Crescent Tower Condominiums

I’ve lived here for over a year now. Unbeatable location, stunning new rooftop/​pool, quiet building with pleasant neighbors, and a very active and responsive condo board. Love it here!

I’ve owned and lived here for five years, and I love it. It’s a great area, and the folks in the building have been fantastic neighbors.
When we purchased in 2008, sure, the management was a wreck. Since then, there have been great improvements. Material improvements are slowly being made, and the current management and board really seems to have their act together.
I’ll complain about the condo fees. They’re very high. But, it now appears that they’re going towards real improvements, so I pay them with only minimal grumbling.
All in all, it’s been a good investment and a great place to live.

Yet another fire burned out a condo unit here in the wee hours of March 20, 2011. This is a converted Howard University girls’ dormitory. The majority of the very poor quality single pane aluminum windows were never replaced, and they are now falling apart. Stay away!

The only positive part of this building is the Amazing location. Otherwise, the condo association and management company do not do anything for the renters of the building. The building is pretty old so there are constant emergency water outages, and they are finally fixing the pool since it was not open in summer, which means alot of construction is going on.
elevators are out of service often.
the office manager is nice and the people who live there are young. if u live here, make sure to get cheap rent and each apartment is different, so updated apartments are always a plus.

I lived at Crescent Towers back in 2006 — 2007. The bulding itself is your typical DC hodge-​podge apartments. These are old converted dorms. The halls and trash rooms smell like poison. The elevators are slow. The AC doesn’t work. The gym is a joke and the pool hadn’t been filled (or unlocked) in about three years.
My apartment had, inexplicably, white marble floors throughout. It also had a sliding door installed in liu of a window and a second bedroom so small that we had to take the doors off of the closet so that a bed could fit in the room. It also caught on fire once, had two floods that caved in our ceiling, and had water that turned orange for about a week.
So why the two stars? The other bedroom was huge and pretty nice AND it was dirt cheap. You get what you pay for. We could have sued them/​broken lease over the pool, but we were cool about it. Good neighborhood too; a touch sketchy because of the two homeless shelters, but lots of good places to eat/​hardware/​drugstore/​drycleaning/​Whole Foods right next door.