Landmark
Mount Pleasant
Historic streetcar-suburb rowhouse district whose spring street festivals shaped its diverse, close-knit identity.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mount Pleasant in Washington, D.C. opens on a Cinco de Mayo afternoon in 1991, when a street party full of music and pupusa stands turned into an arrest attempt by a rookie police officer against a young dishwasher named Daniel Enrique Gomez. You'll hear the neighborhood's own layered history — Salvadoran, Vietnamese, Black and white Washingtonians sharing the same rowhouse blocks — and the conflicting accounts bystanders gave of what happened next. Listen for the ordinary storefronts and awnings along the street today, unchanged from that afternoon.
This audio guide was created using AI.