why isnt there a j street in dc?
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I and J are too similar when viewed; ezpecially twenty feet up.
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Dont kiding there is no gooodoool city!
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http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=14986475\n\nhttp://jcredcross.org/\n\nsorry the last one appears to be in construction. Try e-mailing them.
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Yes, the Washington D.C. street layout is based upon the design of a drafting compass (which is a masonic symbol), in which roads represent the 2 prongs of the compass. The 2 prongs are the 2 main west-east roads on the north and south of the washington mall. They converge at the capitol building, which is at the head of the compass. There are 2 small streets that go around the capitol building, which represent the tensile piece at the head of the compass. The masons also supposedly played some part in the design of the statue on top of the capitol building, but that is less certain.
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YES i live in DC! we wann knock on the white house door and ask WHY!!!\n\nit is like 3.05!!!
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Because the street was up on a hill so was high. Broadway was so called because the was was broad enough for fours carts at first then cars. Wall Street is called that because when they first started building NY they built a wall around it to protect it from Indians. \nPS, this is not a dumb question.
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Any answer you get is going to be misleading- DC isn't a standalone city, like Topeka.  Any numbers are influenced by the (far more populous) suburban areas in Maryland and Virginia.  If you're curious in relation to the DC handgun ban, that fact is going to make any number worthless.  Sure, you can't buy a handgun in DC, but a 10 minute car ride (or hell, a trip on the subway) across the border into Virginia and it's not such a big deal.  I'm including a link to the Metropolitan Police Department website, that shows the number of homicides for this year.
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This site should be useful: http://www.hc.rrc.dc.gov/hc/cwp/view,A,1222,Q,454863.asp
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Because the city is Washington and it's in the District of Columbia, which was created out of land donated by Maryland to house the national capital.  DC is not part of any state.
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The Americans for Disabilities Act has encouraged public buildings to create means (or retrofit) access to those with limited mobility. But private buildings don't have to comply.\n\nI have a young daughter in a wheelchair and you discover very quickly which buildings and businesses are helpful, and which are not. Overall, I think places have done a pretty good job of making it easier for all abilities (businesses want your money, 'natch), but there's a long way to go.
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1600 Pennsylvania Ave.   Washington, DC
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If it's numeric, then obviously the street is just following order. The rest is simply politics. A lot of times streets are named after the original land owner, as a deal to sell the land which provided the street to be built. The majority though is politics, part of town it's in, or simply a city choice.
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JANNA CELIS\n       1311 30TH ST NW\n    WASHINGTON, DC  20007
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Although the whole world knows Washington, DC as the capital of the United States, the city did not exist when we became a nation in 1789. The seat of the new government was located temporarily in New York City. A year later it was moved to Philadelphia. When it came to selecting the place for a permanent capital, both these cities were among those who vied to be chosen. Some of the competing cities offered land and money as incentives. A fierce rivalry developed between the northern and southern states over the location, a conflict that was finally resolved by a political compromise. In exchange for agreeing to locate the capital in the southern region, the northern states were relieved of the heavy debts they had incurred during the Revolution.\n\nIn 1790 Congress passed the Residence Act giving President George Washington the power to select a site for a new federal district, as the then-nameless capital was called. The Act also said that Congress would continue to meet in Philadelphia until 1800, when the capital city was supposed to be ready for the government to move in.\n\nWashington's own estate, Mount Vernon, was located on the Potomac River below the bustling river towns of Alexandria, Virginia and Georgetown, Maryland. He was convinced that the land along the Potomac had enormous commercial potential as a shipping center if it were linked by canal to the Western frontier. For the site of the new capital Washington picked an area at the junction of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers about 14 miles upstream from Mount Vernon.\n\nA survey of the land, a "ten-mile square" which had been ceded by Maryland, was undertaken by Andrew Ellicott with the help of Benjamin Banneker, a free black from Maryland who was a self- taught mathematician and astronomer. Forty boundary stones, laid at one-mile intervals, established the boundaries based on Banneker's celestial calculations. Most of the land consisted of floodplain, dense forest, and farmland. In order to speed development of the city, Washington convinced a number of local landholders to donate tracts of land for the new capital.\n\n"It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of Magnificent Intentions."      — Charles Dickens, 1842
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Seems like no one knows. I even tried searching and I can't find a thing. Found stuff about why J and V were omitted from a different version, but nothing on I and V in that one. Sorry, but out of curiosity, why do you want to know?
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www.vim.com   it somewhere in nyc 14th street...u can take the f subway to 14th street and walk down..u cant miss it!
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I don't where you live, but renting a porta potty is how we do it in Washington, DC.  The reason is the maintenance.  You really don't want to have to deal with that.  I don't have the number, but information (411) can give you the number to Don's Johns.