REBUILDING New Haven

NEW HAVEN, Conn.--When it's all finished, Yale President Richard C. Levin (above right) said in an interview last week, it will look like Harvard Square" on a smaller scale."

The new president's push to overhaul the university's image includes a series of extensive renovations to the area along Broadway and York Street that serves as the campus's main drag.

The parallels between the Elm City's new look and the Square are striking. Demery's, a pizza parlor and bar that stood as a New Haven fixture; has already been replaced with an Au Bon Pain (right). And workers are currently laying down brick side-walks along Broadway (below).

"We can't replicate [the Square], but we can make our own area more attractive," Levin said.

Recent renovations have also replaced the road outside Sterling Memorial Library (top) with a walk-way that gives the "cross-campus" area of Yale a more collegiate feel--not unlike the feel of Harvard Yard.