DCist: What's Your Neighborhood Listserv?

May 25, 2005

What's Your Neighborhood Listserv?

Our post on a noise controversy in Glover Park yesterday mentioned that neighborhood's newly created e-mail listserv on Yahoo Groups. That post got us thinking about neighborhood e-mail groups, and exactly how many there were around the city. These e-mail lists are generally open to the public and whether moderated or unmoderated serve as community forums for discussing neighborhood topics. The Columbia Heights list has even been such a hotbed of discussion it sparked a City Paper article earlier this year where the electronic gripes of some of the neighborhood's newer residents was highlighted. The Columbia Heights group has nearly 1,000 members and dates back to 1999.

Neighborhood listservs have been the launching pads for countless neighborhood organizations and initiatives, allowed city officials to communicate quickly with constituents, and been an important forum for public discussion. Cleveland Park's, has a whopping 2,820 members and was created in November 1999. Coming in second is Adams Morgan's, which has more than 1,500 members. U Street News has just over 800 members, and Logan Circle's was created in 2003 and has 244 members. Other lists include Northside DC, East of the River, and the Petworth neighborhood has no less than eight neighborhood-oriented groups.

Although it's not a neighborhood list, DCWatch's themail cannot escape notice as one of the city's most widely read civic e-mail lists. A recent newsletter contained a submission pointing out many neighborhoods now have blogs, which "accomplish on a very local level what you do citywide." The contributor points out In Shaw, Frozen Tropics (about Trinidad and adjacent neighborhoods), and Petworth News. We also list on our blogroll Columbia Heights DC.

Are you a member of your neighborhood's listserv or know about an up-and-coming neighborhood blog? Which ones are we missing? Are you on a list outside of D.C. proper? Drop us a comment below.

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Comments (21)

By Spiral

[1] | 05/25/05 11:14AM

Hill East (roughly defined as Capitol Hill east of 13th Street, west of the river).

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newhilleast/

By clarissa

[2] | 05/25/05 11:19AM

Brookland, 947 members, created in 2001

By Brett

[3] | 05/25/05 11:47AM

Foggy Bottom's Group is located at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FoggyBottomAssociation/

By Sam

[4] | 05/25/05 12:08PM

Mount Vernon Square:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mvsna/

(North of New York Ave, South of N, and between 1st and 7th NW)

By Jay

[5] | 05/25/05 12:25PM

Regarding "lists outside DC proper" -- for my fellow Arlington blue-liners, this covers the Pentagon City/Crystal City area. Tends to be dominated by house-dwelling family types, but some is useful for us condo/apartment folk.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/4D-A/

By Cleveland Park Men's Club

[6] | 05/25/05 12:34PM

Of course Cleveland Park's list serve rocks. What did you expect?

CP is the best kept secret in DC.

By js adams

[7] | 05/25/05 12:48PM

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TakomaDC/
Takoma DC

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shepherdpark/
Shepherd Park

By Devlan

[8] | 05/25/05 02:02PM

Dupont has http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DupontForum/--very civic-oriented, not very chatty.

By Jason

[9] | 05/25/05 02:21PM

Burleith in the house! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/burleith/
No, we're not Georgetown...

By Doug

[10] | 05/25/05 02:27PM

Tenleytown, AU Park, and Friendship Heights (496 members): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tenleytown/

I subscribed to the Cleveland Park list for a while and there's just too much traffic to make it worthwhile except for an occasional search of the archives.

By Jim Davis

[11] | 05/25/05 03:26PM

CP is the best kept secret in DC.

What are you smoking? Its one of the best known areas in the city, well known and has expensive housing because of it.

If thats your idea of a secret...

By Richard Layman

[12] | 05/25/05 03:54PM

hstreetdc@yahoogroups.com is the broader H Street neighborhood list

anc6c@yahoogroups.com and anc-6a@yahoogroups.com are the respective ANC lists. Both ANCs now have websites: www.anc6c.org and www.anc6a.org.

www.hstreetdc.com is the neighborhood website although it is a bit on hiatus.

The H-DC website at www.h-net.org also has a list of neighborhood e-lists and websites (and maybe blogs too).

By wardfiveguy