Posted on 06/14/2020 7:06:40 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Just a bunch of dindonuffins.
2400 block of Franklin Avenue NE
That’s just a couple of rifle shot lengths from where we used to live in Hyattsville.
this is shocking: i can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys so i don’t know which gang to root for ...
Glad to see the DC City Council is back in session!
Was this in the capitol, or the capital?
Regards,
That has been a very bad area for a long time.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
Aiming does not seem to be a thing with the shooters.
Somebody should call the cops. Oh wait .....
Your nick made me smile in this context, no offense.
LOL? Don’t go anywhere near there, because the street signs say N.E.? I hope you realize the picture you posted is taken from right behind the Supreme Court building. That’s the Hart Senate Office Building in the background. I guess if you’re afraid of being mugged by RBG you should stay away, but on the upside, you might meet Brett Kavanaugh or Clarence Thomas out for a stroll.
Well, RBG is a tough old bird.
None of these shooters are wearing masks or social distancing
Which is great because they are all identifiable now. I bet they’re even wearing the same outfits they protested in.
Langdon is an interesting neighborhood. I set out a couple of years ago to actually learn my way around far Northeast and close-in PG County. After living on Capitol Hill for 40 years, I started to feel silly having a big blank spot on my mental map just two miles away. And I got back on my bike in a serious way and started looping back to the Hill from the Anacostia River/Eastern Branch, NW Branch Trails, which meant exploring Langdon, Woodridge, Mt. Ranier, Hyattsville, etc. in a way I'd never done before. I've lived in the city long enough to understand microhabitats, and the whole area is full of surprises.
Not very many years ago, I would have regarded most of the area as something to avoid. But it's now gentrifying. I don't have a sense of how far along this may be, but I've had a couple of "knock me over with a feather" observations there in the last couple of years. I wasn't expecting a 20-something white girl to be out walking her dog at eight in the morning in Brentwood just north of the rail yards, nor the many millennials I now see biking through Langdon on their way to work. I'm also meeting a lot of Hyattsville and College Park types on both the Anacostia and Metropolitan Branch trails. Those lost neighborhoods in far N.E., Mt. Ranier and Chillum are coming back to life.
Langdon and Brentwood are recovering. They have to. Capitol Hill is just to the south and is a gentrification miracle. Ivy City and Trinidad are flipping. Langdon is next door, on the other side of the railroad tracks. To the north, Brookland is gentrifying and pushing south. Langdon and Brentwood are the traditionally distressed areas along the rail corridors, which are one of the keys to understanding the urban blight in this area. They have a lot of light industrial development right along the tracks, which is visually unappealing. But there's nothing wrong with the basic housing stock a block or two off the commercial roads, except for the LBJ era housing projects along Rhode Island Avenue.
I don't know how fast things are changing, but it's just a matter of time. I sometimes ask suburbanites if they know where Catholic University and UMD are. Of course, they do. I then ask them to describe what lies between them. I usually get a blank stare (unless that person happened to attend Catholic or UMD). The two universities are only six miles apart, but in between is almost entirely residential, with no big employment centers (other than Providence Hospital), sports venues, or shopping or entertainment destinations to draw outsiders into the area. The area is also highly compartmentalized by the multiple rail lines, while close-in PG County is further complicated by the Anacostia, Eastern Branch, NW Branch, and Sligo Creek.
The railroads and streams turn the whole area into a maze. That makes for a lot of very self-contained neighborhoods that are hidden gems. If I were 40 years younger and starting over again, I couldn't afford Capitol Hill or Brookland at today's prices, but I certainly would take a look at neighborhoods like Langdon or the Hyattsville historic district, or even parts of Mt. Ranier. Once the yuppie to junkie ratio hits the tipping point, they will flip fast. At the moment, this area is Washington's existing reservoir of affordable housing. If the alternative to Langdon or Mt. Ranier is Woodbridge, Haymarket, Urbana or Bowie, Langdon starts to look pretty good. Put your kids in the local Catholic school and get back four to six hours of your day in return. It's already moving fast.
90% of NE is bad bad bad that is an example of the sign.
I know this has to be a fake video. D.C. has the strongest gun control in the nation ans is a safe haven from all crime./sarc/off
I think you are operating on the basis of old information. This isn’t Marion Barry’s DC anymore. Come visit sometime. I’ll put you on a bike and show you the gentrification miracles. You will probably survive, provided you don’t wear your confederate flag vest.
F that. DC is a cesspool.
“ I’ll put you on a bike and show you the gentrification miracles. You will probably survive, provided you don’t wear your confederate flag vest”
There are regular robberies and assaults of bikers and walkers on both the bike paths you mention. Have you been robbed yet?
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