your neighborhood will be by the Convention Center and its Metro subway stop on the green line. One stop up is Shaw at Howard before U Street at the African American Civil War Memorial.
Walking out of the subway at U Street, you’ll surely smile at the wide posters of Duke Ellington. Stop by his childhood home on the 1200 block of T Street, NW. Along with Pearl Bailey, jazz icon Ellington turned this once segregated neighborhood into “Black Broadway,” a privileged place to live in the capital.
Imagine the sounds when Langston Hughes shared poetry on the streets, Redd Fox mused with audiences outside music sets and Billie Holiday cooed the blues. Pretend your hearing Miles Davis or Nat King Cole. Listen and you’ll still hear vinyl playing Cab Calloway. Mixing in from with a sax on the street corner may be the music of Sara Vaughn. Today’s sounds and new bands perpetrate through open windows honoring music legends through the restored early 20th Century Lincoln Theater, Howard Theater and Bohemian Caverns.
Savor trendy food in fine settings and casual traditional Southern fare, such as Ben’s Chili Bowl, often rated as the best place in DC for chili dogs and half-smokes, frequented once by Ellington, Davis and Cole, and where Bill Cosby took Camille on their first dates in the ‘60s and held a press conference celebrating the success of “The Cosby Show.” Nestled into DC’s first silent movie house, built in 1911, most of the diner’s furniture is from that era.
Shaw is now known as “Little Ethiopia” for its conglomeration of Ethiopian restaurants. Before the show starts, club hop or take in one of several art galleries and shops.
Joe Lewis used to work out in Shaw, home to the first African American YMCA, now the Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage. You’ll have plenty of places to work out in Shaw today. Become involved in back-to-life facilities recognizing the journey and accomplishments of African Americans.
Once a free slave encampment in what was a rural part of the city, Shaw and its U Street Corridor today, offer homage to the past and good times now, and to follow. |
