anchor spa is very cool. Or Ordinary. Via is very designed to be "trendy" & has lots of interesting cocktails if you're looking for that

What a shitty thing to say. Someone died.

it's a state road only until ella grasso blvd, everything to the east of the blvd is city owned

She was?

Whalley is a free-for-all with guilty parties behind the wheel and on the streets. I have seen double parking, u-turns, jay walking (being obtuse or aggressively slow), turning without indicating, people jumping the light, ignoring the light, turning tight to cross right of way traffic, weaving in and out and busses jumping in and out of traffic with wide turns and very little notice.

Pedestrian footbridges and contiguous ‘islands’ would be game changers. Better stoplight flow would improve business. Banning on street parking and providing off street parking would save lives.

I wish they would make it a 3 lane road with a permanent middle lane for turning.

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/gabrielle_remembered_whalley_widening

after a pedestrian was killed their idea was to widen the street so cars can go faster.

pretty sure Whalley Ave and Rt. 34 downtown connector was designed to destroy city life in black neighborhoods, and concentrate student spending in York Square.

The 6 lane road ends at Yale because rich white kids would die crossing that road

Anchor Spa, and consider the Luke as backup across the street

Tacos la Frontierra

Because where the crime scene was cordoned off was in between crossings, aka a jaywalk

And the officials don't fucking care.

Bruh how is it the pedestrian's fault the street is far too wide, dark, and with traffic signal timings that make drivers unnecessarily aggressive?

The street needs major overhaul

Very cool. Nice work. Sad to hear it is no longer around

House looks different to me and it looks like the Townshend family owned that propert from the 1700s until recently but there is a 1901 directory with a Fernhurst entry that gives a Townsend Avenue address. Maybe nearby? Edit: another record referring to fernhurst on Townsend Ave, 1902 and one more

This place is SO GOOD

Lived in nh for 6 years chief ik how it is and the oedestrians there (in particular on whalley) are the worst in the state

You try walking and crossing Whalley.

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TIL it's a state road. I do agree with the crosswalks being sparse plus once you press the button for the light you have to wait a whole cycle of car lights before it's your turn. Hope they do implement something like that, there's plenty of space.

I’ll check them out!!

I used to work a bit around Townwalk and Aspen Glen, and the outside and property of those complexes are not maintained well. Plus, the drive from those apartments into New Haven can be atrocious and take over 20 minutes at certain times of the day. I wouldn’t live there for what they’re charging.

Simpler explanation: it’s a state road, not town. CT DOT is 50 years behind the times.

It’s designed badly. If it’s going to be a boulevard it needs very wide lush island in the middle, like Ocean Ave in Brooklyn. It needs bulked up to the max pedestrian crossings. Yeah. Pedestrians are reckless in Whalley but try being one. Live off Whalley without a car for a week and get to know how long a walk it is to the cross walks.

Or, It needs dedicated bike lanes and maybe even parallel roads on each side for local traffic, bikes and pedestrians. It’s too wide

It needs to be more like this:

https://bklyner.com/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-ocean-parkway-kensington

Also, make it curvier, make it narrower, double the number of crosswalks

It’s not like safer roads are a mystery. There has been tons of work in that area of study in recent decades.

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As another who's been through the authentic areas, I am stunned to hear Viva's mentioned. I will have to give it a whirl.

And you should see about Baja's in Orange, as well as the two on Dixwell in Hamden (Orale and Mazorca). They're both new-ish yet, but solid. Curious how you might feel about them.

Barring those - I still pine for El Charrito's, but don't get out to the Stamford/Greenwich border much these days.