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HR-57

Named for a 1987 House resolution honoring jazz, the nonprofit HR-57 is dedicated to preserving the groove in an area once thick with clubs headlining such luminaries as Miles Davis and Sarah Vaughan.

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From Travel + Leisure , NOV 2006

As D.C.'s inner city blossoms, roughly six contiguous areas north of downtown are being grouped as MidCity. At its heart, Logan Circle (a genteel Victorian residential quarter in its day) and the U Street Corridor (a creative hub once hailed as Black Broadway, where hometown hero Duke Ellington grew up) have been among the city's most embattled neighborhoods....MORE>>

– Meeghan Truelove Washington, D.C.

Last updated November 2006