It continues in a straight line northward until it reaches Michigan Avenue, where it curves eastward and then westward around the Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center and the Armed Forces Retirement Home.

North Capitol Street ceases to exist again at McDonald Place, and becomes Blair Road (which veers north-northeast).

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.

[5] While North Capitol Street services commuters as a thoroughfare, it is also a community of local residents, school children, and businesses.

[14][15] The court examined the will of David Balbour, who had died ten years earlier, over who had inherited the land between T Street and Florida Avenue.