Mayberry - 6/23/2012

I read some of the comments on this site referring to Edgewater as "Mayberry" and as someone who grew up there, it was in the 70's. My uncle was the town barber (Bert) and my dad was one of the Lts. in the Fire Department. Since everyone knew everyone, when I started driving I was less concerned about getting a ticket from the Edgewater police and more concerned about what they would tell my dad! Now it is the barrio and my mom and dad really hate having to clean off grafitti from their garage. I guess that happens when undesireables move in or nearby!

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Edgewater is an "urban city"???? - 5/13/2010

Edgewater is an "urban city"?....... What?.... Edgewater is a small little bedroom community that no one has ever heard of because its a only a few blocks and confused with Wheatridge. I don't what you consider crime, but there isn't any real crime in Edgewater, except for maybe the occasional domestic between a husband and wife who forgot to water their garden. ...... Frequent gunshots?, I cant remember that last time there's been a shooting in Edgewater, I would say gunshots are unheard of, rather than frequent. maybe your confusing firecrackers with gunshots. The sirens you hear are the ambulance from other cities traveling down Sheridan going to St Anthony's hospital or maybe you hear Denver police, fire or paramedics going down Sheridan, but it definitely isn't related to Edgewater. The occasional graffiti that pops up in Edgewater, looks like it came from a 10 year old trying to imitate what he saw on Gangland (or internet). If you think Edgewater has gang problem, your sadly mistaken, you need to travel. Casper Wyoming has a bigger gang problem than Edgewater' The only thing remotely related to a real gang is the 1 retired gang member who moved there from LA after he was chased out for being weak...... Low Income? The houses in Edgewater are so expensive, hardly anyone can afford to live there............. Nick puts it best, Edgewater is Mayberry. Stop trying build Edgewater's street credit on the Internet... it wont work.

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Re: Edgeater - 5/11/2010

I'll give you one thing Joey, you are trying hard. Also you are right about one thing, I do live in white suburbia, I live in Edgewater. Interesting, but desperate attempt at spanglish, keep practicing. I especially like the part where you name your little friends and then incriminate them.Let me give a quick geography lesson. Edgewater is NOT a neighborhood, it is its own city in Jefferson County. This is why Edgewater has their own police dept, fire dept and their own mayor. How come Villa Park, Barnum, or Westwood don't have their own police dept's, fire dept's or mayors, that is because they are a neighborhood within a city. No matter how much you try or wish, Edgewood is a neighborhood in lakeWOOD's Northeast EDGE. By the way the "projects at 18th and Kendall" are actually privately owned condos located outside Edgewater's border in the City of Lakewood. Educate yourself on what Housing Projects actually are. Sure I'm familiar with the Gallant Knights Insane or Gangstas killin Incas and the West Side Bloods....... any little toy can put up some generic tag on some fence in a dark alley in the middle of the night or claim they ex members to their friends little brother..... . Obliviously you've never left Colorado before, 99% of Denver has suburb characteristics, ask your mom if she'll take you to a real city so you can see what urban is and what low income is. Also why do you keep mentioning all these shootings and murders that happened in Lakewood or Denver? what do they have to do with Edgewater? By the way $39,000.00 is quite a bit of money I'm not sure how your thinking that's low income...FYI $39,000.00 /Yr is 3 times above the poverty rate and is what is defined as median income..Your just a kid who is trying to represent his neighborhood...but on the internet?....Oh yeah that's what we call an INTERNET GANGSTER. Maybe you'll expose Edgewater's Internet gangster problem, by posting these ridiculous comments.Take it or leave it Edgewater is a quiet little Bedroom Community that has a small wannabe problem. Joey...I'm starting to feel sorry for you. You probably REALLY don't know, someday it will all make sense. You seem like a smart person, you should put your energy towards more productive things. Try and give up your infatuation with gangs and crime, it leads no where. I'm not going to continue to argue all these facts with you. You don't have to be ignorant, but if you want to stay ignorant, I cant stop you. You can bend it and twist it...You can misuse and abuse it...But you cannot change the Truth.

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Edgewater is an "urban city"???? - 5/11/2010

Edgewater is an "urban city"?....... What?.... Edgewater is a small little bedroom community that no one has ever heard of because its a only a few blocks and confused with Wheatridge. I don't what you consider crime, but there isn't any real crime in Edgewater, except for maybe the occasional domestic between a husband and wife who forgot to water their garden. ...... Frequent gunshots?, I cant remember that last time there's been a shooting in Edgewater, I would say gunshots are unheard of, rather than frequent. maybe your confusing firecrackers with gunshots. The sirens you hear are the ambulance from other cities traveling down Sheridan going to St Anthony's hospital or maybe you hear Denver police, fire or paramedics going down Sheridan, but it definitely isn't related to Edgewater. The occasional graffiti that pops up in Edgewater, looks like it came from a 10 year old trying to imitate what he saw on Gangland (or internet). If you think Edgewater has gang problem, your sadly mistaken, you need to travel. Casper Wyoming has a bigger gang problem than Edgewater' The only thing remotely related to a real gang is the 1 retired gang member who moved there from LA after he was chased out for being weak...... Low Income? The houses in Edgewater are so expensive, hardly anyone can afford to live there............. Nick puts it best, Edgewater is Mayberry. Stop trying build Edgewater's street credit on the Internet... it wont work.

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Real Edgewater - 5/11/2010

Wow ! that's an interesting posting. I am very familiar with Edgewater and I researched almost everything you've said and almost everything you said is completely FALSE. For example ...... your reference to the crime statistics are completely untrue and misleading, I see where your going by trying to imagine IF Edgewater was a 100,000 person city and multiplying everything. Even with that bizarre way of looking at it, you are still wrong ! Why don't you just say it for what it is. For example Edgewater reported the following to CBI (Colorado Bureau of Investigations) in 2008. 482 total incidents, 0 murders , 0 Sex Assaults, 5 robberies, 43 Assaults( only 6 by hands or feet and 0 with gun or knife), 29 Burglaries, 31 vehicle thefts and 252 thefts. this isn't even close to what you claim of "6,704 incidents, 18.8 murders, 188.3 robberies, 263.7 assaults, 508.5 burglaries, 4,821 thefts, 885.1 vehicle thefts". Also you mention Edgewood and say it is part of Edgewater, when in fact it is a name of a Lakewood neighborhood and it is in the city limits of Lakewood. It is called Edgewood because it is on the northeast border of Lakewood, hence Edgewood. West Colfax is a joke when it comes to high crime and danger. I'd walk up down that street day and night and don't have the slightest worry. It is a Joke. you refer to Edgewater as "urban" Edgewater is a tiny bedroom community. It is far from being urban, it's what we call a suburb. I researched all these gang killings you speak of.... Hmm? .. Looks like there has been only 1 murder since 2003. And those police shootings were other police agencies (IE Lakewood) shooting people outside Edgewater. It seems to me since Edgewater has ABSOLUTELY NO STREET CREDIT your trying to build street credit for it on the internet of all things. SORRY, Edgewater has always been a backward Podunk little town and always will be. I think your a little delusional and need to travel outside sheltered Colorado and go visit somewhere that is actually "no Joke". No matter how much you try to hype Edgewater up as some Urban slum it will never be and will always be the safe little town it is.

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Edgewater - 3/12/2010

Edgewater is an "urban city"?....... What?.... Edgewater is a small little bedroom community that no one has ever heard of because its a only a few blocks and confused with Wheatridge. I don't what you consider crime, but there isn't any real crime in Edgewater, except for maybe the occasional domestic between a husband and wife who forgot to water their garden. ...... Frequent gunshots?, I cant remember that last time there's been a shooting in Edgewater, I would say gunshots are unheard of, rather than frequent. maybe your confusing firecrackers with gunshots. The sirens you hear are the ambulance from other cities traveling down Sheridan going to St Anthony's hospital or maybe you hear Denver police, fire or paramedics going down Sheridan, but it definitely isn't related to Edgewater. The occasional graffiti that pops up in Edgewater, looks like it came from a 10 year old trying to imitate what he saw on Gangland (or internet). If you think Edgewater has gang problem, your sadly mistaken, you need to travel. Casper Wyoming has a bigger gang problem than Edgewater' The only thing remotely related to a real gang is the 1 retired gang member who moved there from LA after he was chased out for being weak...... Low Income? The houses in Edgewater are so expensive, hardly anyone can afford to live there............. Nick puts it best, Edgewater is Mayberry. Stop trying build Edgewater's street credit on the Internet... it wont work.

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Edgewater - 1/29/2010

Edgewater is a very small suburb west of Denver. I think its only a square mile. Its an oasis, a clean and safe little town, It's like Mayberry here, it has a little tiny Mayberry library and it's own little Mayberry police station where the policeman sits in a rocking chair out front.It's one the places where you don't have to lock your front door. It's full of beautiful little homes with beautiful yards. the town sits on the edge of Sloans Lake (where I imagine its name comes from) I love living here, it's a clean and quiet. I moved here from California, I've lived here for the last 10 years and I have had zero problems. I wouldn't live anywhere else. I think it is the perfect place to raise your children. Big city crime is almost non existent, the people are super friendly, and my family feels very safe here.

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Edgewater is Mayberry, Colorado - 1/28/2010

Edgewater is a very small suburb west of Denver. I think its only a square mile. Its an oasis, a clean and safe little town, It's like Mayberry here, it has a little tiny Mayberry library and it's own little Mayberry police station where the policeman sits in a rocking chair out front. It's one the places where you don't have to lock your front door. It's full of beautiful little homes with beautiful yards. the town sits on the edge of Sloans Lake (where I imagine its name comes from) I love living here, it's a clean and quiet. I moved here from California, I've lived here for the last 10 years and I have had zero problems. I wouldn't live anywhere else. I think it is the perfect place to raise your children. Big city crime is almost non existent, the people are super friendly, and my family feels very safe here.

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Edgewater is Mayberry - 1/28/2010

Edgewater is a very small suburb west of Denver. I think its only a square mile. Its an oasis, a clean and safe little town, It's like Mayberry here, it has a little tiny Mayberry library and it's own little Mayberry police station where the policeman sits in a rocking chair out front. It's one the places where you don't have to lock your front door. It's full of beautiful little homes with beautiful yards. the town sits on the edge of Sloans Lake (where I imagine its name comes from) I love living here, it's a clean and quiet. I moved here from California, I've lived here for the last 10 years and I have had zero problems. I wouldn't live anywhere else. I think it is the perfect place to raise your children. Big city crime is almost non existent, the people are super friendly, and my family feels very safe here.

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Edgewater is the Colorado Mayberry - 1/28/2010

Edgewater is a very small suburb west of Denver. I think its only a square mile. Its an oasis, a clean and safe little town, It's like Mayberry here, it has a little tiny Mayberry library and it's own little Mayberry police station where the policeman sits in a rocking chair out front.It's one the places where you don't have to lock your front door. It's full of beautiful little homes with beautiful yards. the town sits on the edge of Sloans Lake (where I imagine its name comes from) I love living here, it's a clean and quiet. I moved here from California, I've lived here for the last 10 years and I have had zero problems. I wouldn't live anywhere else. I think it is the perfect place to raise your children. Big city crime is almost non existent, the people are super friendly, and my family feels very safe here.

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Let me get it striaght with everyone... - 1/27/2010

Edgewater is no east st. louis, harlem, south central, detroit, or flint, etc. But the neighborhood does have its issues/problems, etc. First of all, edgewater is not the mayberry of colorad or whatever the other reviewer had said. i'd have to disagree with that statement. and you may be able to get by leaving your door unlocked for a few nights, but sooner or later it will come back to haunt you. and do not leave your car door unlocked man. i agree with "joey velca?" or whatever about the crime in edgewater. i have heard of edgewood also which is in edgewater but does not get counted on the stats for this neighborhood. With respect tot he gang activity..... theres not a gang "problem", but there are active gangs. its not such a huge problem, but it is within in the schools. i sent my kid to jefferson high school from 2002-2006, and he would tell me frequent stories about gangs in the school, which are located in the neighborhood. such as, GKI, WSB, RTS, OKW, etc. now these gangs are not just located in edgewaters neighborhood but they extend into denver. to say that denver has gang activity and that edgewater (which sits right on the denver county border) has none is just flat out ignorant, no offense "anthony". i agree the neighborhood is about 60% hispanic, and maybe 30-40% white. this neighborhood has changed a great deal since i was in high school at denver west in the 80's. and i agree that edgewater has its fair share of crime. i definitely agree with joey that you should go and look at the edgewater police department page and it will show up to 30 days of how much crime has happened in edgewater. theres been a homicide, 5 robberies, 10 assaults, 4 deadly weapon assualts, 30 something property crimes, like 10 vehice thefts, and thefts from a vehice, so yes crime does happen here. and at higher rate , since the neighborhood itself is only 5,000 people. and the cost of living here is not high. the average income is like $39,000 or something. and most all the poeple in the hood are renters. trust me people, edgewater is not some nice white suburban looking place which people cant afford. most all people can afford to live here. its low income, has gangs, schools are like 80-85% latino, neighborhood is like 60-65% latino counting illegals. trust me i know what im saying people

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a neighborhood on the decline.... - 1/26/2010

please dont listen to any people that do not know what they're talking about. Yes, this neighborhood is no compton california lol. however, its has its negatives. The schools are low performing, and have many behavior issues. With latinos (mexican americans) getting more and more populated in the neighborhood, you can expect great mexican food. bubba chinos off 20th and lamar is great and la cascada off 20th and depew is bomb too. im 17 living in edgewater and i KNOW what its like. people that dont interact with the kids that go to school here or walk around the neighborhood (all parts!) dont really have a fair playing field to way in on this hood. the schools are 80% latino (and im latino, im not a racist), and they have sets. graffitti is an everyday thing. im willing to bet that most ALL residents of edgewate rhave had to clean off one of their fences at one point or another. and i can remember about 8 gang relate murders since ive lived her. its just part of an urban city man. i enjoy it. graffitti (and sets in the hood) to watch out for: RTS 20st, W$B, NS XIV, GKI, OKW, KH or KHT, SUR X3 (some but not a lot), WM, and others. trust me man i know. my friend cruzito was a GKI member who attended Jefferson high from 2005-2009, and lives off 24th and marshall. and my friend santana is a W$B member who attends jefferson with me, and he lives in the projects off 18th and kendall. trust me, i know what im talking about. now stuff proabably wont happen if you just walk thru here a few times or even if you live here and mind your own business. but you know not to go to the strip mall of west 20th and lamar when jefferson high gets out of school or late at night. trust me.

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Mayberry of Colorado - 1/24/2010

Edgewater is a very small suburb west of Denver. I think its only a square mile. Its an oasis, a clean and safe little town, It's like Mayberry here, it has a little tiny Mayberry library and it's own little Mayberry police station where the policeman sits in a rocking chair out front!It's one the places where you don't have to lock your front door. It's full of beautiful little homes with beautiful yards. the town sits on the edge of Sloans Lake (where I imagine its name comes from) I love living here, it's a clean and quiet. I moved here from California, I've lived here for the last 10 years and I have had zero problems. I wouldn't live anywhere else. I think it is the perfect place to raise your children. Big city crime is almost non existent, the people are super friendly, and my family feels very safe here.

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urban - 1/2/2010

Edgewater was one of THE up and coming neighborhoods in the denver metro area for a long time. throughout the 1970's, 80's and early to mid 90's, Edgewater was a pretty nice little area smack dab in the urban city. However, the neighborhood has changed a great deal from the late 90's to present day. Edgewater sits right on the border of Denver county and the nice white suburbia suburbs. I have lived in the west colfax neighborhood in denver for my earlier years and i lived in the edgewater neighborhood from 2006-2009. I have now moved to the villa park neighborhood. Edgewater has a crime rate of 67 incidents per 1,000 people, a lot higher than it was in the 90's and a lot higher than national averages. while living there, i can remember hearing frequent gun shots and sirens so often that it became an ordinary thing. yes, edgewater has some good things about it, but nevertheless it has its problems like an neighborhood in an urban city. property crime is an every single night thing. whether its larceny, vehicle theft, or grafitti all over every fence and all up and down the allies. its just part of living in an urban city. I personally like living urban. edgewater has the same characteristics of any neighborhood in denver county. gangs have been a problem but they are in every urban neighborhood, so its just something to deal with. so i personally like edgewater. its blue collar ethnic (mostly mexican american) and i enjoy it. its a low income neighborhood with like an average income of 39,000, but i enjoy most the people. its urbanization at its finest but i enjoy living in urban neighborhoods.

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Urbanization... - 1/2/2010

Edgewater was one of THE up and coming neighborhoods in the denver metro area for a long time. throughout the 1970's, 80's and early to mid 90's, Edgewater was a pretty nice little area smack dab in the urban city. However, the neighborhood has changed a great deal from the late 90's to present day. Edgewater sits right on the border of Denver county and the nice white suburbia suburbs. I have lived in the west colfax neighborhood in denver for my earlier years and i lived in the edgewater neighborhood from 2006-2009. I have now moved to the villa park neighborhood. Edgewater has a crime rate of 67 incidents per 1,000 people, a lot higher than it was in the 90's and a lot higher than national averages. while living there, i can remember hearing frequent gun shots and sirens so often that it became an ordinary thing. yes, edgewater has some good things about it, but nevertheless it has its problems like an neighborhood in an urban city. property crime is an every single night thing. whether its larceny, vehicle theft, or grafitti all over every fence and all up and down the allies. its just part of living in an urban city. I personally like living urban. edgewater has the same characteristics of any neighborhood in denver county. gangs have been a problem but they are in every urban neighborhood, so its just something to deal with. so i personally like edgewater. its blue collar ethnic (mostly mexican american) and i enjoy it. its a low income neighborhood with like an average income of 39,000, but i enjoy most the people. its urbanization at its finest but i enjoy living in urban neighborhoods.

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Urbanization... - 1/2/2010

Edgewater was one of THE up and coming neighborhoods in the denver metro area for a long time. throughout the 1970's, 80's and early to mid 90's, Edgewater was a pretty nice little area smack dab in the urban city. However, the neighborhood has changed a great deal from the late 90's to present day. Edgewater sits right on the border of Denver county and the nice white suburbia suburbs. I have lived in the west colfax neighborhood in denver for my earlier years and i lived in the edgewater neighborhood from 2006-2009. I have now moved to the villa park neighborhood. Edgewater has a crime rate of 67 incidents per 1,000 people, a lot higher than it was in the 90's and a lot higher than national averages. while living there, i can remember hearing frequent gun shots and sirens so often that it became an ordinary thing. yes, edgewater has some good things about it, but nevertheless it has its problems like an neighborhood in an urban city. property crime is an every single night thing. whether its larceny, vehicle theft, or grafitti all over every fence and all up and down the allies. its just part of living in an urban city. I personally like living urban. edgewater has the same characteristics of any neighborhood in denver county. gangs have been a problem but they are in every urban neighborhood, so its just something to deal with. so i personally like edgewater. its blue collar ethnic (mostly mexican american) and i enjoy it. its a low income neighborhood with like an average income of 39,000, but i enjoy most the people. its urbanization at its finest but i enjoy living in urban neighborhoods.

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