I have to be in New Haven from the 15th through the 17th...

[Chan790]

3. Well, I usually just go home...I'm from halfway between New Haven and Hartford.

But yeah, New Haven's a college city. Lots of bars and clubs. Lots of cafes and small shops. Also, so this doesn't shock you...it's a filthy city, has been since the industrial revolution. Also, don't venture out of Downtown without a local...parts of the city are high-crime and it's not always easy to tell where is not a safe neighborhood. Hartford's the same way, some of the highest-crime neighborhoods look like suburbia.

Go to Pepe's or Modern and get a slice of what has been consistently judged as the best pizza in America. (A Traditional New Haven is white with clams, A Modern New Haven is cheese pizza on very-thin, very-chewy crust. At either place, go for opening (10am, I think...I haven't been home in a while) or expect to wait in line an hour or more.) Hit the museums associated with Yale. (There are a few but Peabody (Natural History) is the big one.) There's a lot of art galleries and historical sites, too many of the former to list most of which are bunched around the universities. (Sacred Heart and Yale)

There's a lot to do in New Haven, it's legitimately a major city. It just advertises itself poorly...that's to some extent intentional. We like not being a bigger city.