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Article: Thanks to SE Carts, a New Type of Fleet Street
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 19, 2009
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The Nats are practically extinct. The ballpark district is a
wasteland of arrested development. And the electric carts buzz
around this primeval commercial ecosystem as if they're at the top
of the food chain.
They dart from the barren Anacostia riverfront to the fertile
terrain of nearby Capitol Hill, where they scoop up drunk baseball
fans from the Ugly Mug and Molly Malone's. They sneak down an alley
to Seventh Street SE, under the thump-thumping overpass of I-295,
onto the gentle slope of M Street. Toward the sunset these carts go,
past the walled-off Navy Yard and into the back roads of the Yards,
D.C.'s newest planned neighborhood, which is still weedy lots and
hollow remnants of ...