Has Au/tenley town gotten seedier? Lots of homeless and random people

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the guy who has taken residence at the park across Wisconsin from the Pete's Pizza died overnight from exposure.. at least, that is what I saw on Nextdoor. He'd been living in that park for a couple of years now. A few others of the unhoused on Wisconsin have been there for many years as well. How does DC actually get these people the help and shelter that they so desperately need?

Where did you get the cause of death?

Hazarding a guess, since it was quite cold last night, after a couple days of rain.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

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NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

The last time a normie got beat up (not shot) that I can recall was when that elderly couple got beat up in the parking garage of the old Best Buy for their iPad or iPhone or whatnot in 2011...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

vibrant urbanism

I am harassed and panhandled by very single day in DC. I just pray that the person doesn’t get aggressive but it’s no way to live. It happens all over city but getting out of metro and walking home and being harassed is the worst.

Enough of this, when will we get bike lanes on Connecticut?

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

How many have been threatened with a weapon? Countless.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

The last time a normie got beat up (not shot) that I can recall was when that elderly couple got beat up in the parking garage of the old Best Buy for their iPad or iPhone or whatnot in 2011...

So according to you, everyone that gets violently attacked or muttered in Ward 3 are not “normies” and apparently deserved it or something, including:

- Just someone trying to ride a bus on a Saturday
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/man-stabbed-on-metro-bus-taken-to-hospital-in-critical-condition-police-say

- An elderly couple
https://www.popville.com/2022/02/dc-unprovoked-assault-cathedral-commons/

- Dasha Cleary
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/northwest-days-inn-hotel-shooting-victim-identified-as-20-year-old-dasha-cleary

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

The last time a normie got beat up (not shot) that I can recall was when that elderly couple got beat up in the parking garage of the old Best Buy for their iPad or iPhone or whatnot in 2011...

An elderly couple were beaten severely outside Giant in Cathedral Commons a year or so ago.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

+1. Exponentially more people have been violently victimized by criminals on the Connecticut Ave corridor than cyclists injured by cars. Yet our ANCs have a myopic focus on . . . bike lanes. It’s completely dystopian.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

The last time a normie got beat up (not shot) that I can recall was when that elderly couple got beat up in the parking garage of the old Best Buy for their iPad or iPhone or whatnot in 2011...

An elderly couple got beaten up and hospitalized outside Cathedral Commons this year. In the past few years-- a young man filling up his car got shot and killed at the gas station on CT during Covid (unsolved). An Uber driver was shot and wounded by the firehouse on Wisconsin (unsolved). This fall a man was stabbed on the 30 bus. What is this game? Crime in Ward 3 is up and random people are getting attacked and/or killed.

[Anonymous]

Is this what is meant by making Ward 3 more welcoming, equitable and vibrant?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

+1. Exponentially more people have been violently victimized by criminals on the Connecticut Ave corridor than cyclists injured by cars. Yet our ANCs have a myopic focus on . . . bike lanes. It’s completely dystopian.

these are two completely different problems?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

+1. Exponentially more people have been violently victimized by criminals on the Connecticut Ave corridor than cyclists injured by cars. Yet our ANCs have a myopic focus on . . . bike lanes. It’s completely dystopian.

And they will get the bike lanes and then the bikers will be killed by 12 year olds joy riding in stolen cars and then no one will use the bike lanes.