Connecting these empty lots and parking lots (visible on the satellite image) should be a priority.
A new street would activate and provide more window frontage on blocks that are currently far too wide, therefore tremendously increasing the potential for real estate development and new tax revenue for the city.
Models can be found from elsewhere in New Haven, for example, the Temple Street Plaza, which breaks down a large block into a series of pathways connecting College, Chapel, Temple and Crown. What makes cities successful these days are the "nooks and crannies" like these.
Other small streets in New Haven have since disappeared due to urban renewal. For example, Pitkin Plaza, now home to 360 State, used to be a small street.
See here for additional discussion of the idea, recently presented by architect George Knight: http://newhavenindependent.org/archives/2008/02/knight_blaze_ne.php The proposed street should be extended all the way to the Coliseum Site and perhaps tie in, through an indoor arcade, to the Federal Plaza (former Court Street) located just north of Chapel, between Orange and Church.26 Center St,New Haven,CT 06510
A perfect place to build the kind of "cosmopolitan canopies" suggested by preeminent Urban Sociologist Elijah Anderson, author of "Code of the Street" and "Against the Wall: Poor, Black, and Male."
Examples: Public markets such as Reading Terminal; rec centers; urban gardens; interpretative centers; and uses tied to the new Gateway College being built for 10,000 students across the street.
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Green Star = Non-historic structure that could be repurposed or demolished in order to create increased density along the street.
Yellow = Open parking lots available for new street, new plazas and/or new construction.
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naming highways the "patriot expressway" or "roosevelt drive" allowed planners in the 1950s to bulldoze entire cities in order to build freeways, because nobody was willing to speak out against a "patriot" highway or a road named after a president.
I believe this would create natural mixed-affordability housing, with more affordable being interior in the alleys and also help boost overall property value by improving the walkability and adding more facades.
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