K Street (Washington, D.C.)
Downtown, Washington, D.C. | |
Maintained by | DDOT |
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Length | 4.0 mi (6.4 km)[1] |
Location | Northwest and Northeast, Washington, D.C. |
West end | Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown |
Major junctions |
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East end | I Street |
Construction | |
Commissioned | 1791 |
K Street is a major
Location
In the Washington D.C. street grid there are three (3) unconnected east-to-west street segments designated as K Street NW / NE, and also a southern K Street.
The middle segment of K Street NW / NE, which carries a segment of
K Street NE briefly reappears further east in the Carver neighborhood, extending from Blandensburg Road for six blocks to Maryland Avenue NE.
The westernmost (Georgetown) segment of K street NW was known as Water Street prior to the
The southern K Street runs between the
Traffic configuration
Current
K Street provides a major east-west thoroughfare for traffic through Washington, primarily from
Proposed
The
A streetcar line spanning from 26th Street NW to the
A proposal announced April 7, 2022, would redesign K Street between 12th and 21st Streets, N.W. The proposal would remove the service lanes in favor of dedicated bus and bicycle lanes. Under the proposal, construction would begin in the spring of 2023.[6]
Lobbying
"K Street" is the common metonym for Washington's lobbying industry (often used negatively in political campaign advertisements) the same way Wall Street in New York City became a metonymy for the financial markets of the United States.[7][8] Many of the major Washington lobbying firms were located on the section in Northwest Washington which passes from Georgetown through a portion of downtown D.C., although the strip has grown less popular for lobbyists in recent years.[2][9]
Since the late 1980s, however, many of the largest lobbying firms have moved off of K Street into larger spaces on adjacent streets; as of 2012[update], only one of the top-20 largest lobbying firms has a K Street address.[9] The major lobbying firms that physically remain on K Street, as of 2017, include CGCN Group and K&L Gates;[10] although smaller and midsized lobbying and advocacy groups as well as law firms, trade associations, some think tanks, and members of the public affairs industry who commonly interact with each other still occupy spaces on K Street and adjacent areas of Downtown Washington, D.C.
The 2003
See also
- metonym for the United States Congress, it is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
- Massachusetts Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., between Thomas Circle and Dupont Circle(not too far from K Street)
- Wall Street – a street in the financial district of Lower Manhattan in New York City, New York that serves as a notable center of and a metonymy for the financial markets of the United States
- Tufton Street – a similar location in London hosting think-tanks and lobbyists
- Rue de la loi, Brussels – The second biggest lobbying place of the world, in the "capital city" of the EU
References
- ^ Google (March 9, 2019). "K Street NW and NE" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
- ^ a b Birnbaum, Jeffrey H. (June 22, 2005). "The Road to Riches Is Called K Street". The Washington Post. p. A01. Archived from the original on February 16, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2008.
- ^ David Alpert (July 30, 2009). "K Street Transitway options balance buses, bikes, cars, and loading". Greater Greater Washington. Archived from the original on October 12, 2011. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
- ^ Halsey III, Ashley. "Navigating a Bus Path For K Street - Again." Washington Post. August 30, 2009.
- ^ "From seedy to sought-after: D.C.'s Mount Vernon Triangle becoming urban village". Washington Post. January 30, 2010. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
- ^ "K Street makeover will bring dedicated bus lanes, remove service lanes" Archived April 8, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, The Washington Post, April 7, 2022
- ^ "Lobbying Database - OpenSecrets". OpenSecrets.org. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
- ^ Montopoli, Brian (October 27, 2009). "Grayson Calls Linda Robertson A "K Street Whore"". cbsnews.com "Political Hotsheet". CBS. Archived from the original on October 24, 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
- ^ a b Zak, Dan (February 5, 2012). "K Street: The route of all evil, or just the main drag?". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 1, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2012.
- ^ "Another lobbyist joins the administration". POLITICO. Archived from the original on July 17, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
- ^ Stanley, Alessandra (September 14, 2003). "Inside Washington Politics, Turned Inside Out". The New York Times. p. 40.
- Washington Post. pp. C01.
- ^ Gallo, Phil (September 16, 2003). "K Street". Variety. p. 10.
- The New York Daily News. p. 82.
- The New York Post. p. 82.
- ^ Bianco, Robert (September 19, 2003). "Well-intentioned K Street is headed the wrong way". USA Today. pp. 12E.