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Old Posted: Nov 1, 2007, 6:54 PM
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ColDay Presents: Hartford
2007 ColDay Series:

Part 1: Los Angeles Parte Uno
Part 2: Los Angeles Parte Dos
Part 3: Boston
Part 4: A New York City Interlude
Part 5: Montreal
Part 6: Cincinnati
Part 7: Pittsburgh & Harrisburg
Part 8: Philadelphia
Part 9: Brooklyn, New York
Part 10: Atlantic City, Baltimore, & Washington DC
Part 11: Dayton
Part 12: Sacramento to Santa Cruz
Part 13: Big Sur to San Francisco
Part 14: San Francisco
Part 15: Berkeley & Oakland
Part 16: Around The Globe Preview
Part 17: London I
Part 18: London II
Part 19: Paris Partie Une
Part 20: Paris Partie Deux
Part 21: Paris Partie Trois
Part 22: Nashville & Pittsburgh
Part 23: Gritcinnati
Part 24: Toronto
Part 25: Akron & Cleveland
Part 26: New York City Part One
Part 27: New York City Part Two
Part 28: New York City Part Three
Part 29: Hartford
Part 30: Zürich
Part 31: Lucerne & The Swiss Alps
Part 32: Milan
Part 33: Dallas
Part 34: Detroit
Part 35: Gary
Part 36: Chicago


Didn't have that much time in Hartford.


























































































Goodbye, from Philadelphia.



Up next, Zurich, Lucerne, Dallas, & Milan.
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Nice, looks very peaceful...
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Hartford usually makes me depressed for some reason, but I think you made it look really nice.
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wow, a very beautiful American city!! I'm surprised to see so many skyscrapers - thought Hartford was very small...
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Nice photos. I've seen a few Hartford threads but I still don't have much of a sense of what the city is like. Supposedly it saw a lot of 60s-era urban renewal. Was the area that is now covered by a big interchange East of the downtown originally built up?
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A forumer once told me this is one of America's worst cities.... You'd never tell that from these photos.
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Nice,

At least the little I've seen of Hartford (day trip up from NYC for) I liked.
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Nice photos. I've seen a few Hartford threads but I still don't have much of a sense of what the city is like. Supposedly it saw a lot of 60s-era urban renewal. Was the area that is now covered by a big interchange East of the downtown originally built up?
Not to dog the city but I didn't see much "urbanity" in Hartford. Mostly random triple-deckers and A-frame housing with urban prairies, parking lots, and Price Choppers grocery stores. There was one street I enjoyed (it was southwest of the downtown; Puerto Rican commercial district) but that was about it. It was as if Clayton, Missouri's downtown was placed in a Flint-esque city, in New England. That was my impression of Hartford, which can certainly change with a good tour by RICAN_PAPI!!! LOLZ!!!
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A forumer once told me this is one of America's worst cities.... You'd never tell that from these photos.
It used to be very much so. I am a Connecticut native, so I cannot tell you to no end how much this city has cleaned up over the last decade. It is a totally different world from what it once was. Very safe, very trendy, very peaceful.
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Nice lighting!
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looks like this could have been Fort Greene, Brooklyn ; )
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Hartford is not urban? Depends on where you are....
These pics are mainly from downtown, which is very built up, very corporate. Go east, west, south or north of downtown and you will see culture. The south end of Hartford you spoke of is the Park St. area. Very cultural, BUT, very crime ridden. Countless shootings and murders all summer for the second straight year. Hartford had a huge influx of jobs and skyscrapers in the late 70's and all the way into the late 80's. Unfortunately, most of the jobs were lost to suburbanization. Hartford has countered by now offering tons of inner city upscale living..aimed at the young execs.

The area you were looking at didn't exist some 20 years ago, and unfortunately there were no pictures of Front St. where the new Science Center is under construction. Right next door is a series of towers on the river as well as the Connecticut Convention Center and Mariott Hotel, all brand new and gorgeousss. They call Hartford New England's Rising Star, and for a while it seemed like a joke, but it really is coming along. Population has increased now after years of decline from 160,000 to 121,000, now up to about 126,000 and should be around 130,000 by the end of the decade. The metropolitan area surrounding Hartford has well over 1 million people, making it one of the largest metro areas in the US. Any questions regarding Hartford you can ask here or send to me, and I'd be happy to fill you in.
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Oh, so that's Conneticut. I approve.
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