St Johns Place @ Washington Ave - Crime, Community, Etc.

Maybe I can sell my three step safety plan:
1. Be generally sober
2. Don't wear an IPOD or talk on your cell phone to the degree that you are distracted.
3. Especially avoid doing the above at 3AM, while attempting to buy weed.

I lived on the corner of St Johns and Wash for a couple of years but moved out of the city last month. The good things are:
You are close to a laundry and 24h corner stores. Because of the corner stores there are always people outside so safer than more desolate areas of PH. Close to subway and frequent buses to Atlantic Mall. There's a parking garage 1.5 blocks away towards Franklin.

Some bad things: there are a few guys who walk their pitbulls of the leash. Some people sells drugs but it is not in your face so not really an issue. People throw trash on the street so streets get cleaned twice a week.

Friday night in the summer time there's usually some people partying outside the laundrymat.

that block and area have been transforming pretty quickly in the last six months. i don't feel unsafe and i like the businesses that have opened. i say go for it.

I have a neighbor downstairs who has lived there for 12 years, and at present he owes the landlord a ton in back rent. He will not vacate the apartment until he is legally bound to, and the landlord refused to do any sort of maintenance/pest control.

I have been down there. You can see the bedbugs in the couch. They looked the size of roaches! Now I know where I got them from... A nightmare to get rid of.