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Aug 25, 2022 8:55 am
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There’s a reason for the vibrant colors in Sarahi Zacatelco’s self-portrait. “That’s how I feel now,” Zacatelco said. “I’m a survivor,” she said, and those colors mean “freedom” — freedom from a bad situation she left behind, and freedom to accept the support of others she has found in New Haven. It’s also a celebration of the freedom “to work on myself and to work on my art. I left everything behind. All the depression. All the hard feelings. Everything.” It’s the same impulse that led her to make a painting of a pair of wings. “Now I’m flying,” she said. “Now I’m free.”
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 24, 2022 4:50 pm
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Ann Salemme with Mayor Elicker on Wednesday for Ukrainian independence day celebration and flag raising...
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... Local Ukrainian Americans meet with then-New Haven Mayor Richard Lee for Ukrainian independence day celebration and flag raising in 1955.
As Ann Salemme watched the Ukrainian national flag lifted high above the Green, she couldn’t help but think back to another time — nearly seven decades ago — when New Haven elected officials and local Ukrainian Americans celebrated another independence day for the embattled Eastern European nation by raising its flag and declaring support for Ukrainian self-rule.
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Laura Glesby |
Aug 24, 2022 12:20 pm
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Erick Santiago cuts Alberto Reyes' hair on the Green Tuesday.
“I’m tired of being outside,” said Jazel Brown as he waited in line for a haircut. He’d had a stressful few weeks of missing medication, sleeping in hospital beds, and witnessing a violent attack near the downtown church steps where he typically sleeps.
In the middle of a hard month, Brown stumbled across a glimmer of kindness in Erick Santiago’s weekly volunteer barbershop in the center of the New Haven Green — where a “One-Stop Pop Up” provided him with a fresh cut, a place to charge his phone, a medical check-up, and the possible beginnings of a new friendship.
Interim City Librarian Sullivan (right) at Wednesday's "coffee with a cop" meetup.
Iced coffee in hand, Interim City Librarian Maureen Sullivan stopped by a group of caffeinated police officers on Grove Street to thank them for their public service — and to raise a concern she has about used needles, fecal matter, and people regularly sleeping outside of the Wilson branch library in the Hill.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 22, 2022 3:45 pm
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Ronecia Caserta: Eyeing "whatever's on clearance" on Monday.
Ronecia Caserta walked into EbLens looking for what most customers visiting the Whalley Avenue shoe store are eyeing these days: school-appropriate footwear that doesn’t break the bank.
A New York City-based developer has purchased the long-vacant former Harold’s Bridal Shop property on Elm Street for $4.85 million, and intends to follow through on already approved plans to convert the site into 96 new apartments.
A North Haven-based regional arts education organization has purchased a two-and-a-half story law office building on Orange Street for $975,000, with plans to convert that site into school “programmatic” spaces after the current tenant’s lease runs out next year.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 22, 2022 9:00 am
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Downtown/Yale Alder Alex Guzhnay (third from left) with his family at Sunday's parade.
Sanjuanito dancers twirl their way up Church St.
Billowing yellow, blue and red flags and the panpipe-filled sounds of Sanjuanitodance music filled Church Street on Sunday, as the annual Ecuadorian Cultural Civic Parade returned downtown for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 19, 2022 9:20 am
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Rania Das moved gracefully across the stage set up on the New Haven Green Thursday afternoon, her gestures precise yet fluid, graceful and controlled. They were about practicing a tradition that began in India over 2,000 years ago. They were telling a story, about a prankster god getting into mischief. But they were also about crossing thousands of miles, halfway around the world, to make connections to people here in New Haven.
Iline Tracey testifies: New Haven kids will succeed.
“When I hear those numbers, it makes me cringe,” Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers told Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey.
Speaking at a public hearing, she was referring to New Haven Public Schools’ test scores from the past year, which officials have referred to as a reading and math “crisis.”
“Our students are resilient,” Tracey responded, and they need “indestructible hope.”
Connecticut FBI building at 26 Grove St. / 600 State St.
The city brought in $2.5 million after selling the land underneath downtown’s FBI building to the local private developer that has leased that property for the past two decades.
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Ronak Gandhi |
Aug 12, 2022 9:27 am
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NOA on Crown (above), newest venture of Winyu Seetamyae (below).
Winyu “Win” Seetamyae, the chef and owner behind Upper State Street’s September in Bangkok, has opened his second restaurant at 200 Crown St. after managing to stay afloat, and profitable, during the pandemic.
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Aug 11, 2022 3:48 pm
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The SalivaDirect Covid testing site on the Green, which serves a handful of uninsured patients each day.
After a decrease in federal funding, New Haven’s largest community health care provider and only hospital system have started to charge uninsured patients $75 for Covid-19 tests.
Construction workers Raul Roldom (above) and Yisrael Mantar (below) ready retail space for fitness center inside new Audubon complex.
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Builder Fowler cuts ribbon on already-leased Phase 2 of The Audubon.
A day after breaking ground in a Dixwell parking lot on new apartments for low-income renters, officials gathered on an Audubon Street lot Wednesday afternoon to break ground on 66 luxury apartments — while cutting the ribbon on 135 fast-filling-up new ones.
In the officials’ telling, those two events are linked: part of a continued construction boom that’s growing a livable city while helping more people to afford to live here.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 10, 2022 2:30 pm
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The Frontier building at 310 Orange, now under new ownership.
A New Jersey-based real estate company has purchased the Frontier Communications building on Orange Street for over $73.8 million, providing a cash infusion for the Norwalk-based telecommunications company — which subsequently signed a 20-year lease with its new landlords.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 10, 2022 9:09 am
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Vasilisa Gladysheva
Melting Face.
Vasilisa Gladysheva’s potted plant at first looks precarious, perched on the edge of its podium, but that’s the point. The piece is, in a very real sense, about balance. There’s tenuousness versus serenity. There’s the combining of the whimsical and the functional, while also having something to say about the thoughts of the mind, or perhaps imagination. Is the figure in the vase sleeping and dreaming the plant into existence? Or is it about how all thoughts can grow? Regardless, what is clear is both the artist’s playful intentions and the skill with which the piece is made.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 8, 2022 8:47 pm
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Bond at Monday's rally.
“When they say we can’t make it out the hood … I’m a product of that!”
With those words, Maritza Bond tapped into her Fair Haven roots — as well as her wealth of organized labor support — to make a closing pitch to supporters to get out the vote for her bid for secretary of the state during Tuesday’s Democratic Party primary.
Local 217's Josh Stanley with Graduate hotel worker Jacqueline Sims.
The Graduate New Haven hotel on Chapel St.
Graduate New Haven hotel employees, union organizers, and labor-friendly politicians celebrated the city’s first new hotel worker union in a quarter century by praising an unexpected ally — an employer that voluntarily chose to recognize and negotiate, rather than fight.
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Thomas Breen |
Jul 28, 2022 4:33 pm
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The planned new apartment tower at 78 Olive St., now on hold.
Rising interest rates and construction costs have led a Philadelphia-based developer to push the pause button on a planned new 136-unit apartment tower — meaning that a Wooster Square surface parking lot will remain a surface parking lot for the time being.
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Maya McFadden and Nora Grace-Flood |
Jul 27, 2022 4:00 pm
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LeaMOND Suggs on Chapel Street: making New Haven smell good again.
Two decades into running one of downtown’s longer-running commercial enterprises, LeaMOND Suggs was hooking up an old friend with a new olfactory sensation.
“Put me on a pedestal, and I’ll only disappoint you!”
The College Street Music Hall crowd scream-sang along with Courtney Barnett.
“Tell me I’m exceptional; I promise to exploit you!”
In the pit, a teenage girl with winged eyeliner looked around to make sure she wasn’t the only one letting loose. Near her, a white-haired man in a ponytail thrashed his arms to the beat. Toward the center, rowdy 20-somethings tossed their bodies against one another; if there were ever a time to mosh, it was now.
“I think you’re a joke, but I don’t find you very fu-u-u-u-u-nny!” the Aussie rocker continued from the state, as two middle-aged women crooned the line to two middle-aged men.
In fact, at that moment, there wasn’t a single person in the hall who didn’t sing along.
