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bingybunny t1_jbkv72o wrote

Yeah, you drove past the nice part of the campus, and half a block past you're in an edgy neighborhood that used be bad but now it's just depressing.

The nice part is, as you say, kinda hidden behind behind buildings, in courtyards and concealed within a web of one way side streets designed to get you back to the highway. The stadiums and fields are like 2 miles away basically in another town

New Haven is pretty unhip and a lot of the campus architecture is either medieval and forboding, or like the art museum, designed by Louis Kahn and has no visible entrance and little signage and is easy to miss. If you're driving there's a right turn down a narrow street off the main drag that gets you into the interior of the campus

You're pretty brave to use the bathroom at Popeye's though.

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marbleheader88 OP t1_jbkzr73 wrote

Thank you for understanding. We DID use Google maps. This really wasn’t a day trip, so we put no planning into it. It was more like. “New Haven is 1 1/2 hours from here. Let’s just drive over there and look around.” We put Yale into Google and we got there among some of the gothic buildings and said “You have arrived.” We parked and made the mistake of walking the wrong direction. If we had more time, we should’ve stopped somewhere for coffee and strategized which way to walk.

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bingybunny t1_jbl6nza wrote

next time you want to get a good coffee at Willoughby's near the green and walk to Beineke Library, it'll be a different trip

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