I Ventured Into The Worst Parts Of Washington, D.C. This Is What I Saw.
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Washington, D.C. sure has changed!!
For this video, I drove southwest along I95 from Baltimore. My plan was to visit the absolute worst Washington DC hoods I could find. I had done my homework and knew I would be heading to DC’s Ward 8, on the southeast side of the city.
The day was Sunday, February 23, 2020 at about 1 in the afternoon.
Now way back In 1992, Washington DC was the murder capital of America, mostly because of crack. It’s still rough in many areas, but it’s actually getting way cleaner and far safer. That’s the case with many of the other cities I’ve visited - places which took hard turns in the 60s, 70s and 80s are now seeing a bit of a I guess good clean scrub.
Nonetheless, I had to see what was left of DC’s true hoods. So I ventured into Ward 8, also known as Anacostia, pretty much the only real terrible large neighborhood in our nation’s capital anymore.
There were blocks and blocks of housing projects here, but overall, as you’ll see, it wasn’t terrible. I never felt unsafe here. It was like a scrubbed down version of the ghetto hood that used to exist. Just block after block of cleaned up public housing, like someone had taken a firehose to the whole Ward and washed away all of the grime and the grit.
This part of town and MUCH of the southeastern and northeastern part of DC were absolutely the worst place you could live 20 years ago. But now, this whole city, including large parts across the river, are undergoing the most intense gentrification project in the nation.
They’re renovating large parts of this city, tearing down old ugly buildings. This has meant more homeless people for one. And many of the poorest people who once lived here have been pushed further out into the suburbs - into areas like Baltimore and to Prince George County just across the border in Maryland - an area with the nickname Ward 9.
So, we’ll let this run for about 15 minutes or so so you can see what is left of our nation’s historical true ghetto hoods.
And as we leave the DC area, off in the distance is the US Capitol dome, which we saw earlier from the hillsides across the river. But before we left the area, we wanted to check out other former ghetto hoods in the DC area.
This surprised us - this is the Capitol Hill neighborhood. It was once a horrible place for crime and blight. Look at IT now. And, we also saw the H street corridor in northeast DC. This place was also very blighted and dangerous not too long ago. But look at IT now.
So, we had come to see the dangerous hoods of DC, and instead, got a front row seat to a quickly changing urban revival project, as grimy neighborhoods of old are being resurrected into newer, modern safer and wealthier neighborhoods of the future. In terms of cleaning up its shitty areas, this city is FAR ahead of its neighbor to the north. Baltimore’s ghettos are still on another level. It may be another two decades before Baltimore makes its comeback.
As, Washington DC continues to lower crime and clean up its own neighborhoods, it must now battle with its next big challenge - homelessness.
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For the people in the comments that are not from DC, Those are not the worst looking hoods in DC and just two of them have high crime which is the only two neighborhoods he showed you in this video which are, 16th and Good Hope road, & Buena Vista terrace, DC, Has many more hoods and housing projects with high crime not just Anacostia 🙄
Exactly he did a circle. I’m off of Morris Road near Fort Stanton why didn’t he come up there. I have a lovely home. These people I swear. You see he went straight by Howard and Pomeroy Road.
Those are some of the worst hoods
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Last name First and last Where is Benning Road? And true....you have to turn off the main streets.
@@angelapayton1009 u cute
This is my neighborhood. Lived here for 13+ years. Never been harassed, robbed or anything. I have lived in NE, NW, SE, and SW DC. NW was the worst as far as action. I don't consider this the ghetto or hood. It's the people and their struggles that make a community. I wish I would've seen you filming this mess. Get out your car next time and talk to the people. I don't understand your purpose!!!
TrikkiNikki Treasures Exactly. What’s his effing point?
Nikki you are right I dont understand his purpose maybe he should do a recording of his neighborhood
TrikkiNikki. I to lived in SW NE and SE. I grew up in this SE neighborhood in the 70s/80s and know it like the back of my hand. I was just there today because my mother still lives there. This video is some B'S. For example, when he drove down the one-way street on 17th to make a right on T and then S st. That neighborhood on S and T st has never been grimy.... He kept cutting clips because he kept running into nice homes that didn't fit his agenda. He talking like these neighborhoods used to be rundown like Baltimore. We all know that DC has never been abandoned and run down like Baltimore.
He doesn't have a purpose!!!
I definitely agree. What was the point of this video? It would have more substance if he would have actually tried to talk to some of the residents and learn about the history of these neighborhoods.
You gotta be from the city to know...but this video is incorrect
Yep. This guy is a clown.
facts
@@raynettescoggins702 I know! And he always sounds on the verge of laughter like a frat boy pulling a prank. I just don't take him seriously. It's like bad comedy, except some people are going to believe it without exploring for themselves. It's always a barrage of wikistats tossed around like confetti and then video of young black men on the corner as though it means they're up to no good. Same thing.
FACTS. Anacostia and Columbia heights are more dangerous
Oh yeah...
He's a class act joke
I was born and raised in DC and trust me, you barely even scratched the surface when it comes to this subject haha.
On God
I agree because there are other areas of the city that are bad other than Southeast.
Yeah he didn't even make it up to 14th Street and Trinidad area. 😆
I heard Barry farms the place too go 🤩
And his ass is driving at 1 o’clock in the after noon‼️Please. How he gonna tell us about our city
Guy drives down from BALTIMORE to see a “ghetto hood” ??? I’ve lived in NE for 30 years and it’s a beautiful place with wonderful neighbors.
Right. He does not know what he's talking about.
Same here.
Ghetto hood? LMFAO. He coulda just stayed home or driven to Landover. At least there's safer parking
Any white dude that can say he's lived in DC for over 30 years, is IMO
a badass muhfuka. Only because 30 years ago, it was far more dangerous than now. The fact that he's alive is a miracle unto itself! RESPECT!
Lol exactly. If anything is a “ghetto hood” it’s BALTIMORE smh that place is the pits. DC is absolutely beautiful
The title don’t reflect this video. You drove through the more affluent parts of SE. (row homes, and houses). You really wanna see “Ghetto” SE, pull up during nightfall hours in back parking lots and alleys. I also don’t approve your appropriation of my city.
Hell yeah bruh ! Get up on W Street and 16th. My last apartment in SE
Lol he went around 1 pm in a Sunday lol try Friday and Saturday 8pm to the next morning
Definitely not the affluent part of SE!
Man who care about yo city DC ain’t shit anyways
You didn’t go to any of the “worse” neighborhoods. Dc native here try going around night too lol
Aaliyah Smith #facts or on a hot summer August day
Does d.c. have any bad neighborhoods left?I haven't seen any since the 90's
@@ruger845 congress park is still bad i believe
That's what I said too 😎
It's not so bad if you keep to yourself n mind your own business...but true, you could still get got (wrong place, wrong time)
Actually those apartments were not projects in the beginning of your video. And this is coming from a resident of Ward 8. Of course you would go to all the poverty stricken areas. The next time you come to DC I will personally take off of my Government job to assist you💯🤦🏽♀️
Tell this creep
THE NERVE OF THAT MAN ! AND I APPLAUD THIS RESPONSE ....LOVE FROM SE @ M STREET !
Nicole Ackerman-Stuckey you know I had to because I’m so tired of people that don’t know anything about my community but yet have so much to say. Obviously he do NOT know what projects are💯🤦🏽♀️😂
simone jennings somebody had to because Clearly some of the people that commented under this post know nothing about our community but yet have a lot to say. I was born in Ward 8 I live in Ward 8 and I work in Ward 8. Periodttt ❤️❤️❤️
Levi Brennan Cleary you need to look at what you wrote to me and look what I stated responding to this video. No I’m not deaf however I do co teach an America Sign Language class. As I stated before those buildings were not projects they are apartments. Have a great day.
These neighborhoods aren't even bad anymore. Gentrification scrubbed most of the bad elements out of the city. You can be out later without being accosted. 20 years ago this wasn't the case. I still love my city.
Good Hope road is still bad I live around there they're always shootings going up and down 16st might not be as bad as it used to be but there's still a lot of shooting going on
And wasnt crazy and makes you wonder, is that the fu** police station not far and the police drive heavily through those areas.
You would wait til SE DC is gentrified to wanna take your scared ass around us! All those years yah was scared to bring yah ass to Southeast, now yah colonizing so u not scared no more...smh
Last name First and last I see it in the local news fairly often, what’s the deal with the shootings, rival gangs, drug deals gone bad? I always wonder what the reasons are for a guy to just go off a guy seemingly for no reason.
chris parker 30 years ago DC had almost 500 homicides A year
I dislike how you refuse to address gentrification as well as the root problem for the cause of Ghettos.
Ray Fisher I thought it was just me who felt that way! Tell the whole story!
Gentrification is the best thing that could have happened to dc. I remember rhode island ave used to be crime ridden. Now look at it amazing!!
This video seems to be taken in the winter because of no leaves on most of the trees.
Take a video of those parts of DC in the summer, and you will see something almost totally different.
Y’all are dumb the ghetto is bad due to US and the system not just gentrification. We can always change the way our hoods look by taking them back but that’s too simple
Gentrification of course, not prostitution and drug dealing
I’m from DC and this totally isn’t true
Exactly. That's what I'm talking about. Who is this guy?
CORRECT. He is probably scared to drive in the ghetto 😂
Georgetown is fine cause I looked at it on street view in google earth and I can confirm it looks good. However there’s a video he made on the worst city in North Carolina, Kinston. And let me just say I live there, and watch his video on it. Literally if you see a place like Kinston where there’s paint peeling off of buildings, abandoned places or completely un maintained houses like what we saw here, that’s screaming out ghetto. He even showed some sketchy looking people by a store at 7:45, if you look their pants are pulled all down and shit. That just means hood. People like raise all their children born out of wedlock and then they follow their example. This place is just like Kinston. Just depends on where you go in DC. And especially the East side of Kinston. You literally cannot drive there without people throwing bricks through your window. I’m dead serious that happened to someone once. This place looks just like East Kinston. Go to George Town though and that’s a different story.
Where is Woodland, Wellington park, shipley Terrace, 3/4/6 Street, Washington Highland, Congress park, Parkland,To name a few and all are in Ward 8, You showed only two neighborhoods and the most gentrified ones
Washington DC He did the same for Baltimore, and he came on a Sunday
Kierra McClellan I haven’t seen that video, But this particular video said Anacostia ward 8 Worst neighborhoods, He only showed two neighborhoods and only one has high crime and that’s Good Hope Road, Which is where I’m from The last few years Washington highland, has been the worst neighborhood in Southeast and he didn’t show any of that The two neighborhoods he showed which is my neighborhood and 30th have high crime but it’s not the worst
Exactly 😊 I was born a raised in dc and I must say his video missed a lot. Currently, I reside in Shipley Terrace. It was a nice try for him.
What do y'all expect he's not from here, this is not for use this is for his friends , he thinks he's some kinda of explorer. I guess this is some type of adventure for him 😂😂😂
Washington DC He forgot barry farms and simple city
You only drove through 2 neighborhoods, In Ward 8, This video should be called the gentrification parts of DC because this is definitely not the worst looking or worse parts of DCs, Ward 8 A side from Good Hope road,
Is Hill Crest Heights in Ward 8 or 9. I lived there in 1960?
Mary Lee there is no ward 9
Mary Lee that’s Maryland
Totally agree with you! I grew up east of the river and wouldn't trade that experience of living in a "scrubbed down" neighborhood for anything...lol
So, are you going the wrong way on a one way street? Looked like it!
Lol... Karen was driving. 😂
@@sunilscorpy4594 ::: Oh, damn...that was funny!
@@carmenmonoxide7459 😂
i thought i was the only one that peeped 5:20
He Sho The Hell Was 🤣🤣🤣
Simple Simon😂😂😂
I'm DC born and raised. To the person that made this video: Our city wasn't always like this. Who brought the drugs and guns into our communities causing its fall. God sees all things. Those who caused the fall of this great city and its people are going to be held accountable and have hell to pay. So very sad. Cover the whole story and the agenda of the powers that be that are responsible for the depravity.
That’s good and all BUTTTTTT.... that’s not the point of this video
@YoMama tf???
He probably knows what's really up but won't say it. He definitely knows what he's pushing and representing. He has an agenda and he's talking to a specific audience. I don't like these types of videos but he and his videos are the worst of all.
I work in Anacostia helping single parents with finding work. Before moving to the DMV I lived in Flatbush Brooklyn and worked in East New York and Brownsville Brooklyn all over the Bronx, Queens, Newark, New Jersey. Never gotten robbed or jumped in any of these places. My biggest complaint about Anacostia is its a food desert. The City needs to bring healthy food to the area so that people don't eat junk food. I don't drive so walked everywhere.
Cool insight thanks Alexander!
From what I see and I've lived in dc all my life
You drove thru no projects. You really need to get you facts straight. Those are residential neighborhoods.
Am I the only one who noticed that he drove down a one way street off of Good Hope Road? LOL Another thing is, that wasn't the worst neighborhood.
No and no
As a Washingtonian I must say it's a whole lot better than when I was growing up here...a whole lot.
I hear it was a nice place to live up until the 60s.
It’s really not that bad
@@leswhite3846 I lived there in the 70s, 80s and some 90s (school). I love and enjoyed my city.
@@leswhite3846 it was a sh*thole in the 50s and 60s
@@paleo704 By the 1950 Census, the city had reached its peak population of over 800,000. But 1950 also marked the beginning of a white exodus. In only two decades, the white population fell by over 300,000 and D.C. became majority African American in the late 1950s.
Makes sense.
I grew up in the district and have lived both in DC (NE, NW, SE) and Baltimore (Downtown and North Ave) and there just is no comparison. DC was very hood when I was a kid and a few areas still have the type of problems that are prevalent in socioeconomically disadvantaged and disenfranchised communities. Baltimore, on the other hand, reminds me of what DC looked like in the 80s and 90s. Boarded up houses and blight everywhere. Starting in the 00s a wave of renovation and gentrification swept through DC and most vacant properties were rehabilitated. Whether this has been equitable for all residents is a different matter altogether.
Me to
I'm a native of the area, lived in DC and thought Ward 8 was SUPER rough. Then I moved to Baltimore for a few years - living in several different neighborhoods like Hollins Market, Barclay, and McElderry Park. Now I'm back in DC and the hoods here don't even feel like hoods anymore. In Baltimore I experienced shootings all the time, I was woken up regularly from incredibly loud gunfire immediately outside of my home. DC feels SUPER sanitized compared to Baltimore. But if you haven't experienced those degrees of violent cities DC might feel more scary to you.
I was born and raised in ward 8 from 79 to 96. Going into the late 90’s and early 2000’s the government started buying a lot black folks out, paying them six figures to sale their homes. New developers started tearing down old housing projects and replaced them with town homes and condominiums. Places like East Gate, Author Capper dwellings, Stanton Dwellings, Barry Farms, Lincoln Heights just to name a few, were all demolished. Trust and believe the DC you see now is a playground compared to the 80’s and 90’s!
You've missed out on a lot of Ward 8 neighborhoods
I've owned my home in Ward 8 sin e I was 27 I'm now 47.I didn't grow up here but I chose to live here.I have a daughter who graduates from college this year.My boys are doing great in school.If you listen to this dude talk you sound ridiculous.There are good people over here who work hard daily.I guess the Ward is no good until enough white people move in and scrub it down uh? Half the buildings he called projects aren't. This definitely could never be listed as one of the worst neighborhoods in the country.I will say that ward 8 is like that forgotten child where we get the scraps of the city.So we have to take of our own pull together and let the rest of the city and our Mayor that we can and will rise above anything. So when offering facts to the world don't straddle the fence be factual and honest.As you say when reporting the Ghetto hoods think of the great people who call it home.
Well said. I was born and raised in Ward 8 and wouldn't change a thing. Thank you.
He don't know what he's talking about.
PREACH
Just ncase u wanna kno, i can surely direct u in D.C. where to go where there are white folk not living so good. And messing up their areas also... I kno what u tryna do . aint foolin nobody
Right! And everyone in Southeast are not poor. I grew up in southeast in a really nice home. My grandparents on both sides were business owners and both of my parents had good careers. I went to catholic school and lived a pretty good life growing up. Southeast is just the area that most people of color lived. Everyone wasn’t poor and ghetto. 🙄
AND what sucks is this is exactly what everyone around the world sees, so when u show an inaccurate description the misinformation influences the peiepl who eventually visit here, live here, and spend their money here.
Actually it's where u at and what u doin while u out there..I'm in the field and play ball outside if u get my drift so I can say it is dangerous
1:58 that intro was epic!
True Ghetto Hoods *Whiteboy Voice*
With the 70s Sitcom Title Font
This is Gold 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Im in md and lived in dc during the crack era. Bums and druggies littered my old neighborhood. Now I went back to 14st and Rst and it amazing what they did to it. Kudos for cleaning up the city DC
I lived in SE until going to school. My question is, how are they able to clean up now since the European Americans want to move in and not do it when the long term residents have been there? I guess I'm saying if they can do it now they could have done it then. Sad.
This was not the worst neighborhoods in DC.
I love our District, culture, history, diversity, and Gogo music!
Yes
What culture ? Ratchetness ? Ghetto classless loud black women that are baby mamas and unemployed black dudes posted up on the block ? …are you referring to that culture lol ?
Bruh take this video down, NOBODY should use this video as a reference for DC this man calling our neighborhoods ghetto but took a simple drive and saw everyday people…. Pointless video
You didnt drive thru not 1 hood, you drove on the main streets. Laughable
Warmest winter in memory in DC, been here since 1968. Sadly, the death by gunfire rate is very high this past 6 months. Even a small girl of 11 years old was murdered. Much has been in Northeast and is gang related. Anacostia is still the poorest area but things are better than the 1990’s. Even new townhouses are being built in Kenilworth and Petworth, brand new. Many Charter high schools with uniforms and stronger discipline. Most of the young people I run into are not in any manner looking to live fast, violent and die young. They are usually really hoping for a better life, there is somewhat less a feeling of hopelessness I think. It is still a tough life, but adults are sick of the gun violence and trying to take a stand, save their youth.
AMEN🙏🙏🙏
DC murder rate is not getting better, it is on its way to a 15 year high, and the neighborhoods in the hood are the same as they were back then. You can't google the worst places to go and say "wow look, I don't feel like i'm in danger, now its all better", because it has been struggle for people that live here. 16 & Good Hope is a hot spot though to this day (part of the video), there are dozens of other areas that are the same. Gentrification slowed down, new buildings and new paint doesn't erase the mentality that people in the hood have, I don't think a person has ever been killed in DC because the building looked dangerous.. it's the people that harm other people, not the architecture or "appearance". They have public housing neighborhoods in DC now that look like town house communities in the suburbs, however the residents are still poor, the people "appear" to have nice things because it has been rebuilt, but if you dig deep you will see that there is no money, there are old street lessons being taught to the youth, there is temptation, there are guns on the street and there is most definitely a drug market that is tempting for youth to dive into in order to gain the things that they were never able to afford. That is why the city is going back slowly to what it was, not enough effort is put into the psychology behind what makes an area bad or "dangerous".
@1:01 those are not housing projects... Those are apartments and condos.
DC residents in the comments are pissed and I love it 😂
Same! It's comical
No funny stuff tho. You dont feel a little weird about the nature of the video like when he sldrove back past the same guys that were out there twice swinging that camera all in the faces and just hiw he spoke it was such a mockery to begin with
Anyone remember the days of rayful edmonds? Baltimore makes DC look affluent by comparison these days. Dc not that bad!
It depends on which part of Dc and for Dc to be so small we have high crime mostly in S.E. and half of Ne, Some parts of Uptown
What! I am a native Washingtonian who grew up primarily SE then NW years later. It's not about WHAT neighborhood you are from but how you are raised and the decisions you make. No, I have never lived in the "projects" or government housing but my parents had rules and held me accountable to them. From Fairlawn to Hillcrest to LeDroit Park, I have been blessed! WMATA B2, B4, 70, G2 and the Red Line! For many decades, East of the River has deliberately been forgotten, neglected, labeled...shall I continue! You haven't seen a hood area. Try visiting, parts of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. Economic disparities, predatory practices and so forth. The origins of hoods and ghettos are the government which are perpetuated by political Monopoly actions.
You don’t know sh** about DC.....❤️🖤💚
WORST NEIGHBORHOOD: 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. 🎤
LOL
Go to southeast after dark. Shootings still happen all over dc NW included
Thats what I said...
This Nick fellow has no idea
I hate gentrification
EXACTLY
Then don't move any major US city with a extremely high cost of living(like DC, NYC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, LA, San Diego and Honolulu).
@@albertsancho5909 GENTRIFICATION IS ALL OVER
I grew up around silver spring and laurel Maryland and house rent used to be 1.k in 2012 and and by 2019 was up to 1,8k so we moved to a townhouse
Albert Sancho I was born in DC I didn’t move there so...
I was born and live in DC and I'm glad it's pretty safe in my time.
*surprised you didnt catch the police doing suspicious shit* 💯
That's because majority of the time..they simply aren't doing anything suspicious. That's criminals you're referring to.
I’m usually a fan of your videos so this one made me a bit disappointed. You are correct that Anacostia has cleaned up. Which is why it is not the most dangerous neighborhood in DC. Washington Highlands is widely considered to be the neighborhood with the most crime in DC. There are numerous neighborhoods deep in southeast beyond Anacostia that are like this
Okay sorry to disappoint Megha :)
This was a bust. Pause moving on. If you're from DC or drew up there. This video should make you want to take your city back. Dc had southern hospitality, family environment with its own culture divided by 4. Not to it was perfect. Nothing is. But way better from what I was told and the part I experienced. We know the truth about what changed it. Smh.
Looks much better than the 90's.
He wasn’t driving through the real hood of. DC 😂😂
Washington DC is like the top 10 most expensive US city and top 25 in the world. Washington DC is going serious gentrication basically pushing the poor African Americans into Prince George Maryland. Some of them move to Baltimore and Philadelphia and bringing the crime in those 2 cities. I have family members living in Maryland are complaining about the cost of living in DC. Most of the good paying jobs in DC are with the federal government cabinet with a $200k annual salary. There's a lot of young professionals that are recent college graduates living in the district that work with the government there. They are already demolishing low income housing in east DC. Then replacing them with upscale apartments and townhouses that you see in the Virginia suburbs.
I'm so glad my mom moved us from DC... To washington state. So much freedoms here as a child. Beautiful beaches and huge green trees. Wonderful forests. DC nothing but sidewalks.
So being a native Washingtonian and raised majority of my life in the South East area and in other parts of the city, every part of DC had its terrible neighborhoods. So I see this video as a complete guide of the bias tourist (while not even covering a fraction of ward 8). For one thing gentrification has been a blessing and a curse at the same time. I love how much has been put into the city, a new and evolving culture, diversity and the beautification of DC, but it has had a lot of its culture killed and a lot of her citizens displaced from those that have been working hard trying to keep the homes that have been in their families for generations to those that contributed to the negative stereotypes(They will not be missed). Second Southeast has some of the best views of the city where you can look out and not only see majority of the city but out into Virginia and the surrounding mountains or the rivers the make up our water ways. Third instead of just driving through and judging get out walk around I bet you would find that the majority of the people would not bother you and would actually surprise you in how they would interact and treat you.
eton you're right.
I’m born and raised in DC everything you showed clean af
Last year I visited DC and I was amazed how clean and pretty the city was wherever I got. It looked great or at least just OK everywhere, the city seemed ALMOST boring especially after sunset but don't get me wrong I loved and enjoyed my time there very very much. Many neighborhoods of OAKLAND, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Chicago, Milwaukee etc. looked much more dangerous to me.
Public transport in and around DC was pretty good, too. And I'm looking forward to seeing your capital city again.
Greetings from Hungary
Cool!
I can only speak for Chicago but most of the "bad" parts are getting worse and if Covid comes back the crime there will skyrocket. I saw my old neighborhood on Google Earth and it was still nice. Fortunately the better parts of Chicago haven't been ruined yet
I remember 70's, 80's and early to late 90's D.C.was no joke. Commentors are right about how tame these neighborhoods can seem, Sunday morning in winter. True there are still some warzones in D.C. despite gentrification. * One thing I noticed in comments on this video compared to some of his other "hood" vids is that D.C. residents don't like people disrespecting their "hoods" and are gonna let you know it too!
Don't get me wrong I love your videos, I've been watching them for a while... But this is the second time I've seen you go down a one way street! (On Good Hope & 17th ) You want to stay safe one way, but not the other!? What's up with that?
It was truly the first time it was an accident. But no one was around 🤪 hows it goin Clarence??
@@NickJohnson It's go'in alright so far... Just couldn't resist messing with you, since I noticed it! LOL! You have a wonderful day Nick! Thanks for sharing and replying!
Do you go to poor white "hoods," and report their crimes and apathy? Do you know that black people struggle to keep their neighborhoods clean, and drug free like whites do, but we don't get federal support? In fact no one wants to really truly assist, they just want to get rich from the poor's vulnerability.
@@lindaparker7040 👍🏾
@@lindaparker7040 FOH!! All I hear from you are EXCUSES you do NOT need federal resources to STOP throwing your damn trash on the street! And how about making sure you can AFFORD a house before joining Section 8 then realizing the gubbment won't pay for house upkeep and things like taking care of your lawn and exterior. Try that instead of feeling sorry for yourself.
First of all, all of ward 8 is not anacostia. And if it’s so bad why’re ppl who’re supposed to be affluent trying to and moving in so deep? All the beautiful brick homes being painted grey all of a sudden, must not be that bad huh
My husband and I are from there, do it at night 😂
lol
Suzanne Hankins Lol He should try a Spring or summer night that will be funny I am from DC as well
Dude be screaming for his momma if he went at night. Back in the day, white people in the hood at night meant one of two things. Either they looking to score drugs, or they were PoPo
I was a maintenance man for an apartment complex, technically in Suitland but right on DC line of district heights! I being white, needless say was not very predominant, but I was well respected, but I also was respectful to the people, as people, which in return I was respected! This was also where I was working when my daughter was conceived! I then moved out of Baltimore to raise my child in a completely different environment! She is now,29,no drugs, very little alcohol and well adjusted human being,and didn't struggle with the demanding culture that I did! Jesus is my lord and savior!
I live in DC. Drive through ward 8 at night. You’ll have a totally different perspective. DC has a lot of bad hoods.
That bit where you point out the dome has got to be one of the coolest things I've seen on youtube.
You went down a oneway street. LOL
Try going at night time during the summer. And Anacostia isn’t even the worst part of DC any more. You did go through a couple pretty rough spots though. A few of those places you really wouldn’t wanna be walking around by yourself at night. And yea it does look clean cuz DC has street sweepers lol
I have got to say it's not as bad as it was in 1981. My husband and I were there for a UAW protest. The subway broke and we had to walk behind the WH for a couple of miles. Could not believe what a trash whole it was. It looked like a third world country.
Thats some bullahit the back of the white house borders the national mall, and the Washington monument. No trash or hoods there just liars trying to sensationalize their trip.
@@WarriorsCherub999 its true, my dad and I went through that slum area in the late 80's from here in Canada. It was decrepit.
@jdsbeau1 as i said before "BULLSHT" the back of the white house is across the street from the elipse (washington monument grounds). To the west is the federal reserve bank & the world bank. To the east is the dept of Commerce, the Treasurey, and the Willard hotel. To the north is K street, and all the million dollar law firms in DC. There are no hoods, or trashy placed around the white house. You white people love the lie. Smh
I think you are making that up. The WH is surrounded by Pennsylvania Ave in front and Constitution Avenue in back, parks, monuments, museums, restaurants and many other government buildings, I know because I lived and worked in DC only blocks from the WH for several decades. I have no idea what area you were in, but it definitely was not close to the WH. Are you sure you were not in Baltimore??
If that's one of the worst parts D.C., I'm all in... clean streets, nice cars parked in front, etc. I'm from Huntington Beach, Ca (Orange County). I'd invest in an apartment/condo for East Coast visits there. "Just Sayin"
Don't make the mistake of driving through there at night time
that’s a part of D.C. you don’t see every day
You really think the neighborhoods he is showing is the ghetto. 😂😂 sorry to say but those neighborhoods aren’t dangerous.
At 0:55, he is driving on Naylor Rd. SE that turns into Alabama Ave. SE. I grew up on 16th St. SE, where he turns at 2:56. It was indeed rough. When I would walk up the hill to Green St SE, shit was very skeptical. I used to go to that corner store on the right when it was still called Paramount Market and get on the U2 MetroBus right there to the left at 3:41 o to go to my high school on Minnesota Avenue NE. The crime isn't as bad as it was when I was young, and they cleaned the city up. Eventually, I moved to PG County in Oxon Hill, MD or "Ward 9" or "Baby Southeast" after the service, then moved to Baltimore County. I don't plan on moving back to DC. Coastal Carolina is looking really good right now lmao
He has no clue.
DC Suburbs: *Baby SpongeBob and Patrick*
DC City: *Badass biker SpongeBob and Patrick with guns*
I was living on Bolling AFB as a teenager in the mid 80's and went to middle school in Southeast... I was one of a handful of white kids in the school, good experience! Marion Barry was Mayor!
I lived in WDC in the 80s and 90s
You have absolutely no idea.
Not even close to how violent it was then.
“ becoming way cleaner and much safer “ aka gentrification. I’m from dc and the goods get way worse
My Grandparents and Great Grandparents grew up in that area and went to Anacostia High School. This at the turn of the century were home to Jewish, Irish, and German immigrants.
Nick Johnson. I know that you didn't see what you expected when you drove through the neighborhoods. I know that you were told the southeast was such a bad area and then you kept driving past neighborhoods that were nice and well kept. I grew up in south east in that neighborhood near Good Hope Road and Minnesota Avenue. There are some pockets where there are projects however most of Anacostia are single-family and row homes. These homes in southeast are not gentrified. They still have African-Americans living there who's been living there for the last 30 to 50 years. If you like more information hit me up and I will school you. Otherwise keep your misinformation to yourself.
Hmm all I saw was projects dude
@@NickJohnson You apparently don't know the difference between a single family home, row home, 4 unit apartment and the Projects. Projects are public housing provided by the government. Trust me, there is a difference. You drive past our neighborhood and look at the people standing outside. What you don't know is that the majority of PEOPLE inside those row homes are good hard working people taking care of their families.
Look, I understand that this is how you make your living. Just like any other profession you should educate yourself on the topics that your are discussing.
I grew up on Minnesota Ave
Thanks for posting this. I lived in DC in the 90's and early 2000's. One house I rented a 2nd story bedroom in, had close up a view of the Capitol dome. The view was of 100% urban blight and abject poverty. It was located in the neighborhood right behind Union Station in the 400 block of K ST. but the Solid Rock Wheels of Love Holiness Church. I took a snapshot to sent to my friends and family at the time, just so they could see the juxtaposition and massive scale of the poverty and brokenness in the very shadow of the US Capitol.
None of that area is like that anymore. You'd be shocked at the change.
@@charstar73 Thanks for sharing that Charm. I'm truly glad for the on-the-surface changes in buildings, landscape and the world of things. The change we need even more is change in the graft, corruption and gross hypocrisy of our government; we need decent jobs, opportunities for education and equal justice under law for all.
At 4:59 you went the wrong way, up a one way street!
Anthony Gotlieb all he care about is catching black ppl do something wrong
Be safe out there Nick.
This is my hometown and I miss it alot. Where I live now sucks.
This is not to glorify violence or poverty, but there are several DC neighborhoods you do not want to go to like Simple City unless you know people there
I know this isn't in the US, but can you make a long journey to the Ghettos in London,UK?
that's a lot to ask :)
Especially because it wouldn’t be interesting
@@NickJohnson I'll cover the plane tickets for you ,Mappy, Mrs Karen Mappy too! Lambeth awaits.
@charlie cheeseface Lambeth and Hackney require adult size Depensd.
@charlie cheeseface Yes. any S series right hand drive model. Also A celebratory orgy with chav girls in a suite at the Dorchester!.
Grew up in Arlington va and spent a lot of time in DC. Is go go still blastin on the weekends? Lol. Oregonian now but miss the East coast
Nick, can we PLEASE leave politics out of your videos. I enjoy watching them & I am so tired of everything being about politics and the coronavirus.
fair. okay.
yes leave it out if do anymore leave it out
Anacostia is fine, but people talk about it like it’s 1990s. Some parts of NE and SE are worse. Hell, Anacostia probably safer than Petworth and Columbia Heights in NW.
Next video you might document the street names on it. Would be interesting to see what they all are like in 10, 20, 30 years from now.
Him: spots black person
Camera:⬆️↖️⬅️
You are aware you went down the wrong way on a street that clearly said do not enter.
I was born in Baltimore, being from South end of Baltimore, DC was about 35 miles away, I worked and played in both! DC people seemed to be happier and more pleasant! Maybe because $$$ was better
You didn't even go to the real real hoods. You drove through some places that were in the area of the worst but how did you miss Woodland, Langston Lane, Congress Park, G St better known as Simple City and you didn't go all the way up MLK to Malcolm X and Mellon.
dang i missed a lot then Yolanda.
@@NickJohnson yes. I've lived here my entire life and although I moved to a more gentrified area there are still some areas untouched. I got tired of living in subpar conditions when I work as hard as I do and am raising a family.
Dude, I was born and raised in Anacostia. And all my family still live mostly in Ward 8. I'm S.E. Born, I was S.E. Bred, and when I die..... I'll be S.E. dead ! Minnesota Avenue Crew, where ya at ?! Cool Disco Dan and the Big Chair ! Barry Farms, make some noise !! MLK Ave, throw your hands up ! Love my native home for getting me prepared for the REAL world. But you won't see my ads living there no more !
Those aren't even projects he's driving thru at the beginning 🙄 and it's Prince George's County.
B. Wynn Wrong, he’s not in PG, he’s on Naylor rd headed up toward Alabama ave. Get it straight.
He’s riding around broad daylight on a Sunday 🙄 Anacostia may have been the worst part 20 years ago but it’s not anymore today, but try driving around looking lost later in the evening/night 😂
Everywhere same now a days since outbreak of coronavirus 😓😭😓😭
NOT AT ALL
Nah bruh, I got robbed at gunpoint Christmas Eve in D.C for a pair of Jordan 11s. Mfs took my wallet too. This was a few blocks north of Walmart/Police Station in Georgia Ave. It ain’t just SE DC
We lived in Central Gardens in Capitol Heights/Seat Pleasant, then River Terrace in Anacostia/Benning -- DC hoods helped shape my upbringing. You ain't even scratched the surface of what's really going on
What was I supposed to learn watching this?
what neighborhoods in dc you've never seen look like.
@@NickJohnson you said you were going to show projects but you didn't. They were apartments and row houses not projects.
I live in the West End of DC. It is a paradise of beauty, greenery, dogs and urban offerings, Walking distance to Georgetown, Kennedy Center, Dupont Circle, and parks galore. One of the best kept secrets in the country.
Facts
Ppl from DC always try to make it seem harder than it is talking bout “in the 90s” like be happy your city is being redeveloped. Why are you bragging about it being dangerous ???
It looks so much different than neighboring Baltimore. Where are all the row houses?
If you don’t live in DC it’s not need to comment or try to do a test run because it’s all love everywhere in DC
I understand that part of your vids is meant to cover driving thru places, but why put yourself in danger with what's spreading right now. Please be safe out there everyone.
this was weeks ago :)
I'm from Southeast DC now living in Colorado for over 15 years....THANKS!!! it was like traveling home for a few moments.
I always thought it was all pretty nice, because for some reason the bad sides aren't really shown.
those are the worst of them. that's what i was sayin!
Nick Johnson those are not the worst looking in DC and just two of them you did have high crime and that’s Good Hope, Road and 30th, you missed so many hoods East of the river in Anacostia like Washington Highland, Congress park, shipley Terrace, simple city, 37, Woodland, Wellington park, just to name a few
@@washingtondc9290 it's a lot of them
@@washingtondc9290 If he went down Woodland he would make a sharp U turn, if its a lot of people around there lol. It's deep on both sides of the street when its nice out.
Looks pretty good but hissing
Go back to that neighborhood at night time. The people who live there don’t come out till the sun goes down
He needs to do more research and drive at night 😂