Franzi Wild (she/her) is a reporter at Street Sense Media. Her work has also appeared in Teen Vogue. She spends a lot of her time on WMATA and yearns for the return of the Circulator.
Jackey Cafe is the latest in a long list of losses for the neighborhood, as development and gentrification price out mom-and-pop shops and Chinese residents.
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