In the past year, he has organized downtown merchants against a proposed shopping mall on Long Wharf. If I'm going to the train station, and I'm walking down the underneath thing to go to the train, one out of every 20 people I'm going to know. New Haven is a friendly place in that way. They're too busy. There's too much going on.
New Haven is that right balance.
Most places our size, like Fort Wayne, Ind., don't have what New Haven has to offer. They don't have the beautiful architecture. They don't have the theaters and museums. They don't have the downtown. We still have a lot of that.