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The rise of a city wide network of neighborhood blogs and web sites, an interesting dynamic taking place in our nation’s capital, was highlighted recently by a Washington Post Express posting. Major media outlets such as city newspapers and television stations have a top-down mandate to cover a broad list of subjects and garner mass appeal from people in the whole DC metro area but the bottom-up neighborhood sites have a different perspective. We are dedicated to telling the nitty gritty get-it-done of daily life such as our Howto series arming you with the essentials or updates such as when that new wine bar opens up around the corner or where to find inexpensive beauty products or which grocery stores are nearby.
Who knows neighborhoods the best? It’s the neighbors and publishing the urban street level experience on line is the best way we know to be ambassadors for our area providing news and information to Penn Quarter visitors and residents alike. PQ Living (started as Gallery Place Living) has been cataloging downtown happenings in the East End since February of 2006 and provides the straight, daily story as seen by five PQ residents.
We invite you to join our community by contributing comments and sending in tips or story ideas (photos are welcome too!) to pqliving@gmail.com. PQ Living staff reads every e-mail and comment you contribute. Come to the Penn Quarter, visit and stay a while!
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virtual version of swapping stories over the fence…. its nice..
and ..if y’all dont hear it often enough..THANKS..
y’all do a great job..
and im sure it is a labor of love.
xoxo
Indeed, pqliving is one of the places I check on first thing in the morning. You all do a fabulous job. In fact, my wife and I were so inspired we just started our own, 14thandyou.blogspot.com, covering our ‘hood (Logan Circle + the 14th St. corridor). It’s largely a labor of love on my wife’s part, but I chip in from time to time. It’s amazing the issues that get reported on via the neighborhood blogs that never make their way into the local media.
Anyhow, keep up the great work. I really believe the local blogs are having a substantial effect on the turnaround of many neighborhoods in this city.
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blogs & neighborhood sites are such an incredible resource in keeping the ommunity informed. you all are doing a fantastic job!