Editing New Haven, Connecticut (section)

== Culture ==
=== Cuisine ===

[[Livability.com]] named New Haven as the Best Foodie City in the country in 2014. There are dozens of [[Zagat Survey|Zagat-rated]] restaurants in New Haven, the most in Connecticut and the third most in [[New England]] (after [[Boston]] and [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zagat.com/Verticals/BrowseSubLocation.aspx?GS=GeoParentID%7c832&GN=Connecticut |title=Zagat Survey page for CT |publisher=Zagat.com |access-date=July 23, 2014 |archive-date=June 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629133835/http://www.zagat.com/Verticals/BrowseSubLocation.aspx?GS=GeoParentID%7C832&GN=Connecticut |url-status=dead }}</ref> More than 120 restaurants are located within two blocks of the [[New Haven Green]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E5DD103FF930A35757C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |work=The New York Times |first=Eleanor |last=Charles |date=April 3, 2005 |access-date=May 20, 2010 |title=LIVING IN/Downtown New Haven; An Infusion of Energy in Yale's Backyard |archive-date=March 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303163020/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E5DD103FF930A35757C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> The city is home to an eclectic mix of ethnic restaurants and small markets specializing in various foreign foods.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/07/nyregion/dining-out-in-new-haven-flavors-from-south-asia.html?scp=11&sq=new%20haven%20ethnic%20food%20resraurants&st=cse |work=The New York Times |title=DINING OUT; In New Haven, Flavors from South Asia |first=Patricia |last=Brooks |date=March 7, 1999 |access-date=May 20, 2010 |archive-date=May 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512165905/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/07/nyregion/dining-out-in-new-haven-flavors-from-south-asia.html?scp=11&sq=new%20haven%20ethnic%20food%20resraurants&st=cse |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://www.petergreenberg.com/2010/03/02/spotlight-on-new-haven-ct-a-college-town-vacation/ Travel News You Can Use – Spotlight on New Haven, CT: A College Town Vacation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317141800/http://www.petergreenberg.com/2010/03/02/spotlight-on-new-haven-ct-a-college-town-vacation/ |date=March 17, 2010 }}. Petergreenberg.com (March 2, 2010). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref> Represented cuisines include Malaysian, Ethiopian, Spanish, Belgian, French, Greek, Latin American, Mexican, Italian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Cuban, Peruvian, Syrian/Lebanese, and Turkish.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zagat.com/verticals/Browse.aspx?Ntk=GeoChildID&Ntt=1521&N=120&Ne=2392&VID=8&Key=Cuisines |title=New Haven restaurants by cuisine @ Zagat Survey |publisher=Zagat.com |access-date=July 23, 2014 |archive-date=June 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630002959/http://www.zagat.com/verticals/Browse.aspx?Ntk=GeoChildID&Ntt=1521&N=120&Ne=2392&VID=8&Key=Cuisines |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Frank pepe clam pie.jpg|thumb|White clam pizza from [[Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana|Pepe's]], in the classic [[New Haven-style pizza|New Haven-style]]]]
New Haven's greatest culinary claim to fame may be its pizza, which has been claimed to be among the best in the country,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090523225742/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30872147/ 25 best pizzas around the country – today > food – TODAY.com] . Today.msnbc.msn.com (May 22, 2009). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://thepauperedchef.com/2007/09/new-haven-pizza.html Some Say New Haven Has America's Best Pizza] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315135921/http://thepauperedchef.com/2007/09/new-haven-pizza.html |date=March 15, 2010 }}. The Paupered Chef (September 13, 2007). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.realamericanstories.com/new-haven-pizza-wars-%E2%80%93-new/?curpage=0 New Haven Pizza Wars] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326004116/http://www.realamericanstories.com/new-haven-pizza-wars-%E2%80%93-new/?curpage=0 |date=March 26, 2010 }}. Real American Stories. Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://gridskipper.com/archives/entries/058/58727.php 15 Best Pizzas in America] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930132553/http://gridskipper.com/archives/entries/058/58727.php |date=September 30, 2011 }}. Gridskipper (October 27, 2006). Retrieved on August 2, 2013.</ref> or even in the world.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/13/best-foods-in-the-world |work=The Guardian |location=London |title=The 50 best things to eat in the world, and where to eat them |first=Killian |last=Fox |date=September 13, 2009 |access-date=May 20, 2010 |archive-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824024902/http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/13/best-foods-in-the-world |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://journeypod.wordpress.com/best-pizzas-from-around-the-world/ Best Pizzas From Around The World |Luxury Travel Nightlife & Restaurant Reviews] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310201246/http://journeypod.wordpress.com/best-pizzas-from-around-the-world/ |date=March 10, 2010 }}. Journeypod.wordpress.com (April 18, 2009). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref> [[New Haven-style pizza]], called "apizza", made its debut at the iconic [[Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana]] (known as Pepe's) in 1925.<ref>"American Eats: Pizza", The History Channel, June 29, 2006</ref> Apizza is baked in coal- or wood-fired brick ovens, and is notable for its thin crust. Apizza may be red (with a tomato-based sauce) or white (with a sauce of garlic and [[olive oil]]), and pies ordered "plain" are made without the otherwise customary [[mozzarella]] (originally smoked mozzarella, known as "scamorza" in Italian). A white [[clam]] pie is a well-known specialty of the restaurants on [[Wooster Square|Wooster Street]] in the Little Italy section of New Haven, including Pepe's and [[Sally's Apizza]] (which opened in 1938). [[Modern Apizza]] on State Street, which opened in 1934, is also well-known.<ref>[http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/features/2008/11/06/taste-tests-prove-that-brand-does-matter/ Taste tests prove that brand does matter] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130209195224/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/features/2008/11/06/taste-tests-prove-that-brand-does-matter/ |date=February 9, 2013 }}. Yale Daily News (November 6, 2008). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref>
[[File:Louis-lunch.png|thumb|right|[[Louis' Lunch]], where the [[hamburger]] was reputedly invented in 1900]]

A second New Haven [[gastronomical]] claim to fame is [[Louis' Lunch]], which is located in a small brick building on Crown Street and has been serving fast food since 1895.<ref>Price & Lee's New Haven (New Haven County, Conn.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=ddgCAAAAYAAJ City Directory, 1899, page 375] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102052410/https://books.google.com/books?id=ddgCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA375,M1 |date=January 2, 2016 }}</ref> Though fiercely debated, the restaurant's founder Louis Lassen is credited by the [[Library of Congress]] with inventing the [[hamburger]] and [[steak sandwich]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/ct/es_ct_burger_1.html |title=Louis' Lunch |website=Americaslibrary.gov |access-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-date=January 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110171638/http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/ct/es_ct_burger_1.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/CT/200002814.html |title=Connecticut: Louis' Lunch (Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots – Library of Congress) |website=Lcweb2.loc.gov |access-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-date=June 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630052938/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/CT/200002814.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Louis' Lunch [[broiling|broils]] hamburgers, steak sandwiches and [[hot dogs]] vertically in original antique 1898 [[cast iron]] stoves using [[gridiron (cooking)|gridirons]], patented by local resident Luigi Pieragostini in 1939, that hold the meat in place while it cooks.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/patents?id=LRhJAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=pieragostini+broiler&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1#PPA1,M1 |title=U.S. Patent #2,148,879 |access-date=July 23, 2014 |archive-date=May 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523110811/http://www.google.com/patents?id=LRhJAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=pieragostini+broiler&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1#PPA1,M1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

A third New Haven [[gastronomical]] claim to fame is [[Miya's]], the first [[sustainable sushi]] restaurant in the world. Miya's, founded by Chef Yoshiko Lai in 1982, featured the first [[sustainable seafood]]-based sushi menu, the first plant-based sushi menu, and the first [[invasive species]] menu in the world. Second generation [[Miya's]] chef, [[Bun Lai]], is the 2016 [[White House]] Champions of Change for Sustainable Seafood and a [[James Beard Foundation]] Award nominee. Chef [[Bun Lai]] is credited as the first chef in the world for implementing a sustainability paradigm to the cuisine of sushi.<ref name="granata1">{{cite web |last=Granata |first=Elise |url=http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/sustainable_sushi_gets_a_toehold1/ |title="Sustainable Sushi" Gets A Toehold |publisher=New Haven Independent |date=January 18, 2010 |access-date=February 24, 2010 |archive-date=June 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615173423/http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/sustainable_sushi_gets_a_toehold1/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://fish2fork.com/apps/index.php/reviews/view/315 |title=Miya's Sushi |publisher=Fish2fork.com |access-date=June 7, 2010}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/sustainable_sushi_gets_a_toehold1/ |title="Sustainable Sushi" Gets A Toehold |publisher=New Haven Independent |access-date=January 18, 2010 |archive-date=June 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615173423/http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/sustainable_sushi_gets_a_toehold1/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/12-champions-of-change-for-sustainable-seafood-chosen-by-white-house |title=12 "Champions of Change for Sustainable Seafood" chosen by White House |website=Seafoodsource.com |access-date=July 14, 2017 |archive-date=August 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815015713/https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/12-champions-of-change-for-sustainable-seafood-chosen-by-white-house |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewhelkwestport.com/news/2013-james-beard-awards-semifinalists-chefs-bill-taibe-bun-lai/ |title=2013 James Beard Awards Semifinalists: Chefs Bill Taibe & Bun Lai – The Whelk |website=Thewhelkwestport.com |access-date=July 14, 2017 |archive-date=August 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814222029/http://www.thewhelkwestport.com/news/2013-james-beard-awards-semifinalists-chefs-bill-taibe-bun-lai/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

During weekday lunchtime, over 150 lunch carts and food trucks cater to diners around the city.<ref>[http://www.yaledailynews.com/magazine/column/2004/11/17/burritos-bubble-tea-and-burgers/ Burritos, Bubble Tea and Burgers |YDN Magazine] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130210041519/http://www.yaledailynews.com/magazine/column/2004/11/17/burritos-bubble-tea-and-burgers/ |date=February 10, 2013 }}. Yaledailynews.com (November 17, 2004). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref> The carts and food trucks cluster at four main points: on Long Wharf Drive, along the city's shoreline with quick access off Interstate 95,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nhregister.com/lifestyle/article/New-Haven-officials-tout-development-of-Food-11319264.php |title=New Haven officials tout development of 'Food Truck Paradise' on Long Wharf |date=November 14, 2016 |newspaper=[[New Haven Register]] |access-date=April 7, 2021 |archive-date=November 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106163720/https://www.nhregister.com/lifestyle/article/New-Haven-officials-tout-development-of-Food-11319264.php |url-status=live }}</ref> by [[Yale – New Haven Hospital]] in the center of the Hospital Green (Cedar and York streets), by Yale's [[Trumbull College]] (Elm and York streets), and on the intersection of Prospect and Sachem streets by the [[Yale School of Management]].<ref>Spiegel, Jan Ellen (April 21, 2010). [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/nyregion/25dinect.html?scp=3&sq=&st=nyt "From Common Food Carts, Exotic Tastes"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313131513/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/nyregion/25dinect.html?scp=3&sq=&st=nyt |date=March 13, 2017 }} ''[[The New York Times]].'' Retrieved July 18, 2010.</ref>

Popular farmers' markets, managed by the local non-profit CitySeed,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cityseed.org/ |title=Home |website=Cityseed.org |access-date=April 7, 2021 |archive-date=April 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405214440/https://cityseed.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> set up shop weekly in several neighborhoods, including Westville/Edgewood Park, Fair Haven, Upper State Street, Wooster Square, and Downtown/New Haven Green.

A large grocery store, the Elm City Market, opened on 360 State Street in New Haven in early fall 2011 and served local produce and groceries to the community. Originally, the market was a member-owned [[co-op]],<ref>[http://www.elmcitymarket.coop/ Elm City Market] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929174347/https://www.elmcitymarket.coop/ |date=September 29, 2011 }}. Elmcitymarket.coop. Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref> but debt defaults in August 2014 forced a sale of the business. It is now an employee-owned business; the co-op's previous owners received no equity in the new business.<ref>[http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/10/03/elm-city-market-auctioned-off/ Elm City Market Sold] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107092538/http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/10/03/elm-city-market-auctioned-off/ |date=November 7, 2016 }}. Yale Daily News. Retrieved on November 6, 2016</ref>

In the past several years, two separate Downtown food tour companies have started offering popular restaurant tours on weekends.
Taste of New Haven Tours offers several different weekly restaurant/bar tours and a popular pizza, bike, and pints tour. Culinary Walking Tours offers monthly restaurant tours and sponsors an annual Elm City Iron Chef competition.

=== Theatre and film ===
The city hosts numerous theatres and production houses, including the [[Yale Repertory Theatre]], the [[Long Wharf Theatre]], and the [[Shubert Theatre (New Haven)|Shubert Theatre]]. There is also theatre activity from the [[Yale School of Drama]], which works through the Yale University Theatre and the student-run [[Yale Cabaret]]. [[Southern Connecticut State University]] hosts the Lyman Center for the Performing Arts. The shuttered Palace Theatre (opposite the Shubert Theatre) was renovated and reopened as the College Street Music Hall in May 2015. Smaller theatres include the Little Theater on Lincoln Street. Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School also has a theatre on College Street. The theatre is used for student productions, and is the home to weekly services to a local non-denominational church, the City Church New Haven.<ref>[http://www.ourcitychurch.org/when_and_where/weekly.php "Weekly Gatherings"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920212644/http://www.ourcitychurch.org/when_and_where/weekly.php |date=September 20, 2013 }}. City Church New Haven. Retrieved March 14, 2012.</ref>

The Shubert Theatre once premiered many major theatrical productions before their Broadway debuts. Productions that premiered at the Shubert include ''[[Oklahoma!]]'' (which was also written in New Haven<ref name="morganreed.com">[http://www.morganreed.com/taft_building.html The Taft Apartment Building—New Haven, Connecticut] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329105420/http://www.morganreed.com/taft_building.html |date=March 29, 2010 }}. Morganreed.com. Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref>), ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'', ''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]'', ''[[My Fair Lady]]'', ''[[The King and I]]'', and ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', and the [[Tennessee Williams]] play ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (play)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.

Bow Tie Cinemas owns and operates the Criterion Cinemas, the first new movie theater to open in New Haven in over 30 years and the first luxury movie complex in the city's history. The Criterion has seven screens and opened in November 2004, showing a mix of upscale first run commercial and independent film.<ref>[http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2004/11/08/upscale-movie-theater-opens-doors-downtown/ Upscale movie theater opens doors downtown] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130209223807/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2004/11/08/upscale-movie-theater-opens-doors-downtown/ |date=February 9, 2013 }}. Yale Daily News (November 8, 2004). Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref>

=== Museums ===
[[File:Yale Peabody Museum 2.JPG|right|thumb|The historic [[Peabody Museum of Natural History]] at Yale]]
[[File:Yale-Center-for-British-Arts-New-Haven-Connecticut-04-2014d.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Yale Center for British Art]], designed by [[Louis Kahn]]]]

New Haven has a variety of museums, many of them associated with Yale. The [[Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library]] features an original copy of the [[Gutenberg Bible]]. There is also the [[Connecticut Children's Museum]]; the [[Knights of Columbus]] museum near that organization's world headquarters; the [[Peabody Museum of Natural History]]; the [[Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments]]; the [[Eli Whitney Museum]] (across the town line in [[Hamden, Connecticut]], on Whitney Avenue); the [[Yale Center for British Art]], which houses the largest collection of British art outside the U.K.,<ref>[http://ycba.yale.edu/information/index.html YCBA Home Page |britishart.yale.edu]. Ycba.yale.edu. Retrieved on July 15, 2013. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504003234/http://ycba.yale.edu/information/index.html |date=May 4, 2011 }}</ref> and the [[Yale University Art Gallery]], the western hemisphere's oldest college art museum.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yale University Art Gallery – 1953 |url=http://www.buildings.yale.edu/property.aspx?id=26 |website=Building.yale.edu |access-date=August 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830040549/http://www.buildings.yale.edu/property.aspx?id=26 |archive-date=August 30, 2013 }}</ref> New Haven is also home to the [[New Haven Museum and Historical Society]] on Whitney Avenue, which has a library of many primary source treasures dating from Colonial times to the present.

[[Artspace, New Haven|Artspace]] on Orange Street is one of several contemporary art galleries around the city, showcasing the work of local, national, and international artists. Others include City Gallery and A. Leaf Gallery in the downtown area. Westville galleries include Kehler Liddell, Jennifer Jane Gallery, and The Hungry Eye. The [[Erector Square]] complex in the [[Fair Haven (New Haven)|Fair Haven]] neighborhood houses, the Parachute Factory gallery along with numerous artist studios, and the complex serves as an active destination during [[City-Wide Open Studios]] held yearly in October.

New Haven is the home port of a life-size replica of the historical ''[[Amistad (ship replica)|Freedom Schooner Amistad]]'', which is open for tours at Long Wharf pier at certain times during the summer. Also at Long Wharf pier is the ''Quinnipiack'' schooner, offering sailing cruises of the harbor area throughout the summer. The ''Quinnipiack'' also functions as a floating classroom for hundreds of local students.

=== Music ===
The New Haven Green is the site of many free music concerts, especially during the summer months. These have included the [[New Haven Symphony Orchestra]], the July Free Concerts on the Green, and the [[New Haven Jazz Festival]] in August. The Jazz Festival, which began in 1982, is one of the longest-running free outdoor festivals in the U.S., until it was canceled for 2007. Headliners such as [[Dave Brubeck]], [[Ray Charles]] and [[Celia Cruz]] have historically drawn 30,000 to 50,000 fans, filling up the New Haven Green to capacity. The New Haven Jazz Festival was revived in 2008 and has been sponsored since by Jazz Haven.<ref>[http://jazzhaven.org/ Jazz Haven, Inc] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090929130628/http://www.jazzhaven.org/ |date=September 29, 2009 }}. Jazzhaven.org. Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref>

New Haven is home to the concert venue [[Toad's Place]], and a new venue, College Street Music Hall. The city has retained an alternative art and music underground that has helped to influence post-punk era music movements such as [[indie rock|indie]], [[college rock]] and underground [[hip-hop]].

The [[Yale School of Music]] contributes to the city's music scene by offering hundreds of free concerts throughout the year at venues in and around the Yale campus. Large performances are held in the 2,700-seat [[Woolsey Hall]] auditorium, which contains the [[Newberry Memorial Organ|world's largest symphonic organs]], while chamber music and recitals are performed in Sprague Hall.

[[Heavy metal music|Hardcore]] band [[Hatebreed]] are from [[Wallingford, Connecticut|Wallingford]], but got their start in New Haven under the name [[Jasta 14 (band)|Jasta 14]]. The band [[Miracle Legion]] formed in New Haven in 1983. Folk musicians from New Haven include [[Loren Mazzacane Connors]] and [[Kath Bloom]].

The Hillhouse Opera Company is a U.S. non-profit<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.implu.com/nonprofit/263218851 |title=HILLHOUSE OPERA COMPANY Form 990 Data as of 2009-11-02 |publisher=implu Corporation |access-date=January 29, 2010 |archive-date=May 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514122527/http://www.implu.com/nonprofit/263218851 |url-status=live }}</ref> opera company based in New Haven that performs in the New Haven area. Founded in 2008 by Victoria Leigh Gardner, Nicole Rodriguez and Jim Coatsworth Hillhouse Opera Company has performed operas as well as opera scenes programs, master classes and concert series.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/11/01/entertainment/doc4aeb978d48275567661046.txt |title=Hillhouse Opera presents 'Alicina' |date=November 1, 2009 |work=New Haven Register |access-date=January 28, 2010 |archive-date=March 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312040845/http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/11/01/entertainment/doc4aeb978d48275567661046.txt |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15343 |title=Island of Pleasure: Hillhouse Opera Company takes on a rarely-heard masterpiece |last=Johnson |first=Daniel Stephen |date=November 4, 2009 |work=New Haven Advocate |publisher=New Mass Media |access-date=January 28, 2010}} {{dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/1575763351.html?dids=1575763351:1575763351&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+16%2C+2008&author=Fernando+Alfonso+III&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=GERSHWIN+IN+HARTFORD%3B+STRING+QUARTET+IN+STORRS&pqatl=google |title=GERSHWIN IN HARTFORD; STRING QUARTET IN STORRS |last=Alfonso III |first=Fernando |work=Hartford Courant |pages=CAL.21 |access-date=January 29, 2010 |location=Hartford, Connecticut |quote=The Hillhouse Opera Company will perform Mozart's two act opera "Don Giovanni." |date=October 16, 2008 |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025051956/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/1575763351.html?dids=1575763351:1575763351&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+16,+2008&author=Fernando+Alfonso+III&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=GERSHWIN+IN+HARTFORD%3B+STRING+QUARTET+IN+STORRS&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2011, the Company professionally staged the works created through the Riverview Opera Project. The Riverview Opera Project created workshops for children and adolescents at Riverview Hospital, Connecticut's only state-funded psychiatric hospital for youth, and helped them to successfully create, produce, and perform four original operas.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://summer.music.ubc.ca/workshops.html |title=Vocal Workshop Faculty |work=University of British Columbia Summer Music Institutes site |access-date=January 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613005416/http://summer.music.ubc.ca/workshops.html |archive-date=June 13, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Festivals ===
In addition to the Jazz Festival (described above), New Haven serves as the home city of the annual [[International Festival of Arts and Ideas]]. New Haven's [[Saint Patrick's Day]] parade, which began in 1842, is [[New England]]'s oldest and draws the largest crowds of any one-day spectator event in Connecticut.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/specials/holiday/articles/2010/03/14/beyond_the_pubs_painting_the_town_green/ |work=The Boston Globe |title=Beyond the pubs, painting the town green |first=Christopher |last=Klein |date=March 14, 2010 |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070740/http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/specials/holiday/articles/2010/03/14/beyond_the_pubs_painting_the_town_green/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The St. Andrew the Apostle Italian Festival has taken place in the historic [[Wooster Square]] neighborhood every year since 1900. Other parishes in the city celebrate the Feast of [[Saint Anthony of Padua]] and a carnival in honor of [[St. Bernadette Soubirous]].<ref>[http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/ct_style/in_the_kitchen/CTStyle_wtnh_wooster_square_italian_festival_200906241010 Italian Festival in Wooster Square |Connecticut style]. wtnh.com (June 24, 2009). Retrieved on July 15, 2013. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616143235/http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/ct_style/in_the_kitchen/CTStyle_wtnh_wooster_square_italian_festival_200906241010 |date=June 16, 2013 }}</ref> New Haven celebrates [[Powder House Day]] every April on the New Haven Green to commemorate the city's entrance into the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. The annual Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historicwoostersquare.org/cherryblossomfestival.html |title=historic preservation, Historic Wooster Square Association Inc Cherry Blossom Festival |website=Historicwoostersquare.org |access-date=July 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701053915/http://www.historicwoostersquare.org/cherryblossomfestival.html |archive-date=July 1, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> commemorates the 1973 planting of 72 [[Prunus × yedoensis|Yoshino]] Japanese cherry blossom trees by the New Haven Historic Commission in collaboration with the New Haven Parks Department and residents of the neighborhood. The Festival now draws well over 5,000 visitors. The [[Film Fest New Haven]] has been held annually since 1995.

=== Nightlife ===
In the past decade downtown has seen an influx of new restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. Large crowds are drawn to the Crown Street area downtown on weekends where many of the restaurants and bars are located. Crown Street between State and High Streets has dozens of establishments, as do nearby Temple and College Streets. Away from downtown, Upper State Street has a number of restaurants and bars popular with local residents and weekend visitors.

=== Newspapers and media ===
New Haven is served by the daily ''[[New Haven Register]]'', the weekly "alternative" ''[[New Haven Advocate]]'' (which is run by Tribune, the corporation owning the ''[[Hartford Courant]]''), the online daily ''New Haven Independent'',<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.niemanlab.org/encyclo/new-haven-independent/ |title=New Haven Independent |author=Nieman Journalism Lab |encyclopedia=Encyclo: an encyclopedia of the future of news |access-date=April 1, 2012 |archive-date=May 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507151129/http://www.niemanlab.org/encyclo/new-haven-independent/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the monthly ''Grand News Community Newspaper.'' Downtown New Haven is covered by an in-depth civic news forum, [[Design New Haven]]. The ''Register'' also backs ''[[PLAY (magazine)|PLAY]]'' magazine, a weekly entertainment publication. The city is also served by several student-run papers, including the ''[[Yale Daily News]]'', the weekly ''[[Yale Herald]]'' and a humor tabloid, ''[[Rumpus Magazine]]''.
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[[WTNH]] Channel 8, the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate for Connecticut, [[WCTX]] Channel 59, the [[MyNetworkTV]] affiliate for the state, [[Connecticut Public Television]] station [[WEDY]] channel 65, a [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] affiliate, and WTXX Channel 34, the IntrigueTV affiliate, broadcast from New Haven. All New York City news and sports team stations broadcast to New Haven County.

=== Sports and athletics ===
[[File:Yale-Harvard-Game.jpg|right|thumb|[[Yale Bowl]] during "The Game" in 2001]]
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New Haven has a history of professional sports franchises dating back to the 19th century<ref>[http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1875/TNH101875.htm The 1875 New Haven Elm Citys] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630075030/http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1875/TNH101875.htm |date=June 30, 2014 }}. Retrosheet.org. Retrieved on August 2, 2013.</ref> and has been the home to professional baseball, basketball, [[American football|football]], [[ice hockey|hockey]], and soccer teams—including the [[New York Giants]] of the [[National Football League]] from 1973 to 1974, who played at the [[Yale Bowl]]. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, New Haven consistently had minor league hockey and baseball teams, which played at the [[New Haven Arena]] (built in 1926, demolished in 1972), [[New Haven Coliseum]] (1972–2002), and [[Yale Field]] (1928–present).

When [[John DeStefano, Jr.]], became mayor of New Haven in 1995, he outlined a plan to transform the city into a major cultural and arts center in the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]], which involved investments in programs and projects other than sports franchises. As nearby [[Bridgeport, Connecticut|Bridgeport]] built new sports facilities, the [[brutalist]] New Haven Coliseum rapidly deteriorated. Believing the upkeep on the venue to be a drain of tax dollars, the DeStefano administration closed the Coliseum in 2002; it was demolished in 2007. New Haven's last professional sports team, the [[New Haven County Cutters]], left in 2009. The DeStefano administration did, however, see the construction of the New Haven Athletic Center in 1998, a {{convert|94000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} indoor athletic facility with a [[seating capacity]] of over 3,000. The NHAC, built adjacent to [[Hillhouse High School]], is used for New Haven public schools athletics, as well as large-scale area and state sporting events; it is the largest high school indoor sports complex in the state.<ref>Orzechowski, Brett. (July 23, 2006) [http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2006/07/23/sports/16956394.txt Nightmare in the Elm City- The New Haven Register – Serving New Haven, Connecticut]. Nhregister.com. Retrieved on August 2, 2013. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312044748/http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2006/07/23/sports/16956394.txt |date=March 12, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2006/nov/10/twilight-for-new-haven-sports/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110606082904/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2006/nov/10/twilight-for-new-haven-sports/ |url-status=dead |title=Twilight for New Haven Sports &#124; Yale Daily News |archive-date=June 6, 2011 |access-date=April 7, 2021 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.cga.ct.gov/2007/rpt/2007-R-0277.htm Hillhouse High School's Indoor Track Facility] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531010741/http://www.cga.ct.gov/2007/rpt/2007-R-0277.htm |date=May 31, 2010 }}. Cga.ct.gov (March 28, 2007). Retrieved on August 2, 2013.</ref>

New Haven was the host of the [[1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games]]; then-President [[Bill Clinton]] spoke at the opening ceremonies.<ref>[http://www.eunicekennedyshriver.org/articles/article/71/page/1 Remarks: Opening Ceremonies of the Special Olympics World Games in New Haven, Connecticut] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526143854/http://www.eunicekennedyshriver.org/articles/article/71/page/1 |date=May 26, 2013 }}. Eunice Kennedy Shriver (July 1, 1995). Retrieved on August 2, 2013.</ref> The city is home to the [[New Haven Open at Yale|Pilot Pen International]] tennis event, which takes place every August at the [[Connecticut Tennis Center]], one of the largest tennis venues in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/facilities/faccullman.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105030259/http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/facilities/faccullman.html |url-status=dead |title=Yale University Bulldogs, Official Athletic Site |archive-date=January 5, 2009 }}</ref> New Haven biannually hosts "[[Harvard–Yale football rivalry|The Game]]" between Yale and [[Harvard University|Harvard]], the country's second-oldest college football rivalry. Numerous [[road running|road races]] take place in New Haven, including the [[USATF]] 20K Championship during the [[New Haven Road Race]].<ref>[http://www.newhavenroadrace.org/city-nh.htm Stratton Faxon] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091231053700/http://newhavenroadrace.org/city-nh.htm |date=December 31, 2009 }}. New Haven Roadrace. Retrieved on August 2, 2013.</ref>

[[Greater New Haven]] is home to a number of [[college sports]] teams. The [[Yale Bulldogs]] play Division I college sports, as do the [[Quinnipiac Bobcats]] in neighboring [[Hamden, Connecticut|Hamden]]. Division II athletics are played by [[Southern Connecticut State University]] and the [[University of New Haven]] (actually located in neighboring [[West Haven, Connecticut|West Haven]]), while [[Albertus Magnus College]] athletes perform at the Division III level.

New Haven is home to many [[New York Yankees]], [[New York Mets]], & [[Boston Red Sox]] fans due to the proximity of New York City & Boston.<ref>{{cite news |last=Branch |first=John |title=Where Do Rivals Draw the Line? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/sports/baseball/18fans.html?ei=5088&en=6f3f651e40bd2179&ex=1313553600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&_r=0 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 18, 2006 |access-date=February 11, 2017 |archive-date=July 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701053456/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/sports/baseball/18fans.html?ei=5088&en=6f3f651e40bd2179&ex=1313553600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Walter Camp]], deemed the "father of American football", was a New Havener.

The [[New Haven Warriors]] [[rugby league]] team play in the [[AMNRL]]. They have a large number of [[Pacific Islander]]s playing for them.<ref>[http://www.newhavenwarriors.net/roster/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110404000915/http://www.newhavenwarriors.net/roster/|date=April 4, 2011 }}</ref> Their field is located at the [[West Haven High School]]'s [[Ken Strong Stadium]].<ref>[http://www.americanrugbynews.com/artman/publish/rugby_league/AMNRL_Season_Preview.shtml] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206093556/http://www.americanrugbynews.com/artman/publish/rugby_league/AMNRL_Season_Preview.shtml|date=December 6, 2010 }}</ref> They won the 2008 AMNRL Grand Final.<ref>[http://www.fightrugby.com/n.php?n=158] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311170921/http://www.fightrugby.com/n.php?n=158|date=March 11, 2012 }}</ref>