Review of Edgewater, Colorado


Urbanization...
Star Rating - 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.
joey | Lakewood, CO
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I was going to leave you to your Internet fantasy world, but you are too much, you are way too entertaining.I'm starting to like you. I really like the Louis Reyes touch, I like the part where you have Louis talk to Joey and tell him Edgewater isn't Compton, but then have Louis back up Joey. You probably should have tried harder to not make it so obvious that Joey and Louis are same person. So what are you going to be a HS kid or some old guy with a friend who is security guard at Target... probably neither since you just proved yourself non-creditable and ignorant. You should have spelled your pretend name, Luis Reyes not Louis Reyes, Luis is more Spanish, I thought you were supposed be "Chicano" ese. I'll just call you Joey for now. Joey you should be proud of you are, It's okay to be white, you didn't choose to be, but you were just born that way, its okay. You should be proud of you are and not ashamed of what your not. Alot of suburban white kids go through this kind of identity crisis. It probably feels good to use the anonymity of the Internet to pretend your something that your not. Oh yeah, if you want to come off more as a poor Chicano, you have to stop calling $39,000 low income, it actually makes you sound like a very wealthy kid/man who has no concept of what poor really is. To a rich kid like you, $39,000 is poor compared to $250,000, but to a true real life poor person $39,000 is alot of money..... I'm just sayin. And try to cool it with all the anger and hate especially towards your own people, it makes you come off as some kind of spazz. Hey I have a good idea, maybe you can start your own internet gang and call it SWB , it could stand for Suburban White Boys or Some Wannabe Busters or Stupid White Biscuit or Son of a White Boy or Southside Wicker Basket, or whatever you want and then I could pretend to be the Edgewater Police, you could commit Electronic Murders and we'll call them E-Murders. Edgewater's crime rate will rival Detroit's (per capita of course). We'll give you the nick name of Lil Guero, we'll call you lil because your hermano will be OG Guero. You'll have a warrant out for your arrest for being the most down, notorious, internet gangster Edgewater has ever seen. It will be great...let me know. If not, I've got some other things to take of. It's been real (or has it) Joey or Louis or whoever you are.Take care.
Anthony | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

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.
Anthony | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

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.
Anthony | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

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.
Anthony | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

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.
Anthony | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

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.
Anthony | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

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.
Anthony | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

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.
Anthony | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

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.
Anthony | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

Hey man my name isn't luis. its louis. Not the latino luis. Also, i have no idea who joey velca is at all. So you can stop with how this is the same person thing. It really isn't ese. You can come to my house now and see me to know. And, i was not being mean toward you or the HS kid joey. Okay, i was just setting the record straight man. Okay, so we would agree that east los angeles or compton or south gate in LA are ALL low income places right???? then how come east la's average income is 40,000 and comptons is 32,000 and south gates in 47,000??? I said the edgewater average income was in the medium to low range. To say that 39,000 is rich is just not true man. If the kids in this neighborhood are wealthy, then why is jefferson HS 80% reduced/free lunch? I have credible sources for all my information. And to say that the velca or joey or whatever is not a chicano is just wrong. Anthony are you a chicano? I really am not trying to bash anyone ese. I was just trying to set the record straight. This is not compton, east la, east st louis, but this is not mayberry or beverly hills. Its at an in between stage with most all of denver. If edgewater is mayberry or whatever, then that would be like saying five points denver is like beverly hills ese. This is not the same person. I dont know who joey velca is. Im just living here raising my family and working straight. Are you a chicano anthony? But ot say that edgewater/edgewood is white suburbia is just wrong man. White suburbia is like pomona arvada, northglenn, highlands ranch, bear creek lakewood, green mtn lakewood, not here. Edgewater/edgewood is roughly 45-50% chicano, and counting illegal immigrants, my friend who worked for the edgewater pd said its anywhere from 60-70% latino. Trust me on this anthony and joey. Again im not taking sides with joey or whatever and im not toally bashing anthony either. but, one person would have to look at the facts ese. Jefferson high School, Lumberg Elementary, and Edgewater eleementary are all 80% latino.hispanic and rising homie. So just, times change. and they are currently still changing now. Bestplaces.net has edgewaters crim at 4 and 7. They have south gate in los angeles' at 6 and 6. Not that much different. So the rate at which the crime happens in edgewater/edgewood is high considering its only a neighborhood of 5,000 people or so.
Louis | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

Okay everyone let me set the record straight. My name is louis reyes and i live in edgewood off 18th and jay st. so i know and i have some credibility in waying in on this topic. and im not old and im not young. im 36 and a father of 4. With regards to joey talking about edgewood, yes edgewood is considered part of edgewater/lakewood by the police department and by addresses with people. Anhtony, i went to the edgewater police department page and yes there is quite a bit of crime that happens in edgewater/edgewood for a community of only about 5,000 people. and 39,000 collars is not a high income man. and with the whole spanglish thing, dont diss on a young chicano for speaking it. i speak with spanglish lots of times. its part of being a chicano holmes. and there are street gang members in the edgewater/edgewood neighborhoods. i have a friend who worked for the edgewater pd from 1995-2009. he told me of how this neighborhood changed from the 90's to the mid to late 2000's. he told me that the 2009 estimates for the the chiano population of edgewater/edgewood is about 50%. he also told me that the illegals dont count. he said if your counting illegals, then the neighborhood is roughly anywhere from 60-70% latino. joey this is no compton hood and i know you said that but anthony this is no wheat ridge or arvada/westminster. the schools are all 80% latino and rising. i lived in the valverde neighborhood while growing up in the 70's, 80's and throughout the 90's. and i can tell you from personal experience, that the edgewater neighborhood is becoming how that neighborhood was and still is. street gang memebers do exist in edgewater/edgewood, and its just a fact. go to the denver metro crime index pages. those gangs arent just in the denver limits. they are in commerce city, north aurora, northeast lakewood, edgewater/edgewood, and others. trust me on this. i have resources from the denver pd who told me that the street gang memebership from gallant knights/inca killas, westside bloods, varri ogrande vista, norte xiv, and westside mafia, have spread into edgewood/edgewater since roughly 2002-2003. trust me on this anothony, crime does happen here just go to the edgewater pd crime map ese. look at the crime in edgewater/edgewood for the last six months since august. crime does happen here at a rate which can equal denver. trust me on this anthony
Louis | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

Well after reading all of these comments, I can say I agree with some of ehat both had to say. Anthony, for instance, you say this is a suburban white neighborhood? Thats entriely incorrect. This neighborhood is over 51% Hispanic American (Mexicans, we are in the southwest) and even greater numbers must apply because of the influx of the overwhelimg large amounts of illegal immigrants in states like colorado, texas, arizona, new mexico, california, utah, nevada, even oklahoma. So 51% is probably more like 60-65% if i had to guess. Also, high birth rate in this neighborhood plays a factor as well for the current demographics. Jefferson High, Lumberg Elementary, and Edgewater Elementary are all 80% Latino and rising. this neighborhood saw a large number of renters move in from the late 90's up to present day. The area is over 51% renters as well. The average home price is not too expensive by any means. its roughly $160,000 to buy a home, but most the population is renters, and the average rent price for edgewater/edgewood is anywhere from $500-$800 which is really cheap. also, the average income is $39,000, which is not high. counting taxes being taken out, thats really only about $28,000 dollars a year. Also the poverty rate for the neighborhood is about 20% in 2010, which is also high (USA Average is roughly 8-9%). in regards to crime, this is not a crime ridden ghetto by any means, but with the increase in mexican-american and other latino residents, gangs did increase in the area. The edgewater PD identifies known gangs in the neighborhood such as, NORTENOS, SURENOS, GALLANT KNIGHTS INSANE, WEST SIDE BLOODS, THE HABITUAL CRIMINALS, RULE THE STREETS, AND DESTROY THE STREETS, with a combined total of roughly 125-150 members, ranging from ages 13-35. you must remember that the combined population of edgewater/edgewood is only 10,000 people, thus making it cimilar to a neighborhood in denver. Therefore, the crime stats recorded are not going to be high at all, considering how many people are in the neighborhood. However, the rate at which crime occurs in high. citydata.com reports that between 2002-2008, the crime index (USA Average is 321) for edgewater was 734, 588, 480, 500, 461, 440, and 452. All higher than the national averages. murders do not occur every year, however in the last 9 years i have lived in the edgewater/edgewood area, there have been 9 murders (counting police shooting the perpetrators). 6 between 2002-2008, and 3 between 2009-2010 so far. Incidents i can remember around my street in edgewater/edgewood are when this man shot his wife on 20th avenue and otis st, and then shot the gang member she was cheating with down otis street. The police shot a man who pulled an armed robbery off 20th and lamar st. On cinco de mayo there was a dispute during a party in the back allies behind my house that we rent here and 4 gun shots were fired and police were called but never showed up. 2 people were shot down at 20th and sheridan about 6 months ago. a known gang member from edgewater with prison ties in canon city state prison and folsom state prison in california held his kids hostage after beating his wife and started a shootout with police between 20th and 22nd ave on marshall st, which ended in him surrending after SWAT surrounded his place. Edgewater, Lakewood, and Denver police shot a gang member who pulled a armed robbery gone wrong off 17th and sheridan in the 2009 summer. a drug dealer was beaten with a lead pipe to death by a bum off 25th and harlan st last december for some of his drugs. tehres are just some of the incidents that took place around my street that i can remember off the top of my head at the moment. Between 22nd ave and 26th ave, and pierce st and sheridan BLVD is much more desirable than between 22nd and colfax ave and pierce st and sheridan though. Many more normal people live in that area of the neighborhood, however i believe that area is still currently predomintaley latino american. Also, the downtownish/main st tyoe area around 25th ave from sheridan BLVD to depew st is also nice. plenty of people come down there to the restaurants and bars from all over. nice wheat ridge and lakewood, arvada etc. also people from newly gentrified sloans lake, west highland, berkeley, etc come down there to eat, shop, etc. also, a decent amount of houses around this downtownish type area have been bought, scrapped, and rebuilt into nice houses in the last 5-10 years. however, the overwelming majority of houses, appartments, public houses, etc in edgewater/edgewood are still small and cheap rent. all in all, the area is not terrible, its becoming much like how north denver was from the early 70's into the early 2000's, a predomintely mexican/latino neighborhood thats become the hood. plenty of cheap rent, bad schools, small patches of places that attract outsiders, a nice couple fo hoses here and there, preodmintaly mexican-american/latino, street gang members, graffiti tending to be an issue around certain parts of the neighborhoods. also, vehice theft and larceny theft rate sin edgewater are very high in this area. plenty of good restaurants as well. such as, bubba chinos, la cascada, sopapillas, el manatial, mercedes, tamalae kitchen, sloan lake bar and grill, edgewater inn, etc.
Grant | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

Man dont even try and talk about spanglish white boy. And, edgewood, the area that i was talking about, is part of edgewater & lakewood (hence the name edgewood pendejo). And edgewater is a city/neighborhood or whatever you wanna call it. And like i said, you've obviously never spent a day in jefferson high school since like 2002. So if you seriously think that there are no "street gang members" in this city/neighborhood in denver, than you're a fool. And if you wanna try and talk s*** about spanglish or mexican americans because we do spanglish, then your probably just some racist f*****g gabacho like my pop says. Also, $39,000 is not a high income man. and its in the low to medium income range, like i said. also, these shootings did take place in edgewater and edgewood (which is also considered edgewater/lakewood). Like i said go to the edgewater police department page ese and switch the day to 30 days and look at the crimes that have happened in EDGEWATER & EDGEWOOD. Also, if my freind cruzito was a fake then why would he have all there set tats then? answer that one white boy. And edgewater is NOT white suburbia. Your a pinche pendejo for saying that. The neighborhood is half hispanic and half white. probably more hispanic (since the illegals aren't counted on the census pendejo). Get the facts straight. Your probably some old white guy or something who's lived here since like 1980 or something and is still trying to hold on to how the neighborhood and the schools used to be. times are changing ese. in 2000, jefferson high school was 40% latino. in 2010 jefferson high school is 81% latino. so quit trying to pass this neighborhood off as some white suburbia richy rich vill. And when the cops had to shoot the gki member who robbed that liquor store off 17th and sheridan, it was in the edgewater/edgewood limits vavoso. And the shooting on 20th and otis was in edgewater, and the shooting when the cops shot that latino guy off 20th and lamar is in edgewater, and when the bum killed that latino guy off 25th and harlan, that was in edgewater. and when that drug dealer was shot in the fenton garden appartments off 18th and fenton that was in edgewood/edgewater pendejo. Just go look at the crime map for the edgewater polic department, thats all i have to say. and i know my borhter and my friends santana and cruzito ese. and i know they arent fakes dumba$$. there are "street gangs" and members in edgewater. ever heard of the nortenos? varrio grande vista? RTS 20st? if you have then congrats ese. your a white boy with some knowledge. where you live in edgewater/edgewood (and edgewood is considered parts of edgewater and lakewood pendejo). i know that for a fact
joey | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

an occasional graffiti?????????? lol please wlak the alley ways and drive through the next day you read this message. its gang graffiti. my hermano (brother) and his friend cruzito were in the gki gang off west 17th and they assaulted people and pulled robberies along west colfax ave where edgewater borders lakewood. I KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT ese
joey | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

anthony the average income of the EDGEWATER neighborhood is 39,000 dollars!!!! LOW INCOME ESE'! the denver average is 55,000 dollars. so it sounds to me like its a low income place.
joey | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

my name is joey velca and i live in the neighborhood. i didnt even mean to put frequent gun shots. but go to the edgewater police department page. it has a its fair share of crime. trust me. and i go to jefferson high school, and you think theres no gang problems in that school? lol seriously???? you must have never spent a day at that school and i said EDGEWATER is a neighborhood within an urban city. most people have probably never ehard of barnum or villa park cuz those are small neighborhoods within an urban city. and my friend cruzito who lives in the neighborhood off 24th and marshall is an ex GKI member. you probably dont know them cuz your some vavoso from white suburbia. the schools in this neighborhood are all 80% latino man. and im latino so dont call me a racist and that i dont know what im talking about. my friend santana is a W$B member and if you walk around here, you will see there graffitti. im willing to bet if you lived here you'd notice its not just ambulance sirens going to st. anthony lol. i see cops cars with sirens going off every night heading down west 20th ave pendejo. the neighborhood is about half white and half hispanic, just like most hoods in denver. and please go to the edgewater police department and check out the crime in the last month. and another thing, the crime that happens in edgewood (which is edgewater lakewood) isnt counted for edgewater even though its in edgewater. live here and interract with the kids that go to jefferson and the chicanos here before passing it off as some white suburia place. the average income in edgewater is 39,000 vavoso. not an exspensive place to live. that was just ignortant. my abuelito (granpa) makes 24,000 a year with his job and he can afford to live here man. and my pos makes 35,000 a year teaching at molholm elementary. and WE afford to live here. and you dont know jack about gangs. please go talk to the kids at jefferson high school
joey | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

This aint an interent fantasy world gabacho. i wasnt calling this neighborhood f*****g detroit pendejo. You make me laugh. Your trying to hold on to how the neighborhood use to be instead of seeing the FACTS and how the neighborhood is becoming. and dont you ever say im not a chiacno ese. i swear man. i'll go right on with what louis said. are you chicano gabacho???? cuz i doubt it. you didnt even answer any of the questions i asked vavoso. how come my friend cruzito and santana would have the gki set tats and the wsb set tats???? and if this is white suburbia then why is is like 60-70% latino counting nationals (a chicano saying for illegals pendejo)????? please answer my questions. i'd like to know ese. and im the ignorant one???? your the pinche pero calling 39,000 rich. never said it was poverty. but it sure as hell aint a rich income to anyone. the national average is like 60 grand man. and to go along with what louis said, so does that mean that he 32,000 in compton or 40,000 in east la or the 47,000 in south gate, does that mean those are all rich places to ese? you've proved your s**t non credable when im presenting facts and louis is talkin facts pendejo. and i aint reppin nothin homes. i dont claim anything. i tell the HS and neighborhood like it is. and to say that street gangs like gki wsb or rts 20st, or west mafia,or norte or vgv havent spread into this neighborhood in the last 5 to 10 years is just IGNORANT. talk to the kids that go to jefferson high school. and my friend lance (another credible) his fdad was inca boys in lincoln park and was shot by a gki memeber in west colfax in 1997, even he says that the sets of gki/wsb/rts 20st/ norte/etc. have all spread into the adjacent places to dener limits. and im sure he would know of all people. you can come over to jefferson high on monday ese and talk to us if you dont believe me homes. do you have an explanation to why jefferson high (which gets ALL there students from edgewater) is 80% latino in 2010 when it was only 40% latino in 2000. in 2000 edgewater was 36% latino and the school was 40% latino. in 2010 the school is 80% latino and the latino population now counting nationals is between 60-70%. how do you explain that? hwo do you explain the crime in the last 6 months on the edgewater police crime map? so if your done talking then fine, im done with louis and anythony (aka gabacho). dont ever question me being chicano again. your the pinche pendejo calling a 3rd generation chiacno a white boys haha. dumba$$. peace WHITE BOY.
joey | Denver, CO | Report Abuse

Mman i dont even know why im trippin on you anthony. now your using chicano slang??? thats funny since the first couple messages you never mentioned chiano slang at all homes. thats interesting if you can see what im getting at. and how am i dissing on my own people? im a 3rd generation chicano. not apinch egabacho like YOU anthony. get the FACTS straight ese.
joey | Denver, CO | Report Abuse
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