If you stroll up Chapel Street, Yale buildings rise up on either side of you.
On one side, between College and High streets, is the Old Campus quad.
On the other side is Claire’s Corner Copia, an Elm City vegetarian institution and Union League Cafe. Their landlord is Yale — through its University Properties office.
If you’re in downtown New Haven, whether on Chapel, York Street, Broadway or at Whitney Avenue and Audubon Street, it’s a good bet you’re near a Yale-owned building (click here to see chart and map).
It’s not true, though it may seem so, that “the city is the university,” as a visitor from Brazil, Susana Moreira, said recently on Broadway during a tour of the Northeast with her daughter.