K Street (Washington, D.C.)

K Street Northwest and Northeast

The 1500 block of K Street NW in Downtown, Washington, D.C.
Maintained by	DDOT
Length	4.0 mi (6.4 km)[1]
Location	Northwest and Northeast, Washington, D.C.
West end	Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown
Major junctions	I-66 / US 29 / Rock Creek Parkway in West End Pennsylvania / New Hampshire Avenues at Washington Circle Connecticut Avenue at Farragut Square Massachusetts / New York Avenues at Mount Vernon Square
East end	Florida Avenue in Near Northeast
North	L Street
South	I Street
Construction
Commissioned	1791

K Street is a major thoroughfare in the United States capital of Washington, D.C., known as a center for lobbying and the location of numerous advocacy groups, law firms, trade associations, and some think tanks. In political discourse, "K Street" has become a metonym for lobbying in the United States, the same way Wall Street in New York City became a metonym for the financial markets of the United States, since many lobbying firms are or at least traditionally were located on the section in Northwest Washington which passes from Georgetown through a portion of Downtown Washington, D.C.^[2]