New Haven
The city of New Haven is a small, lively urban center between New York City and Boston.
"Bravo, New Haven. Much maligned for decades as a stagnant urban seaport, this city of 123,000 souls has risen from its own ashes to become an arts mecca. The city's center is a tranquil core: the New Haven Green, decorated with graceful colonial churches and venerable Yale University. Scores of ethnic restaurants, theaters, museums, pubs, and clubs dot the neighborhood."- Lonely Planet Guide to New England, 2003
"Downtown New Haven, rich in history and architectural gems, thrives as a place to live, work, and play." "New Haven's identity has been entwined with Yale University's for centuries. The college's neo-Gothic buildings gild the city's oldest avenues, but it's not all heady Ivy League intellectualism in New Haven. The city has also actively cultivated the artistic left side of its brain." - Maura J. Casey, In New Haven, Art Almost Everywhere You Look, New York Times.