Comments on: Good Deal or Not? Eckington Edition

By: DCster

DCster — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:19:58 +0000

I think a Von hood scale rating should go along the walk scores on all of the real estate sites! I hope this will be a regular component of GDoN.
As for the house itself, I like it – airy, hardwood floors, okay kitchen.

By: Wayan

Wayan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0000

Von,

Check your geometry on Grant Circle & Petworth. That murder map you point to – it shows Columbia Heights as red dots, not P-worth. In fact, there’s not a killing in the hood on that map.

By: Bloomingdale

Bloomingdale — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:58:32 +0000

I sense a new Google Maps App – the Hood Mapper. Residents can input their score (0 to 10) for individual blocks. Real Estate agents are prohibited from participating

By: vonstallin

vonstallin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:22:22 +0000

Shiid….
trinadad have allways been bad..just not as bad as it was in the 80′s.
prostitution seems to start about 5pm… day/night traders are entrenched like roaches…It will be along long time before they are moved out. The new buildings and houses/condos moving its way up kst will still take a few years to effectivley change trinidad.

I have to say trin seems like the belly of the beast. it dosent get better until you head towards H st. My friend is a sargent that works that district and stuff i just dont see or hear that he fills me in on makes me want to give trindad a soild
4.7 to 5.1

its only good if you dont have to walk to transportation. i try to base some of my ratings on walkability to stores, bus, subways and stuff vs. strickly on the block. if your block is
nice but you have to walk thru mostly bad areas…then i deduct points,….

lol.

By: vonstallin

vonstallin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:17:01 +0000

here is some good reading on stats…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Washington,_D.C.

By: aw

aw — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:12:16 +0000

or go to burgersub.org to see a map of this year’s murders and their circumstances.

By: trinidamn

trinidamn — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:10:51 +0000

von -
i can accept that. lov the hood scale idea. what do you give trinidad? the lower couple blocks of it.

By: vonstallin

vonstallin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:10:33 +0000

Nate:
Im not sure what you are saying…it looks like you are saying the same thing.

Anyway pre 2000′s It was the murder center with stats showing that a mass majority of the murders was in this neck of the woods and not SE.

Here is a map from 2004 to 2006 and while it do look like SE/NE is becoming the new murder spots. Look at Petworth area…its still high and in the mix.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/DChomicides.jpg/535px-DChomicides.jpg

By: vonstallin

vonstallin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:02:05 +0000

The problem is that they said grant circle…
Upsure street…yeah it gets a 5…mayb3….
Sheaperd street also. But 5th street, new Hamshire ave, some parts of Varnum are good and quiet…they would get a solid 7.9….

so I had to add the good ones to the bad and round it out.

By: nate

nate — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:59:46 +0000

Petworth is nowhere near the murder center of DC. Petworth hardly ranks relative to NE/SE. I’ll buy Petworth being the murder center of NW/Capitol Hill though.