about the community
culture. community. comforts.
New London is located midway between Boston and New York City, and situated on the shores of both the Thames River and Long Island Sound. Here, tradition – such as the annual Harvard-Yale Regatta, the oldest intercollegiate sporting event in the nation – dovetails effortlessly with innovation (the recently opened Pfizer Global Research and Development headquarters).
In this small-city atmosphere, you can enjoy the big-city thrills of specialty shopping, renowned museums and performance centers and fine restaurants.
The following are just some of the many cultural, historical and recreational attractions and institutions that call New London home:
- Beach resorts, pleasure boat moorings, and a harbor hosting majestic tall ships, cruise liners, and numerous ferries
- Connecticut College, US Coast Guard Academy and Mitchell College
- America’s Tall Ship, The Barque Eagle
- Regional transportation center, including Amtrak station (high-speed, regular and commuter trains) and ferries serving Long Island, Fishers Island and Block Island
- The Garde Arts Center, which presents opera, music, dance and theater; 2004 productions included Don Giovanni, Swan Lake, The Sound of Music and Fame
- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum, as well as science and maritime museums
- Connecticut College Arboretum and Fort Trumbull State Park
- Historic homes such as the Shaw-Perkins Mansion and Hempsted Home Museums
- The Monte Cristo Cottage, which was the home of America’s only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O’Neill, from his birth in 1888 until 1917
To learn more about this beautiful waterfront community, visit www.NewLondonMainStreet.org.