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Title	Temporary parking lot, Congress Avenue and Commerce Street, New Haven.
Place	Church Street (New Haven, Conn.) Congress Avenue (New Haven, Conn.)
Topic	Urban renewal Parking lots Army-Navy stores Stores, Retail Theaters Commercial buildings
Theme	Infrastructure Livelihood
Description	View looking northeast toward a temporary parking lot at the corner of Congress Avenue and Commerce Street, New Haven, prior to redevelopment. A dump truck can be seen in a cleared area in the foreground. Storefronts are visible on the south side of Congress Avenue. Businesses include (from left to right) a restaurant and a shop advertising sales of bicycles, toys, auto supplies and baby furniture. Louâ€™s Army & Navy Stores can be seen on the northeast corner of the intersection with Commerce Street. Billboards advertising Canada Dry soda and a Chevrolet truck are visible above the store. The Congress Square building can be seen farther up the street near the intersection of Congress with George Street, a block beyond Commerce. To the right, United Supermarket is visible on the southeast corner of the Congress Avenue-Commerce Street intersection. The First New Haven National Bank building can be seen in the center background.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Dated December 1957. One of a collection of photographs taken by the New Haven Redevelopment Agency to document a massive urban planning and development project undertaken from 1956 through the mid-1970s. The federally-financed redevelopment initiative was realized through a series of projects focused on particular New Haven city neighborhoods identified by street or area names. These projects involved the demolition of old structures and construction of new buildings, roadways and other facilities. Much of the area involved in the Church Street project had been characterized by a mix of small stores, restaurants, theaters and residences. In the course of redevelopment, whole blocks were demolished to make way for larger modern structures such as department stores, hotels, office buildings, a mall and the New Haven Coliseum. A 1950 city directory map shows that Congress Avenue once intersected with George and Church Streets. Commerce Street is not found on current maps, and appears to have occupied part of the area cleared to make way for the Oak Street Connector.
Date created	1957
Physical format	1 photograph ; 8 1/8 x 10 in.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	File name: nhchs_pha_nhrapc_f084_ph37.jpg
Source	New Haven Colony Historical Society
Collection	The New Haven Redevelopment Agency Photograph Collection.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The New Haven Colony Historical Society.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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