Lots of people filtered in and out amid their busy lives, as law or business students or doctors or nurses or professors. Not a whole lot of whooping and hollering. But a whole lot do know each other's names. Their lives do intersect. That's why, if management had to pick a TV show to describe the place, they go for Friends .
People do know each other.
The show's Neilsens have skyrocketed since Drazen joined the crew in 1994. That's because downtown New Haven's housing market has boomed. The Taft is usually near 100 percent occupancy. I remember New Haven in its heyday, when my mom used to send me on the bus down from Cheshire to go shopping at Macy's and Malley's with my charge card. I worked in New Haven in the early '80s and had been away until '94.