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H Street Festival in Washington
The H Street Festival is an annual street fair filling the H Street NE corridor in Washington's Near Northeast neighborhood, drawing well over one hundred thousand visitors each fall. The festival showcases the eastern stretch of H Street, once a struggling commercial strip and now a dense arts and nightlife corridor, with live music stages, local art vendors, food trucks, and community organization booths.
H Street NE was once one of Washington's busiest commercial corridors, a streetcar-era strip of shops and theaters serving the surrounding Near Northeast neighborhood.