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Mystic
and New London Connecticut: Seafaring a Cut Above
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New
Haven
is the second-largest municipality in Connecticut (after Bridgeport
and just ahead of Hartford) and the sixth-largest municipality in New
England. "New Haven" may also refer to the wider Greater
New Haven area, which has nearly 600,000 inhabitants in the immediate
area. It is located in New Haven County, on New Haven Harbor, on
the northern shore of Long Island Sound.
 One year after
its founding in 1638, eight streets were laid out in a grid of four
streets by four streets creating what is now commonly known as the
"Nine Square Plan," which is recognized by the American
Institute of Certified Planners as a National Historic Planning Landmark.
The central common block is New Haven Green a 16-acre (6 ha) square, now
a National Historic Landmark and the center of Downtown New Haven.
New
Haven had the first public tree planting program in America, producing a
canopy of mature trees (including some large elms) that gave New Haven
the nickname "The Elm City."
The
city is the home of Yale University. The university is an integral part
of the city's economy, but health care (hospitals & biotechnology),
professional services (legal, architectural, marketing, &
engineering), financial services, and retail trade also help to form an
economic base for the city. Since the mid-1990s, the city's downtown area
has seen extensive revitalization.
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