Is Hancock St in Dorchester MA a safe? (Boston, Everett: best neighborhoods, apartment)

[suedeli]

My 18 year old son is moving to Dorchester and found an apartment on Hancock Street. Is this a safe neighborhood?

[Urban Peasant]

One end of that street is close to Upham's Corner and the other end is in Meeting House Hill, both problematic neighborhoods. I would not consider that entire area to be safe at all. At one time, our city government tried to promote that area as a coming up area for newcomers but after a slew of incidents including break-ins, car thefts, and even murders, all the gentrified people moved out and the whole place has fallen back to its old ways.

Your son is better off looking closer to the Savin Hill rapid transit station, or the Ashmont, Neponset, Port Norfolk, Shawmut, or Adam's Village sections of Dorchester. Stay as close to the Southeast Expressway and east of Dorchester Avenue for the best neighborhoods. The only good neighborhoods west of Dorchester Avenue are Shawmut (including the quiet Melville Park Area), Ashmont Hill, and the Lower Mills District which is the area directly south of Gallivan Blvd.

[goyguy]

I second that emotion. Hopefully "finding" an apartment doesn't mean a lease has been signed. All too often there's a good, negative, reason for ready availability of rental units in this city.
To the list supplied by UP, I'd like to add Jones Hill. Though it abuts the stubbornly sketchy Uphams Corner section, the neighborhood has fared better as a "discovered" community for urban pioneers. Also worth considering would be the so-called Polish Triangle along Boston St on the Dorchester/South Boston line.
As a general guideline for home-hunting in Dorchester, the main streets to always steer clear of living on or near are Blue Hill Ave, Morton St (except in Lower Mills), Bowdoin St, Geneva Ave, and Columbia Rd (except in Edward Everett Square - maybe - and the old St Margaret's Parish surrounding the intersection with "Dot Ave.")

[rockyrhodes]

please send me your sons pin numbers for his bank account better i should get his money than the crackheads he lives around lmao all the way to the bank