For decades, the District dumped its ills on this Meridian Hill neighborhood in Northwest D.C.
The Pitts Motor Hotel — once a destination for Martin Luther King Jr., Aretha Franklin and Bill Cosby — had fallen apart. Homeless people were bused in for breakfast and left there until after dinner.
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