New Brunswick NJ in 2013 (Somerset, Franklin: safe area, school, live in)
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I am wondering which parts of New Brunswick is safe. I am currently looking at the new building on 285 george street. I will need to walk to the NJ transit everyday for my job. The walk there during the day seems safe, but when I walk south from there away from the station on George street it seems very scary.
Please let me know if 285 george street is in the safe area and which neighbourhoods are dangerous and I should not be looking for housing in.
I don't agree with the person who posted above me. He/she makes it sound like New Brunswick is only borderline safe for a certain type of person and I don't think that's the case. In the 80s and throughout most of the 90s New Brunswick was a place you did not want to be. It has gotten much better since then. To be fair there are still some dangerous pockets of New Brunswick and 285 George borders a dicey area to the south but you would have no reason to go that way anyway. There is nothing over there worth going to. Everything between you and NJ transit to the north is pretty populated even late at night. The bars close at 2 in the morning so people are around in fairly large numbers until then. I'm a grad student at Rutgers so I live in New Brunswick. Occasionally you will get bums hitting you up for money but other than that nothing really happens. If you still don't feel comfortable moving to 285 George, you should check out the Vue. I'm not sure about the differences in price but I assume they would be similar as they are both trying to attract the young professional demographic. The Vue is much closer to NJ Transit and right in the center of the gentrified part of New Brunswick. Basically, downtown and the neighborhoods around Rutgers are the areas where you want to stay. Even though that may not sound like a lot those neighborhoods make up about half of New Brunswick. The entire town is only five and a half square miles.
Last edited by montycench; 05-31-2013 at 10:57 PM..
I don't agree with the person who posted above me. He/she makes it sound like New Brunswick is only borderline safe for a certain type of person and I don't think that's the case. In the 80s and throughout most of the 90s New Brunswick was a place you did not want to be. It has gotten much better since then. To be fair there are still some dangerous pockets of New Brunswick and 285 George borders a dicey area to the south but you would have no reason to go that way anyway. There is nothing over there worth going to. Everything between you and NJ transit to the north is pretty populated even late at night. The bars close at 2 in the morning so people are around in fairly large numbers until then. I'm a grad student at Rutgers so I live in New Brunswick. Occasionally you will get bums hitting you up for money but other than that nothing really happens. If you still don't feel comfortable moving to 285 George, you should check out the Vue. I'm not sure about the differences in price but I assume they would be similar as they are both trying to attract the young professional demographic. The Vue is much closer to NJ Transit and right in the center of the gentrified part of New Brunswick. Basically, downtown and the neighborhoods around Rutgers are the areas where you want to stay. Even though that may not sound like a lot those neighborhoods make up about half of New Brunswick. The entire town is only five and a half square miles.
Generally the areas around Remsen Ave between Sandford and Welton, and the areas around Somerset St as it merges with Rt 27 near the Franklin border, are the worst parts. The rest of it is fairly safe.
I see students walking around most parts of New Brunswick. A bit further away from downtown it gets dicey but that area looks fine. Remsen is a dump.
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