Mount Pleasant | DC Neighborhoods

Residents of Mount Pleasant in Northwest Washington love the quiet vibe of their tree covered neighborhood, and rallied to protect it when proposals to build high density apartment buildings gathered steam in the 1970s. The small community feel helped attract thousands of Central American immigrants to Mount Pleasant in the 1980s, and transform the neighborhood into the heart of the Latino experience in Washington.
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[@jayson1geek479]

So this is a Latino neighborhood?

[@Scipio488]

No; that would be a vast oversimplification. All the big beautiful houses are still full of rich white people. There is a Central America presence and the small local shops reflect it. Mount Pleasant has embraced that as part of its local flavor. Mount Pleasant is unusually located within the District so that no one just wanders into it by accident, which keeps it a little cut off. Adopting the Central America residents as its public face has given Mount Pleasant a touristic angle, making it a more interesting destination, rather than just another neighborhood you wouldn't visit if you didn't live there.

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@@Scipio488 oh cool, so which neighborhoods are more Spanish related?

[@daddygrace253]

@@jayson1geek479 Many of the Central Americans mostly from El Salvador were gentrified out of Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights in Northwest in Ward 1 and start moving further North into Ward 4 Petworth, 16th Street Heights, and Brightwood.