NYT names this CT city among 52 places around the world to visit

New Haven was the only northeastern destination in the United States to make the global list, which featured places like London and Morioka, Japan. It also joined other U.S. locations like Palm Springs, Calif.; Grand Junction, Colo.; Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park; and Tucson, Ariz.

To make the world-wide collection, New Haven needed to be a spot to travel for “food, culture, adventure, natural beauty.” According to the list, the city and others like it have “all those elements, and more.”

The feature lauded New Haven for being “one of the best food scenes in the country for a city of its size” and spotlighted Villa Lulu, which offers regional Italian comfort food.

The Elm City also got a shout out for being “a home to tinkerers and rebels, and a treasure trove of contemporary art and architecture.” 

Lobrano highlighted The New Haven Preservation Trust’s efforts to save the city’s modernist buildings of the 1970s, “which many see as disastrous examples of urban renewal,” he said.

“Discover one of the best of these brutalist concrete buildings by checking into the new Hotel Marcel, named for its architect, Marcel Breuer. Recently renovated, it’s become the first completely solar-powered, energy-neutral hotel in the United States,” Lobrano wrote.

The feature also spotlighted art center NXTHVN, which “has become the heart of a vibrant African American artists’ community.”