Were you wearing a Yankees hat? If so, then that’s probably very good advice.
Otherwise, um, either you need to get better at telling when city folk are pulling your leg, or your friends need to get out a little more. No, a lot more. Fenway is one of the safer areas of Boston, even on non-game nights. I rate it about a 2 on the 1-10 danger scale. Perhaps a decade or two ago, it might have been a 3, but I don’t think it was ever real bad.
I used homefair.com to compare neighborhoods in San Francisco. It gives these numbers for zip code 94124, which includes Monster Park and Hunter’s Point (100 is the national average):
Total Crime Risk: 86
Personal Crime Risk: 130
Property Crime Risk: 65
Here are the numbers it gives for 94123 - the Marina District, which is one of the best neighborhoods in the city:
Total Crime Risk: 227
Personal Crime Risk: 239
Property Crime Risk: 254
I don’t trust these numbers at all. As I mentioned in a previous post, Hunter’s Point has a high murder rate due to gang warfare. Yet homefair.com claims the personal crime risk there is only 30% higher than average, while the personal crime risk in the ritzy Marina is 127% higher than average.
What can I say? The Chicago numbers I believe.
OK, you want a batter cite for Chicago, let’s try the Police Department’s numbers, searchable here: http://www.chicagocrime.org.
This one lets you search by exact address. So here’s the stats for within a half-mile radius of Comiskey Park (333 W. 35th) and Wrigley Field (1060 W. Addison), over the last week (it doesn’t seem to let you search by radius for more than a week in advance):
Wrigley:
5 Personal
14 Property
0 Society
Comiskey:
3 Person
11 Property
3 Society (Pot smoking, liquor)
To be fair, there were games at Wrigley last week, but not at the Cell.
If you search by the exact address, the stats will go farther back for you. In these, the Cell is still ahead, with only 4 personal crimes since August 1, and Wrigley with 8.
So, there’s two cites for you and everyone else.
USC sure, but UCLA is surrounded by Bel Air and Brentwood to the north and west, high-end westwood residential, and then Beverly Hills to the east, and fancy expensive commercial areas to the south. I don’t think you could buy a home for less than $1.5MM anywhere within a mile of the UCLA Campus.
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Dude you don’t know the half of it!
I used to live on Jerome Ave. about 3 blocks from the house that Ruth built, and once the sun went down stuff got CRAZY!.
For examble, right on the site of the new Yankee Staduim, there was this one street that was behind a tennis stadium. One night I came home late from class and decided to take a short cut down there…only to discover that 164th St. is a home to a Gay Hooker Stroll. Yeah man, WEIRD. And don’t ever under any circumstances go up the hill (west) on Ogdon ave. Unless you’re faster then a speeding bullet. Its like coke city man!
I was just about to mention that one – however, it’s sort of located in an “oasis” which includes USC, Exposition Park, and the Museum of Science & Industry. Not a bad area, but don’t stray too far away…
The Inglewood Forum is scary. The area’s gotten a lot worse since all the sports teams moved to The Staples Center. I passed on a recent Black Sabbath concert because I didn’t want to go anywhere near there.
I went to Yankee Stadium last year and the area didn’t seem too bad.
Interesting. Because of your post coupled with the earlier mention that the Forum is now owned by a mega-church, I did some looking. It appears that the church rents out the venue for various events.
Nice to know you can still get shot there on a weeknight! 