July 2, 2008
Go Home Already: Neighborhood Watch
Photo of neighbors on Georgia Avenue NW by Aziz Y.
- Blogger and local journalist Brian Beutler was shot three times in a mugging while walking towards Adams Morgan early this morning; latest word is that he's now out of surgery and with his family. Brian has many friends on the DCist staff, and we give him our best wishes for a speedy recovery. [Talking Points Memo]
- D.C. will once again be testing the readiness of its mass evacuation plan with the post-fireworks crowd this Friday. [WTOP]
- Check out designs for future development around the Eisenhower Ave Metro station. [DC Metrocentric]
- A blogger takes a ride by Meridian Hill Park and remembers back to 2001. [In Shaw]
- "A VDOT spokesperson says the agency is aware that the number is confusing some callers," and thinks it's hilarious. [WTOP]
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17th and Euclid.
Imagine that.
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I feel awful for the guy. I'm glad he's going to be OK.
I used to live about two blocks from there. It amazes me how many people in DC choose to live in denial about the truly horrific level of violence that exists in the city (witness many of the people on this board.) And this is supposed to be the "nice" part of DC - look at the luxury condos that have been built in the past couple of years RIGHT ON THAT CORNER.
DC is such a shithole. And if America were a civilized country (which we're clearly not), we would have declared martial law in DC decades ago.
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I'm a good liberal and all that, yadda yadda, but 17th and Euclid has been a major problem for years and years. The house described in that City Paper article should be seized by the city (eminent domain? crime emergency?), and this is one spot where I think paramilitary police-types should just bust in and take total control for awhile. Forget guarding federal buildings downtown and hassling innocent air travelers - get some serious firepower to 17th and Euclid. Whoever supports and condones these criminals on that corner should lose their house, and it should be turned into some sort of police substation. End of rant...
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That oft-cited City Paper article is from 2004. It seems that violence associated with 17th & Euclid has gotten worse, if anything, since then. I know there have been at least 3 drive-by shootings there since Feb. 2007.
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So do the closeted gays still have anonymous sex in Malcolm X Park at night, or do they just do the Internet hookup thing? Nothing like walking the dog to find two guys banging eachother behind a tree.
How about the "Black Forest" over where P hits Rock Creek Park? Big post-Fireplace sodomy park there, too.
"Ah, both money and time behave like loose quicksilver in a next of cracks. When they're gone, you wonder where they went. And what the devil you did with them!"
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is the house on the northwest corner of 17th and euclid still owned by that elderly woman? it seems like there has to be some kind of enabler law that can be used to prosecute, as in she's enabling all the crap that happens there to happen because she's sheltering the kids.
i agree with those who think this might be a good use of eminent domain. once a pattern is this established, isn't it in the best interests of the city to do what they need to, by any means necessary?
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"DC is such a shithole."
Yeah yeah yeah, that's the thing to say I guess. DC's got its problems for sure, but if you're just blanketly labelling the city a "shithole" then I can only guess that you don't get out of it all that much. Perhaps you're one of those people who, for some particular reason, are stuck here against your will and are merely counting the days until your sentence is up.
And for the record, since we're gonna get all crazy nuts and start barking on about "martial law", I'd remind you that the vast poverty and sometimes woeful living conditions that plague the city (and leads inevitably to crimes such as the one described here) can be traced in large part to the federal government's intentional disregard of the social problems that plagued the District in the aftermath of the Civil War and focused instead on the construction of a monumental core in the city and ubran infrastructure improvements.
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See, that's the thing. You can't sell good news. If it bleeds, it leads. You never hear stories about the non-s**thole parts of DC.
Like Swampoodle.
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or new swampoodle: the finest parking lot venue for homeless soccer and group tennis that money can buy!
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Monkey, I think you're speaking of "P Street Beach" over at P and 22nd at Rock Creek Park. I do believe it's still a hot spot, despite the park police's efforts to close down that particular venue.
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You're absolutely correct, 14/U.
June 1, 2009. Perhaps a couple of weeks earlier (fingers crossed.)
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Well, we can only hope.
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"Like Swampoodle."
What about Turkey Thicket?
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at least turkey thicket still exists and is recognized by some part of the city bureaucracy.