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Mount Vernon Triangle Offers Walkability To Loads Of Attractions

World / By / June 29, 2022
Mount Vernon Triangle Offers Walkability To Loads Of Attractions

The Northwest Washington neighborhood has condo living and an emerging restaurant scene

June 29, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT

Diners enjoy outdoor eating at Bar Chinois in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood of Northwest Washington. Bar Chinois is “kind of like our neighborhood watering hole where so many people gather,” said Jeffrey Tenenbaum, a nonprofit attorney who has lived in the neighborhood since 2009.
Diners enjoy outdoor eating at Bar Chinois in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood of Northwest Washington. Bar Chinois is “kind of like our neighborhood watering hole where so many people gather,” said Jeffrey Tenenbaum, a nonprofit attorney who has lived in the neighborhood since 2009. (Maansi Srivastava/The Washington Post)
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Terri Markle fell in love with Mount Vernon Triangle, a Northwest Washington neighborhood, by walking around it. The creator of a travel blog called Female Solo Trek, Markle got to know the neighborhood before she moved into her condo in 2015 thanks to walking tours that exposed her to the history of the area. It’s how she discovered Prather’s Alley, a commercial corridor used by milk delivery trucks in the late 1800s and now surrounded by trendy bars and eateries.

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“You sort of straddle two worlds,” she said of Mount Vernon Triangle, part of which was designated a historic district in 2006.

Markle joined the pandemic puppy trend in 2021, adopting a golden retriever she named Parker. Now, because of their walks, “Parker and I know every inch” of the neighborhood, she said.

While a decade and a half ago the neighborhood was “a sea of parking lots,” it’s now a walker’s paradise, according to Kenyattah Robinson, president of the Mount Vernon Triangle Community Improvement District (CID). A survey by the organization found nearly 80 percent of Mount Vernon Triangle’s residents live within a mile of their workplace, and half commute on foot.

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