Anonymous wrote:There have been drive by shootings at Wilson HS and at the Tenley Circle Metro. I am going to guess you were not in DC during the 80's or 90's. There is a reason DC does not stand for "Delightful City"

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Anonymous wrote:NW has always had issues. Stabbings at Ft. Reno, full on brawls between groups of kids at 42nd St park, drug dealing at Lafayette that once drove the city to install stadium lights and high fences around the hilltop area to stop the dealing from occurring. (They eventually got removed when the residents on Quesada St complained the lights were so bright they could not sleep at night) Cafeteria manager shot during school hours at SJC, multiple people shot during home invasions around Chevy Chase DC, BCC student shot pool hopping in Forest Hills (that made national news since the shooter was a gun control activist). The McDonalds where the shooting happened used to be a Roy Rodgers and the worst you would run into there were drunk high school kids who were partying behind it in Glover Park.

That's right. And its failure to prosecute and clean up the small stuff that led to this escalation in the severity of crimes in NW. Those of you who maintain that Tenlytown has "always" had problems are missing the point. We may have had fighting kids and dope dealing in this neighborhood, but shootings were never a thing here, except in the last year or so. THAT is what is so concerning, along with the fact that our elected leaders really don't care.

Not a bad point. Address it all, even if the guard needs to step in. Start with the roving bike and ATV gangs and every other form of illegal behavior, the message being we are all in it together and same rules for all. Not taxpayers get terrorized

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Anonymous wrote:NW has always had issues. Stabbings at Ft. Reno, full on brawls between groups of kids at 42nd St park, drug dealing at Lafayette that once drove the city to install stadium lights and high fences around the hilltop area to stop the dealing from occurring. (They eventually got removed when the residents on Quesada St complained the lights were so bright they could not sleep at night) Cafeteria manager shot during school hours at SJC, multiple people shot during home invasions around Chevy Chase DC, BCC student shot pool hopping in Forest Hills (that made national news since the shooter was a gun control activist). The McDonalds where the shooting happened used to be a Roy Rodgers and the worst you would run into there were drunk high school kids who were partying behind it in Glover Park.

That's right. And its failure to prosecute and clean up the small stuff that led to this escalation in the severity of crimes in NW. Those of you who maintain that Tenlytown has "always" had problems are missing the point. We may have had fighting kids and dope dealing in this neighborhood, but shootings were never a thing here, except in the last year or so. THAT is what is so concerning, along with the fact that our elected leaders really don't care.

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Anonymous wrote:One strategy that this McDonalds formerly used to discourage lowlifes from loitering too long was to play classical music. It worked beautifully. Maybe they should do that again.

Came across a 7/11 in Orlando that was absolutely blasting opera on the speakers. Funny, but not the kind of thing the neighbors would be happy to hear at 3am.

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Anonymous wrote:That McDonald's should NOT be open 24 hours a day. That is just asking for trouble. Nothing good ever happens at 3:50am. I hope they start closing at 11pm.

Or better yet, it should sell to Starbucks or another coffeehouse.

I heard CVS and a few banks are eyeing the place.

Oh great, just what we need. Banks and CVS add so much character to the neighborhood.

And to PP - why the hell should that McDonalds NOT be open 24 hours a day, or any time they want to be open? Did you ever hear of people leaving or going to late night jobs at, say, Sibley Hospital that might want a cup of coffee or Egg McMuffin on the run? Is your solution to just concede that "we can't have nice things" because someone else is going to ruin it for everyone?

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Anonymous wrote:That McDonald's should NOT be open 24 hours a day. That is just asking for trouble. Nothing good ever happens at 3:50am. I hope they start closing at 11pm.

Or better yet, it should sell to Starbucks or another coffeehouse.

I heard CVS and a few banks are eyeing the place.

There’s a weird, legacy zoning issue there. Which is why it had a covered walkway connecting it to the WUSA building. But I guess zoning issues are not important anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been told in other DCUM threads that this is called being in a "vibrant city" and that you need to be "street smart" and stop complaining

Mayor Bowser’s administration and the Smart Growth interests claim it’s all about “vibrant corridors.” So in the last few weeks, there’s been a shoring and Wisconsin and Van Ness; a stabbing on a Metro bus on the Wisconsin corridor; a murder and a rape in an apartment building near Connecticut; a school shooting on Connecticut, where very fortunately no one died but people were wounded and billets traveled a mile down the Connecticut corridor. What am I leaving out?

Are the mayor's friends/cronies spamming these threads (like the ATV thread, every crime/shooting thread) with this vibrance and street smarts and racism crap? I can't imagine an actual resident who paid money to live in DC and has kids/family to worry about (which is what this website is) actually saying this crap in response to violent crime and dangerous activities

Anonymous wrote:I've been told in other DCUM threads that this is called being in a "vibrant city" and that you need to be "street smart" and stop complaining

Anonymous wrote:NW has always had issues. Stabbings at Ft. Reno, full on brawls between groups of kids at 42nd St park, drug dealing at Lafayette that once drove the city to install stadium lights and high fences around the hilltop area to stop the dealing from occurring. (They eventually got removed when the residents on Quesada St complained the lights were so bright they could not sleep at night) Cafeteria manager shot during school hours at SJC, multiple people shot during home invasions around Chevy Chase DC, BCC student shot pool hopping in Forest Hills (that made national news since the shooter was a gun control activist). The McDonalds where the shooting happened used to be a Roy Rodgers and the worst you would run into there were drunk high school kids who were partying behind it in Glover Park.

Anonymous wrote:Tenleytown always had its moments with the kids hanging out after getting out of the public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:One strategy that this McDonalds formerly used to discourage lowlifes from loitering too long was to play classical music. It worked beautifully. Maybe they should do that again.

Great idea. Worth a try.

But I'd like ike to see the McDonald's replaced with a coffeehouse.