Is the area around TRY safe?

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Anonymous wrote:No worse than apple tree Columbia heights, Mundo Verde p street, or lots of other schools with long wait lists.

Folks have had their cars broken into at MV8. Crimes of opportunity will happen anywhere in this city if you don't use good judgement (like leaving your purse in your car during drop off).

What does MV8 have to do with this post? MV P street is in very crime ridden area and the kids have to walk to playground. I’d also add that while MV8 is in a decent neighborhood, Turkey Thicket (where they play) is known to have more crime. Point is I wouldn’t have any more qualms sending kid to TRY than I would MVP.

The point is that crime happens everywhere, even in so-called safe areas like MV . If you use good judgment (and don't do stupid things like leaving your purse in your car), you should be fine. You were so quick to be offended that my post went over your head.

MV P Street is not remotely safe. Look at the crime stats around 1st and P. That was also the epicenter of the tainted K deaths last year. Not sure that's your baseline for safety...

I mentioned MV8 in the post, not MV P.

Right but the post right before you only mentioned MVP. The point that went over your head is not whether people should be smart but a lot of actual violent crime happens (during daylight) at MVP so if people have no qualms about attending MVP, they shouldn’t have any attending TRY.

Crimes stats or not. I feel much safer walking around the area of MVP than where TRY is located. There are no corner liquor stores, tons of people hanging out in front of them and on corners during the day, blocks after blocks of depressed and run down housing, drunk people sitting on the sidewalks or sleeping on the streets, etc.......

OP I’m sure you have driven down by TRY and your hesitation sending your kid there. Hence your post.

There are absolutely liquor stores with drunk people hanging around all day near MVP...Big Ben is 0.2 miles away. The vacant lot at North Capitol and O street has been fenced off since a man was murdered there but people hang around near it (SOME is close by and lots of people with nowhere else to go stay around the area waiting for it to serve meals). The difference between TRY and MVP campuses is not the amount of poverty or violent crime or substance abuse that happens nearby. It's that in Bloomingdale, there are also more rich/white people and the businesses that serve them.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a shooting in Dupont/Logan Circle yesterday. I guess that's not safe either?

There was a shooting yesterday in Ivy City across with axe throwing/curling bard. Broad daylight on an otherwise beautiful Sun afternoon. Welcome to gentrified DC

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you don't even know how many shootings there are in Petworth. Def don't move here.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a shooting in Dupont/Logan Circle yesterday. I guess that's not safe either?

There was a shooting yesterday in Ivy City across with axe throwing/curling bard. Broad daylight on an otherwise beautiful Sun afternoon. Welcome to gentrified DC

Can't even figure out what this is supposed to say?

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I bet it says "across from the axe throwing/curling bar"

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Anonymous wrote:No worse than apple tree Columbia heights, Mundo Verde p street, or lots of other schools with long wait lists.

Folks have had their cars broken into at MV8. Crimes of opportunity will happen anywhere in this city if you don't use good judgement (like leaving your purse in your car during drop off).

What does MV8 have to do with this post? MV P street is in very crime ridden area and the kids have to walk to playground. I’d also add that while MV8 is in a decent neighborhood, Turkey Thicket (where they play) is known to have more crime. Point is I wouldn’t have any more qualms sending kid to TRY than I would MVP.

Was just on DCUM searching for some info on MV8 and saw this post. Just want to set the record straight as someone who lives in the neighborhood: there are a fair number of property-related crimes and shootings in Michigan Park and vicinity. (A Brookland MS student was shot next to Turkey Thicket a few weeks ago.) Carjackings are not unheard of, and police car chases down Michigan Ave. (and sometimes through residential neighborhoods) occur every so often (usually, as we later learn, involving criminals crossing over from PG into DC). MV8 is close to the train tracks in a somewhat secluded area, so crimes of opportunity (eg, theft and burglary) can and certainly do occur. I share this so folks have an eyes-wide-open understanding of the neighborhood. Do similar crimes happen elsewhere? Sure. But I don’t live elsewhere and can’t tell you how crime rates compare. I can only tell you what we deal with here.

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Anonymous wrote:No way. You'll definitely be murdered.

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I'm not trying to be alarmist. I just want to understand the area a little better.

TRY parent here. I wouldn’t consider that neighborhood safe, but we’ve never had issues walking through it in the morning. We love the school, FWIW.

This, and some of the other posts above. The crime statistics aren't terribly relevant when your kid will almost always be on school grounds, supervised, and during during school hours (save for a few evening functions maybe, which will also be on school grounds). And I say this as a parent of two kids whose school was in a neighborhood that most would consider sketchy, as in shootings within blocks on a semi-regular basis. There are lots of neighborhoods that you might not want to live in because it's scary at night or when you're by yourself but are perfectly fine during the hours when you'd be going to and from school with all the other students.

Good luck!

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The campus is disconnected from the rest of the neighborhood. It is an island of schools not really connected to any commercial and residential areas. It is across the street from Langston Golf Course which is lovely. And near the Arboretum (but the gate is not open on that side.). Also across the street from Kingman Island.

If you plan to drive your kid to school you should have no problem at all. There are stretches of Benning that are a bit of a challenge to navigate on foot- near liquor stores etc. The X2 bus is a bus line that is challenging for riders and operators. The streetcar goes nearby- which tends to be a little more comfortable.

I guess people bristle are the “is it safe??” question because it is inherently loaded in our country. It is loaded in the District. I hear it and I wonder- would you dismiss the residents of Langston Terrace because of your stereotypes of them? I wonder- do you look down on people who take the X2 bus? I wonder - do you think you can live in a city that is suffering from painful violence year after year and just separate your family - as if we are not all interconnected?

It makes me wonder if you would let your kid do play dates with classmates who live on the other side of the tracks. I am judging you. I can’t help it.

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Anonymous wrote:I am judging you. I can’t help it.

Lmao, kindly stuff it, PP.

OP, here’s some non-judgy, non-anecdata you may find useful: https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/89bfd2aed9a142249225a638448a5276_29.