New Haven Facts

Ten Fun Facts about New Haven You Might Not Have Known

1. The American industrial revolution got a start with the 1st use of interchangeable parts in manufacturing and the info tech revolution got an early start here with the 1st telephone company, switchboard & directory.

2. New Haven is now a leading center for bioscience and high technology. Over 30 biotech companies have been spun out of Yale research. These companies have raised more than $2 billion dollars in investments and employ over 1,300 people.

3. Pizza and the hamburger both began in New Haven

4. New Haven is the undisputed cultural capital of Connecticut with free concerts on the Green every weekend in the summer, and New Haven's International Arts & Ideas Festival draws more than 150,000 people to downtown.

5. Yale University sponsors free academic, athletic, and cultural enrichment programs enjoyed by more than 10,000 New Haven Public School students each year.

6. The upper Green is the resting place for 5,000+ souls, and Grove Street Cemetery is the final home of many worthies like Noah Webster and Roger Sherman, the only signatory of all four basic documents of our nation's founding.

7. Yale University is one of the largest real estate taxpayers in New Haven.

8. There are 130+ parks & playgrounds in New Haven, covering 17% of the City's land.

9. The 1st lollipop, corkscrew, fish hooks, stone crusher, sulfur matches, corset, almanac, American English dictionary, Frisbee, silly putty, rubber boots, artificial heart, Erector Set, lobster roll & thermoscan all began here.

10. There are more than 100 restaurants downtown, with choices from Malaysian to Eritrean, Italian, Caribbean, Spanish, French, Soul, Mexican, Turkish, Japanese, Indian, Korean, Chinese and more.

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