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Northwest (NW or N.W.) is the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street.
Since the 1980s, North Capitol Street has suffered as one of highest crime areas in the District of Columbia, being ravaged by crack cocaine [2] and the effects of drug lords Rayful Edmond [3] and Tony Lewis who ran drug operations in Near Northeast and the unit block of Hanover Place NW. [4]
"Northwest" (also written as NW or N.W.) is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street. It is the largest of the four quadrants of the city, containing more than 42% of the entire city's area [1] and over half of its population. [2]
In most of the city, the streets are set out in a grid pattern with east–west streets named with letters (e.g., C Street SW) and north–south streets with numbers (e.g., 4th Street NW). Most portions of the north–south axis and the eastern portion of the east–west axis are marked by streets with the common name of Capitol Street: North ...
The North Capitol Street Line, designated as Route 80 is a daily bus route that is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority between Fort Totten station of the Red and Green lines of the Washington Metro and McPherson Square station of the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines of the Washington Metro.
Truxton Circle – now defunct, existing only as the name of a neighborhood; formerly the intersection of Florida Avenue, North Capitol Street, Q Street NW, and Q Street NE; this circle lay on the border of Northwest and Northeast Washington.
In Northeast Washington, H Street continues uninterrupted from North Capitol Street (crossing over train tracks just north of Union Station on the "Hopscotch Bridge") to 15th Street NE, where it terminates in what is known as the "starburst intersection", where it meets Bladensburg Road, 15th Street, Benning Road, Maryland Avenue, and Florida ...
The fire began Friday evening in Old Engine Company No. 12, now a landmark historic site along North Capitol Street in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington. DC firefighters battle blaze in ...