Van Ness-UDC is an island platformed Washington Metro station serving the Forest Hills and North Cleveland Park neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., United States. The station was opened on December 5, 1981, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Providing service for the Red Line, the station is on the 4200 block of Connecticut Avenue Northwest, with exits on either side of Connecticut Avenue. The station is also nearest to the University of the District of Columbia, whose name lends the -UDC suffix and both Howard University School of Law and the Edmund Burke School. Other attractions are easily reachable from the station because of its position at the intersection of Veazey Street and Connecticut Avenue. 

Van Ness-UDC station is the final station in the tunnel beneath Connecticut Avenue, one of Washington's busiest thoroughfares.