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The Wooster Square neighborhood is considered to consist of the area between the Amtrak railroad tracks ( serving as the boundary with Downtown New Haven ) and Interstate 91 ( between Exits 1 and 3 ), bounded on the south by the Oak Street Connector.
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Wooster Square is a neighborhood in the city of New Haven, Connecticut to the east of downtown.
Wooster Square is known as a bastion of Italian American culture and cuisine, and is home to some of New Haven's, and the world's, best-known pizza ( specifically, apizza ) eateries, including Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana and Sally's Apizza.
The square and much of the neighborhood are included in the Wooster Square Historic District which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
The neighborhood has also holds an annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Wooster Square Park that commemorates the planting of 72 Yoshino Japanese Cherry Blossom trees in 1973 by the New Haven Historic Commission in collaboration with the New Haven Parks Department and neighborhood residents.
Wooster Square takes its name from General David Wooster, who had a warehouse there.
As a result, Wooster Square now includes a concentrated collection of distinctive 19th-century residential architecture, including several buildings by New Haven architect Henry Austin.
By the late 19th century, increased industrial activity in the vicinity made Wooster Square less desirable as a residential neighborhood, and Italian immigrant families began to move in and operate small stores out of their homes.
In the mid-1950s, plans called for building Interstate 91 through Wooster Square Park, but the Wooster Square Project, which started in 1958, began a neighborhood revival and resulted in re-routing of the highway.
Wooster Square is home to restaurants and bakeries known for their pizza and Italian pastries, local businesses, and a weekly farmer's market called City Seed.
A sycamore tree on the west side of Wooster Square Park has been said by some observers to resemble an outline image of Jesus Christ.
Bronze statue of Christopher Columbus at Wooster Square in New Haven, Connecticut
File: Wooster Square Historic3. jpg | William Lewis House ( 1850 ), 613 Chapel St.
File: Wooster Square Historic2. jpg | Second Nelson Hotchkiss House ( 1854 ), 607 Chapel St.
File: Wooster Square Historic4. jpg | 10 Academy St.
File: Wooster Square Historic5. jpg | 40 Academy St. ( 1846 )
File: Wooster Square Historic6. jpg | Edward Rowland House ( 1857 ), 42 Academy St.
File: Wooster Square Historic8. jpg | 323 Greene St. ( about 1870 ).
Wooster and neighborhood
The name refers to a park square ( named for the American Revolutionary War hero, David Wooster ) located between Greene Street, Wooster Place, Chapel Street and Academy Street in the center of the neighborhood.
Downtown is bordered by Wooster Square to the east, Long Wharf to the southeast, the Hill neighborhood to the south, the Dwight neighborhood to the west, the Dixwell neighborhood to the northwest, the Prospect Hill area to the north, and East Rock to the northeast.
It is located directly south of downtown New Haven and the Wooster Square neighborhood.
Sally's Apizza is a famed pizzeria in the Wooster Square neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut.
Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, known locally as Pepe's, is a popular pizza restaurant in the Wooster Square neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut at 163 Wooster Street.
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* " Wilberforce " is the middle name of Bertie Wooster, a character in the novels of P. G. Wodehouse
Agatha Gregson, née Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Aunt Agatha, Bertie Wooster's least favourite aunt, and a counterpoint to her sister, Bertie's Aunt Dahlia.
Bertram Wilberforce " Bertie " Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse.
In that story the family name is Mannering-Phipps, not Wooster, and the story has never been included in collections of Jeeves and Wooster materials, however the incidents described in " Extricating Young Gussie " are referred to in later stories.
Willoughby Wooster, upon whom Bertie is initially dependent for financial support, but who apparently passes away during the course of the stories, allowing Bertie to inherit a vast fortune.
Aunt Agatha is of the opinion that Bertie, whom she regards as a burden to society in his present state, must marry and carry on the Wooster name ; furthermore, he must marry a girl capable of moulding his personality and compensating for his many defects.
More importantly Jeeves is disagreeable to the prospect of his master's matrimonial alliance, as any prospective wife would likely dethrone him as the " true master " of the Wooster household.
" This has led to problems as he is regularly volunteered for troublesome tasks — he muses in Jeeves in the Offing that " whenever there is dirty work to be undertaken at the crossroads, the cry that goes around my little circle is always ' Let Wooster do it.
In the Granada Television series Jeeves and Wooster, Bertie is depicted as being a very capable pianist and singer, making use of actor / musician Hugh Laurie's musical talents.
In the fictional biography Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman by Northcote Parkinson, Bertie comes into the title of Lord Yaxley upon the death of his uncle George Wooster, marries Bobbie Wickham and makes Jeeves the landlord of the Angler's Rest pub, which is on the Yaxley estate.
Its county seat is Wooster.
* St John's Wood is the home of fictional characters Bingo and Rosie Little in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster books.
Wooster is a city in Faulkner County, Arkansas, United States.
Wooster is located at ( 35. 200630 ,-92. 453694 ).
* Roots is an unincorporated community on Root Station Road between Jordon and Wooster roads at, Roots was a station on the Western Jackson branch of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad.
* Wooster Grove-East Main St ( Rte 52 ), surrounded by the Tin Brook, offers a large playground, indoor & outdoor basketball courts, a bandstand, an ice rink, and is home the Village of Walden Recreation Dept ' teen center '
( P. G. Wodehouse attributes a Magdalen undergraduateship to his fictional literary character Bertie Wooster ; Tibby, in E. M. Forster's Howards End, is also a Magdalen undergraduate, as is Bridey in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.
Wooster () is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Wayne County.
Wooster is noted as the location of The College of Wooster.
The city is the largest in Wayne County, and the center of the Wooster Micropolitan Statistical Area ( as defined by the United States Census Bureau ).
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