This home on Evergreen Avenue looks great from the front and the cushion of green makes it inviting when the sun is blazing well before noon.
Evergreen Avenue has a mix of houses and apartment buildings. It runs parallel to Sisson and South Whitney. The Evergreen Community Garden is on the corner of Evergreen and Fales. There’s not much in the way of litter or anything that would send up red flags about this street.
Years ago, when looking for an apartment, the owner of multiple properties in the West End refused to show me a place on Evergreen Avenue because in his assessment — having just met me — I would not be comfortable there. What he showed was that I would not be comfortable doing business with him.
HartfordData indicates police activity on the street often, but a good number of those incidents are either animal complaints (that could mean any number of things, from barking dogs to roaming dogs) or motor vehicle-related (parking violations, following too closely). There was the shooting in May at the gas station on the corner of Farmington and Evergreen. Then, there were confirmed gunshots in April, once last year, once in 2012, another in 2010. Some robberies and assaults. It could be better, but it’s hardly the Wild West End some make it out to be.
Johnna
I was shown a couple apartments on Evergreen when I was looking. The man showing them (not management, I think he did maintenance work in the buildings) also told me, “You’re a nice lady, you don’t want to live here.”
That is a lovely house, I don’t think I’ve noticed it before.
Kerri Provost
Corner of Warrenton.
Guess we have them fooled that we are nice ladies 😉
Richard
Lovely home I remember it well. We moved from Evergreen Ave. in 1985. No it wasn’t because it was a bad neighborhood but because the building where we lived had been sold by a nice family to a company named Boardwalk Reality.(I love the monopoly names for a pit of a sleaze bag company) The rent went up sky high and the services declined. Rats galore in the backyard around the trash house and no one ever came around to even change a light bulb in the hallway. The changing of the tide for us was when a low on the totem pole street drug dealer moved in on the first floor. We caught him more than once rattling people’s door knobs. Things began to get really bad in our apartment house. When one notices on the back porch a clear garbage bag teaming with roaches one knows the battle is over.
A few years after we moved we went back for a walk down the street and noticed that the building was boarded up. I think it has since been sold and renovated. Point is when it was family owned it was a really nice place to live as soon as it became company ownership it was pure crap. Oh the stories we could tell about that place
Matt O'Connor
We lived in this building for nearly two years, from late-2011 to Nov. 2013. We needed a little more space and far more reliable heating so we found a nice spot a few blocks away, still in the West End, which we love.
If property owners or their property management firms want to discourage false impressions of the “Wild West End” they should stop discouraging potential responsible tenants from renting here.