Northwest (NW or N.W.) D.C. is the northwestern quadrant of the city, located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street. It is the largest of the four quadrants of the city (NW, NE, SW and SE), and it includes the central business district, the Federal Triangle, and the museums along the northern side of the National Mall, as well as such neighborhoods as Dupont Circle, Le Droit Park, Georgetown, Adams Morgan, Glover Park, Tenleytown, Foggy Bottom, Cleveland Park, Columbia Heights, Mount Pleasant, the Palisades, Shepherd Park, Crestwood, Bloomingdale, and Friendship Heights. Northwest D.C. has a reputation for being predominantly affluent and White (particularly west of Rock Creek Park), as opposed to the other three quadrants, which are predominantly black (African-American). In reality, Northwest is the most diverse quadrant of the city.
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Georgetown is fun to drive through, seeing all the (expensive) brownstowns and they have quite a few shopping place, small indoor malls. You can get there via subway or take a cab who will stick with you and ask for a break on the rate.
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It's so crazy that how one half of DC is white and the other half is black - You would think it would be more mixed by now, but you will be walking down the street in a nice neighborhood, and then all of the sudden you are in the ghetto...
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Not saying that whites are rich and blacks all live in the bad neighborhoods...but in DC this seems to be the case, and is probably due in part to the lack of action from the government to help underprivallaged people - in the Nations capitol, nonetheless!