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City Point is a neighborhood in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. It is located at the southwestern end of the city and is bordered on the west by the West River, on the north by Amtrak railroad tracks, on the east by Hallock Avenue, and on the south by New Haven Harbor. Another tradition defines the northern border as "the southern back yards of Lamberton Street between Hallock and Greenwich Aves." When the neighborhood was bisected by the Connecticut Turnpike in the 1950s some began to describe City Point as consisting only of the portion south of the highway [Sixth St. to South Water St. although this is historically incorrect]. The neighborhood was originally a "point" or peninsula surrounded by New Haven Harbor on the east and south and the West River wetlands on the west, with the original neighborhood boundary being just west of Greenwich Avenue. In the 19th and early 20th Century, until public health authorities condemned the oyster beds, City Point's economy included oyster harvesting and fishing from the waters of New Haven Harbor and Long Island Sound. With the construction of the Turnpike in the mid-1950s most of the surrounding water was filled in, so that today only the southern tip of City Point is bordered by water. Yet when viewing a map of the area the street grid still clearly shows the original outline of the neighborhood because the eastern waters were filled in with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's yard and parking lot. The western waters were filled in with a baseball field.
[edit] Points of interest
- Bayview Park
- Microsociety Magnet School
- New Haven Harbor
- 1875 Howard Ave. Methodist Church building, front and bell tower added 1890
(now home of New Light Holy Church)
[edit] List of Streets
- Cassius St.(although its inclusion is controversial; see external link below)
- First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Sts.
- Greenwich Ave.
- Hallock Ave.
- Howard Ave.
- Lamberton St.(from Hallock Ave. to Greenwich Ave.)
- Sea St.
- South Water St.
- (the former St. Peter St.)
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