Brentwood, Washington, DC
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Brentwood is a neighborhood in Northeast Washington, DC and is named after the Brentwood Mansion built in the area in 1817 by Robert Brent, the first mayor of Washington City.
It is best known as the site of the Joseph Curseen Jr. and Thomas Morris Jr. Processing and Distribution Center, the postal mail sorting facility through which anthrax-contaminated mail addressed to two members of the U.S. Senate passed in October 2001. Curseen and Morris were postal workers who died after exposure to the anthrax in the incident. The 633,000 ft² facility was closed October 21, 2001, because of anthrax contamination and did not reopen until December 21, 2003.
The area also is the site of a major rapid transit rail maintenance facility of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (WMATA), the principal public transit operator in metropolitan Washington, D.C. and is home to Gallaudet University.
External link
Metrorail's Brentwood Yard (http://transit.schuminweb.com/transit/rail/washington/yards/brentwood-yard.asp)