Day Street

This street has been in New Haven, Connecticut, for over 100 years. It is in a middle class neighborhood called Dwight. Day Street is off of George Street and close to Chapel Street . The housing is okay. The Housing Authority of New Haven (HANH) owns apartments on Day Street and Waverly Street . Some businesses that are in the area are convenience stores, Laundromats, and gas stations. Day Street is very close to downtown.

Day Street was founded by Jeremiah Day in the early 1800's. He is a graduate from Yale University and also became a professor of Mathematics and natural philosophy. He also was the president of the college in 1817. He started a literary magazine in 1836. Dr. Day retired from Yale in 1846.

Day Street and the Dwight neighborhood have changed a lot over the years. In the late 1800s there were many upper middle class people on Day Street. Many factories sprang up farther west inside Dwight, with carriage manufacturing taking the lead among Dwight enterprises. Such wealthy merchants as Cornelius Bushnell and Daniel Trowbridge established larger homesteads. There were many businesses in the Dwight Neighborhood. So the business owners lived in well-to-do housing at that time.

Today, African Americans are in the neighborhood, while in the early 1900s, there were lots of Caucasians and very few African Americans on Day Street. They cared for each other just like today. The Tre is a middle class neighborhood now. Some businesses have left and people have lower incomes now. Many people work at grocery stores or one of the hospitals, which are located very close to the Tre. Many people are on welfare and still are working, even though they are not supposed to.

Sometimes bad things happen in the neighborhood, especially in the summer time. Many like Aldermen Joyce Chen are planning to make changes to improve things. They are going to turn the projects on Day Street and Waverly Street , which runs into Day, into a parking lot for Saint Raphael's Hospital. They are going to knock the projects down. It looks like Dwight will keep changing.

- Javon Baker