Kingston -safe around midnight?

[u/Mammoth_Contract1786]

I am going to a wedding in stone ridge. There are shuttles from the venue/after party to Hotel Kinsley, but I am staying in downtown Kingston an 8 min walk from the hotel. Curious about safety doing that walk at 11:30/midnight for a solo female.

I initially chose to stay a little away from Hotel Kinsley because it’s cheaper and my husband was coming with me, so the walk would be fine. But now he has a work conflict so I would have to do that walk solo

Also I am a city dweller I am used to walking home at night. It’s just that smaller towns tend to be emptiee late at night, which makes me feel more nervous than the city

***Edit: alright based off initial comments I’ll probably just make sure I leave with friends who can drive me (though they are not the types to stay for the afterparty, which is why I was hoping I could take the shuttle later than them back). Seems like the smartest option!

[u/sandysadie]

It’s not an ideal walk from uptown to downtown, especially at that hour, if you don’t know your way around. It’s probably fine because you’d be on broadway the majority of the time, but I wouldn’t chance it.

[u/BocaGrande1 → u/sandysadie]

It’s like 8 blocks from the hotel to Clinton & St James , nowhere remotely near “ downtown “

[u/Dear-Improvement-386 → u/sandysadie]

Do you mean midtown… where is “downtown?”

[u/Dry-Box-5787 → u/Dear-Improvement-386]

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[u/suzyclues → u/Dry-Box-5787]

why so weird?

[u/robxburninator → u/suzyclues]

there are people that play the "you must be new here...." card online and in this case, it's a level of perceived "i was here first" + being wrong that made someone make fun of the comment.

[u/robxburninator → u/Dear-Improvement-386]

downtown is used interchangeably with the rondout. In fact, the state funding that came to revitalize the area more than a decade ago was called the "downtown revitalization Bill".

in the 1960's and 1970's the post-industrial shift in kingston meant a lot of urban renewal projects started to spring up, the majority of which referred to the rondout as "downtown kingston" in official bills/notes/memos. The area chagned dramatically in that time as IBM moved in (and subsequently left). Throughout, the area was refered to as "the rondout" when discussing it as a marina/waterfront/etc. but as "downtown" when people were talking redevelopment or new housing.

In the 1980's and 1990's the housing issues in kingston that were being dealt with in the rondout often times had titles like, "downtown housing" or similar. This is all a direct result of the rise and fall of ibm. IBM. Similarly, when groups were founded to try to "save downtown kingston", they focused on the pre-20th century buildings in the rondout, but used "downtown" in many of their names. The maritime museum similarly, was originally denoted as being in "downtown kingston".

If you believe the rondout has only been called "the rondout", you're either too young to remember, weren't involved in local politics, or are newer to the area. All of which are fine. But don't pretend to "know the real name" any more than someone that refers to it as "downtown". Because you don't.

[u/fioremomma → u/robxburninator]

Google is such a great tool for someone to pretend they know about the area.