Martin Austermuhle
Whether you like the sterile, quasi-corporate feel of the newly-invigorated Chinatown or not, it’s near impossible to deny how far the neighborhood has come in recent years. It’s brighter, louder, crowded with life, and packed with $5.3 billion worth of development spurred by the MCI Center.
But is it the city’s hottest nightspot?
The Examiner’s Harry Jaffe — a longtime District resident and political observer — thinks so. In a column published yesterday, Jaffe threw down the gauntlet on any neighborhood that would want to challenge Chinatown/Gallery Place/Penn Quarter/Seventh Street/East End for nightlife supremacy:
Move over, Georgetown. Step aside, Adams Morgan. Capitol Hill may have had its day. The New U doesn’t look so new. Gallery Place, anchored by the MCI Center, may have just become the hippest, hottest place in D.C. You have to walk the streets to grasp the change.
Those are fightin’ words, Harry. Anyone care to disagree?
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