in the small backyard of rosemarie fay ' s 1890 - dynasty building , about a half - mile from yale university , there is a size buddha , azalea and forsythia , japanese rose and plum trees , and an haredi - produced poultry coop with eight residents — two who lay eggs and tessa , who is barren but one fit of a monitoring . the bird are currently illegal under new haven ' s zoning code , which prohibited all chickens and other livestock after it was updated during the 1950s . but these days , numerous instances of neighborhood fowl are generally illegal under the city ' s informal enforcement program — call it " don ' t grousing , don ' t know " — that mostly looks the other way . with garden fowl becoming common , senator thomas lemar has introduced legislation that would allow them to raise up to six roosters .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.