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flytweed t1_j2e1gq8 wrote

Reply to Restaurant open on New Year’s Day for lunch with an old lady and a toddler? by craigalanche

Right down State St from Hamden into New Haven you have a bunch but I think you’ll be happy with September in Bangkok ( delicious if u like Thai food), plenty of street parking; and NOLO aka DaLegna at NOLO ( good pizza but plenty of other stuff too and a good dessert Ice Cream sandwich treat for Grandma). NOLO has on site parking. Both are spacious, easy to move around inside for all ages. Good luck

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flytweed t1_j0ebyla wrote

Reply to Best things to do downtown in the rain? by SF_420

Cool store = StrangeWays (very close to your Barcade plan); also cheap delicious lunch at Tacos Los Gordos, on the same block. Browsing museum/gallery stuff = Father McGivney Ctr for Christmas displays; and Ely Center of Art but it seems only open Sunday this wk; and if NXTHVN is still having their exhibits.

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flytweed t1_izzlbjm wrote

Reply to I'm from Michigan visiting a buddy who lives up in Hartford, and we're planning to do a night in New Haven. Any fun night life recommendos? by mrjohnmay

Welcome. Spend $5 or $10 for cover at Cafe Nine or the State House (on same block). If you get antsy there you quickly walk over to Barcade, like others have said. For a downtown bar with history, go to Ordinary, but I’d say only if you get there when it opens at 5 or so as the bar area is small. Someone else recommended our cool new soccer pub, but it’s spelled Cannon.

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flytweed t1_iydnxuk wrote

Reply to Advice on the area by cathlab_lifesaver

Welcome. People commented on the neighborhood accurately… For dive bars, agreed on Three Sheets. Westville has a couple- one is New West. Less dive but very local and also non-commercialized: the Cannon, and Dangles

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flytweed t1_iw8soe6 wrote

Reply to Best Places to Live & Explore? by DigFabulous4985

I’m not just being New Haven-biased, but that’s exactly where you are describing. I’ll agree with others who’ll say start looking first in the East Rock neighborhood, but the Westville, Wooster Sq, and Downtown neighborhoods are great, too, and I’ll let them say why.

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flytweed t1_ivyjsi4 wrote

Reply to downtown for 4 days, no car, 2 kiddos by JmnyCrckt87

They rebuilt Ralph Walker Ice rink on upper State Street with kids’ programs- use the Skate New Haven website. Near that is a new Food Hall if you need lunch; Shoreline Trolley Museums does December weekend trolley rides; If you need cold/indoor stuff if they’d like to see Christmas scenes exhibits go to the Father McGivney Center (formerly KofC museum); if they like city drawings you could quickly stop in to the new Hill Museum run by the artist himself; for a junk food snack they can eat fried dough etc at the new Fest Faves place. Also, remember the Barnes and Noble downtown has a kids corner area and I think still a snack place inside. If you do do an East Rock hike you can entice them by using the “secret” Giant Steps….

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flytweed t1_ivro1dx wrote

Reply to What do you love about New Haven? by lavalamplass

That for a small, growing city, it’s 1) finally really trying to build affordable housing with activist community groups and city hall on the same page; 2) It is about to open the downtown leg to the salvaged Farmington Canal trail: 3) it knows it would be a-ok even without the boola boola school.

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flytweed t1_iv6a5lv wrote

Reply to comment by twoshovels in New Haven 1640 by twoshovels

This week NH gave final site approval for the long-planned “Lost in New Haven” museum that will have treasures and tid-bits from the past in a way that the current New Haven Museum (aka Historical Society) does not. It will open somewhere off Grand Ave.

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