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Tucked away on the northern shores of Long Island Sound, halfway between New York and Boston, the lively city of New Haven is often overlooked by its seemingly more glamorous (and bigger) neighbours. Granted, it's best known for world-renown Yale ...

There's watching the leaves fall on the green, wolfing down a slice at Pepe's, and now, drinking coffee? Yes, it just might be worth a daytrip to stop in New Haven for some joe, especially if you find yourself riding Amtrak between Boston and New ...

Now that my head is a bit less fuzzy (from drinking six glasses of Joe Bastianich's Italian wine, topped off by one--and that's one too many--glass of grappa), I want to recap the wonderful wine dinner I had last night at Zinc. Zinc is one of New ...

Though Zipcar--the largest car-sharing service in the US--boasts 180,000 members and 5,000 cars in more than 50 cities across the states, Europe, and Canada, chances are you still haven't heard of them. In late October of last year, Zipcar merged ...

New Haven, Connecticut has a bad rep. To most, it's at best a town you travel through on your way between Boston and New York. But as I've written recently in my travel series on New Haven, the town has experienced a tremendous renaissance in the ...

Sosauce, a self-proclaimed "travel geek blog," is looking for the most unique, engaging, and breathtaking postcards that celebrate the saucy side of travel. If you have a favorite travel photo, turn it into a postcard and help them decorate their ...

Eating It's not a stretch to make the claim that New Haven has as many restaurants as a good chunk of Manhattan. Besides New Haven pizza (yes, even better than Philly's or Chicago's) and burgers, the town's also known for eclectic ethnic foods, such ...

Ever since 1915, Haven's Candies has been making hand-crafted candy in a traditional way, much like the company's founder Herbert Haven and his wife did when they first started making candy in their kitchen. They sold their confections from the ...

The Omni Hotel in downtown New Haven is a classic Ivy-League retreat, complete with the Mahogany panelling. Catering to an older and more affluent crowd (aka the parents of Yalies), the hotel offers the best rooms and service in town. And it's hard ...

It's pouring here in New York, with a severe weather alert out for high winds and quarter-sized hail. It's a good thing I haven't been going outside this summer--and my apartment, with its windows facing an inner courtyard shields me away from most ...

The message is clear: shape up or ship out.Up to 300 Holiday Inn hotels could be booted from the brand if their owners don't get their respective acts together. Intercontinentals Hotel Group has told them they need to get on board with an enormous ...

Thousands of passengers were left stranded today as workers at Iberia Airlines walked off the job for the first day of a two-day strike. Iberia was forced to cancel more than 400 of its 2,000 flights for this Monday and Tuesday as cabin crews ...

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Sights New Haven Green (Dawn to dusk) One of the oldest town commons in the country, the Green brings back memories of colonial America, with its three historic churches and ancient elm trees. Oh, and it used to be the town cemetery (no surprise it ...