I was helping a client open a restaurant on Whalley, that failed. The lady at the chamber of commerce said that part of town was historically always kinda treated as a no-man's land between the big cemetery and the debtor's prison

This + protected bike lanes

It’s definitely a Stroad that is too wide and could use traffic calming measures

No worries. Yale used to have a castle approach to their campus but sometime in the 90s they changed course and have been buying everything around them to create a real estate moat that they can control. They don’t pay taxes on their properties which are “educational,” but their private property development arm owns a sneaky amount of property in this city and surrounding towns and they’re constantly buying up more.

My bad, I was thinking of the ring road proposed to connect Trumbull Street to 34. This would’ve isolated Yale from Dixwell and Dwight. It also appears that, by the end of the 60s (when this was proposed), there were a lot of Black and Puerto Rican people in The Hill.

missing the point, you can't just put a sign up that says 5 mph limit and call it a very safe road where no accidents should ever happen. would be just as useful as posting a sign that says "pretty please no accidents on this road"

>Posted speed limit in most cases doesn't matter single lane Orange St is 20mph and multilane Whalley is 25. but no one is driving under 30 on either

"sure, people are breaking the law in a way that endangers the lives of others, but what else do you expect?"

we love rubamba! But as you said not mexican. Somos Arepas is pretty good too. And Soul De Cuba is on Door Dash.

point 1 I've been on the side of slow patient driving lately and on a dark rainy day it is nearly impossible to see people jaywalking still . Whalley is not well lit. Posted speed limit in most cases doesn't matter single lane Orange St is 20mph and multilane Whalley is 25. but no one is driving under 30 on either. sadly if it's a jaywalk it's the pedestrians fault everytime otherwise it's just frogger across a highspeed road

What are you talking about, the hill was predominantly white in the 50s when MLK/legion and 95 were constructed.

It was still being done to isolate downtown from the black neighborhoods

Point 1 is incorrect, but you’re right about the design aspect.

When they had the idea to connect 95 to 34 via MLK/Frontage, the neighborhoods they tore down in preparation were primarily white.

That’s not me saying that, it’s the way the laws are currently written. Don’t kill the messenger.

This take! Personally I think the onus of driver + pedestrian safety along Whalley is on the city. Spend some $$ on pedestrian friendly infrastructure. It’s painfully obviously needed.

Oh, good to know.

Seconding this. Aterlier Florian has a pretty good brunch, good atmosphere, sometimes they have a musician playing. And it's close enough to where you want to be.

Hmmm… there’s an apartment complex on the north end of the city on Whitney Ave called Whitney Modern. That’s supposed to be nice.

There’s also the Corsair Apartments off of State St that’s in a pretty decent location to all of the State St shops.

I don’t know of any other complexes between New Haven and where Town Walk/Aspen Glen are in Hamden.

Hope that’s been helpful!

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Did you happen to see any other decent complexes up there? Im head into town this weekend and would love to check other spots out. My wife is working as a fellow at the Yale hospital and as far as we know she might be splitting her time between the hospital downtown and one north of the city somewhere. But the program hasnt given us much more information other than that unfortunately.

not specifically mexican but rubamba is pretty good even over delivery

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Ixtapa is perfectly fine, but since Mazorca opened I don't see myself going there too often

1. Regardless of what Ms. Williams was wearing or how she was behaving, Whalley is well-lit and its speed limit is 25 mph. If the driver didn't see her until literally after the moment if impact, then they were either not watching the road at all, going much too fast, or both. (Most likely both.) No question in my mind.

2. Regardless of the particulars of this specific case, Whalley has consistently been a deadly and dangerous road for pedestrians. If there's an issue with frequent jaywalking, that's an issue of design. If people are driving too fast too often, that's an issue of design. Whalley Ave. is a busy commercial corridor flanked on both sides by dense residential neighborhoods. It's a terrible place for a five-land road without any traffic calming measures. Until the state and local government do something about this, people are going to continue to be injured and worse.

Tremendous work