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High-rise Apartment
Downtown, 1234 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest | Washington, D.C.
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  •  24-Hour Front Desk
  •  Building Laundry Room
  •  Cat friendly
  •  Dog friendly
  •  Fitness Center
  •  Granite Countertops
  •  Hardwood Floors
  •  Parking Garage
  •  Private Balconies
  •  Resident Lounge
  •  Stainless Steel Appliances
  •  Swimming Pool  

User Rating

7.6
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10 Reviews

About this Location

Streets Market
1 min walk
National Mall
21 min walk
Lots of bars and
restaurants nearby
Blue/Orange (metro) - 8 min
Red (metro) - 10 min

Pricing 
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Studio, 1 Bath
$1,256+
1 Bedroom, 1 Bath
$1,700+
2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths
$2,072+
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  • Building Related

    •  Elevators
  • Convenience

    •  Business Center
  • Entertainment

    •  Game Room
    •  Resident Lounge
    •  Theater Room
  • Included

    •  Electricity Included
    •  Gas Included
    •  Heat Included
    •  Sewage Included
    •  Trash/Recycling Included
    •  Water Included
  • Kitchen

    •  Dishwasher
    •  Gas Range
    •  Microwave
    •  Refrigerator
    •  Stove & Oven
  • Laundry

    •  Building Laundry Room
  • Lease Terms

    •  Application Fee  
    •  Common Amenity Fee  
  • Living Room

    •  Air Conditioning
    •  Hardwood Floors
    •  Large Windows
    •  Wall-to-Wall Carpets
  • Parking & Transportation

    •  Parking Garage
  • Pet Terms & Amenities

    •  Cat friendly
    •  Dog friendly
    •  Pet deposit for cats  
    •  Pet deposit for dogs  
  • Security & Maintenance

    •  24 Hour Emergency Maintenance
    •  24-Hour Front Desk
  • Sports & Fitness

    •  Fitness Center
    •  Swimming Pool  
  • View

    •  Private Balconies
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Overall rating 7.6/10, based on 10 renter reviews Write a review

9.2
Location
7.1
Amenities
6.7
Management
7.5
Value
6.8
Social
7.0
Safety
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Zen Apollo reviews and highlights

  • most affordable for the amount of space and building amenities
  • rooftop pool is a great perk
  • five minute cab ride anywhere
  • friendly staff is always willing to help out
  • units are being renovated as they're vacated
  • right next to the 14th street restaurants and bars
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Decent place and location. 30 minute walk from campus. Older building so there are occasional maintenance issues, but not too bad. Biggest issue is there can be roaches/water bugs. The apartment accommodates well with regular pest control treatments, but you have to supplement. Depends on neighbors.

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Good student housing

It’s fine; cheap rent for the DC area, spacious studio, utilities being included is a great perk. It’s an old building so the walls are thick (don’t hear the neighbors) and it’s rent controlled. However, I have had roaches since I moved in and nothing management has done has gotten rid of them.

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Nice apartment for law students

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location is the only good thing about it

The location is downtown and perfect 5 minute cab ride anywhere. the pool is good but they put too many couches up there and you have to pay every time to use the grill. common room in basement is totally weird and creepy. front desk people are purely ornamental, front door remains unlocked at all times, anyone could walk in. hasnt been updated with kitchen or bathroom fixtures since i moved in, and those look like theyre out of the 80s. carpets are gross and need to be replaced with hardwood.

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Great Apartment

Most affordable for the amount of space and building amenities! A 10 minute walk from every Metro line, right next to 14th Street restaurants and bars, and excellent building staff that cares about Doing the Right Thing.

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Great place to live!

Love the area and the people are very helpful and friendly. Not so happy with the management as they can be a little unfriendly some times. Beautiful apartments, a lot of social life.i don't have that much to say about it and need

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Love living here, good deal

This is a great place to live. It's not one of the new, sleek-looking apartment buildings; it's older, but I love living here. Room sizes are good, rooftop pool is a great perk. 24 front desk assistant, allows pets, responsive management. Yes it could be newer, but units are being renovated as they're vacated and they're updating the pool area as well. I do wish that the gym was included in the rent, but not a deal breaker.

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Great Apartment

The building is nice and a good price for the neighborhood. Best thing about it is the location.

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Amazing building, location, and services

I love this building. The friendly staff is always willing to help out, and they truly care about your quality of life. Not a very social building, but it is in a great location and offers great value for each apartment.

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The Neighborhood

Signature Spots

dining 32 Recs

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Matchbox
Brasserie Beck
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grocery 2 Recs

Streets Market
Whole Foods Market
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convenience 1 Rec

CVS Pharmacy
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fitness 34 Recs

Balance Gym
Fuse Pilates
B Fit
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parks 3 Recs

Franklin Square Park
Shaw Dog Park
Farragut Square Park
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coffee 12 Recs

La Colombe
La Colombe Coffee
Juice Joint Café
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About Downtown

Downtown DC offers tourists and locals plenty to do between the various restaurants, historical attractions, and boutique shopping. This walkable neighborhood welcomes its visitors to walk between the Smithsonian Museums for daytime activities and Penn's Quarter at night to meet up with friends.
Safe
Lively
Walkable
Easy Commute
Historic Vibe
Prime Location
Noisy At Times
Median rents in Downtown
Studio
$
1,900
1 Bedroom
$
2,450
2 Bedroom
$
3,400

Getting around Downtown


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Downtown Reviews

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Love this area, right near Logan Circle and 14th street which has so much good food and nightlife!
Amazing neighborhood. Close to GW and close to so much good food and nice restaurants.
Sometimes noisy, but the front desk quickly deal with it if you ask
Great, Safe neighborhood with great food and close to campus.
Foggy Bottom/West End are great for 1Ls -- you will get to know the area around school and you will be conveniently within a few blocks of GW. There are a lot of food options, but night life is lacking (though you're a short walk to DuPont and Georgetown). There are plenty of busses and metros around.
Good only in the sense that it is near the school, that you can receive warnings from the school and D.C. (if signing up), that you can be assured of safety generally even if coming in late due to pulling off night studies in the library. However, noise levels are high, so you can hardly study indoors at home because of people wanting to earn money in exchange for their loud and terrible performances. This means that you may ultimately end up outside for work or rest during morning/afternoon. Noise in the evening can be high too due to some people having gone drunk. Noise (some loud trucks and mostly machine sounds) and lights can be too much for sleeping deeply.
It's really only convenient because of how close the law school is. Otherwise, I would not live here. Definitely a business/corporate area that shuts down on the weekends. Not a lot of options for going out to eat unless it's either overpriced or fast food. The only grocery store that's walking distance is Whole Foods, which I personally hate shopping at.
The Aston is the furthest GW housing from the campus, so we had to walk more than any other student to get to class. We are also the furthest away from any Metro station, but still not considerably far when you look at the big picture. There are grocery stores, bars, and restaurants nearby which is a perk, but it is pretty noisy around here. But I guess that's anywhere in Downtown DC. There are always cars honking, ambulance sirens, etc. But the area seems pretty safe.

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