New Haven, Connecticut New Haven, Connecticut City of New Haven Clockwise from top left: Downtown New Haven skyline, East Rock Park, summer festivities on the New Haven Green, shops along Upper State Street, Five Mile Point Lighthouse, Harkness Tower, and Connecticut Hall at Yale.
Clockwise from top left: Downtown New Haven skyline, East Rock Park, summer festivities on the New Haven Green, shops along Upper State Street, Five Mile Point Lighthouse, Harkness Tower, and Connecticut Hall at Yale.
Flag of New Haven, Connecticut Flag Official seal of New Haven, Connecticut Location in New Haven County, Connecticut Location in New Haven County, Connecticut New Haven, Connecticut is positioned in the US New Haven, Connecticut - New Haven, Connecticut Metro region refers to New Haven County state of Connecticut, is the principal municipality in Greater New Haven, which had a total populace of 862,477 in 2010. It is positioned on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut, and is part of the New York urbane area.
New Haven was established in 1638 by English Puritans, and a year later eight streets were laid out in a four-by-four grid, creating what is generally known as the "Nine Square Plan". The central common block is the New Haven Green, a 16-acre (6 ha) square, and the center of Downtown New Haven.
New Haven is the home of Yale University.
The college is an integral part of the city's economy, being New Haven's biggest taxpayer and employer. Health care (hospitals and biotechnology), experienced services (legal, architectural, marketing, and engineering), financial services, and retail trade also help to form an economic base for the city.
New Haven has since billed itself as the "Cultural Capital of Connecticut" for its supply of established theaters, exhibitions, and music venues.
New Haven had the first enhance tree planting program in America, producing a canopy of mature trees (including some large elms) that gave New Haven the nickname "The Elm City". Before Europeans arrived, the New Haven region was the home of the Quinnipiac tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off small-town fisheries and the farming of maize.
The 1638 nine-square plan, with the extant New Haven Green at its center, continues to define New Haven's downtown In 1637 a small party of Puritans reconnoitered the New Haven harbor region and wintered over.
House of New Haven Founder Theophilus Eaton as it stood at Orange and Elm streets in the 17th Century However, the region north of New Haven remained Quinnipiac until 1678, when it was retitled Hamden.
At the time, the New Haven Colony was separate from the Connecticut Colony, which had been established to the north centering on Hartford.
One of the principal differences between the two colonies was that the New Haven colony was an intolerant theocracy that did not permit other churches to be established, while the Connecticut colony permitted the establishment of other churches.
This ship never reached the Old World, and its disappearance stymied New Haven's evolution in the face of the rising trade power of Boston and New Amsterdam.
In 1660, founder John Davenport's wishes were fulfilled, and Hopkins School was established in New Haven with cash from the estate of Edward Hopkins.
Two judges, Colonel Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, fled to New Haven to seek refuge from the king's forces.
Second meeting home on the New Haven Green, as it stood from 1670-1757 New Haven became part of the Connecticut Colony in 1664, when the two colonies were consolidated under political pressure from England, as stated to folklore as punishment for harboring the three judges (in reality, done in order to strengthen the case for the takeover of close-by New Amsterdam, which was quickly losing territory to migrants from Connecticut). Some members of the New Haven Colony seeking to establish a new theocracy elsewhere went on to establish Newark, New Jersey.
In 1716, the Collegiate School relocated from Old Saybrook to New Haven and established New Haven as a center of learning.
On 23 April 1775, which is still jubilated in New Haven as Powder House Day, the Second Company, Governor's Foot Guard, of New Haven entered the struggle against the governing British parliament.
Other New Haven militia members were on hand to escort George Washington from his overnight stay in New Haven on his way to Cambridge.
Contemporary reports, from both sides, remark on the New Haven volunteers' experienced military bearing, including uniforms.
On July 5, 1779, 2,600 loyalists and British regulars under General William Tryon, governor of New York, landed in New Haven Harbor and raided the 3,500-person town.
Yale president Ezra Stiles recounted in his diary that while he moved furniture in anticipation of battle, he still couldn't quite believe the revolution had begun. New Haven was not torched as the invaders did with Danbury in 1777, or Fairfield and Norwalk a week after the New Haven raid, so many of the town's colonial features were preserved.
New Haven was incorporated as a town/city in 1784, and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the "Connecticut Compromise", became the new city's first mayor.
Towns created from the initial New Haven Colony East Haven New Haven 1785 North Haven New Haven 1786 The town/city struck fortune in the late 18th century with the inventions and industrialized activity of Eli Whitney, a Yale graduate who remained in New Haven to precarious the cotton gin and establish a gun-manufacturing factory in the northern part of the town/city near the Hamden town line.
Many other talented machinists and firearms designers would go on to found prosperous firearms manufacturing companies in New Haven, including Oliver Winchester and O.F.
The Farmington Canal, created in the early 19th century, was a short-lived transporter of goods into the interior regions of Connecticut and Massachusetts, and ran from New Haven to Northampton, Massachusetts.
New Haven was home to one of the meaningful early affairs in the burgeoning anti-slavery boss when, in 1839, the trial of mutineering Mende tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Spanish slaveship Amistad was held in New Haven's United States District Court. There is a statue of Joseph Cinque, the informal prestige of the slaves, beside City Hall.
The American Civil War boosted the small-town economy with state of war purchases of industrialized goods, including that of the New Haven Arms Company, which would later turn into the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
(Winchester would continue to produce arms in New Haven until 2006, and many of the buildings that were a part of the Winchester plant are now a part of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District.) After the war, populace interval and doubled by the start of the 20th century, most prominently due to the influx of immigrants from southern Europe, especially Italy.
Today, roughly half the populations of East Haven, West Haven, and North Haven are Italian-American.
Jewish immigration to New Haven has left an enduring mark on the city.
Westville was the center of Jewish life in New Haven, though today many have fanned out to suburban communities such as Woodbridge and Cheshire.
The historic New Haven Green, ca.
New Haven's expansion continued amid the two World Wars, with most new inhabitants being African Americans from the American South and Puerto Ricans.
The region of New Haven is only 17 square miles (44 km2), encouraging further evolution of new housing after 1950 in adjoining, suburban towns.
Cities in the 1950s, New Haven began to suffer from an exodus of middle-class workers.
Certain sections of downtown New Haven were redeveloped to include exhibitions, new office towers, a hotel, and large shopping complexes. Other parts of the town/city were affected by the assembly of Interstate 95 along the Long Wharf section, Interstate 91, and the Oak Street Connector.
In 1970, a series of criminal prosecutions against various members of the Black Panther Party took place in New Haven, inciting mass protests on the New Haven Green involving twelve thousand demonstrators and many well-known New Left political activists.
From the 1960s through the late 1990s, central areas of New Haven continued to diminish both economically and in terms of populace despite attempts to resurrect certain neighborhoods through renewal projects.
In conjunction with its declining population, New Haven experienced a steep rise in its crime rate.
In 2010, New Haven ranked as the 18th most dangerous town/city in America, albeit with crime rating under the momentous safety benchmark of 200.00. The Connecticut Financial Center, instead of in 1990, is the tallest building in New Haven Since approximately 2000, many parts of downtown New Haven have been revitalized with new restaurants, eveninglife, and small retail stores.
In particular, the region surrounding the New Haven Green has experienced an influx of apartements and condominiums.
A Stop & Shop opened just west of downtown, while Elm City Market, positioned one block from the Green, opened in 2011. The recent turnaround of downtown New Haven has received positive press from various periodicals. Whitney Avenue, one of downtown New Haven's principal commercial corridors The 360 State Street universal is now occupied and is the biggest residentiary building in Connecticut. A new boathouse and dock is prepared for New Haven Harbor, and the linear park Farmington Canal Trail is set to extend into downtown New Haven inside the coming year. Additionally, foundation and ramp work to widen I-95 to problematic a new harbor crossing for New Haven, with an extradosed bridge to replace the 1950s-era Q Bridge, has begun. The town/city still hopes to redevelop the site of the New Haven Coliseum, which was completed in 2007.
Recent decades have brought increased commercial activeness to much of New Haven, including this stretch of upper State Street De - Stefano decision the court found 5-4 that New Haven's decision to ignore the test results violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As a result, a precinct court later ordered the town/city to promote 14 of the white firefighters. In 2010 and 2011, state and federal funds were awarded to Connecticut (and Massachusetts) to construct the Hartford Line, with a southern end at New Haven's Union Station and a northern end at Springfield's Union Station. According to the White House, "This corridor [currently] has one train per day connecting communities in Connecticut and Massachusetts to the Northeast Corridor and Vermont.
See also: Yale New Haven Hospital Milestones in medicine 1638: New Haven becomes the first prepared city in America.
1878 1880: The District Telephone Company of New Haven creates the world's first telephone exchange and the first telephone directory and installs the first enhance phone.
1920: In competition with competing explanations, the Frisbee is said to have originated on the Yale campus, based on the tin pans of the Frisbie Pie Company which were tossed around by students on the New Haven Green. 1977: The first memorial to victims of the Holocaust on enhance territory in America stands in New Haven's Edgewood Park at the corner of Whalley and West Park avenues.
The Greater New Haven Convention and Visitors Bureau has a more extensive list of New Haven firsts.
Map of suburbs in the New Haven region New Haven's best-known geographic features are its large deep harbor, and two reddish basalt trap modern ridges which rise to the northeast and northwest of the town/city core.
The West River discharges into West Haven Harbor, while the Mill and Quinnipiac rivers discharge into New Haven Harbor.
New Haven lies in the transition between a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification: Dfa) and humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa), typical of much of the New York urbane area.
The weather patterns that affect New Haven result from a primarily offshore direction, thus reducing the marine influence of Long Island Sound although, like other marine areas, differences in temperature between areas right along the coastline and areas a mile or two inland can be large at times.
Climate data for New Haven, Connecticut (1981 2010 normals) New Haven has a long tradition of urban planning and a purposeful design for the city's layout.
The town/city could be argued to have some of the first preconceived layouts in the country. Upon founding, New Haven was laid out in a grid plan of nine square blocks; the central square was left open, in the tradition of many New England towns, as the town/city green (a commons area).
As in other cities, many of the elms that gave New Haven the nickname "Elm City" perished in the mid-20th century due to Dutch Elm disease, although many have since been replanted.
The New Haven Green is presently home to three separate historic churches which speak to the initial theocratic nature of the city. The Green remains the civil center of the town/city today.
Downtown New Haven, occupied by nearly 7,000 residents, has a more residentiary character than most downtowns. The downtown region provides about half of the city's jobs and half of its tax base and in recent years has turn into filled with dozens of new upscale restaurants, a several of which have garnered nationwide praise (such as Ibiza, recognized by Esquire and Wine Spectator magazines as well as the New York Times as the best Spanish food in the country), in addition to shops and thousands of apartements and condominium units which later help overall expansion of the city. The Quinnipiac River Historic District, positioned in the Fair Haven neighborhood, is one of dozens of listed historic districts in New Haven Main article: Neighborhoods of New Haven, Connecticut In addition to Downtown, centered on the central company precinct and the Green, are the following neighborhoods: the west central neighborhoods of Dixwell and Dwight; the southern neighborhoods of The Hill, historic water-front City Point (or Oyster Point), and the harborside precinct of Long Wharf; the neighborhoods of Edgewood, West River, Westville, Amity, and West Rock-Westhills; East Rock, Cedar Hill, Prospect Hill, and Newhallville in the northern side of town; the east central neighborhoods of Mill River and Wooster Square, an Italian-American neighborhood; Fair Haven, an immigrant improve positioned between the Mill and Quinnipiac rivers; Quinnipiac Meadows and Fair Haven Heights athwart the Quinnipiac River; and facing the easterly side of the harbor, The Annex and East Shore (or Morris Cove). New Haven's economy originally was based in manufacturing, but the postwar reconstructionbrought rapid industrialized decline; the entire Northeast was affected, and medium-sized metros/cities with large working-class populations, like New Haven, were hit especially hard.
Today, over half (56%) of the city's economy is now made up of services, in particular education and community care; Yale is the city's biggest employer, followed by Yale New Haven Hospital.
The Knights of Columbus, the world's biggest Catholic fraternal service organization and a Fortune 1000 company, is headquartered in New Haven. Two more Fortune 1000 companies are based in Greater New Haven: the electrical equipment producers Hubbell, based in Orange, and Amphenol, based in Wallingford. Eight Courant 100 companies are based in Greater New Haven, with four headquartered in New Haven proper. New Haven-based companies interchanged on stock exchanges include New - Alliance Bank, the second biggest bank in Connecticut and fourth-largest in New England (NYSE: NAL), Higher One Holdings (NYSE: ONE), a financial services firm United Illuminating, the electricity distributor for southern Connecticut (NYSE: UIL), Achillion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ACHN), Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN), and Transpro Inc.
The Southern New England Telephone Company (SNET) began operations in the town/city as the District Telephone Company of New Haven in 1878; the business remains headquartered in New Haven as a subsidiary of Frontier Communications and provides telephone service for all but two municipalities in Connecticut. Enumeration Bureau reports a 2010 populace of 129,779, with 47,094 homeholds and 25,854 families inside the town/city of New Haven.
Hispanic or Latino inhabitants of any race were 27.4% of the population. Non-Hispanic Whites were 31.8% of the populace in 2010, down from 69.6% in 1970. The city's demography is shifting rapidly: New Haven has always been a town/city of immigrants and presently the Latino populace is burgeoning rapidly.
It is estimated that 14% of New Haven inhabitants are pedestrian commuters, ranking it number four by highest percentage in the United States.
This is primarily due to New Haven's small region and the existence of Yale University.
New Haven is a dominantly Roman Catholic city, as the city's Dominican, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Ecuadorian, and Puerto Rican populations are overwhelmingly Catholic.
A study of New Haven's demographics, based on age, educational attainment, and race and ethnicity, found that its demographics were the closest of any American town/city to the nationwide average. See also: List of mayors of New Haven, Connecticut New Haven City Hall New Haven County merely refers to a grouping of suburbs and a judicial district, not a governmental entity.
New Haven is a member of the South Central Connecticut Regional Council of Governments (SCRCOG), a county-wide agency created to facilitate coordination between region municipal governments and state and federal agencies, in the absence of county government. Toni Harp is the mayor of New Haven. She was sworn in as the 50th mayor of New Haven on January 1, 2014 and is the first woman to hold that office.
The town/city council, called the Board of Alders, consists of thirty members, each propel from single-member wards. New Haven is served by the New Haven Police Department and the New Haven Fire Department.
New Haven lies inside Connecticut's 3rd congressional precinct and has been represented by Rosa De - Lauro since 1991.
Martin Looney and Gary Holder-Winfield represent New Haven in the Connecticut State Senate, and the town/city lies inside six districts (numbers 92 through 97) of the Connecticut House of Representatives. The Greater New Haven region is served by the New Haven Judicial District Court and the New Haven Superior Court, both headquartered at the New Haven County Courthouse. The federal District Court for the District of Connecticut has a New Haven facility, the Richard C.
See also: List of Yale University citizens Law and politics; and List of citizens from New Haven, Connecticut Politicians Constitution, author of the Connecticut Compromise, and the first mayor of New Haven Bush, was living in New Haven while a student at Yale.
In addition to being the site of the college educations of both Presidents Bush, as Yale students, New Haven was also the temporary home of former presidents William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, and Bill Clinton, as well as Secretary of State John Kerry.
Before the 2008 election, the last time there was not a person with ties to New Haven and Yale on either primary party's ticket was 1968.
James Hillhouse, a New Haven native, served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1801.
A dominantly Democratic city, New Haven voters overwhelmingly supported Al Gore in the 2000 election, Yale graduate John Kerry in 2004, and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
In the 2008 election, New Haven County was third among all Connecticut counties in campaign contributions, after Fairfield and Hartford counties.
New Haven's theocratic history is also mentioned a several times by Alexis de Tocqueville in his classic volume on 19th-century American political life, Democracy in America. New Haven was the residence of conservative thinker William F.
William Lee Miller's The Fifteenth Ward and the Great Society (1966) similarly explores the relationship between small-town politics in New Haven and nationwide political movements, focusing on Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and urban renewal. In 1970, the New Haven Black Panther trials took place, the biggest and longest trials in Connecticut history.
Beginning on May Day, the town/city became a center of protest for 12,000 Panther supporters, college students, and New Left activists (including Jean Genet, Benjamin Spock, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and John Froines), who amassed on the New Haven Green, athwart the street from where the trials were being held.
Violent tumultuous s between the demonstrators and the New Haven police occurred, and a several bombs were set off in the region by radicals.
During the summer of 2007, New Haven was the center of protests by anti-immigration groups who opposed the city's program of offering municipal ID cards, known as the Elm City Resident Card, to illegal immigrants. In 2008, the nation of Ecuador opened a consulate in New Haven to serve the large Ecuadorean immigrant populace in the area.
It is the first foreign mission to open in New Haven since Italy opened a consulate (now closed) in the town/city in 1910. De - Stefano, became highly publicized and brought nationwide attention to New Haven politics due to the involvement of then-Supreme Court nominee (and Yale Law School graduate) Sonia Sotomayor in a lower court decision. There he met fellow student and later Green Party candidate for Congress Charles Pillsbury, a long-time New Haven resident for whom Trudeau's comic strip is named.
A theory of global law, which argues for a sociological normative approach in regards to jurisprudence, is titled the New Haven Approach, after the city.
Connecticut US senator Richard Blumenthal is a Yale graduate, as is former Connecticut US Senator Joe Lieberman who also was a New Haven resident for many years, before moving back to his hometown of Stamford. Crime increased in the 1990s, with New Haven having one of the ten highest violent crime rates per capita in the United States. In the late 1990s New Haven's crime began to stabilize.
Violent crime levels vary dramatically between New Haven's neighborhoods, with some areas having crime rates in line with the state of Connecticut average, and the rest having extremely high rates of crime.
In 2010, New Haven ranked as the 18th most dangerous town/city in the United States (albeit below the safety benchmark of 200.00 for the second year in a row). However, as stated to a completely different analysis conducted by the "24/7 Wall Street Blog", in 2011 New Haven had risen to turn into the fourth most dangerous town/city in the United States, and was widely cited in the press as such. However, an analysis by the Regional Data Cooperative for Greater New Haven, Inc., has shown that due to issues of comparative denominators and other factors, such municipality-based rankings can be considered inaccurate. For example, two metros/cities of identical populace can cover widely differing territory areas, making such analyses irrelevant.
New Haven is a notable center for higher education.
Yale University, at the heart of downtown, is one of the city's best known features and its biggest employer. New Haven is also home to Southern Connecticut State University, part of the Connecticut State University System, and Albertus Magnus College, a private institution.
Gateway Community College has a ground in downtown New Haven, formerly positioned in the Long Wharf district; Gateway merged into one ground downtown into a new state-of-the-art ground (on the site of the old Macy's building) and was open for the Fall 2012 semester. The University of New Haven is positioned not in New Haven but in neighboring West Haven.
New Haven Public Schools is the school precinct serving the city.
Wilbur Cross High School and Hillhouse High School are New Haven's two biggest enhance secondary schools.
Hopkins School, a private school, was established in 1660 and is the fifth-oldest educational institution in the United States. New Haven is home to a number of other private schools as well as enhance magnet schools, including Metropolitan Business Academy, High School in the Community, Hill Regional Career High School, Co-op High School, New Haven Academy, ACES Educational Center for the Arts, the Foote School and the Sound School, all of which draw students from New Haven and suburban towns.
New Haven is also home to two Achievement First charter schools, Amistad Academy and Elm City College Prep, and to Common Ground, an surroundingal charter school.
The town/city is home to New Haven Promise, a scholarship funded by Yale University for students who meet the requirements.
Livability.com titled New Haven as the Best Foodie City in the nation in 2014.
There are 56 Zagat-rated restaurants in New Haven, the most in Connecticut and the third most in New England (after Boston and Cambridge). More than 120 restaurants are positioned inside two blocks of the New Haven Green. The town/city is home to an eclectic mix of ethnic restaurants and small markets specializing in various foreign foods. Represented cuisines include Malaysian, Ethiopian, Spanish, Belgian, French, Greek, Latin American, Mexican, Italian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Cuban, Peruvian, Syrian/Lebanese, and Turkish. New Haven's greatest culinary claim to fame may be its pizza, which has been claimed to be among the best in the country, or even in the world. New Haven-style pizza, called "apizza" (pronounced ah-beets, [a pitts] in the initial Italian dialect), made its debut at the iconic Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana (known as Pepe's) in 1925. Apizza is baked in coal- or wood-fired brick ovens, and is notable for its thin crust.
A white clam pie is a well-known specialty of the restaurants on Wooster Street in the Little Italy section of New Haven, including Pepe's and Sally's Apizza (which opened in 1938).
A second New Haven gastronomical claim to fame is Louis' Lunch, which is positioned in a small brick building on Crown Street and has been serving fast food since 1895. Although fiercely debated, the restaurant's founder Louis Lassen is credited by the Library of Congress with inventing the hamburger and steak sandwich. Louis' Lunch broils hamburgers, steak sandwiches and hot dogs vertically in initial antique 1898 cast iron stoves using gridirons, patented by small-town resident Luigi Pieragostini in 1939, that hold the meat in place while it cooks. New Haven is home to Miya's Sushi, the first sustainable sushi restaurant in the world.
During weekday lunchtime, over 150 lunch carts and food trucks from neighborhood restaurants cater to different student populations throughout Yale's campus. The carts cluster at three chief points: by Yale New Haven Hospital in the center of the Hospital Green (Cedar and York streets), by Yale's Trumbull College (Elm and York streets), and on the intersection of Prospect and Sachem streets by the Yale School of Management. Popular farmers' markets, managed by the small-town non-profit City - Seed, set up shop weekly in a several neighborhoods, including Westville/Edgewood Park, Fair Haven, Upper State Street, Wooster Square, and Downtown/New Haven Green.
A large grocery store, the Elm City Market, opened on 360 State Street in New Haven in early fall 2011 and served small-town produce and food to the community.
Bow Tie Cinemas owns and operates the Criterion Cinemas, the first new movie theater to open in New Haven in over 30 years and the first luxury movie complex in the city's history.
New Haven has a range of exhibitions, many of them associated with Yale.
There is also the Connecticut Children's Museum; the Knights of Columbus exhibition near that organization's world headquarters; the Peabody Museum of Natural History; the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments; the Eli Whitney Museum (across the town line in Hamden, Connecticut, on Whitney Avenue); the Yale Center for British Art, which homes the biggest compilation of British art outside the U.K., and the Yale University Art Gallery, the nation's earliest college art exhibition. New Haven is also home to the New Haven Museum and Historical Society on Whitney Avenue, which has a library of many major source treasures dating from Colonial times to the present.
New Haven is the home port of a life-size replica of the historical Freedom Schooner Amistad, which is open for tours at Long Wharf pier at certain times amid the summer.
The New Haven Green is the site of many no-charge music concerts, especially amid the summer months.
These have encompassed the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the July Free Concerts on the Green in July, and the New Haven Jazz Festival in August.
Headliners such as The Breakfast, Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles and Celia Cruz have historically drawn 30,000 to 50,000 fans, filling up the New Haven Green to capacity.
New Haven is home to the concert venue Toad's Place, and a new venue, College Street Music Hall.
In addition to the Jazz Festival (described above), New Haven serves as the home town/city of the annual International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
New Haven's Saint Patrick's Day parade, which began in 1842, is New England's earliest St.
Bernadette Soubirous. New Haven jubilates Powder House Day every April on the New Haven Green to memorialize the city's entrance into the Revolutionary War.
The annual Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival memorializes the 1973 planting of 72 Yoshino Japanese Cherry Blossom trees by the New Haven Historic Commission in collaboration with the New Haven Parks Department and inhabitants of the neighborhood.
New Haven is served by the daily New Haven Register, the weekly "alternative" New Haven Advocate (which is run by Tribune, the corporation owning the Hartford Courant), the online daily New Haven Independent, and the monthly Grand News Community Newspaper.
Downtown New Haven is veiled by an in-depth civic news forum, Design New Haven.
WTNH Channel 8, the ABC partner for Connecticut, WCTX Channel 59, the My - Network - TV partner for the state, Connecticut Public Television station WEDY channel 65, a PBS affiliate, and WTXX Channel 34, the Intrigue - TV affiliate, broadcast from New Haven.
All New York City news and sports team stations broadcast to New Haven County.
Main article: Sports in New Haven, Connecticut New Haven has a history of experienced sports franchises dating back to the 19th century and has been the home to experienced baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer squads including the New York Giants of the National Football League from 1973 to 1974, who played at the Yale Bowl.
Throughout the second half of the 20th century, New Haven persistently had minor league hockey and baseball teams, which played at the New Haven Arena (built in 1926, completed in 1972), New Haven Coliseum (1972 2002), and Yale Field (1928 present).
When John De - Stefano, Jr., became mayor of New Haven in 1995, he outlined a plan to transform the town/city into a primary cultural and arts center in the Northeast, which involved investments in programs and projects other than sports franchises.
As close-by Bridgeport assembled new sports facilities, the brutalist New Haven Coliseum quickly deteriorated.
New Haven's last experienced sports team, the New Haven County Cutters, left in 2009.
The De - Stefano administration did, however, see the assembly of the New Haven Athletic Center in 1998, a 94,000-square-foot (8,700 m2) indoor athletic facility with a seating capacity of over 3,000.
The NHAC, assembled adjoining to Hillhouse High School, is used for New Haven enhance schools athletics, as well as large-scale region and state sporting affairs; it is the biggest high school indoor sports complex in the state. New Haven was the host of the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games; then-President Bill Clinton spoke at the opening ceremonies. The town/city is home to the Pilot Pen International tennis event, which takes place every August at the Connecticut Tennis Center, one of the biggest tennis venues in the world. New Haven biannually hosts "The Game" between Yale and Harvard, the country's second-oldest college football rivalry.
Numerous road competitions take place in New Haven, including the USA 20 - K Championship amid the New Haven Road Race. Greater New Haven is home to a number of college sports teams.
Division II athletics are played by Southern Connecticut State University and the University of New Haven (actually positioned in neighboring West Haven), while Albertus Magnus College athletes perform at the Division III level.
New Haven is home to many New York Yankees fans due to the adjacency of New York City. Walter Camp, deemed the "father of American football," was a New Havener.
A view of the buildings around Yale University in New Haven, with its distinct ive architecture New Haven has many architectural landmarks dating from every meaningful time reconstructionand architectural style in American history.
Cass Gilbert, of the Beaux-Arts school, designed New Haven's Union Station and the New Haven Free Public Library and was also commissioned for a City Beautiful plan in 1919.
Johnson, Gordon Bunshaft, Louis Kahn, James Gamble Rogers, Frank Gehry, Charles Willard Moore, Stefan Behnisch, James Polshek, Paul Rudolph, Eero Saarinen and Robert Venturi all have designed buildings in New Haven.
Many of the city's neighborhoods are well-preserved as walkable "museums" of 19th- and 20th-century American architecture, especially by the New Haven Green, Hillhouse Avenue and other residentiary sections close to Downtown New Haven.
See also: List of tallest buildings in New Haven The five tallest buildings in New Haven are: See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven, Connecticut The New Haven Green, one of the National Historic Landmarks, was formed in 1638, and is home to three 19th-century churches.
In 1660, Edward Whalley (a cousin and friend of Oliver Cromwell) and William Goffe, two English Civil War generals who signed the death warrant of King Charles I, hid in a modern formation in New Haven after having fled England upon the restoration of Charles II to the English throne. They were later joined by a third regicide, John Dixwell.
After the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, the Connecticut colonial government ordered the assembly of Black Rock Fort (to be assembled on top of an older 17th-century fort) to protect the port of New Haven.
In 1779, amid the Battle of New Haven, British soldiers captured Black Rock Fort and burned the barracks to the ground.
In 1863, amid the Civil War, a second Fort Hale was assembled next to the original, complete with bomb-resistant bunkers and a moat, to defend the town/city should a Southern raid against New Haven be launched.
The Union League Club of New Haven building, positioned on Chapel Street, is notable for not only being a historic Beaux-Arts building, but also is assembled on the site where Roger Sherman's home once stood; George Washington is known to have stayed at the Sherman residence while President in 1789 (one of three times Washington visited New Haven throughout his lifetime). Lighthouse Point Park, a enhance beach run by the city, was a prominent tourist destination amid the Roaring Twenties, attracting luminaries of the reconstructionsuch as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. The park remains prominent among New Haveners, and is home to the Five Mile Point Lighthouse, constructed in 1847, and the Lighthouse Point Carousel, constructed in 1916. Five Mile Point Light was decommissioned in 1877 following the assembly of Southwest Ledge Light at the entrance of the harbor, which remains in service to this day.
New Haven is connected to New York City by commuter rail, county-wide rail and inter-city rail, provided by Metro-North Railroad (commuter rail), Shore Line East (commuter rail), and Amtrak (regional and intercity rail) in the order given, allowing New Haven inhabitants to commute to work in New York City (just under two hours by train).
The city's chief barns station is the historic Beaux-arts Union Station, which serves Metro-North trains to New York and Shore Line East commuter trains to New London.
Amtrak barns service at New Haven and Boston, and project as the first and second busiest routes in the country; the New Haven Springfield Line provides service to Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts; and the Vermonter provides service to both Washington, D.C., and Vermont, 15 miles (24 km) from the Canada US border.
Of the 276,000 Metro-North riders, 112,000 rode the New Haven Line each day, which would make the New Haven Line seventh in the nation in daily ridership if it were alone an entire commuter rail system.
Additionally, the Connecticut Department of Transportation plans to add a new commuter service called the Hartford Line in collaboration with Amtrak and the federal government that will run between New Haven and Springfield, Massachusetts with a end at Union Station in Downtown New Haven.
A New Haven Division bus in Downtown New Haven, near the Green The New Haven Division of Connecticut Transit (CT Transit), the state's bus system, is the second biggest division in the state with 24 routes.
All routes originate from the New Haven Green, making it the central transfer core of the city.
Service is provided to 19 different municipalities throughout Greater New Haven.
CT Transit's Union Station Shuttle provides no-charge service from Union Station to the New Haven Green and a several New Haven parking garages.
The Yale University Shuttle provides no-charge transit around New Haven for Yale students, faculty, and staff.
The New Haven Division buses follow routes that had originally been veiled by street car service.
The City of New Haven is in the very early stages of considering the restoration of streetcar (light-rail) service, which has been absent since the postwar period. The Farmington Canal Trail is a rail trail that will eventually run continuously from downtown New Haven to Northampton, Massachusetts.
The scenic trail follows the path of the historic New Haven and Northampton Company and the Farmington Canal.
Currently, there is a continuous 14-mile (23 km) stretch of the trail from downtown, through Hamden and into Cheshire, making bicycle commuting between New Haven and those suburbs possible.
The town/city has created recommended bike routes for getting around New Haven, including use of the Canal Trail and the Orange Street lane. As of the end of 2012, bicycle lanes have also been added in both directions on Dixwell Avenue along most of the street from downtown to the Hamden town line, as well as along Howard Avenue from Yale New Haven Hospital to City Point.
New Haven lies at the intersection of Interstate 95 on the coast which provides access southwards and/or westwards to the coast of Connecticut and to New York City, and eastwards to the easterly Connecticut shoreline, Rhode Island, and easterly Massachusetts and Interstate 91, which leads northward to the interior of Massachusetts and Vermont and the Canada US border.
I-95 is continuing for traffic jams increasing with adjacency to New York City; on the east side of New Haven it passes over the Quinnipiac River via the Pearl Harbor Memorial, or "Q Bridge", which often presents a primary bottleneck to traffic.
The Wilbur Cross Parkway (Connecticut Route 15) runs alongside to I-95 west of New Haven, turning northwards as it nears the town/city and then running northwards alongside to I-91 through the outer rim of New Haven and Hamden, offering an alternative to the I-95/I-91 journey (restricted to non-commercial vehicles).
Route 15 in New Haven is the site of the only highway tunnel in the state (officially designated as Heroes Tunnel), running through West Rock, home to West Rock Park and the Three Judges Cave.
Route 1 (Columbus Avenue, Union Avenue, Water Street, Forbes Avenue) runs in an east-west direction south of downtown serving Union Station and dominant out of the town/city to Milford, West Haven, East Haven and Branford.
Tweed New Haven Regional Airport is positioned inside the town/city limits 3 miles (5 km) east of the company district, and provides daily service to Philadelphia through American Eagle.
Bus service between Downtown New Haven and Tweed is available via the CT Transit New Haven Division Bus "G".
New Haven Harbor is home to the Port of New Haven, a deep-water seaport with three berths capable of hosting vessels and barges as well as the facilities required to handle break bulk cargo.
The New Haven region supports a several medical facilities that are considered some of the best hospitals in the country.
There are two primary medical centers downtown: Yale New Haven Hospital has four pavilions, including the Yale New Haven Children's Hospital and the Smilow Cancer Hospital; the Hospital of Saint Raphael is a several blocks north, and touts its excellent cardiac emergency care program.
Yale and New Haven are working to build a medical and biotechnology research core in the town/city and Greater New Haven region, and are succeeding to some extent. The city, state and Yale together run Science Park, a large site three blocks northwest of Yale's Science Hill campus. This multi-block site, approximately bordered by Mansfield Street, Division Street, and Shelton Avenue, is the former home of Winchester's and Olin Corporation's 45 large-scale factory buildings.
New Haven, home to the Marsh Botanical Garden and this abandoned building.
A second biotechnology precinct is being prepared for the median strip on Frontage Road, on territory cleared for the never-built Route 34 extension. As of late 2009, a Pfizer drug-testing clinic, a medical laboratory building serving Yale New Haven Hospital, and a mixed-use structure including parking, housing and office space, have been constructed on this corridor. A former SNET telephone building at 300 George Street is being converted into lab space, and has been so far quite prosperous in attracting biotechnology and medical firms. Electricity for New Haven is generated by a 448 MW petroleum and gas-fired generating station positioned on the shore at New Haven Harbor. In addition, Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL) Inc.
There are three Pure - Cell Model 400 fuel cells placed in the town/city of New Haven one at the New Haven Public Schools and newly constructed Roberto Clemente School, one at the mixed-use 360 State Street building, and one at City Hall. According to Giovanni Zinn of the city's Office of Sustainability, each fuel cell may save the town/city up to $1 million in energy costs over a decade. The fuel cells were provided by Clear - Edge Power, formerly UTC Power. Several recent movies have been filmed in New Haven, including Mona Lisa Smile (2003), with Julia Roberts, The Life Before Her Eyes (2007), with Uma Thurman, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and Shia La - Beouf. The recording of Crystal Skull involved an extensive chase sequence through the streets of New Haven.
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