Wooster Square
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Wooster Square is a neighborhood in the city of
An annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Wooster Square Park commemorates the planting of 72 Yoshino Japanese cherry blossom trees in 1973 by the New Haven Historic Commission in collaboration with the New Haven Parks Department and neighborhood residents. The festival, founded and organized by the Historic Wooster Square Association, has grown from a modest event in the early 1970s with a local band entertaining a handful of neighbors under lighted trees to a major New Haven event that in 2016 attracted over 10,000 visitors.
Geography
The Wooster Square neighborhood consists of the area between the
History
Wooster Square takes its name from Revolutionary War General David Wooster, who had a
By the late 19th century, increased industrial activity in the vicinity made Wooster Square less desirable as a residential neighborhood, and
Wooster Square made headlines on June 24, 2020, when its Christopher Columbus statue was removed by a city-hired crew in the aftermath of the George Floyd Protests. City officials have since announced the commission of a new statue to replace the Columbus statue. The new statue, which will be just a few feet away from where the Columbus statue stood, will depict an Italian family.[4]
Culture and commerce
Wooster Square is home to restaurants and bakeries known for their pizza and Italian pastries, local businesses, and a weekly
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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)
Notable People
- Hunter Biden (former resident)[8] - lawyer, second son of President Joe Biden
- Rosa DeLauro (born and raised)[9] - U.S. Congresswoman
See also
References
General sources
- 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)
Notes
- ^ Wooster Square (PDF) (Map). New Haven City Plan Department. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
- ^ a b Sara E. Thomas (2008), My Maps, My Neighborhood, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Curriculum Unit 08.03.07
- ^ a b Wooster Square Historic District, The New Haven Preservation Trust website
- ^ Schaefer, Brittany. "New Haven unveils statue design that will replace Christopher Columbus statue". WTNH. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ^ City Seed website
- ^ The Hartford Courant, September 19, 1992
- ^ Fight Breaks out at Statue Removal Site, New Haven Independent, retrieved 2020-06-24
- ^ Bailey, Hugh. "Hugh Bailey: When Joe and Hunter Biden came to New Haven". The Register Citizen. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ^ "Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro talks childhood on Wooster Street". WTNH.com. WTNH. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
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)
- ISBN 0-9713581-6-8, (2004)
External links
- Wooster Square Historic District, New Haven Preservation Trust website (text excerpt from NRHP nomination, plus gallery of 9 photos)
- Wooster Square photo
- Historic Wooster Square Association