Community Care
This ongoing issue in New Haven refers to rising rents that disproportionately affect low-income residents and communities of color.
What is gentrification?
This well-known pizza shop in the Wooster Square area is known for establishing the Apizza, thin crust new haven style pizza.
What is Frank Pepe?
This is the only school in New Haven with tax-exempt properties.
What is Yale University?
This hiking spot overlooks the broader New Haven area. Some local spots include: Elenas, Nica’s Market, and Atticus Market.
What is East Rock?
This Yale office connects students to local nonprofits, service-learning, and social justice initiatives in New Haven.
What is the Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice?
This is a popular small concert venue, where artists like Foo Fighters, Ricky Montgomery, and Cupcakke have performed.
What is Toads?
Protests by unionized workers striking over labor conditions were held against this location.
What is the Omni Hotel?
Known as New Haven’s Little Italy, this neighborhood hosts weekly farmers' markets and the Cherry Blossom Festival every year.
What is Wooster Square?
This New Haven organization provides legal aid, education, and family services to immigrants and refugees—and many Yale students volunteer here.
What is IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services)?
This theater hosts musicals and famous speakers, hosting events like the Nutcracker and Malala.
What is the Shubert Theater?
Amidst the BLM protests in 2020, Wooster Square removed a statue of Christopher Columbus and replaced it with a new display, of what?
Indicando la via al Futuro, a statue of newly arrived immigrants
These vendors line up on the coast of Long Wharf throughout the week.
What are the Long Wharf food trucks?
This is a nonprofit that helps immigrant, refugee women establish economic, civic, and community power through job training and education.
What is Havenly?
This medium-sized concert venue has hosted artists like Faye Webster, Girl in Red, Cuco, and Djo.
What is College St Music Hall?
The name of the Brutalist style building next to the New Haven Ikea.
What is Hotel Marcel?
This community is comprised of predominantly Ecuadorian, Mexican, and Puerto Rican immigrants. This neighborhood is home to many Hispanic shops and bakeries.
What is Fair Haven?
This organization was created in response to the need for therapeutic resources for victims of brain trauma.
What is Healing by Growing Farms?
This recreation center is a ropes course with ziplines.
What is It Adventure Ropes Course?
Walking down the Farmington Canal Trail, you'll find a set of chairs and a sculpture placed by local community members who run Urbanscape's plant nursery. What animal sculpture is placed in the Newhallville park?
A turtle
This space used to be a cemetery, with churches on the space today.
What is the New Haven Green?