The Metropolitan Police Department is establishing juvenile curfew zones in the Navy Yard and U Street Corridor this weekend.
The curfew zones are allowed under the Juvenile Curfew Second Temporary Amendment Act of 2025 in places where “large groups of youths are gathering or intend to gather in a manner that poses a risk of substantial harm to public safety,” the police said Thursday.
The zones will be in place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
The Navy Yard curfew zone is bounded to the north by Interstate 695 and a stretch of Virginia Avenue SE from South Capitol Street SE to Eighth Street SE, to the east by Eighth Street SE from Virginia Avenue SE to the Anacostia River, to the south by the river, and to the west by South Capitol Street SE from the river to I-695, police said.
The U Street Corridor zone is bounded to the north by V Street NW between 15th Street and Vermont Avenue NW between V Street and Florida Avenue NW, and is bounded to the east by Florida Avenue and Ninth Street NW from Vermont Avenue to T Street NW.
The zone’s boundary in the south is a stretch of T Street NW between Ninth and 15th Streets NW and it is bounded to the west by 15th Street NW between T and V Streets NW, police said.
Within the zones, minors cannot congregate in groups of nine or more unless they are:
• Involved in or dealing with an emergency.
• Engaged in First Amendment activity.
• Participants in a city, civic organization, religious or school-sponsored activity so long as the organizers are transporting them.
• Riding in a car or other vehicle involved in interstate travel.
• Running an errand without stopping.
• With parents or guardians.
• Working or returning from work without stopping.
• On the sidewalk next to their residence or a neighbor’s residence so long as the neighbor has not complained to the police.
In addition to the zones, the police stressed that there is a citywide curfew for all minors that starts each day at 11 p.m. and lasts until 6 a.m.
