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Location: Columbia Heights/Petworth Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) What I wouldn’t give to walk around my neighborhood in peace. But alas, here’s a look at my week: Sunday, Oct 6 walking alone on Spring Rd between 13th & 11th Sts around 8 pm A man on the opposite side of the street walking the opposite direction yells […]

Location: 70 bus stop at Georgia Ave & Park Road (Petworth) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) When i am walking to work every I am sometimes afraid to walk out of my door because what comments I’m going to hear today. Every morning I dread the walk to the georgia ave train station because some guy on streets always has […]

Location: “E” bus from Friendship Heights to Petworth Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) I was rushing to the Friendship Heights bus stop after work around 11:30pm but slowed down once I saw that the driver was still standing outside the bus. As I approached I reached into my bag to pull out my metro card and a slip of […]

Location: Petworth and Logan Circle; on the street and also at my place of work. Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) I was attacked twice within 3 days. On Sunday evening around 7:00 pm I was walking home from the bus stop in my neighborhood when a man started following me. He was yelling at me angrily, telling […]

Location:  New Hampshire Ave & Quincy NW and New Hampshire Ave & Taylor NW (Petworth) Time: Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) This morning, I was walking to the Georgia Ave metro station around 6:30 am. I noticed a man pass me on a bike while I was walking south down New Hampshire Ave. When I got to New […]