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Okay. You want to just introduce yourself go fast? Hey, my name is Margo Laurent Trezevant and I used to live here in Adams Morgan and the love of my life, David, is actually-was born here in Adams Morgan in 1967, so we've seen Adams Morgan be what it is now. What really pisses me off is the fact that the plaza has been shut down to put a condo pretty much like that one which was really, really screwed up the whole feeling of Adams Morgan, and it's not fair to the people. It's not fair to their kids, it's not fair to anybody really. Because if you're coming from AU and take the bus down and you don't see that Plaza, they think you're not- because I have friends who did that and they're like "well, where's the plaza?" And I said "well, it's shut down and they were very pissed off and I said "yeah, I know I am too." So anyways, I just wish they would put something like this over there, which would absolutely destroy the first sight of Adams Morgan. So yeah, that's because you know, but I love the music here. The food is awesome, the people are great. But again, I mean, Just- it's just taking a lot of life out of Adams Morgan pretty much and history out of Adams Morgan as well. So I really is, it's just, it's just unfair to the people for the people that have the money to like "well, fuck it, we have the money, we'll do whatever we want to do", and I'm like, that's not what this is neighborhood is about at all. So yes, it pissed me off. And yes, it's very, it's just yeah, it's horrible. So and like my daughter was in pre-k and we read and she loves coming up here and just, you know, dance or play basketball or whatever we'll go down-like he sat down at the park and- Malcolm X Park- I mean not- Pierce Park and just be. This is neighborhood with people that need to have a space to just breathe after work. Excuse me. So yes, this is something that I really do not like about the fact that this neighborhood is not committed to putting the people first instead of building and making money off of people. So, yeah, that pisses me off. Yeah, makes sense. And yes, so and we have a lot of crime especially right here, which we should not have a lot crime right here. And yeah, it's just-it's just that pisses me off and I used to love this neighborhood. I used to live down on 19th at the Gelmarc Towers. I used to come out and go get my coffee and two hours later, go down and have some lunch. And then later have some drinks at Madam's Organ or I used to - where- see this is where I met my boyfriend. We've been together for 12 years now. I used to love to go to Jazz. I love jazz. I used to go down to Colombia station and he used to go to Town Tavern. So it was right there and that's how we met and now, it seems like everything isn't opening the same time they used to, and people are changing and there's a lot of negativity when before it used to be so much nicer and everybody knew each other. And would you know, say "hey, how are you doing?" have conversations, have coffee, a drink, you know get dinner, whatever. It just feels like you can't really do that anymore in this neighborhood. So yeah and the streets-it just pisses me off too. You've got that here today on Adams Morgan Day. 18th Street is not blocked off and there's no vendors. There's no music, there's no nothing. I just- and I used to do-We used to actually volunteer here about 10 years ago where everything was amazing. Like you had vendors on streets and the kids were happy because they had a whole community for them at the school and-and-and just you know everybody was happy happy happy. And now just feel like nobody's happy because there's nothing there for them that they're trying to get out of Adams Morgan today. So that's all I can say and it makes me sad. But anyway it does.

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Yeah, what kind of spaces-- so you were talking about the park, right? Yes. What kind of spaces are you like hoping like that park to kind of be around to create that sense of community you were talking about that has kind of gone away? Well, the plaza right there, that's number one because the kids love it because we all painted it for the kids and they love to you know jump over the- all the-- and [off screen] See ya babe. No problem. [Back to interviewer] And I love Malcolm X because it's awesome. I did a lot of photo shoots for my daughter and my boyfriend and I love that part. But from here, appears old Walter Pierce Park is awesome. I'm not a big fan of that Park down Columbia Road. It's just because I've seen a lot of different things happen where I'm like, I don't like what's happening there. And I don't want my daughter to be there and so on, so yeah. But other than that, yeah, we just need to refigure out, especially after COVID, we need to refigure out spaces for kids for families to just be at peace, no matter what. So yeah.

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And then I guess, kind of, what spaces, like, previously, were spaces that you kind of saw as like, the spaces of Adams Morgan. Like, they made you feel like you were- That one Yeah And then the park and especially the basketball, the basketball-when you go down basketball, and I loved playing tennis when my daughter was at school, I would go play tennis with a few friends. And yeah, so we just need to keep things in check and refinalize or make sure that that one does not become a-that. That's it. That's all, that's it. I'm sorry, it's all I can say.

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It's okay. I guess, yeah. We can do, kind of, the prompt questions. So, our whole display was called "Who's Adams Morgan?" So I guess who is-what is Adams Morgan to you, what about it is or was so amazing? Well, it's two guys, it's two guys that knew each other and like they came here and they said well we're going to make this our neighborhood for kids to play safely, rent not as astra-astronomically insane, which when I lived here it was, but anyways thats off the docket, but, and just be happy and let people be happy and not have to buy a coffee from Starbucks for $5.75 for a little piece of nothing and be like, oh yeah, am I happy now, so. I'm sorry, it's just all this stuff in-. It's okay, it's really stuffy out. But yeah that's about all and I love the music here, we should, I mean I miss, you know, listening to music on Adams Morgan Day, like that's the one day where you can have bands. We used to one up here, one down there, I used to volunteer as fun, and the food was amazing and the people were happy and now it's just like one here, two down there and that's it. So yeah, I still love Adams Morgan but it changed a lot. [Coughing] I'm sorry, I'm choking. Please do. But um, so yeah. That's about it. What's your name?

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I'm Corinne. Corinne? Margo. Nice to meet you. And yeah I mean and-and this, I'm sorry to say, it's the most atrocious thing I've ever seen in my life.

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How do you mean, like explain that. Douchebags, assholes, piece of craps. You walk in, you don't know where the, the front desk is, you don't know who's working there because they don't have uniforms on . Yeah No, I just, Sorry, but that's just the way I feel, and yep. So that's it, that's all I can say.

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Angie, do you want to ask any questions? What was-what one thing have you done that you really had big fun here in Adams Morgan? On event, one something. Do I have to chose one? Okay, I met my boyfriend. And then getting my daughter into that school, living at the Carlyle Suites Hotel down on New Hampshire Avenue because he was a resident manager. So, those three are probably the best that I can think of and just having to, you know, just-just having fun on Adams Morgan Day and just volunteering, meeting new people, help around, you know, being up at 4:00 in the morning till midnight and I was like, hey, its the best thing I've ever done in my life. And it was just so much fun. And yeah, just meeting new people. Yeah, that's about it. And what makes you so happy? Is it this area or-?

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I just love, because I know a lot of people that live here, and I grew up pretty much with them here. So, now that we moved to Southeast, I don't know-I don't know anybody in my neighborhood, which is okay because I can sleep at night because I could not sleep at the Gilmore Towers. That was like, no, the-the, literally take a sheet of paper, white paper and slice it in half and that was still not thin enough for, so. And-and-and, it was always iinfested, every stations all the time, you were paying like $2500 for half a room, and I mean, it was just, it was just insane. So no. They-they don't have any insulation at at all They don't, and the windows are like, literally, again, you slice them-a piece of, sheet of paper in half as you can, and that's not even close to what it was. So, I miss living here, of course, but I'm happy where I am now. That's about it. Anything else for me? No, that's it, end of story? Anything else you want to say, shout out about Adams Morgan?

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I hate the Line Hotel. That's it. End of story.