<p>Yeah…that area is a 10-15 min walk from the edge of campus, and more from where students actually live. There’s nothing in there that students would want to go to anyway. To be honest, the off-campus areas that students frequent are (click on the map link) west out to Howe Street, south down to George, and east to Orange. Everyone here knows that if you walk down Dixwell far enough you get into some pretty bad neighborhoods. I don’t know any reason why some Yale undergrad would walk down that way. </p>
<p>Also, cosar, the actual Broadway area is safe, especially if you’re in a group. Yes, if you walk a few blocks away on Whalley you get into some bad neighborhoods, but honestly no one does that. There’s nothing there that students would want, especially at odd hours at night. A healthy dose of common sense is all you really need…like, don’t walk alone at night off-campus and don’t wander into areas that are really sketchy. It’s the same as any city.</p>