History is written in the streets of New Haven. There’s Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, named after Connecticut’s first female governor who, in 1975, was also the country’s first female (more…)
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A Walk Down Whalley
Whalley (pronounced “WAY-ly”) Avenue is the Rodney Dangerfield of New Haven thoroughfares: it gets no respect. For most of the drivers navigating it, the avenue is simply a means to an end, the quickest route from point A to point B. Even its name is taken from a judge who was headed somewhere else (specifically […]