People on the street at 555 Massachusetts Ave. NW

People on the street at 555 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Originally uploaded by rllayman.

This is not staged... I sent this photo as part of an email on the Columbia Heights email list about crime.

The point I was making is that as more developments are finished and come online, there will be more people out and about.

Sure more people make good targets, but at the same time, good uses help crowd out bad uses.

I am continually blown away now by how many people I see walking on the 400-600 blocks of Massachusetts Avenue NW, which not all that long ago, as DC residents remember, was dangerously desolate.

A block and two over was the center of transvestite prostitution in the city... K Street NW below 6th Street. I no longer work at night downtown, so I don't ride down K Street NW at night very much, so I don't really know if this traffic continues, but I imagine, especially as CityVista at 5th and K/L comes online, that these problems will be significantly reduced.