Cleveland

 

Greater Cleveland, including all of Cuyahoga County, is served by AT&T. Several other local telephone companies have networks in different portions of the county, and most cable companies also offer phone service through their networks.

440

Area code 440 serves the balance of the suburbs along with Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, and Lorain Counties.

 

All calling within Cuyahoga County which includes all of the 216 area code is toll-free, and includes toll-free calling into and from western Lake County, Chesterland in Geauga County, Columbia Township in Lorain County, and the communities abutting Cuyahoga County in Medina, and Summit Counties.

Area code 216 callers in the City of Cleveland can call toll-free into other communities in Lorain County, such as Elyria and North Ridgeville, while the remaining callers in Cuyahoga County can call certain areas at a reduced rate. Some phone companies provide the extended calling area toll-free as an added benefit to compete with AT&T.

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When driving at night in the city, stay in your car along major urban corridors like Euclid, Chester and Carnegie Avenues heading east and Detroit and Lorain Avenues heading west. At night, you may want to avoid inner city neighborhoods and the City of East Cleveland in its entirety in this case, including Euclid Ave.

East Side Driving TipMany of the city's so-called "rough" neighborhoods are on the east side. However, tourists in general wouldn't have any reason to visit these neighborhoods. University Circle on the east side, where all the city's main cultural instituations is safe, however. Nevertheless, keep a watchful eye on your surroundings in the evening when vast parts of the neighborhood are deserted. Eastern inner-ring suburbs such as Cleveland Heights, University Heights, Beachwood and Shaker Heights are all very safe.

A good rule of thumb is - once an East Side suburban "Road" becomes an Inner City "Avenue", turn around and get directions to Euclid, Chester or Carnegie Avenues. Example: Cedar Road in the East Side Suburbs where it becomes the "Fashion District" is a really nice corridor, but once it becomes Cedar Avenue in the City of Cleveland proper, you should pick one of the above mentioned roads that run parallel to its north. Similarly, Chagrin Boulevard which connects the upscale communities of Shaker Heights, Beachwood (including Cleveland's "Restaurant Row" and the bulk of the East Side office market, Pepper Pike, Orange Village, Moreland Hills, Hunting Valley and Chagrin Falls) turns into Kinsman Road an "underground pharmaceutical" neighborhood once crossing into the City of Cleveland proper.

West Side Driving TipAgain, staying on Lorain and Detroit Avenues, I-90, I-71 or the Shoreway State 2 is your safest bet. However, driving West 25th which becomes Pearl, State and Ridge isn't all that terrifying. On the near West Side, avoid the Public Housing Projects that abut the vibrant neighborhoods of the Flats, Ohio City and Tremont.

Cleveland is ranked 7th in National Crime Rate Statistics.

Avoid eye-contact, walk assertively, stay in lit areas, be aware of bushes/trees/corner, don't walk too close to buildings,

Dial 911 from any telephone for emergency police, medical, and fire services.

alternative radio + weeklies

WAPS 91.3FM (http://www.913thesummit.c...) of ClevelandAdult alternative Mon – Sat, international folk Sun

WBWC 88.3FM (http://www.wbwc.com/Non-c...) alternative music of Baldwin-Wallace College

WCSB 89.3FM (http://www.wcsb.org/A) little bit of everything from Cleveland State University

WJCU 88.7FM (http://www.wjcu.org/) College alternative of John Carroll University

WOBC 91.5FM (http://www.wobc.org/) Free-form noncommercial radio of The Oberlin College Student Network

WRUW 91.1FM (http://www.wruw.org/) Noncommercial multi-format of Case Western Reserve University

WZIP 88.1FM (http://www.wzip.fm/south) of Cleveland Rhythm radio/rock of University of Akron

Other Music Publications

Jazz + Blues Report (http://www.jazz-blues.com/)

Alternative Press (http://www.altpress.com/)

wireless connectivity

Intel named Cleveland as one of its four "Worldwide Digital Communities" with Corpus Christi, Texas; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Taipei, Taiwan. Due to substantial capital investment in support of this distinction, Cleveland will eventually have free wifi access throughout the entire city. In the meantime, most coffee shops offer wireless internet connection as do the campuses of Cleveland State University and Case Western Reserve. The Tower City Center in the downtown area is another spot with free wifi access.