Benning - WASHDCBN Updated: 11:19PM EST 01/03/2004 Operating Company: Verizon Washington, DC Inc. Former Operating Company(s): Bell Atlantic - Washington, DC Inc. C&P Telephone Co. of DC Operating Company Number: 9211 Office Name: Benning Location: 580 23rd Pl. NE Benning, Washington, DC Colocated Carrier(s):

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Benning features that hideous late sixties style of concrete decoration that plagues a great many of the GTE offices in Virginia (this design style is also murder on auto focus). Also Benning along with Anacostia, Southeast and Congress Heights are in the more dangerous part of eastern DC. Anacostia is so bad it may never be visited. The picture was taken from a hill next to a housing project on the opposite side of Benning Road. Definately not for the faint of heart. Sadly the entrance is really at 23rd Place NE but the "front" of the building was on Benning Road. An unkown that caused this picture to end up back lit.

The switch is almost certainly a 1AESS. The area just could not justify the expense of converting it to a 5ESS. However this may change as the current pace of gentrification ends near where Floridia Avenue intersects Benning Road. At this point the "character" of the area changes from day to night and the roads seems to degenerate into something one would find in larger third world metropolitan areas such as Somilia and Uganda.