Exciting Area around Campus

JHS
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:49:48 +0000

Another perspective: Hyde Park is a nice, primarily residential urban neighborhood. What it has by way of entertainment is mainly things connected to the University, like museums (and also the Museum of Science and Industry, which as far as I can tell does not have much to offer to college-age people). A few bars, but no clubs, movies, or interesting retail (and no hotels, or high-quality restaurants). For that, people get on the bus or el and go elsewhere in the city, where it exists in an abundance and variety not found anywhere outside of Manhattan.

There is a real difference between the level of amenities available in Hyde Park and those, say, around Harvard in Cambridge, Penn in University City, Columbia on the Upper West Side. Even, to tell the truth, Princeton, which because it is farther from everything is more self-contained.