Anyone familiar with Utica? (Conklin, Mohawk: where to stay, buying a house, buying)

[paulludwikowski]

My wife and I are looking at buying a house in Utica but I am not familiar enough with the city to know where to stay away from. Can anyone give me the main streets that surround Cornhill. I know Rutger, Eagle, and James are part of it but I don't know how far south it goes. Is Conkling an alright area? What areas should we avoid? Thanks

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by paulludwikowski

My wife and I are looking at buying a house in Utica but I am not familiar enough with the city to know where to stay away from. Can anyone give me the main streets that surround Cornhill. I know Rutger, Eagle, and James are part of it but I don't know how far south it goes. Is Conkling an alright area? What areas should we avoid? Thanks

Conkling I think is the "line" between Cornhill and the nicer parts of East Utica. If you want nice parts of the city of Utica, I'd go with North Utica, most of South Utica, East Utica around Proctor High and Mohawk Valley Community College and the areas right next to Memorial Parkway/Pleasant St. Areas near Utica College are fine too. Here's a map I found from the city website: http://www.cityofutica.com/pdf/council_districts.pdf
I'd say that districts 1 and 5(where Cornhill is located) are the ones you would want to avoid. Maybe the inner part(east of the arterial) of district 2 as well.

Here's more on the city: http://www.cityofutica.com/Home

[paulludwikowski]

Thanks for the information.

[corduroyboy]

Avoid all of Utica, stick to the great towns and villages surrounding it. Utica is a political, social, and economical mess of a city. If you can even call it a city.