<p>I was reading the crime report in New Haven, and being a relitivley small town and all, there is quite a lot of crime. Check out the link, and if you go to Yale, let me know.</p>
<p>New</a> Haven Crime Log</p>
<p>To answer your question, yes.</p>
<p>First of all, Yale has very strong security and the area around campus has been very gentrified so New Haven is quite nice and the campus is very safe. There are more violent crimes at Harvard each year than Yale fyi. Second of all, greater New Haven has 600,000 people – is it is NOT a “small town.” Thirdly, don’t obsess about these top colleges until you get in!</p>
<p>Eh… it’s still better than a lot of LA.</p>
<p>Greater New Haven is not the issue. Downtown New Haven is. </p>
<p>Off campus can be troublesome at night but the campus is safe and the shopping around Yale is also safe. On nights when the nightclubs downtown are hopping, that is also safe, other than the usual crap associated with clubs. </p>
<p>I assume you’re talking random street crime / violent crime. The only area you’re likely to go in at some time which can be a problem is out Orange - where a lot of grad students, younger professors, etc. live. Nice houses, some crime at night. This is past the big garage behind Science Hill. </p>
<p>The worst part of New Haven is not near campus. The area north of Yale, behind the gym or out Whalley can be a problem at night, but you won’t be going there. There’s occasional street crime in the area behind Pierson but nothing to really worry about.</p>
<p>Is it safe to walk from Old Campus to Yale Medical School along College Street most time of the day, say, before 9:00 pm? I heard that some section on the Church St. close to the train station is somewhat unsafe, so it is recommended not to walk to the train station. (It is too far to walk there any way.) But I do not know whether it is safe to walk from Old Campus to Yale Medical School.</p>
<p>Is it somewhat better (in terms of safety) to walk to Yale Medical School along York St. instead of College St.? I know I tend to be overly paranoid. (I also know that a medical school student got killed by a car near S. Frontier. and York last year when she walked there, but it is traffic related, not crime related. I hope there is a traffic light there now. I feel that the cars threaten student’s safety more than the crimes.)</p>
<p>Are the routes from campus to East Rock Park relatively safe? I run a lot, and I heard there were some nice neighborhoods along the way, but I just want to make sure I don’t encounter trouble, especially as a lone female.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>booyaksha, just for the record if you are referring to the Greater New Haven area (including suburbs) there are about 600,000 people, but just the urban area has 124,000 people. It is not as large as say Hartford and Bridgeport, but I am sorry, I didn’t realize how large it is until now. It is still not as large as other cities. And by the way, you can’t tell me where to post and where not to post. I am curious, and just wanted to ask questions. I am also well educated in colleges and know a lot, so please don’t tell me where to post and what to do.</p>
<p>Lergnom, thanks for the help. You do make a very valuable point.</p>
<p>I’m sorry if what i said in my previous post insulted you in any way, becasue I didn’t mean any harm. I was just saying that I am curious, I mean, who isn’t, and wanted to know. So if I insulted you in any way by what you said, i am sorry, and you have been a great help in this.</p>
<p>Notice that some of the crimes listed in your link aren’t even “crimes,” per se. Lost items? Located animals? Begging?</p>
<p>Well, I also saw some of the crimes that aren’t like the lost items or located animals</p>
<p>This question comes up A LOT on here, and in general too, and it’s usually from kids who aren’t used to cities. </p>
<p>New Haven is just a city, it’s not like it’s the most dangerous city in the world, it’s just a city. And with cities naturally comes crime; you can’t tell me if you went to Columbia you wouldn’t be worried about the crime in New York City or Harvard in Cambridge. There will just be crime whenever you transplant yourself to any kind of city. </p>
<p>I think New Haven just gets a lot of crap for it because it’s a city on the smaller side so it seems like the crime is more concentrated, but really it’s no different than any other city. </p>
<p>Be safe and smart, walk in numbers at night, if you’re a girl especially don’t walk alone, and don’t provoke anyone unnecessarily who you find suspicious. That’s really all you need to do.</p>
<p>Walking to the medical school from the Old Campus would be fine. I don’t think I have ever made that walk on College (because when I used to do it I lived a lot closer to York), but York is certainly fine.</p>
<p>Walking to the train station was sketchy years ago when I was at Yale, but people still did it without anything awful happening. I haven’t walked in that area for years, but I’ve driven in it pretty frequently. Still sketchy. Probably fine during the day, but I wouldn’t laugh at anyone who felt uncomfortable walking, especially if you had luggage.</p>
<p>Running to East Rock – for that I’d have to defer to people with more current knowledge. That’s pretty much the same as Lergnom’s “out Orange . . . past the big garage”.</p>
<p>I’ve walked Yale to the train station or the other way many times, including with luggage, and never felt that unsafe. When I’ve done it at night, it’s been with a fairly large group, though, so that makes a difference. </p>
<p>I’d say Yale to the Med School is a bit sketchy for my tastes at night - I’d only go after dark if I were with other people. Same is true for heading to East Rock - though after a little while, you get into pretty nice neighborhoods up that way.</p>
<p>In general, if you’re leaving the central campus area after dark, you’ll want to go with other people, but I don’t think anywhere that Yale students are likely to go is at all dangerous during the day. Virtually all of the crime reports that the Yale police chief sends to Yale students involve people walking alone after dark on the fringes of campus - that is no one gets mugged on the way from old campus to the library (even at night), anywhere during the day, or when with a group of more than 2 people (very rarely two people together in a sketchy place at night will get robbed). Also, I’d say that of the street crime that affects Yale students, a significant portion is of the purse-snatching variety rather than the mugging variety. Obviously, having stuff stolen is never good, but at least there’s no physical threat in those sorts of crimes.</p>
<p>JHS and svalbard: Thanks for answering my question and sharing your experienes with us.</p>
<p>Regarding “Yale to the Med School is a bit sketchy for my tastes at night”: Is it because you need to go through the drinking/nightlife area, or is it because the area close to Yale Medical School (after you pass the S. and N. frontier roads) is a little bit sketchy?</p>
<p>Regarding running, I believe DS runs mostly in the Gym next to the Swing Space and Morse College. There is a nice running track inside.</p>
<p>I’ve run to East Rock many times. I wouldn’t do it late at night and I’d be careful in the evenings - sensible in most places. I’d be extra careful if I were a girl.</p>
<p>There is random street crime on the other side of the little highway that comes off 95. The other side has some really bad areas - and some neat ones. It will spill over to say Crown Street but generally it’s ok. Not great. But ok.</p>
<p>Most off campus crime that affects Yale is out past Pierson-Sage because there are more Yalies on foot out there at night. Not up on the hill, mind you, but down off Orange.</p>
<p>Thanks, Lergmom.</p>
<p>At one time, we were walking toward the area past Pierson-Sage (to go to Enterprise Car Rental) late in the afternoon. As we walked to the west on Crown or George, the area becomes a little bit sketchy to our taste. But when we walked from Davenport to a Walgreen on York (just north of the little highway that comes off 95 you were talking about) late in the afternoon, we felt safe. Some sections of Whitney not too far from downtown (the area close to Yale UCS, and the “art district,” e.g., near Neighborhood Music School) seem nice also – There is a small FedEx shipping center just across from Yale UCS.</p>
<p>We intentionally walked around (but not far from Yale) in order to find out which areas may be somewhat sketchy.</p>
<p>I also suspect that some students (esp. the graduate students) might live off-campus in the area close to Pierson-Sage, as it is within the walking distance (and maybe the rent there is a little bit cheaper than the house in the nicer East Rock area?)</p>
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<p>As sketchy as parts of New Haven are, no one was murdered in the middle of the afternoon inside of a Yale residential college, in a drug deal gone bad, as happened in a Harvard house 3 months ago!</p>
<p>its.been.real, thank you very much, however I am not actualy from a small city. i am actualy from a city with about 250,000 people and the greater metropolitan area has around 2 million, and i live in the city, so i know a city when i see one. but i just heard there was lots of crime in new haven and i wanted to confirm that.</p>
<p>nat, that isn’t really helpful. The people involved knew each other. It wasn’t random. The Harvard part of Cambridge is safer than off campus New Haven. There are parts of Cambridge that are more iffy. </p>
<p>I live across the river in a ridiculously safe area for a city and we had a woman abducted at the main intersection. It was after 2AM, which says something, but it was still a huge shock. (And they have one of them already because the truck was caught on the cameras the Town is being pressured to remove.) </p>
<p>If it’s 2AM, it’s more dangerous anywhere.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you that have responded thus far. But just to let you know, it’s.been.real, i did not ask this question because I come from a small town. I am actually in a city with an inner-city population of 250,000, which by the way is a little over 100,000 more than New Haven, as well as the greater metropolitan area population which is a little over 2 million. I just had heard that New Haven wasn’t safe and wanted to confirm it with people who went to Yale. Thanks for the information anyways. You were a great help.</p>