Luigi59
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BruceLTalbot,Well, ok then. I'm glad I joined this forum to get this information! I guess I will be staying in New London( thats where my hotel is) but hanging out in Mystic! LOL Except for the parents day on Friday! I will get to see USCGA for the first time!!!!! rangermom
Downtown is not a war zone by any means, I have walked around the little shops and ice cream stores and bars/cafes on Bank St without problems, no uneasy feelings of being unsafe at all. Some streets have a lot of foot traffic, others have a lot of vacant boarded up storefronts.
If you want to check out the waterfront near the ferry terminal, do so without reservation.
There are some high crime areas of New London but just like any other city, you are pretty safe walking anywhere during the day.
I have seen 4/cs walking down Williams Street to the pizza place all the time, as well as seeing them walking down Bayonet St toward Chilis (no so much anymore now that Chilis burned down) or even walking farther toward downtown. Bike riding is very popular, many cadets keep a bike at the academy and ride them all over New London to the trails and to the parks.
Read The Day for a few weeks and pay attention to the crime reports, and after a while you'll see which areas seem to have a recurring crime problem.