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Trinity College's location in Hartford should not be a deterrent to considering the school. First, Trinity has been an active participant in improvements to the neighborhood, including the education corrider of public schools, the college's ice rink on New Britain Avenue which is also available for public use, and numerous community initiatives, many involing tutoring and mentoring Hartford public school students both at Trinity and at the local schools.
Additionally, Trinity is a short car or bus ride away from West Hartford Center, a nice down town with restaurants, movie theatre, and shopping.
Trinity is located within 5 minutes of Hartford Hospital, an excellent hospital providing research and internship opportunities and within 10 minutes of the state capital building and many associated state departments, also providing internship opportunities.
Hartford itself offers the Hartford Stage (an excellent regional theatre), the Bushnell (providing music and theatre), the Wadsworth art museum, the Hartford Civic Center,
the Webster (new music venue) and other opportunities for culture.
Hartford like all urban cities has crime, mostly drug related, and has many poor and low income residents. Trinity itself is a very safe campus which is also beautiful - filled with college gothic achitecture and open tree-filled green spaces. In sum, it has the best of both worlds - a bucolic campus in a city environment.
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