H St. NE Scene's New Frontier: Bladensburg Rd.
IF YOU'RE A NIGHTLIFE EXPLORER who thinks the revitalizing bar and music scene on H Street NE is really hard to get to, chew on this: It's expanding up Bladensburg Road, about 20 blocks from the nearest Metrorail station.
In the spring, Mark Thorp, a bartender from the Rock and Roll Hotel, applied for a tavern license for a place at 1103 Bladensburg Road called Jimmy Valentine's Lonely Hearts Club. Some residents in the neighborhood objected, but as the City Paper wrote at the time, the signatures on their protest letter "weren't signatures at all. They were simply 'names spelled in different typefaces,' [D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board] chair Charles Burger says."
Well, the place opened Friday and, as Trinidad/H Street NE blogger Frozen Tropics notes, "features a full bar and bottled beers (no tap)."
Maybe developer Jim Abdo, who has been promoting his National Arboretum-area development, knows something nobody else knows.
» "What the Helvetica?" [City Paper, 2nd item]
» "Jimmy Valentine's Lonely Hearts Club" [Frozen Tropics]
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i guess it's moving far enough away that we're going to have to start talking about the nightlife in langston or carver terrace. so many neighborhoods for gentrifiers to familiarize themselves with. memorizing the old set of northwest neighborhoods only has become obsolete! :)
By IMGoph , Posted August 22, 2007 9:19 AMActually, a place called the Langston Bar and Grill at Benning Rd and 19th St NE applied for a license in the Spring, but I'm not sure what the status is.
By Chris in Eckington , Posted August 22, 2007 11:09 PM