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

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 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.

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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 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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I started high school in 1989, and it was definitely unsafe walking from Gonzaga to that side door of union station. There were definitely mentally unstable people in the union station food court, but we did go to movies at the theater there. Wouldn’t even think of it now.

For a time, the worst aspect of Union Station was teenagers being loud in the movies. But the pandemic turned it into a half-empty shell, and now teenagers are carjacking rideshare drivers dropping off passengers.