Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry
Georgetown resident Tom Birch couldn’t get a decent night’s sleep on weekends in the late 1980s. From his home near M Street NW, he would often be woken up after 3 a.m. when drunken revelers left the bars and clubs.
“There were fights. There was screaming,” says Birch, now a commissioner on Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E. “And then there’d be incidents of what I guess I would call minor vandalism… You’d see bushes ripped out or pots turned over and crashed. And then a lot of litter in the gutters, in the treeboxes, and even on our front steps.”
In 1989, ...