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What makes a neighborhood? The type of person who lives there? The architecture? The crime? How the flowers look in the spring?
\n\"Capitol<\/a><\/a><\/a>
\nCapitol Hill, Washington DC. Photo credit: Flickr<\/a>. <\/em>
\nEveryblock<\/a> thinks all of those things make a neighborhood, as well as restaurant inspections, permits, news, and, now, real estate listings. Using our RSS feed of listings<\/a>, they just added summaries of real estate listings to their data for every block in San Francisco. For example, here’s what’s happening today<\/a> in Supervisorial District 6, in North Beach.
\nAll this data and a growing number of neighborhood bloggers mean we no longer have to rely on print weeklies for hyper-local news. Here in Seattle, the bloggers cover everything from burning tires<\/a> to park closures<\/a>, to old ads for local beers<\/a>. In DC, they blog about sidewalk posters<\/a>, a new hemp store<\/a>, the blooming of the cherry blossoms<\/a> and police cameras<\/a>.
\n\"Capitol<\/a>
\nCapitol Hill, Seattle. Photo credit: Flickr<\/a>.<\/em>
\nIf you’ve got an idea of what defines your neighborhood, leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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