ProgMM t1_j5uj1lk wrote
Reply to comment by Sweaty_Conclusion_80 in Pedestrian struck, killed on Whalley Avenue in New Haven by brewski
It was still being done to isolate downtown from the black neighborhoods
Sweaty_Conclusion_80 t1_j5uk9e3 wrote
What are you talking about, the hill was predominantly white in the 50s when MLK/legion and 95 were constructed.
ProgMM t1_j5uqa6f wrote
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.
Sweaty_Conclusion_80 t1_j5uqx3p wrote
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.
bingybunny t1_j5v53ht wrote
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
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