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DC -- Chinatown neighborhood:

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1. CHINAT_200509_20.JPG: Fado is Closed Due to the City Mandates we will be reopen soon. Thank you!
2. CHINAT_200509_49.JPG: Howl at the Moon is Coming Spring 2020 [I imagine the grand opening was totally screwed up by the Covid-19 outbreak.]
3. CHINAT_200607_01.JPG: Boarded up because of BLM protests.
4. CHINAT_200609_02.JPG: Boarded up because of BLM protests.
5. CHINAT_200708_01.JPG: Interesting way to protect sidewalk diners from people passing on the sidewalk.
6. CHINAT_200809_11.JPG: Election Day Polling Place Precinct #143 -- Chinese Community Church Will Not Be Available for the June 2, 2020 Primary Election
7. CHINAT_200809_14.JPG: Due to COVID-19 Pandemic, the Chinese Community Church building, including Chinatown Service Center, is CLOSED until further notice. All in-person worship services and activities have been suspended. Please visit the church website ... for up-to-date details about virtual worship and future scheduling. Grace Downtown is also not meeting for worship.
8. CHINAT_200809_19.JPG: Please Wear a Mask When entering our church
9. CHINAT_200809_31.JPG: This entrance to the Renaissance Hotel is closed.
10. CHINAT_200809_34.JPG: Barbells in the flower box... Not something you see very often.
11. CHINAT_200809_42.JPG: United States Mint Our of an abundance of caution, and the interest in the personal health and safety of our customers and our employees, effective Monday March 16, 2020. All United States Mint tours and stores, including those in Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Denver, will be closed until further notice.
12. CHINAT_200809_76.JPG: Nando's Peri-Peri is an Immigrant Employing Gay Loving Muslim Respecting Racism Opposing Equal Paying Multi Cultural chicken restaurant where #Everyone Is Welcome
13. CHINAT_200809_80.JPG: Sawubona (I see you)
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Wikipedia Description: Chinatown (Washington, D.C.)
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Chinatown in Washington, D.C., is a small, historic neighborhood east of downtown consisting of about 20 ethnic Chinese and other Asian restaurants and small businesses along H and I Streets between 5th and 8th Streets, Northwest. It is known for its annual Chinese New Year festival and parade and the Friendship Arch, a Chinese gate built over H Street at 7th Street. Other nearby prominent landmarks include the Verizon Center, a sports and entertainment arena, and the Old Patent Office Building, which houses two of the Smithsonian Museums. The neighborhood is served by the Gallery Place-Chinatown station of the Washington Metro.

History

The Chinatown area was once home to many Chinese immigrants; it is also the location of the Washington branch of the Goethe-Institut. Chinese immigrants began to move into the area in the 1930s, having been displaced from Washington's original Chinatown along Pennsylvania Avenue by the development of the Federal Triangle government office complex. The newcomers marked it with decorative metal latticework and railings as well as Chinese signage. At its peak, Chinatown extended from G Street north to Massachusetts Avenue, and from 9th Street east to 5th Street.

In 1986, the city dedicated the Friendship Archway, a traditional Chinese gate designed by Alfred H. Liu, a local architect and chairman of the Chinatown Development Corporation, who emigrated from Taiwan to the United States as a teenager. The colorful, US$1 million work of public art includes seven roofs up to 60 feet high, 7000 tiles, and 272 painted dragons in the style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Erected to celebrate friendship with Washington's sister city of Beijing, it was hoped the arch would reinforce the neighborhood's Chinese character. According to the plaque next to the arch, it is the largest such single-span archway in the world. In 1993, the Friendship Archway underwent a major r ...More...
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. The farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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