<p>I spent three weeks at the Homewood campus a few summers ago. I was one of the older ones (15) and the group ranged from about 12-16, so we weren’t really allowed off campus on our own. But when we did go (a few times with our college student RA and a few times just wandering off) it wasn’t a really bad area. I guess it depends on where you come from and where you’ve been. Being born in Queens and spending a lot of time in the Washington Heights area of Manhattan (but also living in a somewhat sheltered suburb), it didn’t seem at all bad to me.
Of course you can’t be stupid about going out, but that’s true of almost everywhere.</p>