Hi Jmc, certainly no one wants to doubt the validity of your experience, it's just that you may have heard the officer say 35 to 40 such incidents have occurred in Dwight--meaning the Dwight area--that is the name for this section of town: from Howe to Sherman and Whalley to George, not just Dwight Street alone. Even in the worst of times, we've never experienced 40 burglaries on our street in a couple months.
Also you may want to factor in that most of NH police are from the suburbs and have a typical suburban attitude about inner city populations and activities. When I made a complaint about trespassers and suspicious people hanging around my properties on Dwight and Edgewood last year, they immediately assumed that my tenants are welfare recipients (as if that mattered) when in fact they are mostly grad students.
Home invasions are not exclusive to our neighborhood. Some have occurred in neighborhoods as upscale as Huntington street recently, and I just read in the NHI about what appears to be an attempted rape on Bishop Street last night.

"Move now" is just schilling for East Rock landlords. Taxes have increased immensely in the East Rock area and tenants are reluctant to rent there because of the high prices landlords are charging now to make up for the increase in their taxes. Check this article in the New Haven Independent:

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/east_rock_rents_rise_with_taxes/#cmt

Quote: "Frew said she’s worried. “People are going to other neighborhoods.” More and more, people who would rent in East Rock are going to neighborhoods like Dwight, where they can get a one-bedroom place for $1,000."

"Move now" makes a blatantly transparent attempt to smear the Dwight neighborhood to steer prospective tenants to East Rock. It's not worth the research time to trade crime stats with this kind of prejudicial attitude.

Former Howe St. resident, twenty years ago, and the neighborhood was lousy then and it still is - probably worse (though the hookers seem to have moved to Fair Haven). Whalley Ave. seems worse to me (blame the city for lack of planning). I know people who moved out of Westville, just because they got totally bummed out by Whalley Ave. Even the area of Elm and Upper Chapel, past St. Raphe's has gone downhill. What part of bars on people's windows did you not notice when you were looking at apartments? Location of housing projects? Abundance of rundown properties? Halfway houses? Garbage on the streets? Abundance of unemployed men hanging around? The problems are bigger than the NHPD could even begin to solve. Pleas note Olivia Martson:

"she served as the Alderwoman for Ward 2, a downtown neighborhood immediately west of Yale University. She understands the distinct qualities of New Haven's many neighborhoods, such as what they can offer buyers, especially out of towners [naive grad students] looking to settle in New Haven. Finding the right home in the greater New Haven area can be very challenging." And How[e].

As long as New Haven shoulders the burden of providing all of the low income housing, in greater New Haven, some of these neighborhoods, e.g. Kensington Square, will never change. No one is going to invest next to the projects.

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