Today
Today, it is a demographically mixed neighborhood. There are luxury condominiums along the Quinnipiac, modest small homes along Grand Avenue, and public housing projects at the summit of the hill. Similarly, the ethnic breakdown of residents ranges from Italian-American to Puerto Rican to African-American to white.
There are two large, colonial-era churches on Grand Avenue between Lenox and Quinnipiac. One is Episcopalian and predominantly caters to Fair Haven's Hispanic population, and the other is Presbyterian. In addition, the New Haven Religious Society of Friends relocated their Quaker Meeting House to Grand Avenue in the 1990s.
Thanks to improving water quality, oystering has returned to the Quinnipiac River since the 1990s.
Fair Haven Heights is in State Senate District 10, State Assembly District 97, and Aldermanic Ward 13. It is currently represented by Senator Martin Looney, Representative Bob Megna, and Alderman Brenda Barnes, all Democrats.
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