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West Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 52,923.
West Haven was a shipping and industrial center, known for its buckle shops and, later, Armstrong Rubber Co. The factory now sits empty. Long a blue-collar and middle-class bedroom community of New Haven, West Haven has had financial problems since the 1990s.
West Haven is home to the University of New Haven, a U.S. Veterans Affairs hospital and Yale Field, a baseball park. The West Haven High School football team was ranked first in the state and fifth in the nation in 1968. West Haven is also home to Notre Dame High School, which is a Roman Catholic all-boys school. Bayer Pharmaceuticals North America has its world headquarters in West Haven, although the company announced in 2006 that it would be shutting its operations in the city, affecting about 1,000 workers. Bayer is located on a 125-acre campus, comprising 13 buildings, mostly in West Haven but partly in Orange. Bayer is a division of Bayer AG, based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
A rail line, used by Metro-North Railroad and Amtrak, runs through West Haven. The nearest stations are in New Haven and Milford. As of 2006, the Connecticut Department of Transportation was considering building a Metro-North station in West Haven, across from the former Armstrong factory, and in Orange, near the Bayer campus.