parking @ 9:30

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
The Third District also covers some relatively toney neighborhoods.

I did a comparison of zip codes 20009 and 20008 when I was looking at a condo in Columbia Heights. The stats for 20008 (Kalorama, Woodley Park, Cleveland Park, Van Ness) were WAY worse than 20009 (East Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights). Made little sense, actually, because the 20008 numbers were so high!

By the way, I would not walk by myself at night more than a block or two off of U Street (could be a chick thing, and it depends on which blocks, really…). And there's no problem walking to and from the club because it's close to U and there are always a lot of people around when I'm arriving/leaving. While I agree there are no worries going to and leaving a show, it isn't insane for someone to advise against walking the neighborhood at night…

I am not originally from D.C. so I do not know how safe or unsafe it is in here. I just know that I don't want to test it, so I rather stay away from walking during nighttime! That is all, it has nothing to do with neighbourhoods or black and white.

although i didn't get here until 97, i definately wouldn't walk around logan circle, mt. vernon, u street or even parts of capitol hill at night back then. . .having said that, i walked from rfk to eastern market, and back to my house near union station last night. you should be able to walk u street from adams morgan to 930 with little to no problems though.

I've lived in DC for 12 years, in the surrounding MD suburbs my whole life before that and I've worked in the city since 1984. I've been mugged 4 times in my life, twice in the MD suburbs and twice in DC. I was jumped and beaten outside of One Flight Up in Tenleytown in 1984, and robbed at gunpoint by crackheads in Georgetown in 1990, which was the last time I was mugged. Since someone brought race into the discussion, for the record 2 of the attacks were perpetrated by white people, 2 of them were by black people.

I'm with you Alien, I don't walk around in any neighborhood in the city alone late at night, and I don't need Chimbly or anybody else feeling "bad" for me because of it. I don't see the point in taking unnecessary chances and I'd really rather not get mugged ever again in this or any city.
I do whatever I feel I need to do to feel safe at home and on the road, which may or may not be what others feel comfortable with, and you should too.

This neighborhood has changed a lot for the better since we relocated here in 1996, and I think we've certainly had something to do with that. But things can happen in any urban area, in any city, so it's best not to leave anything visible inside your car and don't carry credit cards or other valuables with you that you don't need. And don't load a bunch of stuff into the trunk after parking your car in any urban area, you never know who might be watching.
FYI if you are at the 9:30 Club solo and really don't feel comfortable walking out to your car alone, ask one of the door staph, they will help you out. And as someone has already mentioned, usually everyone is leaving here at once anyway so there's plenty of other people walking to the Metro and the surrounding parking areas.

Originally posted by HomesickAlien:
Well, I am neither from Fredericksburg nor am I a "him". I am a girl and I live near Cleveland Park. To be honest, I wouldn't walk in ANY DC neighbourhood during nighttime. It has nothing to do with racism. One of the guys who told me to not spend too much time outside the 9:30 neighbourhood was black. One time I was walking from a concert to get to my car - almost just across the street and then he was coming and he told me that I must have lost my mind to walk through this area. He said that I really not seem to know what is going on there. So I just transferred his words to you.

uh oh, i am going to the 930 club tonight to see a black performer…..do you think that will raise or lower my chances of being mugged outside?

Originally posted by sonickteam3:
uh oh, i am going to the 930 club tonight to see a black performer…..do you think that will raise or lower my chances of being mugged outside?

You're pretty fly…….for a white guy!

Whatever you do though, do NOT refer to the darkies as "my brotha" or "my *igga", that's strictly their thing.
;)

Originally posted by twangirl:

I'm with you Alien, I don't walk around in any neighborhood in the city alone late at night, and I don't need Chimbly or anybody else feeling "bad" for me because of it. I don't see the point in taking unnecessary chances and I'd really rather not get mugged ever again in this or any city.

I'm just saying it must feel terrible to not feel limited as to where you can go when. It's almost like in the Victorian era when there were "women's spaces" in public but women weren't allowed elsewhere. I would be very frustrated if I limited where I could walk at night. So I don't.