What Makes U Street, U Street

When a person leaves the darkness of the subway and immediately sucks fresh city air, they are quickly shocked by the sight and sound of U Street. Depending on where you are, you may smell the rich aroma of green pepper and cheese in the bowl of coffee and ben peppers. Looking to the left from Ben's Chile · Bowl, it is clear that city updates since the mid 1990s are effective for many beautiful new buildings and luxury apartments. However, looking at the right side, the dramatic change experienced by U Street is revealed.

I lived in the U Street community in Washington DC, but I was fascinated by the history of the area. Basically it is an important commercial boulevard of Jim Raven era city black community and then collapsed under the triple pressure of riots, abolition of apartheid and urban investment, since the U-Street subway station has been open since then It was refurbished. It is white. Introduction to Lydia DePillis to Sandra Butler-Truesdale understands me well and leads to further research.

When I started this opening in 2008, I may have been late for 15 years. In the mid-1990s, the first wave of reconstruction and luxury occurred in the Parliament. Since the U Street NW and H Street NE which were two of the most popular "Black Broadway" entertainment centers in the USA, it began to reflect this change, furthermore the urban black population decreased by 10% and the city blacks decreased did. The population committed a violent crime. The black urban support structure enhances the ultra-success of DC's former 'chocolate city' and becomes a magical spring of excellence of black music.

At Columbia Heights, pressure is exerted on gentlemen, the west side of the area is 16th Avenue, the east is ninth Avenue, North is Spring Road, South is U City. Columbia Heights was a mixed income, a mixed ethnic community that thrived between the 1950s and the 1960s, but was particularly hit hard during the riots of the late 1960s. After white and black middle class family escaped, Columbia Heights left hundreds of abandoned wealth, many of which were devastated. The increase in cocaine has a serious impact on neighbors, the crime rate rises, and there are several notorious drug market. In the 1980s, a small number of middle-income households began to return to the community.