I have been a supporter my whole life. I just got side swiped and pushed into incoming traffic with…read moremy daughter in the car and the driver fled. I waited 4 hours and never got an officer, I have video, pictures, license plate and the only way I can file a report is to wait for them. I had two officers pass me and ignore me while I am trying to waive them down and when I called the station they told me 'its shift change so that's why they ignored you'. GPD is an absolute joke, I'll never support them again

I was involved in a traffic accident and I hate the fact that when I called the police department…read moreand a young mexican woman a safety patrol arrived on the scene to handle my accident and not a real police officer that woman had a nasty attitude she's is extremely unprofessional and got my accident report all wrong and the person that was actually in the wrong is the only person she communicated with and then she put in the report that I was at fault when the person who hit me stated that he was at fault, I strongly feel like only real law enforcement officers should be the one's who arrive at any type of car incident because they are highly trained experience professionals in law enforcement

Whatever you do DO NOT file an online police report for an accident. I was hit by a truck in my car…read moreand the police never came. I spoke to them 3 times and was encouraged to file on line. Now no one can tell my how to get a copy and I was told that I have no case number. The department doesn't even know how to proceed with online reports or who to contact. An employee even told me never to self report. Now I may have to use my insurance because the GPD said they were "busy" doing "stuff" which I think was actually a Christmas parade . This is unacceptable.

I have been threatened by my neighbor 3 times. Called the police. No one showed up. I had to go…read moreand pay for police reports. Now, there is a car playing loud music outside the elderly apartment. I am awake yet again. NO ONE FOLLOWS THE RULES.

I jut wish that someone would come and put some money back into this place. The spring has been…read morecompletely neglected, and the building is in disrepair. It's pretty disgraceful that UF or the state doesn't put more pride and love into this spring. It has such an incredible history, and is a state landmark.

Excellent little park and historic site in Gainesville. Perfect for hiking, biking or a just an…read moreeasy stroll. There is also a horse trail. The waterworks building is very cool and a few tables and grills allow for picnics and snacks in a shaded setting.

Like the Stolpersteine I have seen across Europe when on vacation, these blue "Lynching in America"…read moreare jarring when you're on vacation. It's a reminder that no matter how much fun you're having, there were dark times in our history and they should be remembered. This marker is on the grounds of the Alachua County Courthouse and the front reads, "After the Civil War, constitutional rights were granted to Black people ensuring equal protection and voting. Many white leaders responded to the emancipation of Black people by violently seeking to maintain racial, economic, and social control over Black residents. By ceding political control back to Confederate veterans, federal officials allowed white southerners opposed to racial equality to re-establish white supremacy through intimidation and violence. Thousands of Black men, women, and children were lynched during Reconstruction, with dozens of large-scale massacres of Black communities between 1865 and 1876. This terror persisted after Reconstruction, largely with impunity. Lynchings of Black people included burnings and mutilation, sometimes in front of crowds numbering in the thousands. Lynch mobs would often seize their victims from jails, courtrooms, or from police, without fear of any legal repercussions. Many names of those whose lives were claimed by these acts of racially motivated violence were not recorded and will never be known, but at least 6,500 racial terror lynchings were documented in the United States between 1865 and 1950. Florida had one of the highest per capita lynching rates in the nation with at least 343 documented victims lynched and at least 12 Black people lynched in Gainesville. This marker honors the victims of this tragic racial terror violence in our community." And the reverse, "The era of Reconstruction following the Civil War opened with great promise in Gainesville but soon gave way to racial terror, unparalleled violence, and racial oppression. White mobs lynched at least eight Black people during this period: Harry Franklin 1868; Mr. Stephens 1868; an Unnamed Person 1870; Christopher Cummings 1870; Henry Washington 1871; Alexander Morris 1871; Sandy Hacock 1871 and Eli in 1874. After Emancipation, Black people made up a majority of the population in Gainesville and opened businesses, churches, and organized political engagement. They advocated for public education, land ownership, and the right to vote. White people hoping to maintain the racial hierarchy that existed during enslavement attacked and lynched Black people for asserting their rights, leaving plantations, participating in politics, working toward economic independence, violating white social customs, being accused of crimes, or for sheer racial terror that was random and arbitrary. In 1874, a white mob set fire to the local jail to lynch a black man named Eli by burning him to death. This type of violence was accommodated by courts, law enforcement, and white officials who removed African Americans from juries, seized Black-owned land, and suppressed Black voting rights, while ignoring or even supporting white mobs who terrorized Black communities. Racial violence continued to terrorize the Black community for decades. The marker was erected in 2021 by Alachua County Community Remembrance Project - Equal Justice Initiative. Dark times, indeed. [Review 358 of 2025 - 2010 in Florida - 23920 overall]

Gainesville is home and so hard to rate. It's changed so much over the years, and sometimes…read moreunrecognizable. Graduation and the annual Nutcracker performance at the Phillips Center, plays at the Hippodrome, UF cheer and basketball camps at the O'Connell Center, proms held at the Women's Club, walking in the Gator parade, and UF homecoming being a local, public school holiday-- because #GatorNation. The Harn Museum of Art and Reitz Union after-school visits while waiting for my mom to get off work. It's a small, hipster, college town that's so full of art and culture. Now, I can liken it to having a tiny "keep Austin weird" -ish vibe. All in all-- Ode to Gainesville-- the backdrop of my childhood, and the occasional nostalgia-filled stomping grounds of my adulthood! Fave spots: The Top Sidecar/V Pizza Baby J's Dragonfly Mojo's Public & General Satchels Pizza Cheers!

Forever setting lights up in this town needs to go back to school this is pathetic I've never seen…read moresuch a mess made of traffic lights you have traffic stopped in places that makes absolutely no sense you won't set two lights to go green in a row everything about the way you set up lights is designed to inhibit traffic movement that's why you have so many stupid accidents. Why don't you go to Leon county Tallahassee you know the capital and borrow their traffic algorithm I know it works good they know how to move traffic in that town

Oh Boy I like this place so much!! The UF bookstore offers…read moreyou a huge variety of books, school supplies and all the Gator gear you can imagine. I love to go to this two stories bookstore, always neat and with amazing staff ready to help with a smile on they faces. You can either rent or buy your books from here. The Gator section it's to die for, they have almost anything you can imagine Gator !! Cups, mugs, cloths, house stuff and so much more. I felt in Gator Heaven ;-) Thank you, Go Gators!! Ay Dios me gusta este lugar muuchooo !! La librería UF le ofrece una gran variedad de libros, útiles escolares y todo el equipo Gator que te puedes imaginar. Me encanta ir a esta librería de dos pisos, siempre limpia y con un personal increíble listo para ayudar con una sonrisa en sus caras. Puedes alquilar o comprar tus libros aquí. La sección de Gator es para morirse, tienen casi cualquier cosa te puedes imaginar Gator !! Copas, tazas, paños, cosas de casa y mucho más. Me sentí en el Cielo Gator ;-) Gracias, Go Gators !!

Special collections and a gallery that usually showcases local history, located in the historic old…read moreLibrary. Worth visiting just to sit in that lovely reading room and soak up the history of the University. Excellent collection of rare books and ephemera. I found an amazing 1938 thesis on Gainesville one time that really filled in some gaps in my knowledge of the neighborhood where I reside. Every student should visit here at least once.