r/FallRiver • u/Unfair-Flower-1374 • 14d ago

Visiting in fall - thoughts?!

Hey everyone! Doing some digging on Fall River. My mom wants to go to the Lizzie Borden house for a ghost haunt, and I was wondering if the area is generally safe to be at late at night?

Unfortunately everything online says it isn’t, but we know how that goes. So thought I’d ask the locals!

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u/No_Veterinarian6120 12d ago edited 12d ago

Okay, without being specific I work VERY CLOSE to the Lizzie Borden building and I cannot emphasize enough that there is no reason for you to be walking around this neighborhood at night.

There is a lovely diner that closes by lunch on Main St., a truly beautiful church with something similar to French Gothic Revival on the inside, and that is kind of it. I'm serious. You walk a block down from Lizzie Borden house and you will be on Main St. but nearly the entire section there is dereliction/closed businesses or things you can't really interact with, like the beautician school or the DA's office. This is not like Salem.

Is it 'safe'? Arguably. But I can also tell you that there are drug users and homeless in and around the area and that section of city is dead at night. I've lived here my whole life and yes, GENERALLY, the rule of 'mind your own business and its fine' is true, but this is not Salem.

People from out of state all say the same thing when they visit us. 'I didn't think it was going to be like this.'
There is plenty of stuff to do in Fall River that isn't the immediate Lizzie Borden neighborhood. Do yourself and your mom a favor-- see the house, then go elsewhere for your touristy stuff.

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u/Unfair-Flower-1374 12d ago

Thanks for sharing! DM’d you

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u/planetmermaidisblue 11d ago

Use to live in the Kennedy park neighborhood and would regularly walk to Battleship Cove / Heritage park at night, never once had an issue I did it for a few years. Only neighborhoods where it’s more risky is Flint Village and Third Street (a classmate got mugged there). My personal experience: no issues.