Qualla: New Haven: The Yale Town Where Pizza Became Apizza https://qualla.com/new-haven en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/k/4/new-haven-wk/general-view-marsh-bot.jpg Qualla: New Haven: The Yale Town Where Pizza Became Apizza https://qualla.com/new-haven New Haven: The Yale Town Where Pizza Became Apizza: Introduction https://qualla.com/new-haven/ Photo credit Thomas Prichard Rossiter, Public domain. New Haven is Yale, and Yale is New Haven - the relationship is so dominant that the city's identity exists largely in response to the university. Yale was founded here in 1701, before the Revolution, before America; the university became one of the world's great educational institutions while the city became one of Connecticut's poorest. The poverty exists alongside extraordinary wealth - the Yale endowment exceeds $40 billion while New Haven's median household income is $45,000. The city of 135,000 also invented American pizza, the coal-fired 'apizza' (pronounced 'ah-BEETS') that locals claim superior to New York's. New Haven is what happens when a world-class university grows inside a city without the city sharing the prosperity.

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/k/4/new-haven-city-wk/drk4-new-haven-the-yale-town-where-pizza-became-apizza-the-yale.mp3 0:06 2 full New Haven: The Yale Town Where Pizza Became Apizza: The Apizza https://qualla.com/new-haven/ Photo credit Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0. New Haven apizza (the local spelling and pronunciation) developed separately from New York pizza - coal-fired, thin-crusted, charred at the edges, served in establishments that call themselves 'pizzeria' but pronounce it differently. Frank Pepe's, opened in 1925, and Sally's Apiz...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/k/4/new-haven-city-wk/drk4-new-haven-the-yale-town-where-pizza-became-apizza-the-apizza.mp3 0:06 3 full New Haven: The Yale Town Where Pizza Became Apizza: The Poverty https://qualla.com/new-haven/ Photo credit versageek from New Haven, US, CC BY-SA 2.0. New Haven's poverty rate approaches 25% - one of the highest in Connecticut, striking in proximity to Yale's billions. The poverty concentrates in neighborhoods distant from the campus, the public housing projects, the areas where Yale students don't venture. The causes are famil...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/k/4/new-haven-city-wk/drk4-new-haven-the-yale-town-where-pizza-became-apizza-the-poverty.mp3 0:06 4 full New Haven: The Yale Town Where Pizza Became Apizza: The Museums https://qualla.com/new-haven/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Ragesoss assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Yale's museums are among America's finest - free and open to the public. The Yale University Art Gallery was America's first college art museum, holding a collection that would distinguish any city. The Yale Center for British Art holds the largest collection of British art outsi...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/k/4/new-haven-city-wk/drk4-new-haven-the-yale-town-where-pizza-became-apizza-the-museums.mp3 0:06 5 full New Haven: The Yale Town Where Pizza Became Apizza: Visiting New Haven https://qualla.com/new-haven/ Photo credit Sage Ross, Public domain. New Haven is served by Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN) with limited service; Bradley International (BDL) is 45 minutes north. The Yale campus rewards walking - the Gothic architecture, the residential colleges, the libraries. The Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for Brit...

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