Campus Customs

If you were to stand across from Campus Customs on Broadway, it looks like any other one of the Shops at Yale, sitting between an Apple store and other Yale-owned storefronts. Inside, it sells university apparel and other merchandise, a lot of that gear is still screen-printed and embroidered on site. The building has experienced different lives, for roughly 35 years much of it was the York Square Cinema, a theater that opened in 1970 by joining four older buildings together. The building itself dates back to the early 1900s, Yale has owned it since 2023. It’s a great example of how much one Broadway stone front can hold, such a rich history that many aren’t aware of.