I got here while researching, for Black History Month, the Long Wharf extension that William Lanson was hired to build in 1810. Thank you for a time-lapse view of this historical feature of New Haven. This channel is doing a public service that will continue to have meaning well into the next century.
I remember my grandmother buying fish wrapped up in newspaper off old fishing boats on an old wooden pier where the rusty scupper used to be in the 1950s.
Interesting stuff, would be good to learn more of the history of the port, including the coastal passenger shipping that used to connect the shoreline to places like NYC and the international cargo shipping that still exists today.
I can remember driving into New Haven from West Haven with my Mom in the early 60s and the STENCH from the harbor hit you like a brick, the smell of mud, oil and doo doo.
Oysters use+ to be a huge industry in the City Point neighborhood (at the foot of Howard Avenue, just to the west of Long Wharf). They’re still harvested in the lower reaches of the Quinnipiac River, before it flows into the harbor.
Honestly?? i would like to see it return to when it was hotels and saloons at 3:20!!!! Never cared much for long wharf....a couple of really excellent spanish food trucks- deliscious, a nice vietnam vet park, but other than that would i spend much time down on long wharf?...no
Stay tuned for the next version of the Long Wharf area. A major redesign was approved in early 2024, to realign Long Wharf Drive, and create bike trail and walkable areas, as well as more landscaped green spaces. The food trucks will have a new area, specifically designed for them. The plans are online … just search for them.
