RN is the good heart of the city, north newark is safe,its south newark like weequaic park, central springfield ave, chancellor ave, avon, those are where you can get robbed, i was raised in south ward now i live in north newark, im not tryin to act like a a-hole but i love people who walk in the downtown and college sections and little proximity around and say it doesnt look bad, if you are white you cant walk in those areas they are heavy gangs, vicelords and nietas on chancellor, hawthorne is crips, springfield is bloods and you will get tested if you walk through, cats will check you to see where your heart is, they knocked down a lot of projects and built these little row houses like roseville. you used to have to wait for the person you have a problem with walk out of the building, now with these rinky dink houses people do drivebys and the bullets go through the house and hit everyone except for the intended victim
north newark is safe because its diverse, blacks, italians, jews, latinos, but central is black, south is black and latino west is black and borders east orange and irvington which are basically newark and are all black, im black im not racist but im assuming the RN students you talking about are white, you have to see both sides of the coin,
BTW born in cincinnati but mover out of the rhine and then the white folks in hamilton burned my house down and we got up outta there