New Haven

Connecticut Ivy town

New Haven is a city in southern Connecticut, home to Yale University.

The university dominates the city's identity and economy: She's moving to New Haven for graduate school.

New Haven claims to have invented the hamburger sandwich and has a distinctive thin-crust pizza style.

The name appears in other American places but almost always means the Connecticut city.

academia

Yale

Ivy League institution

intellectualism · research · education · students · professors · lectures · seminars · libraries · graduate school · doctoral

place

Yale

Ivy League institution

history

colonial

Of occupied territories

cotton gin · Amistad · abolitionism · Civil War · industrialization · urban renewal · deindustrialization · immigration · regicides

food

pizza

Topped flatbread dish

coal-fired

architecture

colonial

Of occupied territories

brownstone · clapboard · historic preservation

culture

arts

Creative disciplines collectively

Shubert · diversity · literary

Categories
Opposites
geographic rivalry/regional contrast

New HavenHartford

Connecticut state capital

Greenwich · Boston · New York City · Los Angeles · Stamford

academic rivalry

New HavenCambridge

University city, two countries

Princeton · Harvard · Hanover · Ithaca · New York City

New England university towns

New HavenCambridge

University city, two countries

Boston · Providence · Hanover · Amherst

Family

new, haven, havens, safe haven

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G