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Letters
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Business New Haven
3/22/1999
By: BNH
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Digging Up Dirt
Thanks to Priscilla Searles for her story on the history of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. I for one didn't realize it was the first of its kind in the nation, and I was happy to learn about its rich history.
I always enjoy Searles' “From the Archives” reports about our region's long and varied history. Keep up the good work.
- Alice Damon
North Branford
No Cookie Cutter
I think it's great that Norman Mintz believes you can take a cookie cutter and apply the lessons of a bustling Manhattan retail district to make New Haven the retail center it once was (“Miracle of 34th Street,” March 8).
Of course, it's a lot easier to make your store successful when you already have ten million people walking by on any given Saturday. All you need to do is entice them in the door.
New Haven's problems aren't Manhattan's. Here the challenge begins with getting suburbanites and visitors into the center city in the first place, since they have long since fallen out of the habit of doing so. To accomplish that means altering attitudes and perceptions that portray New Haven as a crime-riddled pit where you can't find a parking space.
You have to get people downtown before you can get them into individual stores. That's the lesson of New Haven - not Manhattan.
- Louis Scalia
East Haven
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