Where is this community?

VILLAGE RESIDENTS enjoy a prime location, within easy walking distance from the Friendship Heights Metrorail stop and the Metrobus and Maryland's "Ride-On" bus terminals (also served by the Village's free shuttle bus service).There is prestige shopping, restaurants and professional services within the Village and nearby, on

both sides of the Maryland-D.C. line.The entire Village is within easy walking distance to the Metro Red Line, with direct rapid rail service south to downtown D.C., Union Station (Amtrak) and beyond, and north to Bethesda, Rockville and Gaithersburg. The Village shuttle bus also connects with the Metro trains and the other bus services.

1.  Village Center
2.  Hubert Humphrey Friendship Park
3.  Willoughby Park
4.  Police Field Office and
     Rescue Squad Substation
5.  William Tyler Page Park
6.  Highland House (rental)
7.  Highland House West (rental)

  8.  The Willoughby (North) (condo) 
  9.  The Willoughby (South) (condo)
10.  The Carleton (condo)
11.  4620 North Park Avenue (condo)
12.  The Irene (rental)
13.  4615 North Park Avenue (rental)
14.  The Elizabeth (condo)
15.  Marriott Brighton Gardens (assisted living)

The Friendship Heights Village Center and Friendship Park on a pleasant spring day in 1998. After almost 10 years of planning, construction of the Village Center was begun in the spring of 1985, and the building was formally dedicated on April13, 1986. That date has been celebrated since then as Community Day, one of the four seasonal Village-wide annual celebrations sponsored by the Village Council. (The building behind the Center is Brighton Gardens, an assisted living residence. Opened in February 1997, it is the newest residential building in the Village.) The main Village park, rebuilt in 1970, was formally dedicated as "Hubert Humphrey Friendship Park" in 1978. Hubert Humphrey's sister, Frances Humphrey Howard, often visited the Village; Senator Humphrey's grandson lived in the Willoughby while a student at American University.

The Police Field Office was established in 1997 by the Village Council as a community policing initiative. It provides a place for Montgomery County Police Officers to use a computer, work on paperwork and take breaks. This helps the Village maintain a more frequent police presence in the community, an important addition to the Village Security Patrol, which monitors the entire Village and provides parking enforcement as well.
   Village volunteers provide additional support at the Field Office, assisting residents with information on the community policing program and providing other services. Visitors are welcome, but the field office is not a police station with someone always present, so it's best to call first before dropping by (301 654-8177).
   The Field Office is in the rear of the Village-owned house at 4602 N. Park Ave. It is handicapped-accessible.

The Bethesda–Chevy Chase Rescue Squad established a substation in the Village on the second floor of 4602 North Park Avenue in April 2002. The office is staffed during daytime hours and has a fully equipped emergency response vehicle that can quickly answer calls in Friendship Heights and surrounding areas. The vehicle carries a defibrillator and other fast-response needs. Since the facility opened, many emergency calls have come from within the Village. For more information on the substation, go to the Rescue Squad's website, http://www.bccrs.org.

A direct link to the B–CC Rescue Squad's news release that announced the opening of the Friendship Heights substation, and also provides details of the service and the special car used for prompt response is http://www.bccrs.org/news/fhss_open_house.htm.

The Friendship Heights Village Center also has a conveniently located defibrillator, which members of the staff have been trained to use, in case of a cardiac event during Village Center activities.