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Parkfairfax is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia, located in the northwestern part of the city near the boundary with Arlington County. Nearby thoroughfares are Interstate 395 ( Shirley Highway ), State Route 402 (Quaker Lane), and West Glebe Road .
Within the area that comprises North Ridge are the neighborhoods of Beverley Hills, Jefferson Park, Braddock Heights, [57] Timber Branch, Parkfairfax, Monticello Park, Beverley Estates, and Oak Crest. The North Ridge community lies within the original 10-mile (16 km) square of the District of Columbia, ceded back to Virginia in 1846.
Location of Alexandria in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Alexandria, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Alexandria, Virginia, United States.
The Barcroft–South Fairlington Line, designated as Route 22A, Route 22C, or Route 22F, is a daily bus route operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority between Ballston–MU station of the Orange and Silver lines of the Washington Metro (22A, 22C) or Skyline City (22F) and Pentagon station of the Yellow and Blue lines of the Washington Metro.
Shirlington began when Joseph Cherner, automobile dealer and banker, established the Shirlington Corporation to build a shopping center for nearby Fairlington and Parkfairfax. He began with a 23 + 1 ⁄ 2 -acre (9.5 ha) site on which the first store opened in June 1944.
Potomac Yard as a rail yard in the 1980s Potomac Yard as a mixed-use neighborhood in 2021. Potomac Yard is a neighborhood in Northern Virginia that straddles southeastern Arlington County and northeastern Alexandria, Virginia, located principally in the area between U.S. Route 1 and the Washington Metro Blue Line /Yellow Line tracks, or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, depending on the ...
The project was proposed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944, [1] and largely served an African American population, [2] in contrast to Met Life's Parkchester in the Bronx (1940), Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, Park La Brea in Los Angeles, Parkmerced in San Francisco, and Parkfairfax in Alexandria, Virginia, which were restricted to a whites-only tenancy at ...
Entrance to The Village at Shirlington. The center was originally developed by Joseph Cherner, automobile dealer and banker, on a 23 1 ⁄ 2-acre site to provide for the basic shopping needs of the nearby sprawling Parkfairfax, developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Defense Homes Corporation development at Fairlington.