Questions for Justin (or others)

hudsonvalley51
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:01:30 +0000

We just came back from the Experience Lafayette program and Had an opportunity to explore Easton for the first time after several visits to Lafayette. I have seen that periodically when Lafayette comes up on the message boards that someone inevitably talks about Easton being a little “sketchy.” Now that I’ve seen the city all I can think is that the posters who have described it as “sketchy” must live in Katonah, NY, Summit, NJ, Lake Forest, Ill or other such insular (an upscale) community.

True, Easton has some worn at the heels neighborhoods, and among the residents are some low-income families and minorities. I don’t think I’d necessarily want my daughter wandering around city centre at 2 am either. But the same could be said for Poughkeepsie, New London, New Haven and dozens of other post-industrial college towns. On balance Easton appears to offer a lot to those students who go looking for it, either downtown or on College Hill, and as long as normal safety precautions are taken a student should be fine. Its not like we’re talking about the mean streets of Morningside Heights or Cambridge after all.