Edgewood (Washington, D.C.)

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Edgewood is a neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C. Edgewood is bounded by Franklin Street NE to the north, Rhode Island Avenue NE to the south, Glenwood Cemetery to the west, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Red Line train tracks to the east. The eastern boundary originates with the establishment of the former Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1873, creating the physical barrier which today separates Edgewood from Brookland to the east. Edgewood is in Ward 5.

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Businesses and landmarks

• Edgewood Commons, a large complex of mixed-income and senior citizen public housing, opened in 1972. It was built by Bethesda developer Eugene Ford, and it was originally managed by H. R. Crawford. Today, Edgewood Commons (formerly known as Edgewood Terrace) remains a central landmark of the neighborhood.
• The Washington Metropolitan Red Line Branch Trail goes through the neighborhood of Edgewood on its way from the Silver Spring Metro Station all the way to the Union Station in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
• Edgewood Wall is part of Open Walls DC, a public art initiative that provides spaces and walls for graffiti artists, street artists, muralists, art students, emerging and established artists who love to paint outdoors and large. The goal of Open Walls DC is to create large ever-changing murals that beautify our city and are unusual creative public spaces.
• Glenwood Cemetery
• Mount Calvary Christian Church
• Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center

This shopping center consists of a Rainbow Fashion/ Apparel Store, Susan Fabrics Store, Subway Sandwich Fast Food Restaurant, Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits Fast Food Restaurant, H&R Block Store, a McDonald's Fast Food Restaurant, a Save a Lot Supermarket Store, a Forman Mills Store, and a Big Lots Department Store. The Forman Mills store opened in 2008 and took over National Wholesale Lumber Liquidators when closed its store in the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center after the chain filed for bankruptcy. The National Wholesale Lumber Liquidators Store took over the spot of a former Ames Department Store which closed in 2002. The Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center originally consisted of a Safeway Food & Drug Store. However, the Safeway Food & Drug Store closed and ceased all of its operations in the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center since March 6, 2010. The store has been operating in the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center and serving residents of the Edgewood, Eckington, Brentwood, and Brookland neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., for more than 25 years. Safeway Food and Drug's spot inside the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center remained vacant from the time it closed, up until November 10, 2012. Since November 10, 2012, Safeway Food & Drug's spot in the shopping center has been occupied by a newly opened Save-a-Lot Supermarket and Big Lots Department Store.  

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Gallery

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References

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External links

• EdgewoodDC, neighborhood website
• The Edgewood Map
• Washington Post: "Edgewood remains affordable but is becoming newly desirable"
• Washingtonian: "Strip Malls are Vanishing from Northeast DC. What's Going to Take their Place?"
• UrbanTurf: "Edgewood: More Substance Than Style"

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