Any thoughts about storing luggage in DC on Monday?

[brooklynite]

We have seats for the swearing in ceremony, after which we're grabbing a train back to New York. I've been told the Union Station luggage facility will be closed for security, and we're not staying at an area hotel. Any suggestions?

[leveymg]

1. Why do you need luggage for a day trip?

[brooklynite]

2. Coming down the night before...

...need to be on line very early to get through security.

Also need to change for an event in the evening in NYC.

[leveymg]

4. If you need to change for an event in NYC, rent a locker at Penn Station.

Why schlepp stuff you don't have to. Just bring a little overnight bag.

[marybourg]

5. I don't believe there have been lockers in Penn Sta.

for 25 years or more, since a spate of explosives in lockers in the '80's

[Arctic Dave]

3. Leave it on the corner.

Nice men in kevlar will be along soon to blow it up for you.

Ta-dah! No laundry.

[klyon]

6. train station has lockers

[brooklynite]

8. Closed for security

[Recursion]

9. Negative; not this weekend (nt)

[Nye Bevan]

7. Bring a cardboard box and some tape.

Weigh the box and your stuff before the trip and print out a USPS postage label to mail it from DC to your home address. In the morning, put your stuff in the box, tape it up, tape on the label, and ask the hotel to put it in the outgoing mail. Or alternatively you could drop the box at a post office.

[Recursion]

10. If you're really stuck, you can drop them off at my place

I know that's sketchy, but I've been in a city with no place to store my stuff, and I know that sucks.