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Location: Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) Coming back from a concert, my boyfriend and I were waiting on the platform of the Gallery Place/Chinatown stop, waiting for the redline towards Glenmont. Because of single tracking, everyone waiting for the redline was on one platform. We were standing right at the corner, or intersection of the escalators […]

Time:  Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) Location: Chinatown Metro Station At 7am one Sunday morning, a friend and I were heading home dressed in our outfits from the night before (mini dresses and stillettos). The Chinatown metro station was fairly deserted. As we began going down the escalators we only saw one man behind us. As we got […]

Location:  5th and Mass Avenue NW, DC Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) I was walking from my house to the Gallery Place Metro Station. I had to stop at the corner of 5th and Mass until the light changed. A teenager (probably between the ages of 16-18) asked me if I had a dollar. I usually dont give out […]

Location: 7th Street, outside Verizon Center Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was walking back to the office from lunch today, enjoying the beautiful, sunny weather. I walked by a group of three men who were talking with one another on the street; as I was walking by, one of them made an inappropriate comment to me about my […]

Location:  Penn Quarter, NW DC Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I yelled at a “smile baby” guy just now. This one couldn’t stop with just telling me to smile, but also told me that I walk “like I am sad.” I told him “I can walk however I want to walk, I don’t need your advice, thanks.” He says […]