(Continued in comments!) A little about DC.... Northwest DC is the nicest quadrant, specifically ALL areas west of Rock Creek Park. If you look at a map, you can see Rock Creek and the big green park area. Almost without exception, this is the safest part of the city. It is very liberal, Democrat, whatever- but serious street crime is pretty much nonexistent. There are few motels in NW I would not recommend or consider dangerous. Upper Georgia Ave, 5500 block and up has a few, but it's still safer than much of the rest of the city.
The New York Ave corridor (US Route 50) has a lot of motels but it is sketchy. Lots of people are permanent residents those motels and probably a lot of the drugs and shit we'd all like to avoid.
IMPORTANT- There are several dozen different police agencies in DC.. You will encounter local, which is called Metropolitan Police Dept. Largely Black and from the area, these are almost always very decent folks who will not bust balls the way some people are used to cops doing. The ones who work in the tougher precincts see a lot of drugs and gunplay and crazy peeps. They are not sticklers who will start jacking people up for minor moving violations or other pettiness. You can basically smoke weed in the street and be left alone, but show these men and women RESPECT and they will mostly reciprocate..
There are also Park Police, Capitol Hill Police, Uniformed Secret Service and a slew of others much more numerous to name. These are all FEDERAL OFFICERS. They have to answer to much more demanding supervisors and they are far more apt to cuff and stuff people, especially if you misbehave around federal property. Every Dept in DC (Treasury,Education, Commerce etc) has some kind of police presence on site, some are private contractors. Again, I know were not Antifa, but just a caveat, it's much easier to get arrested by these guys than the locals.
Trying to think a little more to add but all I have is this for now. If you've been here a while, feel free to PM. Won't talk to newbies, sorry, and I can't advise on guns or anything crazy, will delete and ignore.
How is the Stanton Park area? Looking at an Airbnb 1 block south of. Thanks
Capitol Hill is gentrified. Lots of white libs- homeowners, not the nothingtolose Antifa type. Don't travel too far east on H St NE. It goes bad around 8th St and keeps getting worse as the street numbers get higher.
Thanks. I'll have a straight shot west on Constitution to the Festivities.
Yep, stay to the southwest of your address.. 8th and H is a shit hole, west on H starts to improve but probably not enough.