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38°52′53″N 77°01′40″W. / 38.88139°N 77.02778°W / 38.88139; -77.02778. The Maine Avenue Fish Market, also known as the Municipal Fish Market, the Fish Wharf, or simply, the Wharf, is an open-air seafood market in Southwest Washington, D.C., a local landmark and one of the few that remain on the east coast of the United States.
Areas of the neighborhood remained run-down, low-income, and somewhat dangerous. This situation intensified in the 1980s and the 1990s, when Washington had among the lowest per capita incomes and highest crime rates in the nation. The Southwest urban renewal has been called "a case study of everything urban renewal got wrong about cities and ...
August 16, 2024 at 4:59 PM. Violent crime in the nation's capital is down 35% and is on track to be the lowest in 20 years, while carjackings involving firearms are down 55%, according to the U.S ...
Crime in Washington, D.C.
Points of interest along Maine Avenue include Arena Stage and the Southwest Waterfront, home of the Maine Avenue Fish Market. History. In 1861, Maine Avenue was a small street north and parallel to Maryland Avenue near Capitol Hill. Interstate 695 was planned to be extended west of Interstate 395 along Maine Avenue. That project, like many ...
Cost. $3.6 Billion. Size. 24 acres (9.7 ha) The District Wharf, commonly known simply as The Wharf, is a multi-billion dollar mixed-use development on the Southwest Waterfront in Washington, D.C. It contains the city's historic Maine Avenue Fish Market, hotels, residential buildings, restaurants, shops, parks, piers, docks and marinas, and live ...
After briefly settling in New York, the family moved to Washington and operated a small grocery store on 24th and P Streets NW. [2] Cafritz scouted the Maine Avenue Fish Market for fish for the store and sold newspapers on 15th Street, near the United States Department of the Treasury.
September 3, 2024 at 12:22 PM. WASHINGTON (AP) — Three gun shops that sold nearly three dozen firearms to a man who trafficked the weapons in and around Washington, D.C., are facing a new ...