Crime in NoMA, near where I work

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I’ve in the area and I have never seen or heard the area called NOMA.

It breaks my heart about what Union station has become. I loved going through there to get to the trains, visit the market downstairs, even went to the movie theater there. I especially miss B. Smith’s restaurant. Walking around there used to make me happy.

Not sure if you are trying to insinuate that people are making up the neighborhood "NOMA" but there's a metro station called "NOMA/Galludet" so it's not really just a DCUM thing.

Until September I had been going to the Peace Corps building about once a month by metro and didn't feel unsafe... but some of the recent incidents would have given me pause.

I was being serious. What does NOMA mean? At first I thought it meant northern Massachusetts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I’ve in the area and I have never seen or heard the area called NOMA.

It breaks my heart about what Union station has become. I loved going through there to get to the trains, visit the market downstairs, even went to the movie theater there. I especially miss B. Smith’s restaurant. Walking around there used to make me happy.

Not sure if you are trying to insinuate that people are making up the neighborhood "NOMA" but there's a metro station called "NOMA/Galludet" so it's not really just a DCUM thing.

Until September I had been going to the Peace Corps building about once a month by metro and didn't feel unsafe... but some of the recent incidents would have given me pause.

I was being serious. What does NOMA mean? At first I thought it meant northern Massachusetts.

It's "North of Massachusetts". According to wikipedia the New York Ave-Florida Ave metro was renamed NOMA-Galludet in 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoMa

[Anonymous]

It took a while to catch on, but the name has been in use since 2007: https://nomabid.org/about-noma-bid/

[Anonymous]

Please stay if you are a Democrat voter. You made the bed, sleep in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our office is moving there soon, and lots of employees are nervous about safety issues. Most of us take public transportation and leadership, who drives and has secured parking, is dismissive of our safety concerns.

The people who drive are no safer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s not even possible. Guns are illegal here. Did a police officer commit the fatal crimes?

I know you’re kidding, but a police officer did commit one of the shootings. Unclear whether it was a justified use of deadly force.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I’ve in the area and I have never seen or heard the area called NOMA.

It breaks my heart about what Union station has become. I loved going through there to get to the trains, visit the market downstairs, even went to the movie theater there. I especially miss B. Smith’s restaurant. Walking around there used to make me happy.

Not sure if you are trying to insinuate that people are making up the neighborhood "NOMA" but there's a metro station called "NOMA/Galludet" so it's not really just a DCUM thing.

Until September I had been going to the Peace Corps building about once a month by metro and didn't feel unsafe... but some of the recent incidents would have given me pause.

I was being serious. What does NOMA mean? At first I thought it meant northern Massachusetts.

Why don’t you Google it, OP? If you don’t know something that’s common knowledge, Google is a great way to get up to speed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reproductive choice is more important than your safety, don’t you agree?

Clearly you aren't very well read and don't know what you are talking about -- there is a very viable theory that crime fell significantly in response to legalized abortion.

[Anonymous]

This has me feeling uncomfortable -- DH's office relocated to NOMA recently.

I keep wondering if all of the talk about increased crime is fear-mongering, or if things really are unsafe. I mean, I know stats are stats, and there is a clear increase in certain crimes, but stats reflecting an increase in crime aren't necessarily enough to cause legit worry for the safety of loved ones -- and I'm not sure where we are with all this.

Some friends who have been living in Anacostia for almost 15 years are leaving the area. They have decided it is no place to raise their child (now about 3 I think?) due to the increase in crime and the lack of quality public education (they can't afford private). I think the DW was feeling unsafe, and like I said -- they had lived there a long time without that being a problem, and now it is enough of one that they are moving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Union Station has always been sketchy, like since the 80s.

Wrong. Union Station was renovated in 1988 and it became a shopping and dining destination. I went there for years and never felt unsafe. It’s only been with the rise of the homelessness and lawlessness in the past ten years that it has really declined.

+1

We use to lunch there when I worked nearby in the 00s, and I’ve met friends for dinner at the nice restaurants.

It’s a gorgeous building and sad how far it’s fallen.

+2 Much of DC became unsafe after the riots following MLK's murder in 1968. Then it got better during the early 2000's. Now it's on the decline again due to progressive policies such as extended school closures and being soft on crime. It's so sad to see what's happening to DC.

We finally had enough and moved after our once-safe neighborhood had a spike in crime that isn't going away plus couldn't deal with DC politics and the DCPS decline. It's night and day to be in a neighborhood where it's safe for our kids to bike and walk around. I lived in DC for over 20 years and never thought I'd leave until the insanity that started with the pandemic.

School closures were 4 years ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reproductive choice is more important than your safety, don’t you agree?

Clearly you aren't very well read and don't know what you are talking about -- there is a very viable theory that crime fell significantly in response to legalized abortion.

Freakonomics economist wrote the first paper I think.

https://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I’ve in the area and I have never seen or heard the area called NOMA.

It breaks my heart about what Union station has become. I loved going through there to get to the trains, visit the market downstairs, even went to the movie theater there. I especially miss B. Smith’s restaurant. Walking around there used to make me happy.

Not sure if you are trying to insinuate that people are making up the neighborhood "NOMA" but there's a metro station called "NOMA/Galludet" so it's not really just a DCUM thing.

Until September I had been going to the Peace Corps building about once a month by metro and didn't feel unsafe... but some of the recent incidents would have given me pause.

I was being serious. What does NOMA mean? At first I thought it meant northern Massachusetts.

Its the SoHo-wannabe realtor nickname

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has me feeling uncomfortable -- DH's office relocated to NOMA recently.

I keep wondering if all of the talk about increased crime is fear-mongering, or if things really are unsafe. I mean, I know stats are stats, and there is a clear increase in certain crimes, but stats reflecting an increase in crime aren't necessarily enough to cause legit worry for the safety of loved ones -- and I'm not sure where we are with all this.

Some friends who have been living in Anacostia for almost 15 years are leaving the area. They have decided it is no place to raise their child (now about 3 I think?) due to the increase in crime and the lack of quality public education (they can't afford private). I think the DW was feeling unsafe, and like I said -- they had lived there a long time without that being a problem, and now it is enough of one that they are moving.

What's funny about this is when I was in college and would come visit friends in DC over the summer or whatever, my dad (in a different state) always said - whatever you do, stay out of Anacostia! His limited knowledge of DC was just that Anacostia was dangerous. This was in the early 90s. Ironically when I moved here in the early 2000s I had a job at the Anacostia Naval Annex... I loved to spook my dad by telling him I was going to Anacostia every day.

I guess it gentrified for a while and is now backsliding? Similar to NOMA...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has me feeling uncomfortable -- DH's office relocated to NOMA recently.

I keep wondering if all of the talk about increased crime is fear-mongering, or if things really are unsafe. I mean, I know stats are stats, and there is a clear increase in certain crimes, but stats reflecting an increase in crime aren't necessarily enough to cause legit worry for the safety of loved ones -- and I'm not sure where we are with all this.

Some friends who have been living in Anacostia for almost 15 years are leaving the area. They have decided it is no place to raise their child (now about 3 I think?) due to the increase in crime and the lack of quality public education (they can't afford private). I think the DW was feeling unsafe, and like I said -- they had lived there a long time without that being a problem, and now it is enough of one that they are moving.

What's funny about this is when I was in college and would come visit friends in DC over the summer or whatever, my dad (in a different state) always said - whatever you do, stay out of Anacostia! His limited knowledge of DC was just that Anacostia was dangerous. This was in the early 90s. Ironically when I moved here in the early 2000s I had a job at the Anacostia Naval Annex... I loved to spook my dad by telling him I was going to Anacostia every day.

I guess it gentrified for a while and is now backsliding? Similar to NOMA...

Similar to other DC neighborhoods that are backsliding on gentrification. Columbia Heights and Shaw come to mind.

[Anonymous]

It had a period with the rebranding - and a bunch of Government (Fed and DC) Offices moving over there between 2007 and 2020.
A bunch of 20 somethings worked for me lived over there in there around 2015 - it was new condos and lot's of young people. But they were very aware of their surroundings and shared their safety tips with peers.
All of the 20 somethings I knew who were there moved - and there was no pipeline of recent college grads due to Covid.
Now with the Caps and Wizards leaving DC, I would imagine that the young people are going over to Arliginton for a combination of better experience for the dollar and safety.