Google Street View of the 1700 block of 1st Street NW, eastside, just north of Randolph Place NW -- between 2009 and 2011

Click on the link to read the * entire * Washington Post article.

You should click on the link to see the before and after images from around the District.

One of the set of pics is from the 1700 block of 1st St NW near Randolph Place NW.
  

Stunningly rapid urban development, seen through Google Street View

• BY EMILY BADGER

• April 25 at 1:52 pm

The year 2007, when Google first began driving those ridiculous camera-topped cars- around U.S. cities, doesn't feel so long ago. But seven years is a lifetime on the streets of a rapidly changing city like Washington.

So much in the District has changed so quickly that it's almost hard to remember what once-empty or neglected corners of town looked like before they were redeveloped. Google, however, has just made it possible to travel back in history -- very recent history, that is. For the first time, Google has uploaded all of the archival imagery captured over the years by its Street View cars into its map interface.

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Within residential neighborhoods, some of the change is more modest, as boarded-up rowhouses have been remodeled, such as in the Bloomingdale neighborhood... 

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But now that Google is building both a walking tour of every city and a historic archive of cities across time, we clearly need another update in the District.