ENBB's New England Cultural Corner

ha, i feel like i have to justify it, if only for myself. my wife's folks live there and there is a 30% chance we will end up there too

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/22/02/62/4729992/3/628x471.jpg

lmao

you should totally visit New Bedford IMO

window is short but I will take that on board

if I've seen Gloucester does yr answer change? cos I've seen Gloucester twice and that was once and a bit too many tbph

well, kind of? New Bedford is like a seedier version of Gloucester with worse restaurants and a pretty cool whaling museum

otm it's way seedy

and CT sucks but I do want to try New Haven pizza.

hmmm I feel like I could find a closer whaling museum were that all, yknow

tho I guess I can see why he moved, given the facts

Gloucester can be pretty seedy too though. Someone in a bar there once stole my shoes.

I like it even though I'm still bitter about the shoe incident.

lmaoo

yeah gloucester has a nice balance between historic gloucester and being mad real, new bedford is more just mad real

you cld always just take a day trip to the cape too

New England is a mystery to me!

do people wear tricorns instead of fedoras there?

come on up curtis well show u around

they wear... triblysssss xp

http://i.imgur.com/0E9ySvf.jpg

lol

yep

haha

If you go to conn drive the Merritt Parkway

Everything else kinda sucks imo

yeah the merrit owns

yea it's a good drive. was kind of a miracle when we started driving the merritt instead of 95 to visit my in-laws in fairfield. that stretch of 95 is one of my top 3 worst highways in the country

As someone who lives within the Louisiana Purchase, parkways are such a novelty to me.

I think if you do 95 entering from NY there's a cool bridge you drive across. But yeah that's an awful stretch

i gotta get down to the whaling museum but i have been programmed to avoid the entire rt. 24/495 triangle

Do they call it a parkway because there are areas every few miles where you can park

That's amazing

It's not an interstate, it's not a Route 66... it's a limited-access highway that goes through people's backyards.

yea no trucks too

bqe > grand central pkwy > whitstone bridge > hutchinson pkwy > merritt pkwy > wilber cross pkwy > almost to hartford

the route of gods

Do they call it a parkway because there are areas every few miles where you can park

― 龜, Monday, June 9, 2014 11:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

theyre called that cause robert moses built the frst ones under the auspices of the parks department iirc

Oh that scoundrel

i know right

yea no trucks too

― marcos, Monday, June 9, 2014 11:40 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is key

Do they call it a parkway because there are areas every few miles where you can park

― 龜, Monday, June 9, 2014 11:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are also gas stations scattered throughout the merritt where you can pull over and park & get some gas

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OMdJNkh-6is/T4GnLiW4N2I/AAAAAAAAS0M/gvdEfM6UL1o/s1600/IMG_4826.JPG

I mean for cute

also they are very twisty w no shoulder and people drive 20mph over the speed limit so it kinda like a video game except if you die you really die

The pizza in new haven is okay I never actually went to sals or pepes the storefronts I would always just eat the free stuff they delivered

Modern's is good only because they call it apizza instead of pizza

BAR had good mashed potato pizza before it became a thing I think plus they brew their own beer

My favorite actually was brick oven pizza which I think is a chain

Don't go to Louis Lunch it's a scam

Now there's a shake shack (that got closed for some kind of infestation or something) and a chipotle and I bet a billion other chains haha suck it new haven

the merritt also has my fav tree

http://hooniverse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Fake-Trees-650x487.jpg

the taconic has to win the whiteknuckle award tho, recall driving on that shit during a thunderstorm my lord

http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20140404/shake-shack-in-new-haven-closed-after-worker-exhibits-flu-like-symptoms-to-re-open-saturday

http://i.imgur.com/uQxtNGG.png

the best conn pizza is in mystic tho

sally's is sublime. apparently they are trying to sell the place though, pretty sad.

BAR definitely does not have the old world new haven italian charm but tbf their pizza is really good. beer is nothing special but it's nice enough.

somehow i have never been to the original pepe's, i've been to the fairfield one and it's great.

My favorite anecdote about new haven is this apocryphal story I heard there

That new haven and new york were both major ports back in the 19th century and were comparable

Then some law or something happened so they diverted all the ships to New York and not New Haven

If only this reg hadn't done that then New Haven would have been as big as New York today

It makes me smile because I'm like... aw that's sweet but don't kid yourselves

I just checked on google maps and Sally's has apizza in their name too. Apizza apizza apizza apizza

new haven also has a mamoun's falafel joint that it is open super late and has really cheap falafel and all kinds of cool rugs on the walls:

http://newhavenliving.com/imgs/media.images/1628/mamouns-falafel-restaurant-best-ethnic-2013-new-haven-living.jpg