Check it Out in DC (if you can find it)

A new hipster district has emerged in DC in the most unlikely of places: H Street NORTHEAST, between about ninth and 12th. There is no public transportation here, but somehow the entrepreneurs (some of whom are responsible of the transformation of 14th/U streets) have come up with a geniune nightlife stretch in the middle of freakin' nowhere.
Don't try to walk here from Union Station, you'll only get mugged, warn the signs inside the clubs. Take a cab.
The only obvious reason that this district is working is one: space. H Street was one of the so-called "riot corridors," a stretch of black businesses that burned in the 1968 riots. That means large department-store type layouts that converts well into nightclubs and whatnot.
The only thing familiar about it is the DC hipster strategy: outflank the preppies and the squares by moving East of them, further into the formerly threatening ghettos.
How this area does remains to be seen, as they say in lame broadcast journalism.