Providence College question (North Providence: violent crime, safe neighborhood, live)

[wtd7575]

Toured last week. Safe neighborhood? Especially for a girl. Any incidents that anyone is aware of? Thanks in advance.

[GermanSpy]

The PC neighborhood is certainly not horrible. What are you worried about? Crime? The bar scene? If it's the former I wouldn't be too concerned about the area as long as some dose of common sense is applied. If it's the latter...well...it's PC. Some Friars do enjoy a drink. Or two. Or three...

[wtd7575]

Specifically, the side of campus closest to downtown did not look particularly safe. I am just not sure as a perspective parent of girl. Safety is paramount. I am sure that the immediate campus is safe, but a block of campus, what is it like?

[Jenkins86]

That side is indeed less safe. Not ghetto exactly, but certainly some bad elements exist around there. Specifically, stay clear of the Chad Brown housing project.

[ProvGuy]

The area around PC is fine as long as you avoid the Chad Brown projects. Lot's of violent crime in that one little pocket, though there isn't much spillover into the surrounding neighborhood. The farther west you go from PC the nicer. Lot's of students live on the streets all around PC (Pembroke, Eaton, etc.).

[wtd7575]

we drove through Brown, and while impressed with the campus and Benefit Street, there were numerous homeless and unsavory types wandering around as well. I know it is an urban campus, but it was unsettling.

[MikeB4681]

Provguy is pretty much on the money. They call this section of Providence Elmhurst. It is pretty nice west of Dougles (where Eaton st. ends) or, from smith st, west of Oakland ave. Even this part of town isnt scary when you get use to it. I use to run near there all the time when I went to RIC and again when I lived in North Providence. Never had a problem. I would just avoid Chad Brown.

[Rnrboy]

Originally Posted by wtd7575

we drove through Brown, and while impressed with the campus and Benefit Street, there were numerous homeless and unsavory types wandering around as well. I know it is an urban campus, but it was unsettling.

Homeless? Unsavories? Near BROWN???

I used live where Thayer and Hope intersect (right near Brown) and never saw a homeless person there. (I lived there for a year, and go back intermittently.)

You sure you weren't just looking at college kids? haha
Maybe it's gotten worse?

[wtd7575]

I am just making an observation as there were several of us and we all noticed the same thing. We come from an urban environment so we know what we know. The campus was beautiful.

[leighland]

Originally Posted by wtd7575

we drove through Brown, and while impressed with the campus and Benefit Street, there were numerous homeless and unsavory types wandering around as well.

That wasn't homeless. Thats what happens to the scions of Blue Blood Ivy League legacies after several generations. I am not kidding...