What elementary school on The Hill?

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Anonymous wrote:Those are great picks and historic Capitol Hill is also a safe bet. What you need to ask yourself is where would you locate if you're priced out of those areas. Not so much a question of how much you have available but you might find it absurd to pay that much for very little space in return. You can get a lot more house for the same amount of money around Miner or Ludlow-Taylor, Tyler, Payne etc. Those schools might not get as much traction but worth your while. And there are a host of charter schools. In short, think twice before you pay exorbitant prices.

I would not consider a house zoned for Payne, Miner, or Tyler. Of course, you might feel differently. I toured the schools and did some digging before coming to this conclusion. I would do that OP. The other schools are great.

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Anonymous wrote:Brent and Maury. Both are very expensive zones to buy, but you can still rent. There is also an area newly rezoned to Maury, which is inexpensive. I would buy there.

Some IB for Mary is in lousy neighborhoods near RFK Stadium. And other parts are within the robbery zones of the Potomac Garden ghetto. I love the Mary boosters. To the OP: If you want to live on the Hill circa 2005 the are correct. But if you want to live here now ignore them all. And by all means please don't tell them that neighborhoods near the soon to be Whole Foods and Union Market are now as or more expensive than lots of Mary neighborhoods.

Ignore this insane poster. Potomac Gardens is nowhere near Maury. Potomac Gardens is inbounds for Tyler.

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No where near is a stretch. It is near. Not right next door to Maury- but the poors can walk/move around a bit.

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If you can afford it, Brent is great. If you want more house for your money with a solid school option and a much more likely seat for PK3, I would suggest Ludlow Taylor or JO Wilson. The nice thing about living on that side of the Hill is that it is closer to the charters (Mundo Verde, Two rivers)if you want to try the lottery as well.

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We purposefully bought IB for ludlow taylor and would have considered jo wilson as well. Priced out of Brent and Maury (also like to be close to metro and some Maury areas are a bit far). Very happy with the choice and the school.

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Anonymous wrote:No where near is a stretch. It is near. Not right next door to Maury- but the poors can walk/move around a bit.

As the crime reports clearly show. Ludlow and JO are also closer to actual amenities. For much of Maury the Stadium Armory is the closest metro. If you'd rather walk to and from that stop at midnight than eastern market or Noma then have at it.

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Anonymous wrote:No where near is a stretch. It is near. Not right next door to Maury- but the poors can walk/move around a bit.

As the crime reports clearly show. Ludlow and JO are also closer to actual amenities. For much of Maury the Stadium Armory is the closest metro. If you'd rather walk to and from that stop at midnight than eastern market or Noma then have at it.

I would rather walk to Stadium Armory than the NoMa stop at night, actually.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No where near is a stretch. It is near. Not right next door to Maury- but the poors can walk/move around a bit.

As the crime reports clearly show. Ludlow and JO are also closer to actual amenities. For much of Maury the Stadium Armory is the closest metro. If you'd rather walk to and from that stop at midnight than eastern market or Noma then have at it.

I would rather walk to Stadium Armory than the NoMa stop at night, actually.

To the OP. This is why asking DCUM for advice is dubious at best. They know what the hill looked like 8 years ago. Look at crime reports and housing comps within 6 blocks of the two metros. Property near noma with 1.5 to 2x near noma. People like the previous poster aren't bad or malicious, just ignorant.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No where near is a stretch. It is near. Not right next door to Maury- but the poors can walk/move around a bit.

As the crime reports clearly show. Ludlow and JO are also closer to actual amenities. For much of Maury the Stadium Armory is the closest metro. If you'd rather walk to and from that stop at midnight than eastern market or Noma then have at it.

I would rather walk to Stadium Armory than the NoMa stop at night, actually.

To the OP. This is why asking DCUM for advice is dubious at best. They know what the hill looked like 8 years ago. Look at crime reports and housing comps within 6 blocks of the two metros. Property near noma with 1.5 to 2x near noma. People like the previous poster aren't bad or malicious, just ignorant.

Whatever. I and thousands of other people have regularly walkes home from Stadium Armory at night somehow without incident. Shocking I know!

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No where near is a stretch. It is near. Not right next door to Maury- but the poors can walk/move around a bit.

As the crime reports clearly show. Ludlow and JO are also closer to actual amenities. For much of Maury the Stadium Armory is the closest metro. If you'd rather walk to and from that stop at midnight than eastern market or Noma then have at it.

I would rather walk to Stadium Armory than the NoMa stop at night, actually.

To the OP. This is why asking DCUM for advice is dubious at best. They know what the hill looked like 8 years ago. Look at crime reports and housing comps within 6 blocks of the two metros. Property near noma with 1.5 to 2x near noma. People like the previous poster aren't bad or malicious, just ignorant.

Whatever. I and thousands of other people have regularly walkes home from Stadium Armory at night somehow without incident. Shocking I know!

Not saying it is a warzone or unsafe. But this is a good illustration for the OP of the time warp in which some on your part of the Hill still live. Conventional wisdom WAS that pushing super far east was better than going north of H street - but that about ended when the NoMa metro opened...about 2004. Within two blocks of the NoMa metro stop: Harris Teeter, Starbucks, Petco, CVS, Hilton Garden Hotel, Courtyard Marriott, Douglas Jamal's new REI flagship and retail (that is across the street from the entrance, BTW), Potbelly, TD Bank, 5 Guys Burgers. Oh yeah, and hundreds upon hundreds of luxury apartments (think: 4 buildings each with 8 or 10 stories with 1 BRs in the mid to high 2000's, 2BR in the 3's). Within 4 blocks is Union Market and another block past that is the movie theater. It is young couple and kid-ville over there. If you go south towards H you have the new Giant, the new Whole Foods (coming soon), and about 10 indie restaurants and coffee shops and bakeries.

I'm not arguing that your neighborhood is bad or unsafe, but to argue with a straight face that RFK is safer or has more amenities is living in a time warp. Even if the crime stats didn't bear this out (and they do) the critical mass of shops and people and amenities near NoMa mean there's more foot traffic, which makes anywhere in a city safer. I'm not making the same argument about Eastern Market; there's lots of stuff over there (although I prefer NoMa). But legit arguments can be made. And I wish we had more parks like Garfield or Lincoln. But you are confusing the fact that RFK is IB for Maury with the neighborhoods that are on the line between Maury and Brent. And the property values in the NoMa part of 20002 are telling the same story.

Then there's the fact that LT is killing it, JO is on the rise (maybe a year or two behind LT) and both feed into SH, which (after Deal) could reasonably be the best MS in DC by the time ECE kids attend.

Your neighborhood is lovely. I'm thrilled you like it. But the rest of the Hill didn't stay the same after you bought your house.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No where near is a stretch. It is near. Not right next door to Maury- but the poors can walk/move around a bit.

As the crime reports clearly show. Ludlow and JO are also closer to actual amenities. For much of Maury the Stadium Armory is the closest metro. If you'd rather walk to and from that stop at midnight than eastern market or Noma then have at it.

I would rather walk to Stadium Armory than the NoMa stop at night, actually.

To the OP. This is why asking DCUM for advice is dubious at best. They know what the hill looked like 8 years ago. Look at crime reports and housing comps within 6 blocks of the two metros. Property near noma with 1.5 to 2x near noma. People like the previous poster aren't bad or malicious, just ignorant.

Whatever. I and thousands of other people have regularly walkes home from Stadium Armory at night somehow without incident. Shocking I know!

Not saying it is a warzone or unsafe. But this is a good illustration for the OP of the time warp in which some on your part of the Hill still live. Conventional wisdom WAS that pushing super far east was better than going north of H street - but that about ended when the NoMa metro opened...about 2004. Within two blocks of the NoMa metro stop: Harris Teeter, Starbucks, Petco, CVS, Hilton Garden Hotel, Courtyard Marriott, Douglas Jamal's new REI flagship and retail (that is across the street from the entrance, BTW), Potbelly, TD Bank, 5 Guys Burgers. Oh yeah, and hundreds upon hundreds of luxury apartments (think: 4 buildings each with 8 or 10 stories with 1 BRs in the mid to high 2000's, 2BR in the 3's). Within 4 blocks is Union Market and another block past that is the movie theater. It is young couple and kid-ville over there. If you go south towards H you have the new Giant, the new Whole Foods (coming soon), and about 10 indie restaurants and coffee shops and bakeries.

I'm not arguing that your neighborhood is bad or unsafe, but to argue with a straight face that RFK is safer or has more amenities is living in a time warp. Even if the crime stats didn't bear this out (and they do) the critical mass of shops and people and amenities near NoMa mean there's more foot traffic, which makes anywhere in a city safer. I'm not making the same argument about Eastern Market; there's lots of stuff over there (although I prefer NoMa). But legit arguments can be made. And I wish we had more parks like Garfield or Lincoln. But you are confusing the fact that RFK is IB for Maury with the neighborhoods that are on the line between Maury and Brent. And the property values in the NoMa part of 20002 are telling the same story.

Then there's the fact that LT is killing it, JO is on the rise (maybe a year or two behind LT) and both feed into SH, which (after Deal) could reasonably be the best MS in DC by the time ECE kids attend.

Your neighborhood is lovely. I'm thrilled you like it. But the rest of the Hill didn't stay the same after you bought your house.

P.S. Average Metro Boardings for 2014:

Stadium Armory: 3022
NY Ave/NoMa: 8412
Eastern Market: 6261

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No where near is a stretch. It is near. Not right next door to Maury- but the poors can walk/move around a bit.

As the crime reports clearly show. Ludlow and JO are also closer to actual amenities. For much of Maury the Stadium Armory is the closest metro. If you'd rather walk to and from that stop at midnight than eastern market or Noma then have at it.

I would rather walk to Stadium Armory than the NoMa stop at night, actually.

To the OP. This is why asking DCUM for advice is dubious at best. They know what the hill looked like 8 years ago. Look at crime reports and housing comps within 6 blocks of the two metros. Property near noma with 1.5 to 2x near noma. People like the previous poster aren't bad or malicious, just ignorant.

Whatever. I and thousands of other people have regularly walkes home from Stadium Armory at night somehow without incident. Shocking I know!

Not saying it is a warzone or unsafe. But this is a good illustration for the OP of the time warp in which some on your part of the Hill still live. Conventional wisdom WAS that pushing super far east was better than going north of H street - but that about ended when the NoMa metro opened...about 2004. Within two blocks of the NoMa metro stop: Harris Teeter, Starbucks, Petco, CVS, Hilton Garden Hotel, Courtyard Marriott, Douglas Jamal's new REI flagship and retail (that is across the street from the entrance, BTW), Potbelly, TD Bank, 5 Guys Burgers. Oh yeah, and hundreds upon hundreds of luxury apartments (think: 4 buildings each with 8 or 10 stories with 1 BRs in the mid to high 2000's, 2BR in the 3's). Within 4 blocks is Union Market and another block past that is the movie theater. It is young couple and kid-ville over there. If you go south towards H you have the new Giant, the new Whole Foods (coming soon), and about 10 indie restaurants and coffee shops and bakeries.

I'm not arguing that your neighborhood is bad or unsafe, but to argue with a straight face that RFK is safer or has more amenities is living in a time warp. Even if the crime stats didn't bear this out (and they do) the critical mass of shops and people and amenities near NoMa mean there's more foot traffic, which makes anywhere in a city safer. I'm not making the same argument about Eastern Market; there's lots of stuff over there (although I prefer NoMa). But legit arguments can be made. And I wish we had more parks like Garfield or Lincoln. But you are confusing the fact that RFK is IB for Maury with the neighborhoods that are on the line between Maury and Brent. And the property values in the NoMa part of 20002 are telling the same story.

Then there's the fact that LT is killing it, JO is on the rise (maybe a year or two behind LT) and both feed into SH, which (after Deal) could reasonably be the best MS in DC by the time ECE kids attend.

Your neighborhood is lovely. I'm thrilled you like it. But the rest of the Hill didn't stay the same after you bought your house.

Nailed it. And I've lived within 2 blocks of both metros. Noma X1000 more convenient

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Maury

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All of these stats are fascinating, but the obvious is that Capitol Hill property is rising in all directions. There are even building projects at Barney Circle now (translated to bridge out of town after McDonalds for everybody who doesn't live in CH), so all parts of CH constitute a solid investment at this point.

The best way to choose: 1, walk the neighborhood and see for yourself; 2, celebrate in the house you get after you win the bidding war.

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OP here, thank you everyone!