The Shubert Performing Arts Center is the venue for ballet and many musical performances from September through May. For shows that draw a large audience, it's the New Haven Coliseum. Classical Music The New Haven Symphony Orchestra) holds concerts at 8 pm each Tuesday evening from October through June in Yale's Woolsey Hall. The Chamber Music Society at Yale College Sty sponsors concerts at 8 pm Tuesday evenings from Connecticut Coast New Haven 395 September through April in the Morse Recital Hall of Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College St. Other concerts are hosted by the Yale School of Music and by the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments Folk & Rock Music Toad's Place, 300 York Sty is a hot, very well-known nightclub worth checking out. Performers such as Black 47, Johnny Cash, Michael Bolton.
The Dave Matthews Band headline there. Cover is free to $25, depending upon the act. The Greater New Haven Acoustic Music Society hosts folk concerts and performances in the summer in the Eli Whitney 1816 Barn, and in the winter in Dodds Hall, 300 Orange Ave, on the University of New Haven (not Yale) campus. Dance Clubs Check out the Brii Rm at Bar Crown Sty, facing Louis' Lunch. The Brew Room (as its name translates) serves up brewpub beer, brickoven pizza and dancing till mid- night on most nights, till 1 am on Friday and Saturday. Getting There & Away Air Connecticut Transit (n 203-785-8930) can shuttle you to Tweed-New Haven Airport 1-95 exit 50, from where several commuter airlines can take you to Boston or New York. Bus Peter Pan Bus Lines connects New Haven with New York City, Hartford, Springfield and Boston, as docs Greyhound Bus Lines.
inside New Haven's Union Station. New Connecticut Limousine runs buses between New Haven and New York City's airports (La Guardia, JFK and Newark). Train Metro-North trains make the 1 \I2-hour run between New 396 Connecticut Coast New London & Groton York City's Grand Central Station and New Haven's Union Station, 1-95 exit 47, almost every hour from 7 am to mid- night on weekdays, with more frequent trains during the morning and evening rush hours. On weekends, trains run about every two hours. Commuter Connection buses run at peak morning hours and during the afternoon/evening commuter times to shuttle passengers from Union Station to New Haven Green. There are also several daily Amtrak trains from New York's Pennsylvania Station, but at a higher fare.
See the beginning of this chapter for information on Shore Line East trains from New Haven east to New London. Car Avis, Budget and Hertz rent cars at Tweed-New Haven Airport. Driving details for New Haven arc as follows: destination mileage
NEW LONDON & GROTON
Stretching 6 miles along the west bank of the Thames (pronounced 'Theymz') River, New London is an industrial, commercial and military city with a small tourist trade. During its golden age in the mid- 19th century, New London was home port to some 200 whaling vessels, more than twice as many as were based at all other Connecticut ports combined. Its whaling commerce rivaled that of Massachusetts' great whaling ports of Nantucket and New Bedford. Unlike Nantucket, however, New London is short on charm and long on industrial bustle. On the east bank of the Thames, Groton is known for the General Dynamics Corporation, a major naval defense contractor, and for the US Naval Submarine Base, the first (1881) and now the largest in the country. It's a fitting place for these establishments, because the world's first submarine was launched in 1776 just down the coast in Old Saybrook.
