It is astounding the changes to the city in the past 20 or so years. I spent a year in the city in 1990-91and when I moved back in 2009 it was a completely different place. The number of restaurants is the craziest thing. I think the (high) dual income 20-30something couples that have moved there never cook meals at home. They go out to eat every night, and there are so many places to go that they never need to go to the same place twice.
@@TyroneFitness Even though they starting to work all over the city Southeast Anacostia side and Northeast deanwood is as close as you ever get back to the feeling of the real Chocolate City not as close but somewhere around there #DontmuteDC
i worked my ass of to move here in 2014. i tell you this city is still changing so drastically. dozens of new construction projects all the time. ive seen houses built in weeks, apartments in 3 months, roads completely repaved . they actually replaced the whole sewer sytem in my neighborhood in a week's time. its so amazing
I don't really agree with my comment anymore. While downtown may be a little soulless, DC is fun if you hang with the locals. Just don't be racist and there's plenty of soul!
In the top ten, PG County 4 or 5 of the most prosperous, predominately black neighborhoods In the country. And on the flip side, some of the worst. I lived in PG county for years, Mt Rainier, and I couldn't imagine a better place to be a kid and live a good life that's free of crime and is highly intergrated with people from all ethnic backgrounds who worked hard to have the same thing. There were no gangs. No shootings. No robberies. Kids walked to school by themselves and weren't kidnapped. Oh, the 80's and early 90's. It almost made my transition to Japan by way of the military obsolete, because there was almost no difference between the two places. If my kids can't grow up close to the way I did, I don't want to bring them into this world.
Mt Rainer, College Park, Brentwood, Greenbelt, Laurel and now even Hyattsville are fantastic areas to live in or raise a family. The same gentrification that modernizing DC is also modernizing PG county. The poor in PG are beinh kicked down south to Charles county.
When people say the “soul” is gone they don’t mean that they miss the violence..... There used to be more street art, thriving music scene and while there was a lot of poverty there was also a lot of minorities thriving that never got the press that the murders got. The higher likelihood of thriving compared to anywhere else was a thing of pride for Washingtonians. Now it seems like they want to “discover” the well off minority neighborhoods as well...
Michael VR awww, check the history, Banneker designed the Washington D.C.... I know who Lafant is and where Lafant plaza is.... I know the history of this city
This is a prime example of why home ownership is so important! And when yuppies and developers come knocking at your door you turn them away. DC black culture is damn near non existent anymore and it’s a shame. And of course people saying gentrification was for the better never want to address the reasons of why DC had such a high crime rate in the beginning. Instead of fixing the problems you would rather price the people out.
DC lost it's soul and has become unaffordable by the vast majority of people in general- not just black people. The population is still a good 40% or so black but regardless I would rather it become less homogeneous of a population and also have all the new developments axtually benefit people who are FROM washington dc.
Very good documentary. I did live in Mclean, VA 1990-1993. But my dad was working in DC. DC was messed up that time. SE Naval yard was ghetto!, China Town was just a mess! 9th st also was really rundown place and was not safe at all. After I left DC in 1993. I did not come back to the city until 2009. Wow..I was in shock. The China town is very lovely now days, with charming restaurants and bars. Its just so funny to hear people say "Lets have a drink in Chinatown" now days. Back in early 1990s, saying that is like asking for troubles. DC is lovely city now. I like it a lot.
I watch this and I know what's going on. My mom grew up in SE DC. My grandma was a patient for 7 years at St EliZabeths in SE DC while my mom lived in St Timothy's oprhanage. She would relocate to a poor neighborhood in Alexandria Va raising me and my siblings by herself. As I grew older in the early 90s to late 90s I would go drink and smoke weed in the city, skateboarding at welfare banks or Pulaski, write graffiti cause I was inspired by Cool Disco Dan and was actually beat up by the cops in 1997 at the wall of fame. The city has changed so much. I've seen it all. I did my first bouncing gig in late 98 and was even still doing club security in 2010. I knew kids killed in the city. One was a tough white boy from Alexandria va shot on Benning road. We use to drive to the city to get weed at 2nd and P, 3rd and Livingston, Galveston. We went to clubs like Buzz, Soul Camp, State of union. Back then go-go and punk rock ran the city. Things have changed but the city lost its soul.
The skate scene in DC is still strong thankfully. Sessions at pulaski can get pretty heavy and hectic. Lot of other good street spots in the city too. I really only go to DC to street skate though.
As the woman in the video said, there's people in the District who don't know where their next meal is coming from. Those people gotta live somewhere.. se, ne, etc.
Yeah what good news people are still dieing even more now then reasent years a lil babie got killed is that good news to you pal i know you comment is old but still
Lived there 22 yrs, 71-93, in DC Nat. Guard till '76. Yeah what once was a forgotten southern type city, 71% black, turned into THE IMPERIAL CAPITOL aka Panem from Hunger games. Everybody there takes themselves real seriously now. DC lost its sense of humor.
This artist complaining about the loss of crime and other problems he can use to make cool art should be made aware that there are other people living in DC.
I own property in what was once one of the worst neighborhoods in Northeast. Gentrification is the best thing to ever happen to Washington, DC. For people to wax poetic about the "good old days" when Washington, DC was a gang-infested war zone, with a homogenous poor black population, is a joke. Multiculturalism is succeeding in DC and all ships raise equally with the tide. Even poorer residents benefit from better city services and more responsible city government brought around by the greatly expanded tax base.
+mrtortfeasor33 I really don't think you are a native of the DC area. DC had a unique culture. Now it is the same corporate theme spreading. U Street looks like Adams Morgan, H Street is looking like U Street and so on. With a Whole Foods and pseudo-trendy stores/bars.
for you maybe but for those of us who've lived here all of our lives and endured the worst, it is a bitter pill to swallow. When you see new residents able to walk their pitbulls down Benning Rd SE without being accosted by MPD, then things haven't changed for the best
This guy's photos are of the old D.C. I remember as a teenager. All the boarded up abandoned buildings. 5-10 years later the homosexuals were busying themselves buying up old properties in black neighborhoods and renovating them. Allot of gaylords lived in the city and had high paying Government or Government related jobs. A girlfriend at the time who lived down there called them the gay pioneers because they were the first ones in. Often times the properties they were renovating would get broken into three or four times and have all the newly installed appliances stolen. There were allot of beautiful old places there that just needed some fixing up. So the gaylords won the fight against the blacks and drove them out. The gay shock troops of gentrification. Don't recognize the place at all but allot has changed since the 80's everywhere.
This new flock of ppl who live in DC now are wierd af! I miss my Ol' Chocolate City! Change is good sometimes but duplicates are never as good as the originals. How is Chocolate City turning into low-fat yogurt city!??
I'm from Washington DC and it's true...but in DC most people who were touched was in the game like EA.. it's more dangerous now because shit is random now.. DC has been and always will be a very dangerous place.. you gotta come here to know that
I'm sorry but I'm from DC and people there are the most rudest, shallow, snobbish, cliqiush, and stuck up people in america and I'm from NYC. Most people dont really talk to each other because they think theyre high and mighty. People care more about there status then character. Most music events cost money unlike NYC. I prefer to live in Texas, Savannah, Myrtle beach, NYC, or North Carolina. He'll move to another country.
Born and raised..my Mother worked on Capitol Hill..I attended Boarding School..it was awful in the 80s.Our own Mayor was busted for coke..wild video that was
Born in raised in DC. Lived there from 1984-2002. Its a different place now. I used to live in Uptown NW near Mt Pleasant. Man, 14th street is a new place now, for the better. Thats what happens when you have more white than colored. Thats not a racist comment, just facts. The more whiter a community gets, the better it gets. plain and simple.
I'm from DC Southeast been here my whole life since the 80s and MS-13 is in Maryland and Virginia not so much DC there may be some people all the way uptown that's affiliated with them//DC is like 47.1% black almost 50% and the white population is somewhere between 40.2../45% and everything else is in between so there's not enough of them in DC to run anything that title in Washington DC belongs to the blacks/// I can't tell you the last time I turned on my TV or looked in the news and saw a Mexican shooting or killing anybody in DC
The violence didn't go away, just moved across the border into Prince George's County as DC gentrified.
***** Police action is always about dealing with existing problems. Preventing those problems or causing them is a job for politicians.
went away from dc
ardenmark that's cause most of the people that were kicked out of their houses in DC has moved to pg
I grew up in Suitland Manor, within walking distance of southeast DC, in the early 80's; PG was already getting bad then.
NO IT DIDNT pg STAYED THE SAME
PG JUST STOP COMMING TO DC TO COMMIT CRIME
From murder capital to boomtown and back to murder capital.
It is astounding the changes to the city in the past 20 or so years. I spent a year in the city in 1990-91and when I moved back in 2009 it was a completely different place. The number of restaurants is the craziest thing. I think the (high) dual income 20-30something couples that have moved there never cook meals at home. They go out to eat every night, and there are so many places to go that they never need to go to the same place twice.
The amount of choices in DC and Arlington are amazing.
Ten years after this report, DC halved the number of violent felons in prison and DC murder and violet crime rate DOUBLE what it was in 2012.
From Chocolate City to Murder Capital to Vanilla Chai Latte town. #JakeHunter88
Jake Hunter I miss chocolate city
@@TyroneFitness Even though they starting to work all over the city Southeast Anacostia side and Northeast deanwood is as close as you ever get back to the feeling of the real Chocolate City not as close but somewhere around there #DontmuteDC
I hate the vibe modern DC gives off. It's culture-less.
@@BongJabbar mayo filled
Murder just happened at the end of my block. Crime dropped but bodies still dropping.
DC is still off the chain, its wild every night here in Southeast
Faxts ppl don't know even n ma neighborhood I'm jus above capital heights in Brentwood n it's spouse be nice partments
P G That and Nannie Helen Burroughs.
@@divasamai2251 facts Moe
@@samaustin5348 nah bruh times have change
@@redlawton8896 wym I only been gone a year
I remember when DC was the most dangerous city. I was scared every time that I was walking alone, day or night!
BruceOp still crazy the homicide rate is still high as of July 2020
Respect guys!
@@devantethedcguyreactstoo252 is that something to be proud of? DC is not and will not be what it was back in the 80s to the early 00s stop pushing
i worked my ass of to move here in 2014. i tell you this city is still changing so drastically. dozens of new construction projects all the time. ive seen houses built in weeks, apartments in 3 months, roads completely repaved . they actually replaced the whole sewer sytem in my neighborhood in a week's time. its so amazing
@jack mayhoffer This was way before Trump.....Get off his orange illiterate nuts.
Violent crime has more doubled in DC from 2012-2022
Washington DC should never be full of crime.
I read Castaneta's book "S Street Rising," it was great.
H st ne changed a lot in the past 5-10 years
@John Matal, Hello how are you doing?
New york ave is changing like crazy!
Onlylettuce92 no lie look at the block rayful was hustling on
Didn't recognize it 20yrs later
this aged well
i think dc does have a lack of soul in most places. even though new york got gentrified, it still has a lot more soul in my opinion
@djwestbrook, Hello how are you doing?
I don't really agree with my comment anymore. While downtown may be a little soulless, DC is fun if you hang with the locals. Just don't be racist and there's plenty of soul!
You tried to bring Marion Barry -down. But he became mayor of DC 4 times.
I miss Crack Head!! LOL
HE. BROUGHT HIS OWN SELF DOWN.
Dc still crazy
In the top ten, PG County 4 or 5 of the most prosperous, predominately black neighborhoods In the country. And on the flip side, some of the worst. I lived in PG county for years, Mt Rainier, and I couldn't imagine a better place to be a kid and live a good life that's free of crime and is highly intergrated with people from all ethnic backgrounds who worked hard to have the same thing. There were no gangs. No shootings. No robberies. Kids walked to school by themselves and weren't kidnapped. Oh, the 80's and early 90's. It almost made my transition to Japan by way of the military obsolete, because there was almost no difference between the two places. If my kids can't grow up close to the way I did, I don't want to bring them into this world.
Mt Rainer, College Park, Brentwood, Greenbelt, Laurel and now even Hyattsville are fantastic areas to live in or raise a family. The same gentrification that modernizing DC is also modernizing PG county. The poor in PG are beinh kicked down south to Charles county.
Ilove dc❤❤
When people say the “soul” is gone they don’t mean that they miss the violence..... There used to be more street art, thriving music scene and while there was a lot of poverty there was also a lot of minorities thriving that never got the press that the murders got. The higher likelihood of thriving compared to anywhere else was a thing of pride for Washingtonians. Now it seems like they want to “discover” the well off minority neighborhoods as well...
I wish DC had more street art.
EXACTLY..well put
This is my hometown and it has changed a lot for the better I guess.
Sorta..now they dont want black people here..at all..
Nope our history got wiped out entirely
This is one of the more racist comment sections I’ve ever seen.
@@SycoticForeverNeverAF Say it to his face coward......Internet thuggin ass.
No its not we just live here or are intelligent enough to understand what happened then AND now
Still bad in SE, Baltimore too.
I was born in dc and now the Caucasians look at me like im the outsider.
Michael VR No a black man designed D.C by the name of Benjamin Banneker.... Thank you....
Michael VR awww, check the history, Banneker designed the Washington D.C.... I know who Lafant is and where Lafant plaza is.... I know the history of this city
DC was built by whites? Rofl where did you hear that lie? Slaves built it in it's entirety.
Michael VR, L’Enfant is not white you racist piece of shit
lenfant didnt design the whole city just the downtown parts of it before he got fired
This is a prime example of why home ownership is so important! And when yuppies and developers come knocking at your door you turn them away. DC black culture is damn near non existent anymore and it’s a shame. And of course people saying gentrification was for the better never want to address the reasons of why DC had such a high crime rate in the beginning. Instead of fixing the problems you would rather price the people out.
DC lost it's soul and has become unaffordable by the vast majority of people in general- not just black people. The population is still a good 40% or so black but regardless I would rather it become less homogeneous of a population and also have all the new developments axtually benefit people who are FROM washington dc.
the poor blacks are moving to Prince Georges, County. They aren't becoming homeless.
+cosMICjester No it isn't P.G is much safer than it was in the 80 , 90s and early 00s. These burst in crime are temporary.
3506Dodge pistol grip county
3506Dodge most of them move to pg because they were kicked out not all
DC residents been moving in PG County for years. Most by choice
Very good documentary. I did live in Mclean, VA 1990-1993. But my dad was working in DC. DC was messed up that time. SE Naval yard was ghetto!, China Town was just a mess! 9th st also was really rundown place and was not safe at all. After I left DC in 1993. I did not come back to the city until 2009. Wow..I was in shock. The China town is very lovely now days, with charming restaurants and bars. Its just so funny to hear people say "Lets have a drink in Chinatown" now days. Back in early 1990s, saying that is like asking for troubles. DC is lovely city now. I like it a lot.
I truthfully ended up bewildered on what might really be the purpose of the video.
I watch this and I know what's going on. My mom grew up in SE DC. My grandma was a patient for 7 years at St EliZabeths in SE DC while my mom lived in St Timothy's oprhanage. She would relocate to a poor neighborhood in Alexandria Va raising me and my siblings by herself. As I grew older in the early 90s to late 90s I would go drink and smoke weed in the city, skateboarding at welfare banks or Pulaski, write graffiti cause I was inspired by Cool Disco Dan and was actually beat up by the cops in 1997 at the wall of fame. The city has changed so much. I've seen it all. I did my first bouncing gig in late 98 and was even still doing club security in 2010. I knew kids killed in the city. One was a tough white boy from Alexandria va shot on Benning road. We use to drive to the city to get weed at 2nd and P, 3rd and Livingston, Galveston. We went to clubs like Buzz, Soul Camp, State of union. Back then go-go and punk rock ran the city. Things have changed but the city lost its soul.
Do you know Molly Ruland?
@princeasante1 fuck off
The skate scene in DC is still strong thankfully. Sessions at pulaski can get pretty heavy and hectic. Lot of other good street spots in the city too. I really only go to DC to street skate though.
if yall worried bout d.c so much why is there still projects in ne se and sw
As the woman in the video said, there's people in the District who don't know where their next meal is coming from. Those people gotta live somewhere.. se, ne, etc.
The first good news I've seen for a long time!
the same in new york, LA and atlanta
Yeah what good news people are still dieing even more now then reasent years a lil babie got killed is that good news to you pal i know you comment is old but still
the Shaw area is crazy different now. so is up behind China Town... all of North West is different.
Born in DC raised in Langley park MD love my city ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I know Langley Park well
Please do Baltimore next!
This city needs a mayor lift
bmore irrelevant
Gentrification Works
Fuck you
No it didnt we almost got 200 murders this year and murders still happens in gentrified spots aswell
@@sammyjaohnson5631 Causation is not correlation
@@JonnySolomon sure
That's DC I remember as a child.
Am I the only one who caught “fresh veg-te-bles”??
DC accent
check the murder rate
Lived there 22 yrs, 71-93, in DC Nat. Guard till '76. Yeah what once was a forgotten southern type city, 71% black, turned into THE IMPERIAL CAPITOL aka Panem from Hunger games. Everybody there takes themselves real seriously now.
DC lost its sense of humor.
This whole area has
well done dc I am proud of you we gonna come back to visit
This artist complaining about the loss of crime and other problems he can use to make cool art should be made aware that there are other people living in DC.
Bring back the old dc its all whitewashed now
still not comfortable walking around at anacostia especially benning rd area 😨
Tom Ngo I second that lmao
Tom Ngo thats funny cus NO PART OF BENNING ROAD IS IN ANACOSTIA...dumbass
You dont even know where you live😕
I own property in what was once one of the worst neighborhoods in Northeast. Gentrification is the best thing to ever happen to Washington, DC. For people to wax poetic about the "good old days" when Washington, DC was a gang-infested war zone, with a homogenous poor black population, is a joke. Multiculturalism is succeeding in DC and all ships raise equally with the tide. Even poorer residents benefit from better city services and more responsible city government brought around by the greatly expanded tax base.
+mrtortfeasor33 I really don't think you are a native of the DC area. DC had a unique culture. Now it is the same corporate theme spreading. U Street looks like Adams Morgan, H Street is looking like U Street and so on. With a Whole Foods and pseudo-trendy stores/bars.
I can only imagine how good of an investment that must have been.
I can only imagine how good of an investment that must have been.
That's how it is in general. People always reminisce about the good days even though in general, everything was more dangerous.
for you maybe but for those of us who've lived here all of our lives and endured the worst, it is a bitter pill to swallow. When you see new residents able to walk their pitbulls down Benning Rd SE without being accosted by MPD, then things haven't changed for the best
This guy's photos are of the old D.C. I remember as a teenager. All the boarded up abandoned buildings. 5-10 years later the homosexuals were busying themselves buying up old properties in black neighborhoods and renovating them. Allot of gaylords lived in the city and had high paying Government or Government related jobs. A girlfriend at the time who lived down there called them the gay pioneers because they were the first ones in. Often times the properties they were renovating would get broken into three or four times and have all the newly installed appliances stolen. There were allot of beautiful old places there that just needed some fixing up. So the gaylords won the fight against the blacks and drove them out. The gay shock troops of gentrification. Don't recognize the place at all but allot has changed since the 80's everywhere.
The World Need Batman.
And Superman.
This new flock of ppl who live in DC now are wierd af! I miss my Ol' Chocolate City! Change is good sometimes but duplicates are never as good as the originals. How is Chocolate City turning into low-fat yogurt city!??
Lol
Flyfalcone Yeah get the fuck out. DC has been a shithole for too long it’s time to take it back.
Too bad that it came at the expense of black ppl lives and we still don't see the signs smfh
Sadly in 2023 we have circled back.
I'm from Washington DC and it's true...but in DC most people who were touched was in the game like EA.. it's more dangerous now because shit is random now.. DC has been and always will be a very dangerous place.. you gotta come here to know that
No match for the mean streets of Bournemouth
Fresh vega-tables 4:45
I'm sorry but I'm from DC and people there are the most rudest, shallow, snobbish, cliqiush, and stuck up people in america and I'm from NYC. Most people dont really talk to each other because they think theyre high and mighty. People care more about there status then character. Most music events cost money unlike NYC. I prefer to live in Texas, Savannah, Myrtle beach, NYC, or North Carolina. He'll move to another country.
Chicago is worst
i love change too...but change that is INCLUSIVE of EVERYONE!
Ah unbiased news I like this
Reminds me of the gentrification that happened in Miami.
Does the BBC report on anything other than America?
Doesn't BBC report crime in Britain?
@Daniel Choir, Hello how are you doing?
Should've known C Webb would be on here.
Boom town for establishment gov media business. Not for anyone else
The federal government caused this problem then wants credit when they solved it
EXACTLY
Am buh lans
Born and raised..my Mother worked on Capitol Hill..I attended Boarding School..it was awful in the 80s.Our own Mayor was busted for coke..wild video that was
I had to leave silver spring md , no poor people allowed
The US summarized in a single video.
Gentrification or no Gentrification, DC is still the prettiest capital in the world.
Hah, not even close.
My city is gone 😞
Its all white washed
Company. A woman and her children bothered by unscrupulous adults. Tara Quinn 10520. Preservation Hall Buffalo. John Iurato CHHS.
I see my man DC Dough
They need skulldozers bulldozers crazy fbi cops like in payday 2
Quite a turnaround.. thanks to Obama no question.
Is the downtown DC like Capitol and the White House dangerous too
This hurts to watch they did us so dirty here . These new neighbors are changing everything horribly
ya both wrong.....Paterson NJ
SO
Born in raised in DC. Lived there from 1984-2002. Its a different place now. I used to live in Uptown NW near Mt Pleasant. Man, 14th street is a new place now, for the better. Thats what happens when you have more white than colored. Thats not a racist comment, just facts. The more whiter a community gets, the better it gets. plain and simple.
Wow deep man. I'm a black man and this is disturbing.
@Derrick Culler wrong
The soul was shit, now they are complaining that it got better. The people here were a joke, now thank God it is better!
Its back to gun town... Qho said its better? It just qent off in price!
Get a degree and work for Uncle Sam
damn they got cwebb on this
Eww that's what it use to look like???
ObjectiveUser85 I know right!!!
Dc is 100 plus years old and the development didnt WANT to come until MORE black people left
@@luxuryedition78 And we loved it MORE then than NOW..NOW it sucks
I live in dc, and I don't see non of that
David Brown huhhhh 🤨🤨🤨
@@djstxkz Easy the whole city is NOT the same..it never was
4:30 bitch if I don't have money I starve. I don't get the option to beg the government for more
What if the entire earth could be gentrified? But with all positive effects. Check Revelation 21:4 and compare Psalms 37:9-11. One day, one day soon.
Ms runs DC
HOMiCiDE CLYDE lol sureeee
I'm from DC Southeast been here my whole life since the 80s and MS-13 is in Maryland and Virginia not so much DC there may be some people all the way uptown that's affiliated with them//DC is like 47.1% black almost 50% and the white population is somewhere between 40.2../45% and everything else is in between so there's not enough of them in DC to run anything that title in Washington DC belongs to the blacks/// I can't tell you the last time I turned on my TV or looked in the news and saw a Mexican shooting or killing anybody in DC