New Haven in 4K - Yale, Frank Pepe

See NEW HAVEN riding SHOTGUN *CITY SCORE 6.9 road quality 6.1 driver quality 7.5 traffic flow 7.6 city design 6.3 CITY COMPS Providence, Rhode Island Portland, Maine Newark, New Jersey New Haven, Connecticut New Haven was founded in 1638 by English Puritan settlers led by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton, making it one of the oldest planned communities in New England. The city was laid out around a central nine-square grid that still defines downtown today. Its location on Long Island Sound helped make it an important port and commercial center, while manufacturing, immigration, and education shaped its growth over the following centuries. New Haven also became deeply associated with Italian-American culture, particularly around Wooster Square, and developed a distinctive reputation for food, architecture, arts, and higher education. Yale University Yale traces its origins to 1701, when Connecticut established the Collegiate School to educate students for public service. The school originally operated in Saybrook before moving permanently to New Haven in 1716; in 1718 it was renamed Yale College in recognition of Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, whose donations of books and goods helped the institution grow. Over the next two centuries, Yale expanded from a small colonial college into a major research university, becoming officially Yale University in 1887. Today, Yale is inseparable from New Haven's identity, with its historic campus, museums, libraries, and academic community forming a major part of the city's culture and economy. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana Frank Pepe, an Italian immigrant from the Naples region, arrived in the United States as a teenager in 1909 and eventually settled in New Haven's Italian-American Wooster Street neighborhood. In 1925, Frank and his wife Filomena opened Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, initially selling simple tomato pies inspired by the apizza of southern Italy. Pepe's thin, chewy, charred crust—baked in a massive coal-fired brick oven—helped establish what became known as New Haven-style apizza. In 1964, Pepe introduced his famous white clam pie, combining fresh clams, garlic, olive oil, oregano, and cheese. The restaurant remains a New Haven institution, and Wooster Street became nationally famous as the home of both Pepe's and the New Haven pizza tradition. TIME STAMPS [00:00] Intro [00:27] Downtown [13:21] Frank Pepe [24:10] Yale University