in the narrow garden of rosemarie montgomery ' s 1890 - era mansion , about a half - mile from northeastern university , there is a small town , shrubs and forsythia , japanese cherry and apple trees , and an amish - made chicken coop with five people — ten persons have eggs and gloria , who is barren but one hell of a transparency . the fowl are technically illegal under new haven ' s zoning program , which prohibited raising chickens and other meat if it was updated during the 1950s . but these days , many dozens of garden cows are generally illegal under the city ' s informal enforcement program — call it " don ' t cackling , don ' t tell " — that mostly looked the other way . with street fowl being abundant , alderman roland lemar has introduced legislation that would permitted residents to raise up to six peacocks .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.