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Location: Metro: Yellow line, between Shaw & Gallery Place Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) I boarded the yellow line to Huntington at Columbia Heights metro station a little after 6pm. I was seated at one end of the car reading a book. A man, 40s to 50s, wearing sun glasses, started walking over to me while the […]

Location: Klingle Road, NW (Adams Morgan; between Adams Mill & Connecticut) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) Was walking with my roommate (both of us are young females) in broad daylight on Sunday afternoon (March 3rd). We were walking to Mt. Pleasant from Cleveland Park on Klingle Road. Just off the sidewalk and in the woods of rock creek park […]

Location: 13th & Kenyon NW (Columbia Heights) Time: Late Night (12am-5am) A female friend and I decided to walk home from Wonderland late Saturday night. It was past last-call but before the bar closed. The street was deserted, save a few cabs and cars that drove by. As we walked down the north side of Kenyon, toward 13th […]

Location: Red & Green Metro lines, starting at Cleveland Park and ending at Columbia Heights Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) Three young guys get on the train at Cleveland Park at the same time as me. I can hear them audibly *take notice of me* to each other when I sat down. I pretend to be engrossed in my phone. […]

Location: Metro Center Time: Late Night (12am-5am) I was sitting alone at the edge of a mostly empty platform at 2 AM, waiting for an orange line train at Metro Center when it happened. I had been at a meeting with friends, which turned into food and eventually a late-night concert. A man walked toward me. I […]