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i ax naven - i ne i aie rnerara <br />Seventy years later, in 1969, the city tried its <br />hand once more, this time attempting to tax <br />149 York Street, the building in which the Yale <br />University Press was then housed. The <br />university sued, and by 1975 another Yale <br />versus New Haven case had made its way to <br />the state Supreme Court. The ruling fell in line <br />with the 1899 decision: 149 York was tax - <br />exempt and Yale was to be reimbursed for the <br />taxes it had paid on it between 1969 and 1975. <br />The university's exemption had proved <br />shatterproof. <br />The city's economy slumped from the late - <br />197Os through the '8Os, deflated since the <br />departure of its once - robust manufacturing <br />sector. Strapped for cash, New Haven was <br />hungry for tax money and its eyes were set on <br />Yale. For its part, Yale's outlook had changed <br />dramatically by the beginning of the 199Os. <br />When Christian Haley Prince, PC'93, was shot <br />to death on Hillhouse Avenue, in the center of <br />Yale's campus, in February 1991, the tragedy <br />crystallized concerns among university <br />administrators that families would fear sending <br />their children to a school in a city as poor and <br />as dangerous as New Haven. In a 2006 <br />interview with the Wall Street Journal, Richard <br />Levin, then Yale's president, acknowledged <br />these anxieties. "The principal reason students <br />didn't come here was the city," he said, <br />rage n or 15 <br />http: / /yaleherald.com/homepage -lead- image /cover - stories /tax - haven/ 10/23/2014 <br />