Whitney Avenue

Yeah

... you drive up, there is, is it Whitney Avenue in New Haven?

Whitney, yeah.

And the, the amount of displays and the creativity of these people, um, I, I was driving, you know, over by Morris Cove, and there's a, a whole group-

In 2008, it was revealed that a few days after the murder, a woman had come forward to the police.

She'd been driving near Whitney Avenue and Huntington Street at around 10pm, when she saw a white man run past, and he'd gone into a nearby church.

This testimony was withheld from the general public for a decade for reasons unknown.

The police showed the woman a photo of Yale professor James van der Velde, Suzanne's thesis advisor, who was considered a suspect in the case.

You're getting into expression of the architect themselves.

And Whitney Avenue, for example, is a prime example of some of the most gorgeous mansion homes that were built in New Haven during the height of our industrial, our wealth here.

So Victorian is a big one with towered corners and finials and wraparound porches that kind of bend and sway.

All the charm of

I'm with it.

I'm a preservationist and I'm skateboarding.

I've been watching the progress of what they took for, you know, now as a historian, knowing like it was a Creek to a canal, to a railroad, to a rail, to trail and seeing like it go from trees growing out of the, you know, the pit to, you know, to really being like an interpretive space now under, especially under Whitney Avenue.

It's like a little mini, museum almost.