You're talking about the same Trinidad where the cops used to check IDs of people going in because the drug trafficking was so rampant?
Wow. Things change.
Next thing you know, they'll have a white mayor in DC.
The same. I moved onto Capitol Hill over 30 years ago when people thought it was a reckless decision. I’ve had my share of urban adventures, but the Hill is a now-widely known gentrification success story. If you look closely at a map, you will see that greater Capitol Hill is essentially an island, with the river to the south and east, the New York Avenue/railroad corridor to the north, and the well-guarded Capitol complex and Mall sealing the “open” western boundary. From Union Station to the Anacostia, there are only two places to cross the railroad; the northern boundary might as well be another river. I’ve argued for years that the Hill, expanded, would gentrify out to those borders. This is now well underway. It’s too close in not to, given the traffic congestion in the burbs. Even Ivy City has new construction. As Trinidad flips, Ivy City can’t be far behind. Rosedale is flipping. The pocket up behind Spingarn and the Langston Golf Course (next to the Arboretum), as far as I know, isn’t gentrifying yet, but given its location, it’s only a matter of time.