download the mta train time app

Used to live near State Street station. It's annoying to find, but the simplest way I found (with the clearest display) is to click the State St. station icon on Google Maps & then select only New Haven Line trains. It should then show only the trains going all the way to GCT, like 6-8 a day. Annoyingly, they're mostly clustered in the evening rush hour it seems. I got really lucky one year that the 10:41am fit my schedule. I never did find a really clean way to see which MNRR trains go all the way to State St. from GCT, though it's not a ton. Sometimes it's not so bad a wait to just transfer at Union, if waiting 10-15 minutes is better for you than walking. (Also, it's free to ride between Union Station & State St., fyi.)

What more info are you looking for?

Thanks for the shuttle idea -- particularly useful on the return, when it's harder to coordinate.

Any idea where to find more information -- this is all I can find:

https://portal.ct.gov/DOT/CTDOT-Press-Releases/2009/New-Haven-Union-Station-Shuttle-Offers-Expanded-Hours-and-Free-Service-to-the-Green

Union station ia the one you want.

Very few metro north trains go to state st and only weekdays I think. If you look at the app you will be able to search schedules between two stations. If you really want to use state st you can take ctrail between state st and union for free

Shoreline East schedule: https://shorelineeast.com/images/docs/SLE_Sched_Oct31_22_85x11VR3.pdf (pdf warning)

Hartford line schedule: https://www.hartfordline.com/fares-schedules/

Just go to union station. You can walk from one to the other, or take the free downtown shuttle. But if you really want to do State St, the trip planner is on the MTA website.

Schedules: https://new.mta.info/agency/metro-north-railroad/schedules

There is a trip planner on the new MTA home page. Note that state street is listed as “NH-State St”.

https://shorelineeast.com/trip-planner

The State Street Station is part of the Shoreline East Line, not MNRR or Hartford Line, confusingly.

I used to do this all the time, so my advice is to always be early for those State St trains. The Shoreline crews leave early or exactly on time. Ask me if you can run fast enough from State St to Union Station to make the GCT train 🙃

We use to do the same thing.

Not to long ago a storm pushed over a few trees and they found a skull and things. I believe it made the news.

Not to mention, “oh no I’ve cut myself, now I’m going to die “

I mean I guess so. I mean it seems to me @ 50 yrs old your pretty well set in your little routine in life , and to just up & go to what was to them people back then a new world is a Huge life change. Honestly I can’t say I would. Nothing like that exists today and I’m exuding outer space. But back then I guess it was a promise of sorts , untold wealth & Fortune, and land await all in the new world. I suppose if I hated the king, maybe even the king had it out for me, no work, living under the kings army’s rule, hungry all the time? Maybe I would go. Just seems to us here & now a huge gamble.

Not a then & now photo but.a very cool view of old new Haven.

I’ll post another picture here right now

To each their own, but I can’t stand Joe’s tattoo style.

I would love that. And I’m sure most on this thread would too.

Like if you were 50+ years old in England, were going to risk the 6 week voyage and all the dangers of settling virgin territory or just sit back and in England and live out your old age in relative certainty of your last days that you won't starve, attacked by wild animals, or killed by Natives who are interloping on their lands?

Funny!! Great point!! Honestly I always thought any age person jumped on a ship and came here. Probably sick as hell of king stupid over there, & the main driving force was money, and land.I believe like them my biggest worry would have been the natives..

How old would you have to be to known as Old Mr. Nash in 1640 within the first decade of the settlement existing? I had the assumption that those who mad the trip across the ocean in 17th century were young adventurous types, not Old Mr. Nash.

Thank you as I do to! Stay tuned I have a cpl more good ones coming.

I can post then vs now pics if you’d like. Yes there are changes every where. It’s all interesting to say the least. I really like the green and how far it used to come up to water as well as the Wooster street area.

I just think these are cool. I love the large tract each person has at this time. I got to get back into my ancestry again. I have multiple descendants from new haven.

That area in my day used to be so chill. There would be some dude walking down chapel by the old mall smoking a joint & you might ask him if he had any, he would quickly serve you up right then & there much to the oder peoples shock! Then quickly we’d go to the green and smoke ourselves, inevitably someone would come over and next thing u know it would be a small smoke fest. Always watching for 5-0. New haven cops didn’t play and we would avoid them at any cost.

I was lucky enough to see it this past summer, and even in its not final form it was amazing. Can’t wait to go back and see even more.