Wooster Square
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Wooster Square is a neighborhood in the city of New Haven, Connecticut. Specifically, it refers to a park square located between Greene Street, Wooster Place, Chapel Street and Academy Street. The Wooster Square neighborhood is considered to consist of the area between the Amtrak railroad tracks (serving as the boundary with Downtown New Haven) and Interstate 91 (between Exits 1 and 3), bounded on the south by the Oak Street Connector. It is bordered on the west by Downtown New Haven, on the south by Long Wharf, on the east by the neighborhood of Mill River, and on the north by East Rock.
The neighborhood includes the Wooster Square National Historic District, as well as many modern houses and a business district along Wooster Street. Wooster Square is known as a bastion of Italian American culture and cuisine, and is home to some of New Haven's, and the world's, best-known pizza (specifically, apizza) eateries, including Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana and Sally's Apizza.
Wooster Square Park has a famed sycamore tree located on the west side of the park which according to some resembles an outline of Jesus Christ. (The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, 1992)
Wooster Square is named for colonial war hero David Wooster.
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[edit] List of streets
- Academy Street
- Artizan Street
- Bradley Street
- Bridge Street
- Brown Street
- Chapel Street
- Chestnut Street
- Court Street
- Depalma Court
- East Street
- Fair Street
- Forbes Avenue
- Franklin Street
- Grand Avenue
- Greene Street
- Hamilton Street
- Hughes Place
- Ives Place
- Jefferson
- Lyon Street
- New Street
- Olive Street
- Osborn Street
- Saint John Street
- Union Street
- Wallace Street
- Warren Street
- Water Street
- William Street
- Wooster Place
- Wooster Street (named for Revolutionary War hero David Wooster)
[edit] Further reading
- Elizabeth Mills Brown, Historic Houses of Wooster Square, The, ASIN B0007FO856, (1969)
- Mary Hommann, Wooster Square Design, ASIN B0006C97DS, (New Haven Redevelopment Agency, 1965)
- Virginia Marangell, Wooster Square, ISBN 0-9713581-6-8, (2004)
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Print
- Harrison's Illustrated Guide: Greater New Haven ISBN 0-927054-39-6
- Michael Sletcher, New Haven: From Puritanism to the Age of Terrorism, (Charleston, 2004)
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