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| NECTA | New Haven | ||
| Region | South Central Region | ||
| Settled | 1638 | ||
| Incorporated (city) | 1784 | ||
| Consolidated | 1895 | ||
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| - Type | Mayor-board of aldermen | ||
| - Mayor | John DeStefano, Jr. (D) | ||
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| - City | 20. A nickname is a Name of an entity or thing that is not its Proper name. Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. A New England City and Town Area or NECTA is a geographic and statistical entity defined by the U Greater New Haven is the Metropolitan area whose extent includes those towns in the U The Mayor-Council government system sometimes called the Mayor-Commission government system is one of two variations of Government used for the most part in modern A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government John DeStefano Jr (born May 11, 1955) is the current Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status 31 sq mi (52. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. 6 km²) | ||
| - Land | 18. To help compare Orders of magnitude of different geographical regions we list here areas between 1000 km2 and 10000 km2 9 sq mi (49. 0 km²) | ||
| - Water | 1. 4 sq mi (3. 6 km²) | ||
| - Urban | 285. 3 sq mi (738. 9 km²) | ||
| Elevation | 59 ft (18 m) | ||
| Population (2006)[1] | |||
| - City | 124,001 | ||
| - Density | 6,601. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 9/sq mi (2,549/km²) | ||
| - Urban | 569,000 | ||
| - Metro | 846,766 | ||
| Metro area refers to New Haven County | |||
| Time zone | Eastern (UTC-5) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | Eastern (UTC-4) | ||
| ZIP code | 0651x | ||
| Area code(s) | 203 | ||
| FIPS code | 09-52000 | ||
| GNIS feature ID | 0209231 | ||
| Website: http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/ | |||
New Haven is the third-largest municipality[2] in Connecticut, after Bridgeport and possibly Hartford, with a core population of about 124,000 people. A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large Metropolis and its adjacent zone of influence or of more than one closely adjoining neighboring central The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of North America and the west coast of South America UTC−5 is the Time offset used in the North American Eastern Time Zone during Standard time and in the North American Central Time Zone during Daylight saving time ( DST The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of North America and the west coast of South America UTC−4 is the Time offset used in the Atlantic Standard Time Zone in Canada in winter and the North American Eastern Time Zone during A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks Area code 203 is a Telephone Area code that covers the southwestern part of Connecticut. Federal Information Processing Standards ( FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States Federal government for use by all non-military The Geographic Names Information System ( GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. [1] "New Haven" may also refer to the wider Greater New Haven area, which has nearly 600,000 inhabitants in the immediate area. Greater New Haven is the Metropolitan area whose extent includes those towns in the U [3][4] It is located in New Haven County, on New Haven Harbor, on the northern shore of Long Island Sound. New Haven County is located in the south central part of the U New Haven Harbor is an inlet on the north side of Long Island Sound in the state of Connecticut in the United States. Long Island Sound is an Estuary of the Atlantic Ocean and various Rivers in the United States that lies between the coast of Connecticut
New Haven provides arguably one of the earliest examples of urban planning in the country. [5] One year after its founding in 1638 eight streets were laid out in a grid of four streets by four streets creating what is now commonly known as the "Nine Square Plan,"[6] which is recognized by the American Institute of Certified Planners as a National Historic Planning Landmark. The grid plan or gridiron plan is a type of City plan in which Streets run at right angles to each other forming a grid. The American Institute of Certified Planners (or AICP is the American Planning Association 's professional institute The central common block is New Haven Green a 16 acre square, now a National Historic Landmark and the center of Downtown New Haven. The New Haven Green is a 16-acre privately owned park and recreation area located in the downtown district of the city of New Haven Connecticut. A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the Downtown New Haven is the neighborhood located in the heart of the city of New Haven, Connecticut.
New Haven had the first public tree planting program in America, producing a canopy of mature trees (including some large elms) that gave New Haven the nickname "The Elm City. "
The city is the home of Yale University. Along with Yale, healthcare (hospitals, biotechnology), professional services (legal, architectural, marketing, engineering), financial services and retail trade form the base of the economy. Since the mid-1990s, the city's downtown area has seen extensive revitalization. Downtown New Haven is the neighborhood located in the heart of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. [7]
History
Pre-colonial and colonial history
Before European arrival, the New Haven area was the home of the Quinnipiac tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off local fisheries and the farming of maize. This article is about the Native American nation For the university see Quinnipiac University. Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States A harbor or harbour (see spelling differences) or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the Weather or are stored Maize (ˈmeɪz ( Zea mays L. ssp mays) known as corn in some countries is a cereal grain domesticated in Mesoamerica The area was briefly visited by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block in 1614. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Adriaen (Aerjan Block (c 1567 Amsterdam &ndash buried April 27 1627, Amsterdam was a Dutch private trader and navigator who is best Dutch traders set up a small trading system of beaver pelts with the local inhabitants, but trade was sporadic and the Dutch did not settle permanently in the area. Beavers are two primarily nocturnal semi-aquatic species of Rodent, one native to North America and one to Europe
In April 1638, five hundred Puritans who left the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the leadership of the Reverend John Davenport and the London merchant Theophilus Eaton sailed into the harbor. A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was an associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more "purity" of Worship and Doctrine, The Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called the Massachusetts Bay Company, for the institution that founded it was an English settlement on the east coast of North America John Davenport ( April 9, 1597 &ndash May 30, 1670) was a Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the American colony London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Theophilus Eaton (1590 &ndash January 7, 1658) was a merchant farmer and Puritan colonial leader who was the co-founder and first governor of New These settlers were hoping to establish a better theological community than the one they left in Massachusetts and sought to take advantage of the excellent port capabilities of the harbor. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The Quinnipiacs, who were under attack by neighboring Pequots, sold their land to the settlers in return for protection. See Main articles Mashantucket Pequot Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation.
By 1640, the town's theocratic government and nine square grid plan were in place, and the town was renamed Newhaven from Quinnipiac. The New England town is the basic unit of local government in each of the six New England states However, the area north of New Haven remained Quinnipiac until 1678, when it was renamed Hamden. The settlement became the headquarters of the New Haven Colony. The New Haven Colony was an English colonial venture in present-day Connecticut in North America from 1637 to 1662. At the time, the New Haven Colony was separate from the Connecticut Colony which had been established to the north focusing on Hartford. The Colony of Connecticut was an English colony that became the U 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. Theocracy is a form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler
Economic disaster struck the colony in 1646, however, when the town sent its first fully loaded ship of local goods back to England. This ship never reached the Old World, and its disappearance stymied New Haven's development in the face of the rising trade power of Boston and New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement that later became New York City. In 1660, founder John Davenport's wishes were fulfilled and Hopkins School was founded in New Haven with money from the estate of Edward Hopkins. The Hopkins School (or Hopkins Grammar School) is a Co-educational, private Day school, located in New Haven, Connecticut Edward Hopkins was born in 1600 in Shropshire, England. Edward joined the New Haven Colony in 1637
In 1661, the judges who had signed the death warrant of Charles I of England were pursued by Charles II. Charles I, (19 November 1600 &ndash 30 January 1649 was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution. Charles II (Charles Stuart 29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685 was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Two judges, Colonel Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, fled to New Haven to seek refuge from the king's forces. Edward Whalley (c 1607 &ndash c 1675 was an English military leader during the English Civil War, and was one of the regicides who signed the death William Goffe (1605?&ndash1679? was an English parliamentarian. John Davenport arranged for these "Regicides" to hide in the West Rock hills northwest of the town. The broad definition of regicide is the deliberate killing of a Monarch, or the person responsible for it West Rock Ridge or West Rock A third judge, John Dixwell, joined the other regicides at a later time.
New Haven became part of the Connecticut Colony in 1664, when the two colonies were merged under political pressure from England, according to folklore as punishment for harboring the three judges (in reality, done in order to strengthen the case for the takeover of nearby New Amsterdam, which was rapidly losing territory to migrants from Connecticut). New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement that later became New York City. Some members of the New Haven Colony seeking to establish a new theocracy elsewhere went on to establish Newark, New Jersey. Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, United States and the County seat of Essex County.
It was made co-capital of Connecticut in 1701, a status it retained until 1873. In 1716, the Collegiate School relocated from Old Saybrook to New Haven and established New Haven as a center of learning. Old Saybrook is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. In 1718, the name of the Collegiate School was changed to Yale College in response to a large donation from Welsh merchant Elihu Yale. Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887 Elihu Yale ( April 5, 1649, in Boston, Massachusetts - July 8, 1721, in London, England) was
For over a century, New Haven citizens had fought alongside British forces, as in the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War (1754&ndash1763 was the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War. As the American Revolution approached, General David Wooster and other influential residents hoped that the conflict with Britain could be resolved short of rebellion. In this article the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans" with occasional references to "Patriots" David Wooster ( March 2 1710 – May 2 1777) was an American general in the American Revolutionary War. But on April 23, 1775 (still celebrated in New Haven as Powder House Day), the Second Company, Governor's Foot Guard, of New Haven entered the struggle against the British. Events 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Year 1775 ( MDCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Powder House Day in New Haven Connecticut, is celebrated annually to commemorate the events of April 22, 1775 when the Governor's Foot Guard Under Captain Benedict Arnold, they broke into the powder house to arm themselves and began a three-day march to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Benedict Arnold V ( – June 14, 1801) was a General during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. Other New Haven militia members were on hand to escort George Washington from his overnight stay in New Haven on his way to Cambridge. George Washington (February 22 1732 December 14 1799 served as the first President of the United States of America (1789&ndash1797 and led the Contemporary reports, from both sides, remark on the New Haven volunteers' professional military bearing, including uniforms.
British forces under General William Tryon raided the 3,500-person town in July 1779, but did not torch it as they had with Danbury in 1777, or Fairfield and Norwalk a week after the New Haven raid, leaving many of the town's colonial features preserved. William Tryon ( June 8, 1729 – January 27, 1788) was colonial Governor of the Province of North Carolina (1765-1771 and Fairfield is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
| Towns created from the original New Haven Colony[8] | ||
| New town | Split from | Incorporated |
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| Wallingford | New Haven | 1670 |
| Cheshire | Wallingford | 1780 |
| Meriden | Wallingford | 1806 |
| Branford | New Haven | 1685 |
| North Branford | Branford | 1831 |
| Woodbridge | New Haven and Milford | 1784 |
| Bethany | Woodbridge | 1832 |
| East Haven | New Haven | 1785 |
| Hamden | New Haven | 1786 |
| North Haven | New Haven | 1786 |
| Orange | New Haven and Milford | 1822 |
| West Haven | Orange | 1921 |
Post-colonial history
New Haven was incorporated as a 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. Roger Sherman ( April 19, 1721 ( JC) April 30, 1721 ( GC) July 23, 1793) was an early The Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise, was an essential agreement between large and small states reached during the Philadelphia Convention
The city struck fortune in the late 18th-century with the inventions and industrial activity of Eli Whitney, a Yale graduate who remained in New Haven to develop the cotton gin and establish a gun-manufacturing factory in the northern part of the city near the Hamden town line. A milling machine is a Machine tool used for the shaping of Metal and other Solid Materials. Hamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. That area is still known as Whitneyville, and the main road through both towns is known as Whitney Avenue. The factory is now the Eli Whitney Museum which has a particular emphasis on activities for children, and exhibits pertaining to the A. C. Gilbert Company. The Eli Whitney Museum, in Hamden, Connecticut, focuses on design and invention with hands-on projects and exhibits on Eli Whitney and A The A C Gilbert Company was an American Toy company once one of the largest toy companies in the world His factory, along with that of Simeon North, and the lively clock-making and brass hardware sectors, contributed to making early Connecticut a powerful manufacturing economy; so many arms manufacturers sprang up that the state became known as 'The Arsenal of America'. Simeon North (1765 - 1852 was a Middletown Connecticut gun manufacturer who developed America's first Milling machine in 1818 and played an important role in the It was in Whitney's gun-manufacturing plant that Samuel Colt invented the automatic revolver in 1836. Samuel Colt ( July 19, 1814 &ndash January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and Industrialist. rEVOLVEr is the fourth studio album by Swedish metal band The Haunted.
The Farmington Canal, created in the early 1800s, was a short-lived transporter of goods into the interior regions of Connecticut and Massachusetts, and ran from New Haven to Northampton, Massachusetts. The Farmington Canal was a major private Canal built in the early 1800s to provide water transportation from New Haven into the interior of Connecticut, Northampton is a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
New Haven was home to one of the important early events in the burgeoning anti-slavery movement when, in 1839, the trial of mutineering Mendi tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Spanish slaveship Amistad was held in New Haven's United States District Court. Abolitionism was a political movement of the 18th and 19th century which sought to make Slavery illegal particularly in the United States and British West Indies The Mende are one of the two largest Ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, along with the Temne. Slave ships were cargo Ships specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves, especially newly purchased African slaves La Amistad ( Spanish: "Friendship" was a 19th-century two- masted Schooner built in the United States but owned by a Spaniard There is a statue of Joseph Cinqué, the informal leader of the slaves, beside City Hall. Sengbe Pieh (1813 &ndash ca 1879 later known as Joseph Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende ethnic group and was the most prominent defendant See "Museums" below for more information.
The Civil War boosted the local economy with wartime purchases of industrial goods. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South After the war, New Haven's population grew and doubled by the start of the 20th century, most notably due to the influx of immigrants from southern Europe, particularly Italy. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest 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.
Modern history
New Haven's growth continued during the two World Wars, with most new inhabitants being African Americans from the South and Puerto Ricans. Harkness Tower is a prominent Gothic Revival structure at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut, United States. Downtown New Haven is the neighborhood located in the heart of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa The Southern United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South &mdashconstitutes a large distinctive Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}} The city reached its peak population after World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The area of New Haven is only 17 square miles (44 km²), encouraging further development of new housing after 1950 in adjacent, suburban towns. Moreover, as in other US cities in 1950s, New Haven began to suffer from an exodus of middle-class workers. The 1950s are noted in United States history as a time of both compliance and conformity and also to a lesser extent of rebellion The middle class, in colloquial usage consists of those who have some economic independence but not a great deal of social Influence or power.
In 1954, then-mayor Richard C. Lee began some of the earliest major urban renewal projects in the United States. Richard Charles Lee ( March 12, 1916 - February 2, 2003) (sometimes called " "Mr Urban Renewal (similar to Urban Regeneration in British English) is a controversial U Certain sections of Downtown New Haven were destroyed and rebuilt with new office towers, a hotel, and large shopping complexes. Downtown New Haven is the neighborhood located in the heart of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. Other parts of the city were affected by the construction of Interstate 95 along the Long Wharf section, Interstate 91 and the Oak Street Connector. Interstate 95, the main north-south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, runs in a general east-west compass direction for 111 Interstate 91 (abbreviated I-91) is an Interstate highway in the New England section of the United States. The Oak Street Connector, officially known as the Richard C Lee Highway, is a 1 The Oak Street Connector (Route 34), running between Interstate 95, downtown and The Hill neighborhood, was originally intended as a highway to the city's western suburbs but was only completed as a highway to the downtown area, with the area to the west becoming a boulevard. Route 34 is a primary State highway in the US state of Connecticut. Interstate 95, the main north-south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, runs in a general east-west compass direction for 111 Downtown New Haven is the neighborhood located in the heart of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. The Hill is the southwest-most neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut.
From the 1960s through the early 1990s, central areas of New Haven continued to decline both economically and in terms of population despite attempts to resurrect certain neighborhoods through renewal projects. In the mid-1990s New Haven began to stabilize and grow, though poverty in some central neighborhoods remains a problem.
1970 trial
New Haven in 1970 witnessed the largest trial in Connecticut history. Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale and ten other Party members were tried for murdering an alleged informant. The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist / Maoist African-American organization established Robert George "Bobby" Seale (born October 22, 1936 in Dallas Texas) is an American Civil rights activist who along May Day, 1970 saw the beginning of the pretrial proceedings for the first of the two New Haven Black Panther trials; it was met with a demonstration by twelve thousand Black Panther supporters, including a large number of college students, who had come to New Haven individually and in organized groups and were housed and fed by community organizations and by Yale students in their dorms. May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to any of several Public holidays In many countries May Day is synonymous with International Workers' Day, or Labour The New Haven Black Panther Trials were a series of 1970 criminal prosecutions in New Haven Connecticut against various members of the Black Panther Party.
The demonstrations continued through the Spring. By day protesters assembled on the New Haven Green across the street from the Courthouse to hear speakers including Jean Genet, Benjamin Spock, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and John Froines; afterwards, many taunted the New Haven police, and in return were tear gassed and retreated to their temporary quarters. The New Haven Green is a 16-acre privately owned park and recreation area located in the downtown district of the city of New Haven Connecticut. Jean Genet (ʒɑ̃ ʒəˈnɛ in French ( –) was a prominent controversial French writer and later political activist. Benjamin McLane Spock ( May 2, 1903 &ndash March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30 1936 &ndash April 12 1989 was a radical social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Jerry Rubin ( July 14, 1938 – November 28, 1994) was a high-profile left-wing American social activist during the 1960s and John R Froines is a chemist and Anti-war activist He is most noted as a member of the Chicago Seven, a group charged with involvement with the riots at the 1968 A lachrymatory agent or lachrymator (from lacrima meaning "a tear " in Latin) (commonly referred to as tear gas) is a The police behind them half-heartedly assaulted the dormitories, as was customary for such demonstrations at the time, but on the whole it was peaceful, with very little injury or property damage and only two minor bombings. The National Guard were kept ready on the highways into the city, but police chief Jim Ahern determined that the city police were controlling the situation adequately, and that the presence of the Guard would only inflame the situation; the events at Kent State University a few days later were to prove him prescient. For the National Guard of a State and other countries' National Guard see National Guard. IMPORTANT After careful consideration the title "Kent State Shootings" has been applied in this article rather than "Kent State Massacre
This coincided with the beginning of the national student strike of May 1970. Yale (and many other colleges) went "on strike" from just before May Day until the end of the term; as at many colleges it was not actually "shut down", but classes were made "voluntarily optional" for the time and students were graded pass/fail for work done up to then.
New Haven in modern political history
New Haven is the birthplace of U.S. President George W. Bush,[9] who was born when his father, former president George H. W. Bush, was living in New Haven while a student at Yale. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12 1924 served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 A predominantly Democratic city, New Haven voters overwhelmingly supported Al Gore in the 2000 election and Yale graduate John Kerry in 2004. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. Albert Arnold Gore Jr (born March 31 1948 is an American environmental Activist, author Businessperson, former Politician, and former The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Democratic candidate Al Gore, then Vice President, and Republican } John Forbes Kerry (born December 11 1943 is an American Politician who is currently serving his fourth term as the junior United States Senator The United States presidential election of 2004 was held on Tuesday November 2, 2004, to elect the President of the United States. In addition to being the site of the college educations of both Presidents Bush, New Haven was also a temporary home to former president Bill Clinton and U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who met while they were students at Yale Law School. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26 1947 is the junior United States Senator from Yale Law School, or YLS, is the Law school of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. New Haven was also the residence of conservative thinker William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1951, when he wrote his influential God and Man at Yale. William Frank Buckley Jr ( November 24 1925 – February 27 2008) was an American Author and conservative God and Man at Yale The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom" is a book published in 1951 by William F
Since the mid-1950s and spearheaded by its former long-serving mayor, Richard C. Lee, New Haven has undertaken numerous urban redevelopment projects, but with overall mixed results. The downtown area in particular has been the site of sometimes dubious experiments in urban redesign, with new hotels, retail complexes, parking structures, a sports colliseum, and office towers built under a labyrinth of city, state, federal and private efforts. Of recent note, as each of these pieces of the redevelopment puzzle transform, become obsolete or again redeveloped, New Haven tends to bear the brunt of a fair share of painful analysis in regard to its ongoing rebuilding efforts, mostly in response to the overhyped claims of success that many similar projects touted over a generation ago.
During the 1950s and 60s, New Haven received more urban renewal funding per capita than any city in the U. Urban Renewal (similar to Urban Regeneration in British English) is a controversial U S. New Haven became the de facto showcase of the new modern redeveloped city and plans for its downtown development were featured on the cover of Time Magazine in the early 1960s. Some projects, such as the brutalist-styled New Haven Coliseum (demolished in 2007), drew major crowds but were ultimately considered to be victims of modernist over-design and rapid obsolescence. The term Brutalist Architecture originates from the French Béton brut, or "raw concrete" a term used by Le Corbusier to describe The New Haven Coliseum was a sports-entertainment arena located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. In 2004, the central structure of the mall was converted to luxury apartments, joining a renovated 4-star Omni hotel and new street-level retail. Other numerous smaller projects have in-fill design qualities and are mixed-use.
Current plans for downtown include developing the sites of the Colliseum and Macy's and Malley's department stores and relocating Gateway Community College, Long Wharf Theatre and a mixed-use development there[10]. Long Wharf Theatre started life in a warehouse alongside the harbor of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1965, the brainchild of 2 alumni of Yale University A major focus has been the "Ninth Square", named from the original nine square layout of New Haven center. This area has experienced an influx of hundreds of new and renovated apartment and condominium units, plus a significant number of upscale restaurants and nightclubs have opened.
John DeStefano, Jr., the current mayor of New Haven, has served seven consecutive terms and was re-elected for an eighth term in November 2007. John DeStefano Jr (born May 11, 1955) is the current Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut Mayor DeStefano has focused his tenure on improving education and public safety, as well as on economic development. Notable initiatives include the Livable City Initiative, begun in 1996, which promotes homeownership and removes blight, and the Citywide Youth Initiative. In 1995, DeStefano launched a 15-year, $1. 5 billion School Construction Program, already half finished, to replace or renovate every New Haven public school.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 20. Downtown New Haven is the neighborhood located in the heart of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. The Yale Center for British Art is an Art museum in New Haven Connecticut at Yale University which houses the most comprehensive collection of The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title) is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census 2 square miles (52. 4 km²), of which, 18. 9 square miles (48. 8 km²) is land and 1. 4 square miles (3. 6 km²) of it (6. 91%) is water.
New Haven's best-known geographic features are its large deep harbor, and two reddish basalt "trap rocks" which rise to the northeast and northwest of the city core. These trap rocks are known respectively as East Rock and West Rock, and both serve as extensive parks. This article is about a mountainous ridge located in New Haven Connecticut West Rock Ridge or West Rock West Rock has been tunneled through to make way for the east-west passage of the Wilbur Cross Parkway (the only highway tunnel through a natural obstacle in Connecticut), and once served as the hideout of the "Regicides" (see: Regicides Trail). The Wilbur Cross Parkway is a Limited access road in Connecticut, comprising the portion of Route 15 between Milford and Meriden. The broad definition of regicide is the deliberate killing of a Monarch, or the person responsible for it Regicides Trail is a Hiking Trail, about 7 miles (11 km long roughly following the edge of a Basalt, or traprock Cliff northwest of Most New Haveners refer to these men as "The Three Judges. " East Rock features the prominent Soldiers and Sailors war monument on its peak as well as the "Great/Giant Steps" which run up the rock's cliffside.
The city is drained by three rivers, the West, Mill, and Quinnipiac, named in order from west to east. The West River is a freshwater stream in southern Connecticut. The Mill River is a River in the New England region of the United States, located entirely in the state of Connecticut. The Quinnipiac River is a River in the New England region of the United States, located entirely in the state of Connecticut. The West River discharges into the West Haven Harbor, while the Mill and Quinnipiac Rivers discharge into the New Haven Harbor. "West Haven" redirects here For other uses see West Haven (disambiguation West Haven is a city in New Haven County, Both harbors are embayments of Long Island Sound. Long Island Sound is an Estuary of the Atlantic Ocean and various Rivers in the United States that lies between the coast of Connecticut In addition, several smaller streams flow through the city's neighborhoods, including Wintergreen Brook, the Beaver Ponds Outlet, Wilmot Brook, Belden Brook, and Prospect Creek. Not all of these small streams have continuous flow year-round.
Streetscape
New Haven has a long tradition of urban planning and a purposeful design of the city's layout. The city is recognized as one of the oldest planned cities in North America [5][6]. 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 city green (a commons area). The grid plan or gridiron plan is a type of City plan in which Streets run at right angles to each other forming a grid. A village green is a common open area which is a part of a settlement The city also instituted the first public tree planting program in America. 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. Elms are Deciduous and Semi-deciduous Trees comprising the genus Ulmus, family Ulmaceae, found Dutch elm disease (DED is a fungal disease of Elm trees which is spread by the Elm bark beetle. The New Haven Green is currently home to three separate historic churches which speak to the original theocratic nature of the city. The New Haven Green is a 16-acre privately owned park and recreation area located in the downtown district of the city of New Haven Connecticut. [6] The Green remains the social center of the city today. It was named a National Historic Landmark in 1970. A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the
Downtown New Haven, occupied by nearly 7,000 residents, has a more residential character than most downtowns. Downtown New Haven is the neighborhood located in the heart of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. [11] The downtown area provides about half of the city's jobs and half of its tax base[11] and in recent years has become filled with dozens of new upscale restaurants, several of which have garnered national praise (such as Ibiza, recognized by Esquire (magazine) 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 apartments and condominium units. Esquire is a Men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition Wine Spectator is a Magazine that focuses on Wine. Founded as a newsprint tabloid by Bob Morrisey in 1976 it was purchased three years later by publisher
Neighborhoods
The city has many distinct neighborhoods. In addition to Downtown, centered on the central business district 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 district of Long Wharf; the western 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, a neighborhood that is with majority Puerto Rican families and other Latino groups, located between the Mill and Quinnipiac rivers; Quinnipiac Meadows and Fair Haven Heights across the Quinnipiac River; and facing the eastern side of the harbor, The Annex and East Shore (or Morris Cove). A central business district ( CBD) is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city The New Haven Green is a 16-acre privately owned park and recreation area located in the downtown district of the city of New Haven Connecticut. Dixwell is a neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Named for Dixwell Avenue the main thoroughfare of the neighborhood which in turn was named for regicide The Hill is the southwest-most neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. City Point is a neighborhood in New Haven Connecticut, USA. It is located at the southwestern end of the city and is bordered on the west by the West River Long Wharf is a waterfront district and neighborhood of the city of New Haven Connecticut, United States. Edgewood is a neighborhood in the Western part of the city of New Haven, Connecticut, officially defined by Whalley Avenue on the north Chapel Westville is a neighborhood of the city of New Haven Connecticut located in the western part of the city The valley of Amity is an area located partly in the town of Woodbridge Connecticut and partly in the city of New Haven. East Rock is a neighborhood in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, named for a nearby hill of the same name. Cedar Hill is a neighborhood located in New Haven, Connecticut. Newhallville is a neighborhood of the city of New Haven Connecticut, named after industrialist George Newhall. Mill River is a neighborhood in the city of New Haven, Connecticut located between the more famous neighborhoods of Wooster Square and Fair Fair Haven is a neighborhood in the eastern part of the city of New Haven, Connecticut located between the Mill and Quinnipiac Quinnipiac Meadows, also known as Bishop Woods, is a neighborhood in the northeast corner of the city of Fair Haven Heights, or simply the Heights, is a residential and light industrial neighborhood in the Eastern part of the city of New Haven, The Annex is a residential neighborhood of the city if New Haven Connecticut. East Shore, also known as Morris Cove, is a neighborhood of the city of New Haven Connecticut. [12][13]
Economy and demographics
| Historical population of New Haven[14] |
|
| 1790 | 4,487 |
| 1800 | 4,049 |
| 1810 | 5,772 |
| 1820 | 7,147 |
| 1830 | 10,180 |
| 1840 | 12,960 |
| 1850 | 20,345 |
| 1860 | 39,267 |
| 1870 | 50,840 |
| 1880 | 62,882 |
| 1890 | 86,045 |
| 1900 | 108,027 |
| 1910 | 133,605 |
| 1920 | 162,537 |
| 1930 | 162,665 |
| 1940 | 160,605 |
| 1950 | 164,443 |
| 1960 | 152,048 |
| 1970 | 137,707 |
| 1980 | 126,021 |
| 1990 | 130,474 |
| 2000 | 123,626 |
| 2006 | 124,001 (estimate)[15] |
New Haven's economy originally was based in manufacturing, but the postwar period brought rapid industrial decline and factories were shuttered; the entire Northeast was affected, and medium-sized cities with large working-class populations, like New Haven, were hit particularly hard. Simultaneously, the growth and expansion of Yale University further effected the economic shift. Over half (56%) of the city's economy is now made up of services, in particular education and healthcare; Yale is the city's largest employer, followed by Yale-New Haven Hospital. Yale-New Haven Hospital (abbreviated YNHH is a 944-bed hospital located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. [17] Yale and Yale-New Haven are also among the largest employers in the state, and provide more $100,000+-salaried positions than any other employer in Connecticut.
The US Census Bureau estimates a 2006 population of 124,001; the 2000 census lists 47,094 households and 25,854 families within the central municipality, the City of New Haven. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population The population density is 6,558. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 4 people per square mile (2,532. 2/km²). There are 52,941 housing units at an average density of 2,808. 5/sq mi (1,084. 4/km²). The racial makeup of the city is 43. 46% White, 37. 36% African American, 0. 43% Native American, 3. 90% Asian, 0. 06% Pacific Islander, 10. 89% from other races, and 3. 91% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 21. 39% of the population. Non-Hispanic whites make 35. 57% of the population, but demographics are shifting rapidly: New Haven has always been a city of immigrants and currently the Latino population is growing rapidly. Previous influxes among ethnic groups have been: African-American's in the postwar era, and Irish, Italian and (to a lesser degree) Slavic peoples in the prewar period.
As of the 2000 census, of the 47,094 households, 29. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population 3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 27. 5% include married couples living together, 22. 9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 45. 1% are non-families. 36. 1% of all households are made up of individuals and 10. 5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2. 40 and the average family size 3. 19. [18][19]
The ages of New Haven's residents are: 25. 4% under the age of 18, 16. 4% from 18 to 24, 31. 2% from 25 to 44, 16. 7% from 45 to 64, and 10. 2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age is 29 years, which is statistically very young. There are 91. 8 males per 100 females. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87. 6 males.
The median income for a household in the city is $29,604, and the median income for a family is $35,950. Median income for males is $33,605, compared with $28,424 for females. The per capita income for the city is $16,393. Per capita income means how much each individual receives in monetary terms of the yearly income generated in the country About 20. 5% of families and 24. 4% of the population live below the poverty line, including 32. The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of Income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate Standard of living in a given country 2% of those under age 18 and 17. 9% of those age 65 or over. [20][21]
As of 2001, the New Haven metropolitan area has the third-highest per capita income in the country, third behind San Francisco and Silicon Valley, California. [22] Yet a 2006 analysis of a slightly differently-defined urban area showed New Haven to have the 32nd-highest per capita income; while a significantly lower figure, this still placed New Haven in the top 10% highest per-capita income metropolitan areas in the country. [23]
Today New Haven is a predominantly Catholic city, as the city's Dominican, Irish, Italian, Mexican, and Puerto Rican populations are overwhelmingly Catholic. Jews also make up a considerable portion of the population, as do Black Baptists. New Haven is part of the Archdiocese of Hartford. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford is a Particular church of the Latin Rite in Hartford, Litchfield and New Haven counties There are churches for all major branches of Christianity within the city, several Jewish synagogues, multiple store-front churches and ministries (especially in working-class Latino and Black neighborhoods), mosques, and other places of worship; the level of religious diversity in the city is high.
Education
Colleges and universities
Yale University, at the heart of downtown, is one of the city's best known features and its largest employer [7]. New Haven is also home to other centers of higher education, including Southern Connecticut State University and Albertus Magnus College. Southern Connecticut State University (alternately SCSU Southern is one of five state universities in Connecticut, and is located in New Haven Connecticut Albertus Magnus College is a small private Liberal arts college in New Haven, Connecticut. Gateway Community College has a campus in New Haven, located in the Long Wharf district. See also GateWay Community College ( Phoenix Arizona) Gateway Community College is located in Connecticut with two Long Wharf is a waterfront district and neighborhood of the city of New Haven Connecticut, United States.
There are institutions immediately outside of New Haven, as well. Quinnipiac University is located just to the north, in the town of Hamden. Quinnipiac University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational University located in Hamden, Connecticut, at the Hamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The University of New Haven is located not in New Haven but in West Haven. The University of New Haven is a private comprehensive coeducational University located in suburban West Haven, Connecticut that was originally founded "West Haven" redirects here For other uses see West Haven (disambiguation West Haven is a city in New Haven County,
Primary and secondary schools
Wilbur Cross High School and Hillhouse High School are New Haven's two largest public secondary schools. Athletics Wilbur Cross athletic teams are known as "The Governors" in recognition of the school's namesake Hopkins School, a private school, was founded in 1660 and is the fifth oldest educational institution in the United States. The Hopkins School (or Hopkins Grammar School) is a Co-educational, private Day school, located in New Haven, Connecticut [24] New Haven is home to a number of other private schools as well as public magnet schools including High School in the Community, Hill Regional Career High School, Co-op High School and the Sound School, all of which draw students from New Haven and suburban towns. The Sound School is a regional vocational aquaculture center situated in the City Point neighborhood of New Haven Connecticut. New Haven is also home to two Achievement First charter schools, Amistad Academy and Elm City College Prep.
The school district is called New Haven Public Schools. Almost all have been renovated under a 15-year, $1. 5 billion School Construction Program; the immense effort to improve city public schools is slowly erasing the bad reputation that New Haven public schools had acquired in past decades, though it will yet take years to see if the program has truly been a success.
Culture and notable features
Architecture
New Haven has many architectural landmarks dating from every important time period and architectural style in American history. The city has been home to a number of architects and architectural firms that have also left their mark on the city including Ithiel Town and Henry Austin in the 19th century and Cesar Pelli, Warren Platner, Kevin Roche, Herbert Newman and Barry Svigals in the 20th. Ithiel Town ( October 3, 1784 &ndash June 13, 1844) was a prominent American Architect and Civil engineer. Henry Austin ( December 4, 1804 &mdash December 17, 1891) was a prominent and prolific American Architect based in New Cesar Pelli (born October 12 1926 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina) is an Argentine Architect known for designing some of the Kevin Roche (b June 14, 1922) is an award-winning twentieth-century Irish-born American Architect. Barry Svigals, FAIA (1948- is a Connecticut-based architect and sculptor The Yale School of Architecture has fostered this important component of the city's economy. The Yale School of Architecture is one of the constituent professional schools of Yale University. 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. Cass Gilbert ( November 29, 1859 &ndash May 17, 1934) was a pioneering American Architect. Beaux Arts architecture denotes the academic classical Architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Union Station is the main Railroad passenger station in New Haven Connecticut. The City Beautiful movement was a Progressive reform movement in North American Architecture and Urban planning that flourished in the 1890s and Marcel Breuer, Alexander Jackson Davis, Philip C. Johnson, Gordon Bunshaft, Louis Kahn, James Gamble Rogers, Frank Gehry, Charles Moore, Stefan Behnisch, James Polshek, Paul Rudolph, Eero Saarinen and Robert Venturi all have designed buildings in New Haven. Marcel Lajos Breuer ( 21 May 1902 Pécs, Hungary &ndash 1 July 1981 New York City) Architect and Alexander Jackson Davis (AJ Davis ( July 24, 1803 &ndash January 14, 1892) was one of the most successful and influential American architects Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8 1906&ndash January 25 2005 was an influential American Architect. Gordon Bunshaft ( May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990) was a 20th century Architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) ( February 20, 1901 or 1902 &ndash March 17, 1974) was a world-renowned James Gamble Rogers ( March 3, 1867 &mdash October 1, 1947) was an American architect best known for his academic commissions Frank Owen Gehry CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize -winning Architect Charles Moore is the name of Charles Moore (athlete (born 1929 America Olympic hurdler Charles Moore (English MP (1771&ndash1826 James Stewart Polshek (born 1930 Akron Ohio) is an American Architect based in New York City. Paul Rudolph is the name of Paul Rudolph (architect (1918–1997 American architect Paul Rudolph (musician (born c Eero Saarinen (eːro saːrinen (August 20 1910 Kirkkonummi, Finland – September 1 1961 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) was Robert Charles Venturi Jr (born June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia) is an award-winning American Architect and founding principal of the firm Venturi
Many of the city's neighborhoods are well-preserved as walkable "museums" of 19th and 20th century American architecture, particularly by the New Haven Green, Hillhouse Avenue and other residential sections close to Downtown New Haven. The New Haven Green is a 16-acre privately owned park and recreation area located in the downtown district of the city of New Haven Connecticut. Hillhouse Avenue, described according to tradition by both Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as "the most beautiful street in America", is in New Haven Downtown New Haven is the neighborhood located in the heart of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. Overall, a large proportion of the city's land area is National (NRHP) historic districts. One of the best sources on local architecture is "New Haven: Architecture and Urban Design", by Elizabeth Mills Brown.
The five tallest buildings in New Haven are:[25]
- Connecticut Financial Center 383 ft (117 m) 26 Floors
- Knights of Columbus Building 321 ft (98 m) 23 Floors
- Kline Biology Tower 250 ft (76 m) 16 Floors
- Crown Towers 233 ft (71 m) 22 Floors
- Harkness Tower 217 ft (66 m)
Cuisine
New Haven boasts an overwhelming array of restaurants, surprisingly many for a city its size. The Knights of Columbus Building, in downtown New Haven Connecticut, is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic fraternal service Harkness Tower is a prominent Gothic Revival structure at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut, United States. Though choices are extremely varied, eateries serving pizza, hamburgers, and Southeast Asian foods are especially abundant. Pizza (ˈpiːtsə, in Italian:) is a popular dish made with an Oven -baked flat generally round Bread that is covered with tomatoes or a tomato-based A hamburger (or burger) is a Sandwich consisting of a cooked ground Meat Patty, usually Beef, placed in a sliced bun or between
New-Haven-style pizza, called apizza (pronounced ah-BEETS in the local Italian dialect), made its debut here in 1925. New Haven-style pizza is a style of Neapolitan Pizza common in and around New Haven, Connecticut, locally known as "Apizza" It is baked in coal- or wood-fired brick ovens, and is notable for its thin crust. Apizza may be Red (with a tomato-based sauce) or White (garlic and olive oil), and pies ordered "plain" are made without the otherwise customary mozzarella cheese (pronounced sca-MOTZ, as it was originally smoked mozzarella, known as "scamorza" in Italian). The tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum, syn Lycopersicon lycopersicum) is a herbaceous usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family Allium sativum L, commonly known as garlic, is a species in the Onion family Alliaceae. Olive oil is a fruit oil obtained from the olive ( Olea europaea; family Oleaceae along with Lilacs Jasmine and ash trees Mozzarella is a generic term for several kinds of originally Italian Cheeses that are made using spinning and then cutting (hence the name the Italian verb A white clam pie is a well known specialty of the restaurants on Wooster Street in the Little Italy section of New Haven. Clam is a word which can be used for all some or only a few Species of Bivalve Mollusks the word is a Common name which has
Louis' Lunch, located in a small brick building on Crown Street, has been serving fast food since 1895. Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly Louis' Lunch broils hamburgers, steak sandwiches and hot dogs vertically in original antique 1898 cast iron stoves using locally developed gridirons to hold the meat in place while it cooks. For the device used to cook see Grill (cooking, for other uses see Grill. The Steak sandwich is a Sandwich that is made out of Steak that has been Broiled, Grilled, Barbecued or Seared using A hot dog is a type of fully-cooked cured and/or smoked moist Sausage of soft even texture and flavor An antique ( Latin: antiquus; old is an old Collectible item It is collected or desirable because of its age rarity condition utility or other unique Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Cast iron usually refers to grey cast iron, but identifies a large group of Ferrous Alloys which solidify with a Eutectic. A stove is an enclosed heated space The term is commonly taken to mean an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to provide heating either to heat the space in which the stove is situated A gridiron is a metal Grate with parallel bars typically used for Grilling meat or fish Though fiercely debated, Louis' Lunch is credited with inventing the hamburger.
The tradition of immigration in New Haven has continued to a significant extent, particularly in the late 1990s and 2000s, and as a result there are now literally hundreds of ethnic restaurants and small markets specializing in various foreign foods. Represented cuisines include: Eritrean (Caffé Adulis), Malaysian (Bentara, Kari), Spanish (Barcelona, Ibiza), Latino (Pacifico), Thai (Bangkok Gardens, Thai Taste), Chinese (Chow, Royal Palace), Japanese (Akasaka, Miya's), Vietnamese (Pot-au-Pho), Indian (Tandoor, Thali), Jamaican, Cuban (Soul De Cuba), Syrian/Lebanese, Turkish, etc. [26]
There are 61 top Zagat-rated restaurants, more than anywhere in Connecticut save Stamford,[27] including new additions such as upmarket downtown restaurants Bentara, Foster's, Pacifico, and Ibiza. Zagat Survey zʌ'ɡæt was established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979 as a way to collect and correlate the ratings of Restaurants by diners Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. Over 120 restaurants are located within two blocks of the New Haven Green. The New Haven Green is a 16-acre privately owned park and recreation area located in the downtown district of the city of New Haven Connecticut. Claire's Corner Copia at Chapel and College Streets claims to be the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the country. Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes Meat (including game and slaughter by-products Fish (including Shellfish and other sea Also of note are "The Carts", about 20 lunch carts from neighborhood restaurants that cater to the Yale-New Haven Hospital pedestrian traffic in the center of the Hospital Green (Cedar and York Streets) and by Yale's Trumbull College (Elm and York Streets) during weekday lunchtimes. Yale-New Haven Hospital (abbreviated YNHH is a 944-bed hospital located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. Trumbull College is one of twelve undergraduate residential colleges of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Theatre and Film
The city hosts numerous theatres and production houses including the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Long Wharf Theatre, and the Shubert Theatre. Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama in Long Wharf Theatre started life in a warehouse alongside the harbor of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1965, the brainchild of 2 alumni of Yale University The Shubert Theatre is a 1600-seat theatre in New Haven Connecticut, originally opened in 1914 There is also theatre activity from the Yale School of Drama, which works through the Yale University Theatre and the student-run Yale Cabaret. The Yale School of Drama is a graduate professional school of Yale University providing training in every discipline of the theatre Acting, design ( Set The Yale School of Drama is a graduate professional school of Yale University providing training in every discipline of the theatre Acting, design ( Set Southern Connecticut State University hosts the Lyman Center for the Performing Arts. Southern Connecticut State University (alternately SCSU Southern is one of five state universities in Connecticut, and is located in New Haven Connecticut
The Shubert Theater once premiered many major theatrical productions before their Broadway debuts. Productions that premiered at the Shubert include Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, as well as the Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. Carousel is a musical by Richard Rodgers (music and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics that was adapted from Ferenc Molnar South Pacific is a musical, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and book by both Hammerstein and Joshua The King and I is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize
Bow Tie Cinemas owns and operates the Criterion Cinemas, the first new movie theater to open in New Haven in over 30 years. The Criterion opened in November, 2004 showing a mix of upscale first run commercial and independent film. The theater is home to the popular "Movies & Mimosas" Classic Film Series, held on Sunday mornings at 11AM, and the "Insomnia Theater" Cult Film Series, held each Friday and Saturday night at 11:30PM. The Criterion also has two private deluxe screening rooms, with party space, available for rental.
Museums
New Haven has a variety of museums, many of them associated with Yale. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library features an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible. Yale University 's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (BRBL was a 1963 gift of the Beinecke family Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible that There is also the Connecticut Children's Museum; the Knights of Columbus museum 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 houses the largest collection of British art outside the U.K., and the Yale University Art Gallery, the nation's oldest college art museum. The Connecticut Children's Museum building in New Haven Connecticut, houses three programs interwoven in purpose and philosophy Creating Kids Child Care Center Creating The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University is among the oldest largest and most prolific university natural history museums in the world The Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments is a museum at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Hamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The Yale Center for British Art is an Art museum in New Haven Connecticut at Yale University which houses the most comprehensive collection of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is also home to the New Haven Museum and Historical Society on Whitney Avenue, which also has a library of many primary source treasures dating from Colonial times to the present. The New Haven Museum and Historical Society (originally known as the New Haven Colony Historical Society was founded in 1863 in New Haven Connecticut for the purposes Artspace on Orange Street is a contemporary art gallery, showcasing the work of local, national, and international artists. This article is about the art gallery in New Haven Connecticut
New Haven is also 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 during the summer. La Amistad ( Spanish: "Friendship" was a 19th-century two- masted Schooner built in the United States but owned by a Spaniard Also at Long Wharf pier is the Quinnipiack schooner, offering sailing cruises of the harbor area throughout the summer. The Quinnipiack also functions as a floating classroom for hundreds of local students.
Music
The New Haven Green is the site of many free music concerts, especially during the summer months. These have included the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the July Free Concerts on the Green in July, and the New Haven Jazz Festival in August. The New Haven Symphony Orchestra is an American Symphony orchestra based in New Haven, Connecticut. The Jazz Festival, which began in 1982, was one of the longest-running free outdoor festivals in the U. S. , until it was canceled for 2007. Headliners such as 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 also home to the concert venue Toad's Place. Toad's Place is a Concert venue and Nightclub in New Haven Connecticut. The city has retained an alternative art and music underground that has helped to influence post-punk era music movements such as indie/college rock and underground hip-hop. Other local venues include Cafe Nine, BAR, Firehouse 12, and Rudy's.
The Yale School of Music also contributes to the city's music scene by offering hundreds of free concerts throughout the year at venues in and around the Yale campus. The Yale School of Music is one of the twelve Professional Schools at Yale University.
Newspapers and media
New Haven is served by the daily New Haven Register, the weekly "alternative" (which is corporate run by Tribune, the company owning The Hartford Courant) New Haven Advocate and the online daily New Haven Independent. The New Haven Register is a daily Newspaper published in New Haven Connecticut. The Advocate Weekly Newspapers are four free weekly Alternative newspapers in Central Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, published by New Mass The city's Spanish-speaking community is served by Registro, a Spanish-language twice-weekly operated by The New Haven Register's parent company. The Register also backs PLAY magazine, a weekly entertainment publication. It is also served by several student-run papers, including the Yale Daily News, the weekly Yale Herald and a humor tabloid, Rumpus Magazine. The Yale Daily News is a Newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven Connecticut since January 28, 1878 The Yale Herald is a newspaper run by undergraduate students at Yale University since 1986 The Rumpus is a Tabloid publication produced six times a year by students at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. WTNH Channel 8, the ABC affiliate for Connecticut, WCTX Channel 59, the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the state, and Connecticut Public Television station WEDY channel 65, a PBS affiliate, broadcast from New Haven. WTNH, channel 8 is the ABC affiliate for the state of Connecticut, licensed to New Haven and serving the Hartford /New Haven television market The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. WCTX, channel 59 is the MyNetworkTV -affiliated television station for the state of Connecticut (except Fairfield County) that licensed to New MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyNet or MNT) is a Television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company Connecticut Public Television (CPTV is a statewide public television network providing PBS programming to the state of Connecticut. Connecticut Public Television (CPTV is a statewide public television network providing PBS programming to the state of Connecticut. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the
Though both WTNH and WCTX are located in New Haven, CT, their Master Control, and Traffic departments are located in Springfield, Massachusetts in a former section of the city called Chicopee. Springfield is a City in and the County seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.
Sports and athletics
Much like other mid-sized Northeastern industrial cities, New Haven has historically supported its minor league hockey teams enthusiastically, having had a hockey team for 76 years. The New Haven Eagles were founding members of the American Hockey League in 1936, playing at the old New Haven Arena on Grove Street. The New Haven Eagles were a professional ice hockey team that played in New Haven Connecticut. American Hockey Association (1926–1942The American Hockey League (AHL is a Professional Ice hockey league in North America that serves as the primary New Haven Arena was an indoor Arena on Grove Street in New Haven Connecticut that served as a venue for Ice hockey, concerts and circuses The New Haven Blades of the Eastern Hockey League played from 1954 to 1972 before being succeeded by the New Haven Nighthawks of the AHL, which played at the then-new New Haven Coliseum, a sports and entertainment facility that hosted such performers and others as the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, Aerosmith, Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen, Yes, and the Steve Miller Band before closing in 2003, when the state-funded Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport later became the preferred venue. The Eastern Hockey League was a minor professional United States Ice hockey league The New Haven Coliseum was a sports-entertainment arena located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. 2008 World Championship roster The following players were most recently named to represent the United States at the 2008 IIHF World Championship, finishing in 6th place Aerosmith is an American Hard rock band sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston " and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band" The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Van Halen is a Hard rock band formed in in 1972 They enjoyed success from the release of their self titled debut album in 1978 Yes are an English Progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968. The Steve Miller Band is an influential American Blues rock band led by Steve Miller on Guitar and lead vocals The Arena at Harbor Yard is a 10000-seat multi-purpose Arena in Bridgeport Connecticut.
The Nighthawks were replaced by the short-lived Senators in 1993. After a hiatus, hockey returned in 1997, with the Beast of New Haven, a team famous for its ugly logo. The Beast of New Haven were an Ice hockey team in the American Hockey League in the 1997-98 and 1998-99 seasons Playing in a newly refurbished Coliseum, this team lasted only two seasons, ending AHL hockey in New Haven.
The New Haven Knights of the United Hockey League then took up residence in the Coliseum, playing there until the Coliseum closed in 2002. The New Haven Knights were a professional Ice hockey team and members of the United Hockey League from 2000 - 2002. The International Hockey League is a mid-level Professional Ice hockey league with teams in the United States. Afterward, fans' allegiance shifted to the Yale University hockey team, which plays at Ingalls Rink; the Quinnipiac University hockey team; or United Hockey League's Danbury Trashers, owned by James Galante, who attempted to purchase and save the New Haven Coliseum and the New Haven Knights, though the Trashers have been disbanded and Galante is currently incarcerated for alleged mob ties. David S Ingalls Rink is a hockey rink designed by architect Eero Saarinen and built between 1953 and 1958 for Yale University. The International Hockey League is a mid-level Professional Ice hockey league with teams in the United States. The Danbury Trashers were a United Hockey League Ice hockey team located in Danbury Connecticut.
New Haven had been known for its blue collar fans who favor rough play, especially the "Crazies" who sat in "The Jungle" — Section 14 at the Coliseum, behind and adjacent to the opposing team's bench. These fans were renowned for being extremely tough on opposing teams, relentlessly screaming obscenities and taunts at opposing players (and sometimes at hometown players), making New Haven an intimidating place to play even though outright physical violence in the stands was rare. Section 14ers maintain a website called "Section 14 Online" which can be found at Section14. com.
New Haven was home to the minor league baseball team the New Haven Ravens, an Eastern League AA unit, from 1994 to 2003. Part of the History of baseball series Minor league baseball is a hierarchy of Professional baseball leagues in North The New Hampshire Fisher Cats are a Minor league baseball team based in Manchester New Hampshire. The Eastern League is a Minor league baseball league which operates primarily in the northeastern United States, although it has had a team in Ohio Many of the older Ravens fans fondly recalled their days watching the West Haven Yankees in neighboring West Haven from 1972 to 1979. The Yankees were also the New Haven area's entry in the AA Eastern League. Many future Yankees made their way though West Haven, including Ron Guidry. The Yankees finished 1st five times in their eight years and won the championship four times. In 1980, the New York Yankees moved their farm team else where and the Oakland A's fielded a team for three years in West Haven. They were know as the Whitecaps their first year, then the A's for the last two. They were to give the New Haven area a final championship in 1982 and then the team moved to Albany in 1983. The New Haven area was without professional baseball until the Ravens came to town in 1994.
As was the case for with the prior teams, the Ravens played in neighboring West Haven at Yale Field, just across the town line. Yale Field was renovated for the team, which was very successful in its first few seasons before losing support. The Ravens won the Eastern League championship in 2000, giving New Haven proper its first professional championship since the New Haven Blades' championship in 1956. The Ravens have since moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, becoming the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Manchester is the largest city in the US state of New Hampshire and the largest city of northern New England, an area composed of Vermont, New Hampshire ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The New Hampshire Fisher Cats are a Minor league baseball team based in Manchester New Hampshire. The New Haven County Cutters baseball team began play at Yale Field in 2004 in the independent Northeast (now Can-Am) League. The New Haven County Cutters were an independent Baseball team based in New Haven Connecticut. The Canadian-American Challenge Cup or Can-Am, was an SCCA / CASC Sports car racing series from 1966 to 1974 They suspended operation after the 2007 season leaving New Haven without baseball for the 2008 season.
In 1974, a little league team from New Haven reached the quarterfinals in the Little League World Series[28]. The Little League World Series took place between August 20 and August 24 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
In 2002, New Haven had an af2 minor-league arena football franchise, the Ninjas, who were successful but had to leave when the Coliseum was closed the following year
The New York Giants of the NFL played an exhibition game against the Detroit Lions in 1960 in the Yale Bowl, a pro-football first for the city. af2 (short for arenafootball2) is the name of the Arena Football League 's Minor league, which started play in 2000. This article is about the sport of Arena Football See Arena Football (video game for the EA Sports Video game of the same name The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York City suburb of East Rutherford New Jersey. The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. The Detroit Lions are an American football team based in Detroit Michigan. The New York Jets played exhibition games in the Bowl through the 1970s, and in 1973 and 1974, the Giants made the Yale Bowl their home field while Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey was under construction. The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Yale Bowl is a football Stadium in New Haven Connecticut on the border of West Haven, about 1-1/2 miles west of Yale's main campus Giants Stadium, is the home Stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets football teams of the NFL, and the Red Bull New The Meadowlands Sports Complex is a sports and entertainment facility located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, owned and operated by the New Jersey Sports and East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. As of 2006, the Yale Bowl is the second-largest stadium in New England, and is often full when rivals Yale and Harvard play what has become known as "The Game". The Game (always capitalized is a title given to several US College football rivalry games but most particularly the annual contest between Harvard The Yale Bowl received a thorough and long-overdue renovation in 2007.
On March 20, 1914, the first United States figure skating championship was held here. Events 1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Figure skating is an athletic Sport in which individuals pairs or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging
From July 1 — July 9, 1995, the city hosted the Ninth Special Olympics World Summer Games. "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Special Olympics is an international organization created to help people with Intellectual disabilities develop self-confidence social skills and a sense of personal accomplishment
The Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale University hosts the Pilot Pen International, a professional men's and women's tennis event, every August. The Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center is a Tennis complex located on the campus of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. The Pilot Pen Tennis (currently known as the Pilot Pen Tennis presented by Schick for sponsorship reasons is a professional Tennis The 15,000 seat Tennis Center Stadium at the Connecticut Tennis Center is the fifth largest tennis venue in the world by capacity. The Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center is a Tennis complex located on the campus of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. The Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center is a Tennis complex located on the campus of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. The following is a list of Tennis stadia. They are ordered by their capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators that the stadium can accommodate [29]
New Haven has a very large cycling community, represented by the advocacy and community group ElmCityCycling. Founded in 2001 ElmCityCycling or Elm City Cycling is a cycling advocacy group based in New Haven, Connecticut. [30] Group rides are held several times per week.
Points of interest
- Five Mile Point Lighthouse. Five Mile Point Light, also known as New Haven Harbor Lighthouse is a Lighthouse in New Haven Connecticut, United States, on the harbor
- Marsh Botanical Garden
- Yale University
Miscellaneous
In 1892, local confectioner George C. The Marsh Botanical Garden (8 acres is a Botanical garden, Arboretum, and Greenhouses located on the Yale University campus at 277 Confectionery is a set of Food items that are rich in Sugar; modern usage may include substances rich in artificial sweeteners as well Smith of the Bradley Smith Candy Co. invented the first lollipops. A lollipop, pop, lolly, sucker, or sticky-pop is a type of Confectionery consisting mainly of hardened flavored Sucrose [31]
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. The Frisbie Pie Company (1871-1958 was founded by William Russell Frisbie in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The New Haven Green is a 16-acre privately owned park and recreation area located in the downtown district of the city of New Haven Connecticut.
New Haven serves as the world headquarters of the Knights of Columbus organization, which maintains its headquarters and nearby museum downtown. The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization The organization was founded in the city in 1882. [32]
New Haven hosted the first Bell PSTN (telephone) switch office. The Bell System which was named for Alexander Graham Bell, the technologist popularly credited with the invention of the Telephone, was a Trademark and The public switched telephone network ( PSTN) is the network of the world's public circuit-switched Telephone networks in much the same way that the The District Telephone Company of New Haven created the world's first telephone exchange and first telephone directory (1878) and installed the first public phone (1880). In the field of Telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls The company expanded and became the Connecticut Telephone Company, then the Southern New England Telephone Company (now part of ATT).
The Erector Set, the popular and culturally important construction toy, was invented in New Haven by A.C. Gilbert in 1911, and was manufactured by the A. Erector Set is the trade name of a toy Construction set that was wildly popular in the United States during much of the 20th century Alfred Carlton Gilbert ( February 13, 1884 – January 24, 1961) was an American Inventor, athlete, C. Gilbert Company at the Erector Square factory in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1913 until the company's bankruptcy in 1967.
The first memorial to victims of the Holocaust on public land in America[33] stands in New Haven's Edgewood Park at the corner of Whalley and West Park Avenues; it was built in 1977 with funds collected from the community[34] and is maintained by Greater New Haven Holocaust Memory, Inc. The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as Edgewood is a neighborhood in the Western part of the city of New Haven, Connecticut, officially defined by Whalley Avenue on the north Chapel [35] The ashes of victims killed and cremated at Auschwitz are buried under the memorial. Cremation is the act of reducing a Corpse by burning, generally in a crematorium furnace or crematory fire "Auschwitz" redirects here For the town see Oświęcim Auschwitz-Birkenau () was the largest of Nazi Germany [33]
New Haven was the location of one of Jim Morrison's infamous arrests while he fronted the rock group The Doors. James Douglas Morrison (December 8 1943—July 3 1971 was an American Poet, Singer, Songwriter, Writer, and Film director This article is about the band For their self-titled debut album see The Doors (album; for the Oliver Stone film see The Doors (film; for Doors in computing The near-riotous concert and arrest in 1967 at the New Haven Arena was commemorated by Morrison in the lyrics to "Peace Frog" which include the missive ". New Haven Arena was an indoor Arena on Grove Street in New Haven Connecticut that served as a venue for Ice hockey, concerts and circuses . . blood in the streets in the town of New Haven. . . " This was also the first time a rock star had ever been arrested in concert.
New Haven serves as the home city of the annual International Festival of Arts and Ideas. The International Festival of Arts and Ideas takes place on the New Haven Green (in New Haven, Connecticut) every summer for fifteen days in mid-June
Doonesbury comic-strip creator Garry Trudeau attended Yale University. Doonesbury is a Comic strip by G B Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of a vast array of different characters of different ages professions A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American Cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip There he met fellow student and later Green Party candidate for senator Charlie Pillsbury, a long-time New Haven resident for whom Trudeau's comic strip is named. One of the Political parties in the United States, and similar in mission to many of the worldwide Green Parties, the Greens have been active as a third party During his college years, Pillsbury was known by the nickname "The Doones". A nickname is a Name of an entity or thing that is not its Proper name.
New Haven has been depicted in a number of movies. Scenes in the film All About Eve (1950) are set at the Taft Hotel on the corner of College and Chapel Streets. All About Eve is a Drama film, written and directed by Joseph L The hotel was since converted into apartments. New Haven was fictionalized in the movie The Skulls, which focused on conspiracy theories surrounding the real-life Skull and Bones secret society which is located in New Haven. Skull and Bones is an elite Secret society based at Yale University, in New Haven Connecticut. The city was also fictionally portrayed in the movie Amistad concerning the events around the mutiny trial of that ship's rebelling captives. Amistad is a 1997 Steven Spielberg Film based on the true story of a slave mutiny that took place aboard a ship of the same name in
Several recent movies have been filmed in New Haven, including The Life Before Her Eyes, with Uma Thurman, Mona Lisa Smile, with Julia Roberts, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett. The Life Before Her Eyes is an American 2008 Drama / Thriller film directed by Vadim Perelman. Uma Karuna Thurman ( IPA: /ˈumə ˈθɝmən/ born April 29 1970 is an Academy Award -nominated American actress. Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American Film that was produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures, directed by Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28 1967 is an American - Academy Award winning Film actress and former Fashion model. Dr (also Col Henry Walton Jones Jr, better known as Indiana Jones or Indy after his pet dog is a fictional Adventurer, Soldier Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (Hon (born December 18 1946 is an American Film director, Screenwriter and producer. Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an Academy Award - and BAFTA -nominated as well as Golden Globe -winning American Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (born 14 May 1969 is an Academy Award -winning Australian Actress and Stage director. [36] The TV show Gilmore Girls is set (but not filmed) in New Haven and at Yale University. Gilmore Girls was an Emmy Award -winning Golden Globe -nominated American Comedy-drama series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino
Infrastructure
Hospitals and medicine
The New Haven area supports several medical facilities that are considered some of the best hospitals in the country. There are two major medical centers downtown: Yale-New Haven Hospital has three pavilions, including the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital and a fourth pavilion under construction, the Smilow Cancer Hospital; the Hospital of Saint Raphael is several blocks North, and touts its excellent cardiac emergency care program. Yale-New Haven Hospital (abbreviated YNHH is a 944-bed hospital located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. The Hospital of Saint Raphael or Saint Raphael Hospital, located in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, is a 511-bed hospital and an academic health Smaller downtown health facilities are the Connecticut Mental Health Center, across Park Street from Y-NHH, and the Hill Health Center, which serves the working-class Hill Neighborhood. A large Veterans Affairs hospital is located nearby in West Haven. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs ( VA) is a government-run military Veteran benefit system with Cabinet -level status To the west in Milford is Milford Hospital and to the north in Meriden is the MidState Medical Center. Milford Hospital is an acute-care community hospital located in Milford Connecticut.
Yale and New Haven are working to build a medical and biotechnology research mecca in the city and Greater New Haven region, and are succeeding to some extent, albeit slowly. Yale has take over operations for Science Park, a large site three blocks north-west of Yale's Science Hill campus area. A science park is a property development designed for a concentration of High tech, Science, or Research related Businesses The definition Science Hill is a city in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States. [37] This multi-block site, approximately bordered by Mansfield Street, Division Street, and Shelton Avenue is a former industrial site and the former home of Winchester's rifle factories. Winchester or Winton ( archaic) is a historic city in southern England, with a population of around 40000 within a radius of its centre Currently, Science Park exists mostly in name, as 75% of the site is still abandoned and crumbling factory buildings, some dating back to the mid-1800s, or on-site parking lots where buildings have already been demolished; still, there is a large remodeled and functioning area, and biotech companies have slowly been opening at the site. It is quite likely that future growth will come faster, as the proximity and affiliation of the site to Yale University's sciences departments serves a major incentive. A second biotechnology district is being planned for the median strip on Frontage Road, on land cleared for the never-built Route 34 extension. [38] So far, only a Pfizer drug-testing clinic has been constructed on Park Street. Pfizer Incorporated ( is a major Pharmaceutical company, which ranks number one in the world in sales [39] A former SNET telephone building at 300 George Street is being converted into lab space, and has been so far quite successful in attracting biotechnology and medical firms. A full list of its current tenants is available online. [40] Finally, Yale recently purchased the gigantic Bayer campus in Orange when Bayer shuttered the site in 2006. For other uses see Bayer (disambiguation or Beyer or Buyer. Bayer AG (German ˈbaɪə () is a German [41] Though the site is currently empty and future plans are vague, it consists of modern laboratory space that needs no major renovation; it by all means a valuable acquisition for Yale and fits into New Haven's and the university's plans to foster a biotechnology magnet in the region. It would be surprising if the former Bayer site were not put to use as soon as possible.
Transportation
Railroad
New Haven is connected to New York City by both intercity and commuter rail, provided by Amtrak and Metro-North Railroad respectively, and some New Haven residents commute to work in New York City (just under two hours away by train). The City of New York The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Doing business as Amtrak, is a Government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971 The Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company, or MTA Metro-North Railroad, or more commonly Metro-North, is a Suburban commuter rail service The city's main railroad station is Union Station, which serves Metro-North trains to New York, Shore Line East commuter trains to New London, and Amtrak trains to New York, Hartford, Boston, and Springfield, Massachusetts. Union Station is the main Railroad passenger station in New Haven Connecticut. Shore Line East (SLE is a Commuter rail service operating in southern Connecticut, USA. Springfield is a City in and the County seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. An additional station at State Street provides Shore Line East and a few peak-hour Metro-North passengers easier access to and from Downtown. Downtown New Haven is the neighborhood located in the heart of the city of New Haven, Connecticut.
The start of the New Haven Railroad began in a small area of New Haven called Cedar Hill Area. Cedar Hill is a neighborhood located in New Haven, Connecticut. It has long been forgotten since its days of grandeur, but still has all the elements in place from the great railroad days.
A commuter rail line to run along the existing Amtrak line from New Haven through Hartford to Springfield, MA has been proposed by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) and is currently in the planning phase.
The City of New Haven is in the very early stages of considering restoring streetcar service, which has been absent since the immediate postwar period. [42]
Major highways
New Haven lies at the intersection of Interstate 95 on the coast - which provides access southwards and/or westwards to the western coast of Connecticut and to New York City, and eastwards to the eastern Connecticut shoreline, Rhode Island, and eastern Massachusetts - and Interstate 91, which leads northward to the interior of Massachusetts and Vermont and the Canadian border. Interstate 95, the main north-south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, runs in a general east-west compass direction for 111 The City of New York Rhode Island ( officially named the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Interstate 91 (abbreviated I-91) is an Interstate highway in the New England section of the United States. Vermont ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page I-95 is infamous for traffic jams increasing with proximity 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 major bottleneck to traffic. Interstate 95, the main north-south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, runs in a general east-west compass direction for 111 The Quinnipiac River is a River in the New England region of the United States, located entirely in the state of Connecticut. The Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, more commonly referred to as the Q Bridge by locals is a bridge that carries Interstate 95 ( Connecticut Turnpike) over I-91, however, is relatively less congested, except at the intersection with I-95 during peak travel times. Interstate 91 (abbreviated I-91) is an Interstate highway in the New England section of the United States.
The Oak Street Connector (Route 34) intersects I-91 at exit 1, just south of the I-95/I-91 interchange, and runs northwest for a few blocks as an expressway spur into downtown before emptying onto surface roads. The Oak Street Connector, officially known as the Richard C Lee Highway, is a 1 Route 34 is a primary State highway in the US state of Connecticut. The Wilbur Cross Parkway (Route 15) runs parallel to I-95 west of New Haven, turning northwards as it nears the city and then running northwards parallel 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). The Wilbur Cross Parkway is a Limited access road in Connecticut, comprising the portion of Route 15 between Milford and Meriden. Route 15 is a State highway in the US state of Connecticut that runs 83 Hamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. Route 15 in New Haven is also 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. West Rock Ridge or West Rock West Rock Ridge State Park is a State park located in New Haven, Hamden, and Woodbridge Connecticut. West Rock Ridge State Park is a State park located in New Haven, Hamden, and Woodbridge Connecticut.
In addition to these expressways, the city also has several major surface arteries. U.S. Route 1 (Columbus Avenue, Union Avenue, Water Street, Forbes Avenue) runs in an east-west direction south of downtown serving Union Station and leading out of the city to Milford, West Haven, East Haven and Branford. In the US state of Connecticut, US Route 1 is a major east-west State highway along Long Island Sound. Union Station is the main Railroad passenger station in New Haven Connecticut. Milford is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. "West Haven" redirects here For other uses see West Haven (disambiguation West Haven is a city in New Haven County, East Haven is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, in the United States. Branford is a town located on Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut, eight miles (13 km east of New Haven. The main road from downtown heading northwest is Whalley Avenue (partly signed as Route 63) leading to Westville and Woodbridge. Route 63 is a secondary state highway in the US state of Connecticut from New Haven up to Canaan, running for 52 Westville is a neighborhood of the city of New Haven Connecticut located in the western part of the city Woodbridge is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. Heading north towards Hamden, there are two major thoroughfares, Dixwell Avenue and Whitney Avenue. Hamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. To the northeast are Middletown Avenue (Route 17) to the Montowese section of North Haven, and Foxon Boulevard to the Foxon section of East Haven and to the town of North Branford. Route 17 is a primary north-south state route beginning in New Haven, through Middletown, and ending in Glastonbury, with a length of 36 North Branford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. To the west is also Route 34 which leads to the city of Derby. Route 34 is a primary State highway in the US state of Connecticut. Derby is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. Other major intracity routes are Ella Grasso Boulevard (Route 10), College Street, Temple Street, Church Street, Elm Street, and Grove Street. Route 10 is a multi-state north-south State highway in the New England region of the United States, running from New Haven Connecticut through
Airport
Tweed-New Haven Airport, located three miles (5 km) east of the city, provides daily service through US Airways. Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, formerly known as Tweed-New Haven Airport, is a public Airport located three miles (5 km southeast of the Central business US Airways Inc is the fifth largest Airline in the United States.
Seaport
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. New Haven Harbor is an inlet on the north side of Long Island Sound in the state of Connecticut in the United States. The port has the capacity to load 200 trucks a day from the ground or via loading docks. Rail transportation access is available, with a private switch engine for yard movements and private siding for loading and unloading. There is approximately 400,000 square feet (40,000 m²) of inside storage and 50 acres of outside storage available at the site. Five shore cranes with a 250-ton capacity and 26 forklifts, each with a 26-ton capacity, are also available. [43]
Power supply facilities
Electricity for New Haven is generated by 448 MW oil and gas-fired generating station located on the shore at New Haven Harbor. [44] In addition, Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL) Inc. PPL, formerly known as PP&L or Pennsylvania Power and Light is an Electric company headquartered in Allentown Pennsylvania, USA. operates a 220 MW peaking natural gas turbine plant in nearby Wallingford. Near New Haven there is the static inverter plant of the HVDC Cross Sound Cable. A static inverter station is the terminal equipment for a high voltage direct current transmission line in which direct current is converted to three-phase alternating current HVDC or high-voltage Direct current Electric power transmission systems contrast with the more common Alternating current systems as a means The Cross Sound Cable is a 40 kilometer (about 25 miles long bipolar High-voltage direct current (HVDC Submarine power cable between New Haven Connecticut
New construction
The last high-rise/major structure built in New Haven was the Connecticut Financial Center, the city's tallest building, in 1990. [45] Since then, there has been very little new construction outside Yale University. Recently, however, New Haven has seen an upswing in new development.
Yale-New Haven Hospital is currently adding a new pavilion, to be named the Smilow Cancer Hospital. Yale-New Haven Hospital (abbreviated YNHH is a 944-bed hospital located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. This 14-story structure due to be completed in 2009. The site is bordered by Park Street and Legion Ave. /South Frontage Road. [46][47]
The city of New Haven is building a new magnet school on the south block bounded by College, George, and Crown Streets.
Directly across College Street, Residences and Shops at College Square is to be a 19-story condominium complex, with street-front shops. [48] A hotel is also being debated. Ground is yet to break on this project, but one small building has been demolished, and plans call for a May 2008 groundbreaking. However, the site is currently being used to store materials for the school construction across the street; it is reasonable to assume that construction will be held off until completion of the magnet school project later this summer. [49] Despite the delays, the College Square project appears to be a done deal and, when completed, this will be the tallest building built in New Haven since 1990.
An even taller condominium tower, at 30 stories, is proposed for the former Shartenberg site at Chapel and State Street. [50] No work has been done yet, and the groundbreaking date has been pushed forward several times; currently, construction is scheduled to start in June 2008. Controversy over the height and nature of the project has caused delays and it has long been hard to tell if the project was to actually be realized. It finally looks like all major approval hurdles have been cleared and the Shartenberg project is ready to enter the construction phase. [51] Furthermore a fire across the street and subsequent demolition of several buildings seems to have underscored the need for development and revitalization of the neighborhood, which currently hosts more empty lots than any location downtown save the former Coliseum site. Further encouraging news for the Shartenberg tower: a parking lot at the site has been closed, and the entire block-long site has been fenced-in; the fencing features somewhat ambiguous advertising, which fails to mention specific construction plans, but hints at redevelopment with text including: "What do you love most about New Haven?" and further referencing "something new [. . . ] rising [. . . ] downtown. "[52]
Yale University is planning two new colleges behind Grove Street Cemetery. Grove Street Cemetery or Grove Street Burial Ground in New Haven Connecticut is located in the center of the Yale University campus [53] While Yale has long considered expansion of its undergraduate housing, this is the first time in recent years that a proposal seems close to realization; Yale currently has the land, the money, and a reasonable level of approval from both town and gown sides. However, any major Yale expansion tends to draw some controversy and there are no architectural plans or other documentation; this project is years from being realized. More current Yale construction includes:
- a new Sculpture and Art building on Howe Street
- a new high-rise, linked to the Art and Architecture building on York Street
- a parking garage behind Ingalls Rink
- renovation of residential colleges
- renovation of the Yale Art Gallery's Kahn building
- and other projects.
The site of the former New Haven Coliseum is a major candidate for new construction, but plans are still vague at this point. The New Haven Coliseum was a sports-entertainment arena located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. There is now an asphalt parking lot at the site, and it is expected to remain until the completion of a second Union Station garage, which itself is not anticipated within the next year or two. Additionally, the Gateway College proposal for the former Macy's/Malley's sites is proceeding slowly, with only demolition work complete for now. While the relocation of Gateway College is settled, the building itself seems to be delayed with no specific groundbreaking date.
Finally, the widening of I-95 promises to bring New Haven a new harbor crossing, in the form of an extradosed bridge; it shall replace the Q-bridge when completed, but delays have pushed the completion date beyond 2012. Interstate 95, the main north-south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, runs in a general east-west compass direction for 111 An extradosed bridge employs a structure that is frequently described as a cross between a Girder bridge and a Cable-stayed bridge. No work on the bridge has begun, though the I-95 improvement project as a whole is ongoing. [54]
Sister cities
New Haven has the following sister cities designated by Sister Cities International[55]:
Afula-Gilboa, Israel
Amalfi, Italy
Avignon, France
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Hue, Vietnam
León, Nicaragua
Taichung (City), Republic of China on the island of Taiwan
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In 1990, the United Nations named New Haven a "Peace Messenger City". The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security United Nations Peace Messenger Cities are cities around the world that have volunteered for an initiative sponsored by the United Nations to promote peace and understanding between
Notable New Haven natives and long-term residents
- Lauren Ambrose (b. Lauren Ambrose (born Laura Anne D'Ambruoso, 20 February 1978) is an American Film and Television Actress, best 1978), actress
- Ben Allison (b. Ben Allison (c 1966 is an American Jazz Double bassist and composer born in New Haven, Connecticut. 1966), jazz double bass player
- Lyman Atwater (1813–1883), born in Cedar Hill area, Congregational Church clergyman author, and strong opponent to Charles Darwin's natural selection[56]
- Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) Revolutionary general and traitor; owned a profitable business in New Haven and was captain of its militia
- Henry Austin (1804–1891), architect
- Jim Greco Professional skateboarder, born here. Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently A cleric ( Ancient Greek κληρικός - klērikos clergyman (pl Charles Robert Darwin (February 12 1809 &ndash April 19 1882 was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all Species of life Natural selection is the process by which favorable Heritable traits become more common in successive Generations of a Population of Benedict Arnold V ( – June 14, 1801) was a General during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Henry Austin ( December 4, 1804 &mdash December 17, 1891) was a prominent and prolific American Architect based in New --> Jim Greco (b December 25, 1977 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a Professional skateboarder. Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a Skateboard. He currently lives in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
- David Bahn (b. 1962), Rock drummer, dancer, poet, Documerge programmer
- Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793–1863), attorney, grandson of Roger Sherman
- Lyman Beecher (1775–1865), clergyman and abolitionist
- Michael Bolton nee Bolotin, (b. Roger Sherman Baldwin ( January 4, 1793 &ndash February 19, 1863) was an American Lawyer involved in the Amistad Roger Sherman ( April 19, 1721 ( JC) April 30, 1721 ( GC) July 23, 1793) was an early Lyman Beecher ( October 12, 1775 &ndash January 10, 1863) was a Presbyterian clergyman temperance movement leader and the father Michael Bolton (born Michael Bolotin on February 26, 1953) is an American Singer-songwriter, best known for his Soft rock 1953), singer-songwriter
- Tim Buckley, creator of the popular Ctrl+Alt+Del comic
- George W. Bush (b. Timothy Charles Buckley III (February 14 1947 – June 29 1975 was an experimental Vocalist and Musician who incorporated Jazz, Psychedelia Ctrl+Alt+Del (CAD is a gaming -related Webcomic and animated series written by Tim Buckley George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. 1946), 43rd President of the United States (born in New Haven)
- Walter Camp (1859–1925), football inventor and New Haven native. Walter Chauncey Camp ( April 7, 1859 &ndash March 14, 1925) was a sports writer and American football coach known as the "Father
- Al Capp (1909–1979), cartoonist who created Li'l Abner comic strip. Al Capp (September 28 1909 &ndash November 5 1979 was an American Cartoonist and Humorist, best known for the satiric Comic strip Li'l Abner was a Satirical American Comic strip appearing in many newspapers in the United States and Canada, featuring a fictional
- Karen and Richard Carpenter (Richard, b. The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo consisting of Siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter. 1946; Karen, b. 1950 - d. 1983), singers/musicians were born in New Haven.
- Loren Mazzacane Connors (b. Loren MazzaCane Connors (born October 21, 1949) is an American Experimental musician who has recorded and performed under several different 1949) musician, artist
- Tommy Corcoran (1869–1960), major league baseball player[57]
- Cortland Van Rensselaer Creed ,(1835-1900) was the first African American graduate of the Medical School of Yale College in 1857, first from any Ivy League School, later admitted to the Connecticut Medical Society. During the Civil War he was appointed physician and surgeon. He established a successful practice on Chapel Street in New Haven. Consulted on President Garfields assassination and portrayed in the book "Arsenic under the Elms".
- Vashti Duplex Creed, (1800-1879) was the first African American teacher of New Haven and the mother of CVR Creed above.
- Michael Crowley, senior editor at The New Republic
- Chad Dawson WBC Light-Heavyweight Champion
- Rosa DeLauro (b. Michael Crowley is an American journalist and currently senior editor and columnist at The New Republic magazine The New Republic ( TNR) is an American Magazine of politics and the arts Chad Dawson (born July 13, 1982 in Hartsville South Carolina) is an American boxer Rosa L DeLauro (born March 2 1943) American politician has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives 1943), Congresswoman
- George Dixon (1934–1990), Canadian football running back
- Jerome F. Donovan (1872–1949), Congressman
- Timothy Dwight IV (1752–1817), prominent president of Yale College. George Dixon ( 1934 - August 6, 1990) was a former professional Canadian football player and a Canadian Interuniversity Sport Jerome Francis Donovan ( February 1[[ 872]] - November 2[[ 949]] was a United States Representative from New York. Timothy Dwight ( May 14, 1752 &ndash January 11, 1817) was an American Congregationalist minister Theologian, educator
- Paul Fusco (b. Paul Fusco (born January 29, 1953 in New Haven Connecticut) is an American voice actor who is best known as the voice creator and puppeteer 1953), puppeteer, actor, and creator of ALF TV sitcom. ALF is a half-hour American Television Sitcom that originally ran on NBC from 1986 to 1990 and was created by Paul Fusco
- Marcus (b. Marcus Giamatti (born October 3, 1961 in New Haven Connecticut) is an American actor 1961) and Paul Giamatti (b. Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born June 6, 1967) is an Academy Award -nominated and Emmy Award -winning American Actor 1967), actors, New Haven natives, and sons of Yale University president and Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti. The Commissioner of Baseball is the chief executive of Major League Baseball. Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti ( April 4, 1938 &ndash September 1, 1989) was the President of Yale University, and
- Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903), mathematical physicist, founder of physical chemistry, creator of vector analysis
- Emma Goldman (1869–1940), anarchist and feminist
- Fred Goldsmith (1856–1939), 19th-century pro baseball pitcher, co-inventor of the curveball, along with pitcher Candy Cummings. Josiah Willard Gibbs ( February 11, 1839 &ndash April 28, 1903) was an American theoretical Physicist, Chemist Mathematical physics is the scientific discipline concerned with the interface of Mathematics and Physics. Physical chemistry, is the application of Physics to macroscopic microscopic atomic subatomic and particulate phenomena in chemical systems It is mostly defined as a large Vector calculus (also called vector analysis) is a field of Mathematics concerned with multivariable Real analysis of vectors in an Inner Emma Goldman (June 27 1869 – May 14 1940 was an anarchist known for her political activism writing and speeches For the football coach formerly of the Rice Owls and Duke Blue Devils see Fred Goldsmith (coach or for Australian Brownlow Medalist see Fred Goldsmith The curveball is a breaking pitch in Baseball thrown with a grip and hand movement that imparts down and/or sideways spin to the ball. William Arthur "Candy" Cummings ( October 18, 1848 &ndash May 16, 1924) was a 19th-century professional Baseball [57]
- Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), inventor
- Gerry Hemingway (b. Charles Goodyear ( December 29, 1800 - July 1, 1860) was the first American to vulcanize rubber, a process which he discovered in Gerry Hemingway (b New Haven, Connecticut, 1955 is an American Jazz composer and percussionist 1955), jazz percussionist and composer
- Jack Hitt, author, contributing editor Harper's Magazine
- Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (1789–1872), 19th century member of the United States House of Representatives
- Charles Ives (1874–1954), composer
- Henry Leavenworth United States army officer
- Norman Lear (b. Jack Hitt is an American Author. He is a contributing editor to The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and This American Harper's Magazine (also Harper's) is a monthly general-interest Magazine of literature politics culture finance and the arts Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll ( February 8, 1789 - August 26, 1872) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. Charles Edward Ives (October 20 1874 – May 19 1954 was an American Composer of modernist Classical music. Henry Leavenworth ( December 10, 1783 &ndash July 21, 1834) was an American soldier active in the War of 1812 and early military Norman Milton Lear (born July 27 1922 in New Haven Connecticut) is an American Television writer and producer who produced such popular 1922), television producer
- Joe Lieberman (b. Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24 1942 is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut. 1942), vice-presidential candidate, 2000; U. S. Senator for Connecticut
- Richard Liebeskind, founder of first Ann Taylor store which was located in New Haven
- Floyd Little (b. Floyd Douglas Little (born July 4, 1942 in New Haven Connecticut) was a three-time American football All-American Running back 1942), American football running back
- Paul MacCready (b. Paul B MacCready Jr ( September 25, 1925 - August 28, 2007) was an American Aeronautical engineer. 1925), inventor
- Bruce Morrison (b. Bruce Andrew Morrison (b October 8, 1944 in New York City) is a former U 1944), U. S. Congressman from the 3rd District of Connecticut, New Haven's District; Democratic Candidate for Governor in 1990.
- Robert Moses (1888–1981), architect and urban planner
- George Lloyd Murphy (1902–1992), dancer, actor and politician
- Ric Orlando (b. Robert Moses ( December 18 1888 – July 29 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long George Lloyd Murphy ( July 4, 1902 – May 3, 1992) was an American Dancer, Actor, and Politician. 1959), celebrity chef/restaurateur, author and TV personality
- César Pelli (b. Cesar Pelli (born October 12 1926 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina) is an Argentine Architect known for designing some of the 1926), architect
- Liz Phair (b. Liz Phair (born Elizabeth Clark Phair on April 17, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA) is an American 1967), singer-songwriter
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908–1972), Congressman
- Jesse Richards (b. Rev Adam Clayton Powell Jr ( November 29 1908 &ndash April 4 1972) was an American politician who represented Harlem Jesse Richards (born July 17 1975 is a painter, Filmmaker and photographer from New Haven Connecticut and was affiliated with the 1975), artist and filmmaker
- David Rosenholtz (b. 1987), actor
- Emily Saliers (b. Emily Saliers (born July 22, 1963) is an American Singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. 1963), singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls
- Artie Shaw (1910–2004) bandleader, grew up in New Haven
- Roger Sherman (1721–1793), signer of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States and mayor of New Haven, among other important accomplishments
- Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (1875–1966), businessman and former chief of General Motors
- Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), pediatrician and author
- Allen Stack (1928–1999), swimmer
- Lawrence Summers (b. Indigo Girls are an American Folk rock duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky ( May 23, 1910 &ndash December 30, 2004) better known as Artie Shaw, was an American Jazz Roger Sherman ( April 19, 1721 ( JC) April 30, 1721 ( GC) July 23, 1793) was an early The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4 1776 announcing that the thirteen American colonies then The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme Law of the United States. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr ( May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was a long-time President and Chairman of General General Motors Corporation ( GM) ( is a multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1908 and headquartered in the United States. Benjamin McLane Spock ( May 2, 1903 &ndash March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Allen McIntyre Stack ( January 23, 1928 in New Haven Connecticut – September 12, 1999 in Honolulu Hawaii) was a Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American Economist and academic 1954) an economist, academic, Secretary of the Treasury for the last year and a half of the Clinton administration, and 27th President of Harvard University, 2001–2006, was born in New Haven.
- Ithiel Town (1784–1844), architect and civil engineer
- Eli Whitney (1765–1825), inventor and manufacturer
- Madeline Zima (b. Ithiel Town ( October 3, 1784 &ndash June 13, 1844) was a prominent American Architect and Civil engineer. Madeline Rose Zima (born September 16 1985 is an American Actress. 1985), actress
- John Williamson(b. John Williamson can refer to different persons Jack Williamson (1908 - 2006 American science fiction writer John Finley Williamson 1951), Pro Basketball Player
Notable Yale alumni and faculty
Notable Hopkins School alumni
Literature
- Leonard Bacon, Thirteen Historical Discourses, (New Haven, 1839)
- C. Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni current and former faculty members students and others The following is a list of Hopkins School people in alphabetical order H. Hoadley (editor), Records of the Colony of New Haven, 1638–1665, (two volumes, Hartford, 1857–58)
- J. W. Barber, History and Antiquities of New Haven, (third edition, New Haven, 1870)
- C. H. Levermore, Town and City Government of New Haven, (Baltimore, 1886)
- C. H. Levermore, Republic of New Haven: A History of Municipal Evolution, (Baltimore, 1886)
- E. S. Bartlett, Historical Sketches of New Haven, (New Haven, 1897)
- F. H. Cogswell, "New Haven" in L. P. Powell (editor), Historic Towns of New England, (New York, 1898)
- H. T. Blake, Chronicles of New Haven Green, (New Haven, 1898)
- E. E. Atwater, History of the Colony of New Haven, (New edition, New Haven, 1902)
- Douglas W. Rae, City: Urbanism and Its End, (New Haven, 2003)
- New Haven City Yearbooks
- Michael Sletcher, New Haven: From Puritanism to the Age of Terrorism, (Charleston, 2004)
- William Lee Miller, The Fifteenth Ward and the Great Society, (Houghton Mifflin/Riverside, 1966)
- Preston C. Maynard and Majorey B. Noyes, (editors), "Carriages and Clocks, Corsets and Locks: the Rise and Fall of an Industrial City-New Haven, Connecticut" (University Press of New England, 2005. )
See also
Other articles about people and places in New Haven, CT.
References
- ^ a b Annual Estimates of the Population for All Incorporated Places in Connecticut (CSV). The comma separated list (CSL is a Data Format originally known as comma-separated values (CSV in the oldest days of simple computers 2006 Population Estimates. U. S. Census Bureau, Population Division (June 21, 2006). Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on June 28, 2007. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
- ^ In US Census estimates between 2000 and 2006, New Haven and Hartford's populations have been estimated to have been within 511 of each other. In 2003 and 2005, New Haven was estimated to be larger. Since such differences are well within the margin of error in these estimates, which is actually larger will not be known until the 2010 Census.
- ^ U.S. Census Bureau - Population in New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs) in Alphabetical Order and Numerical and Percent Change: 1990 and 2000
- ^ South Central Regional Council of Governments
- ^ New Haven Town Plan. The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut. Retrieved on 2007-12-14. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people
- ^ a b New Haven: The Elm City
- ^ 03/15/2004 What's Up Downtown? Business New Haven
- ^ Connecticut Register and Manual
- ^ Biography of President George W. Bush
- ^ Details on the plans for Downtown New Haven's Coliseum Site, May 2008
- ^ a b http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/CityPlan/pdfs/PlanningPrograms/ComprehensivePlan/SectionVIDowntown.pdf Comprehensive Report: New Haven pg3
- ^ Harrison's illustrated guide to greater New Haven, (H2 Company, New Haven, 1995).
- ^ Maps of the New Haven Neighborhoods (PDF) are available from the City of New Haven's City Plan Department. There are also quick traces from the above PDFs in Google Earth/Map Shapes of the New Haven Neighborhoods (KML).
- ^ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places In The United States: 1790 to 1990
- ^ Population Estimates for Places over 100,000: 2000 to 2006
- ^ New Haven Economy. City-Data. com. Advameg Inc. (2007). Retrieved on 2007-07-03. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
- ^ New Haven: Economy - Major Industries and Commercial Activity
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- ^ Metropolitan Area Personal Income and per Capita Personal Income: 2001. United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis. Retrieved on 2007-10-01. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
- ^ Iowa Workforce Development News and Trends. Iowa Trends. Retrieved on 2007-10-01. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
- ^ Who We Are. Hopkins School. Retrieved on 2007-10-01. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
- ^ Buildings of New Haven
- ^ New Haven restaurants by cuisine @ Zagat Survey
- ^ Zagat Survey page for CT
- ^ 1974 Little League Baseball World Series. Retrieved on 2008-03-31. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor
- ^ Yale University Bulldogs, Official Athletic Site
- ^ Elm City Cycling
- ^ http://www.conntact.com/archive_index/archive_pages/1632_Business_New_Haven.html Connecticut Business News Journal "Dates of Our Lives"
- ^ Pushing Boundaries – A History of the Knights of Columbus
- ^ a b The Ashes of Memory, Revealed. New Haven Independent (2007-05-08). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 589 - Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo 1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen Retrieved on 2008-03-30. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
- ^ Shifre Zamkov on the New Haven Holocaust Memorial
- ^ Greater New Haven Holocaust Memory, Inc
- ^ http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18340961&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=566835&rfi=6
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- ^ New Haven Independent: A Streetcar Comeback?
- ^ New Haven: Economy - Major Industries and Commercial Activity
- ^ The New Haven Harbor Generating Station
- ^ Connecticut Financial Center @ Emporis.com
- ^ Smilow Cancer Hospital @ Emporis.com
- ^ Yale-New Haven Planned Cancer Hospital, official site
- ^ Residences and Shops at College Square @ Emporis.com
- ^ [Personal visit to the site, April 2008]
- ^ Shartenberg Site Tower I @ Emporis.com
- ^ City warms to plans for Shartenberg tower @ Yale Daily News
- ^ [Personal view of the site; images forthcoming]
- ^ Yale Daily News
- ^ I-95 Expansion Project for New Haven, official site
- ^ Sister-cities.org
- ^ (1963) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who.
- ^ a b [1969] (1979) in Reichler, Joseph L. : The Baseball Encyclopedia, 4th edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8.
External links
- City of New Haven official Web site
- New Haven at the Open Directory Project
- Historical New Haven Digital Collection
- Life in the Model City: Stories of Urban Renewal in New Haven — online exhibit by the New Haven Oral History Project
- "Who Really Ruled in Dahl's New Haven?" by G. The Open Directory Project ( ODP) also known as dmoz (from directory William Domhoff — examination of power structures in New Haven and Yale in the 1960s
- The New Haven Independent neighborhood-based online newspaper
- Yale Daily News - student-run daily newspaper with New Haven coverage
- Yale Herald - student-run weekly newspaper with special emphasis on New Haven arts
- NewHavenWeb - A Comprehensive Online Directory of New Haven
- Boston Globe article on Center Church Crypt in New Haven
- Sins Of New Haven
- Amistad: Seeking Freedom in Connecticut, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary
- New Haven, Connecticut is at coordinates Coordinates:
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