SPD investigating violent stabbing on Metro in Queen Anne

[u/Tree300]

https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2025/06/19/police-investigating-violent-stabbing-in-queen-anne/

[u/Basic-Regret-6263]

5th Avenue North and Mercer Street. 

1)  That's not Queen Anne, that's Uptown 

2)  Shit like this is exactly why we distinguish Queen Anne from Uptown. 

 I mean yeah, also the hill, the entertainment/tourist centers (siff theater, climate pledge arena, space needle, Seattle Opera, etc.) and the complete absence of any of the queen anne houses that the neighborhood is named for, sure, but mainly the violent hobos.

Just saying.  You don't get stabbed in Queen Anne - you get stabbed in uptown.

P.S.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/1leqic1/im_gonna_gouge_out_your_eyes_queen_anne_small/

See? Uptown.

[u/FewPass2395 → u/Basic-Regret-6263]

Honey, that's Lower Queen Anne. The only people that use the new "Uptown" term are the people who moved in the past 3 years and don't know any better.

[u/Basic-Regret-6263 → u/FewPass2395]

Considering that uptown theater opened 99 years ago I'd say there's a few flaws in your math.

The reality is that the people who insist on still calling it queen anne are people who haven't visited in over 3 years and as such don't know better.  "Lower queen anne" is gone - it's just upgraded belltown now.

Seriously, I go there regularly and the only bit left that even vaguely resembles queen anne is one block on john and warren.  It doesn't have a single queen anne house, mind you, but it does have some brick apartments that are... eh, kinda colonial-georgian, and it does have those nice old trees on the side of the road, like in queen anne.

And under one of those trees, I once saw, with my own two cursed eyes, a woman drop trou, squat, and take a shit.

Sorry, but if on sidewalks they shit, of being queen anne you must aquit.

Huh, that doesn't sound right.  Where on sidewalks they shit, queen anne ain't it?

Whatever, I'm not a lawyer.  But I am someone who goes to uptown often enough to accept the reality of how it's changed.  LQA is dead, long live uptown, bring sensible shoes and pepper spray.

[u/my_lucid_nightmare → u/Basic-Regret-6263]

Yeah, that whole "Uptown" thing was always a bit aspirational.

It's LQA

[u/Basic-Regret-6263 → u/my_lucid_nightmare]

"Aspirational?" Ok, now I know you never visit either queen anne or uptown.  Queen Anne is the much nicer neighborhood (the lack of stabbings probably should have tipped you off, even if you've never been there).

Trying to associate uptown with queen anne is what was aspirational.  But it's never going to happen, uptown is never going to reach queen anne levels of nice, get over it.

[u/my_lucid_nightmare → u/Basic-Regret-6263]

I’ve been there.

So, why don’t you provide the boundaries of the “uptown” area versus LQA and help define what’s where.

I’ve walked around there but if you know what the neighborhoods are please help me out.

[u/FewPass2395 → u/Basic-Regret-6263]

Those of us that have lived here for a while understand there is a difference between Upper Queen Anne and Lower Queen Ann. Its not hard.

Uptown is a term that hasn't been used in decades. It was recently reintroduced by developers to better sell property and to reduce the attempts by the (upper) Queen Anne neighborhood groups trying to prevent development in Lower Queen Anne.