“Don’t go north of Popeyes”.
Good advice. It's all 'hood from there to Beaver Hills.
Ha.
Setting was NY, not New Haven, but remember the cab driver (secretly a spy for the villain) asking James Bond in Live and Let Die
“You know where you goin’?”
Bond:”I believe we’re going uptown.”
Cabbie: “Uptown? You goin’ to Harlem.”