Editing K Street (Washington, D.C.) (section)

{{short description|Major thoroughfare in Washington, D.C.; a metonym for the U.S. lobbying industry}}
{{Use American English|date=April 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2019}}
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| name                    = K Street Northwest and Northeast
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| image                   = 1500 block of K Street.JPG
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| image_alt               = The 1500 block of K Street NW in Downtown, Washington, D.C.
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| caption                 = The 1500 block of K Street NW in [[Downtown, Washington, D.C.]]
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| length_ref              = <ref name=length>{{google maps |title=K Street NW and NE |url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/3200+K+St+NW,+Washington,+DC+20007/38.9024949,-76.9896798/@38.9019296,-77.0437573,14z/am=t/data=!4m14!4m13!1m10!1m1!1s0x89b7b64e941921a1:0xdd8cabc5e58a403!2m2!1d-77.0627556!2d38.9025836!3m4!1m2!1d-77.0450766!2d38.9025256!3s0x89b7b7b751575bc7:0xe80da6b06f827a22!1m0!3e0 |access-date=March 9, 2019}}</ref>
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| location                = [[Northwest (Washington, D.C.)|Northwest]] and [[Northeast (Washington, D.C.)|Northeast]], [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
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| direction_a             = West
| terminus_a              = [[Wisconsin Avenue]] in [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown]]
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*{{jct|state=DC|I|66|US|29|road|[[Rock Creek Parkway]]}} in [[West End (Washington, D.C.)|West End]]
*[[Pennsylvania Avenue|Pennsylvania]] / [[New Hampshire Avenue]]s at [[Washington Circle]]
*[[Connecticut Avenue]] at [[Farragut Square]]
*[[Massachusetts Avenue (Washington, D.C.)|Massachusetts]] / [[New York Avenue (Washington, D.C.)|New York Avenue]]s at [[Mount Vernon Square]]
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| direction_b             = East
| terminus_b              = [[Florida Avenue]] in [[Near Northeast]]
| north                   = [[L Street (Washington, D.C.)|L Street]]
| south                   = [[I Street (Washington, D.C.)|I Street]]
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| commissioning_date      = [[L'Enfant Plan|1791]]
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[[File:K Street NW at 19th Street.jpg|alt=Street sign for K Street, with tall office buildings in background|thumb|K Street in [[Washington, D.C.]] has become a [[metonym]] for the American [[lobbying]] industry.]]
'''K Street''' is a major [[thoroughfare]] in the [[United States]] [[Capital (political)|capital]] of [[Washington, D.C.]], known as a center for [[lobbying]] and the location of numerous [[advocacy group]]s, [[law firm]]s, [[trade association]]s, and [[think tank]]s. In political discourse, "K Street" has become a [[metonymy|metonym]] for [[lobbying in the United States]], the same way [[Wall Street]] in New York City became a metonym for the U.S. financial markets, since many lobbying firms are or traditionally were located on the section in Northwest Washington which passes from [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown]] through a portion of [[Downtown (Washington, D.C.)|Downtown Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=kstreet>{{cite news |first=Jeffrey H. |last=Birnbaum |title=The Road to Riches Is Called K Street |date=June 22, 2005 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101632.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=A01 |access-date=June 17, 2008 |archive-date=February 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110216235548/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101632.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Egerod |first=Benjamin C. K. |last2=Hassell |first2=Hans J. G. |last3=McCrain |first3=Josh |last4=Miller |first4=David R. |date=2025 |title=Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lsq.12490 |journal=Legislative Studies Quarterly |language=en |doi=10.1111/lsq.12490 |issn=1939-9162|url-access=subscription }}</ref>