Westville
Westville plays a specific note: the artsy, residential west side where Yale faculty, working artists, and quietly settled couples have claimed the bungalows and the few blocks of village proper. Whalley Avenue gives you the Westville Village Renaissance galleries, a respectable bookstore, Manjares for coffee, and Lyric Hall for the kind of small show you tell people about. The tradeoff is honest. Date-night density is thin once you leave the village, the bar scene barely registers, and you will drive or Uber back downtown for most second locations. Best for the third date, the gallery crawl, the deliberately mellow Sunday.
Westville by the numbers
Westville runs female-leaning, about 40% men to 60% women.
Median individual income in Westville is about $36,700.
Connecticut registers voters by party, and the city of New Haven is about 61% Democratic to 6% Republican, with a 32% Unaffiliated bloc - a heavily Democratic Yale city.
The median renter in Westville pays about $1,390 a month.
About 5,700 Westville residents ages 22 to 50 are single.
Local date spots
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Bella's Cafe
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Pistachio Cafe
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Camacho Garage
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Te Amo Tequila Bar & Tacos
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Koffee?
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Haven Hot Chicken - New Haven
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Westville Music Bowl
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Westville Seafood
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John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts
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Westville Diner
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Deja Brew
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Delaney's
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The Cannon
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City Climb Gym
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