by | May 7, 2021 4:02 pm | Comments (1)
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The closed downtown Subway, on the hook for $62K+.
A shuttered Subway sandwich shop’s owner has agreed to pay its downtown landlord over $62,000 in back rent and attorney’s fees and to move out by the end of July if it can’t find a replacement commercial tenant.
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by | May 7, 2021 10:19 am | Comments (0)
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Willie Moore and Patrick Williams.
Thursday was a near-perfect spring day, the first Thursday in a month that was not cold or rainy or both — blessing those eager to attend Harvest Wine Bar’s Jazz Thursday on its patio.
The restaurant has revived the weekly series, presented in conjunction with Blue Plate Radio Entertainment, that was so popular this past fall.
by | May 5, 2021 9:20 pm | Comments (30)
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Hundreds fill Prospect Street to support Yale’s unions.
Local 35 Prez Bob Proto: Don’t take labor peace for granted.
Hundreds of Yale union members and dozens of labor-decorated cars closed off Prospect Street to issue the Ivory Tower a contract-negotiation ultimatum: Do right by your workers, or else.
by | May 3, 2021 1:15 pm | Comments (2)
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A May Day “giveback” served as a coming-out event by the Connecticut chapter of an attempt at resurrecting the 1970s Latino activist group the Young Lords.
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by | Apr 23, 2021 2:29 pm | Comments (13)
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265 and 267 Orange St. (the red brick row houses, not including the former Christy’s bar.)
City Plan Commissioners signed off on converting two empty downtown commercial spaces into apartments, in the latest instance of a citywide trend towards ground-floor residential.
by | Apr 22, 2021 12:42 pm | Comments (9)
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A new Temple Street connection, planned for Downtown Crossing’s Phases 3 and 4.
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Looking east from College St., towards future site of Temple Crossing.
Get ready for some short-term driving detours around Temple Street and Route 34, to make way for long-term changes stitching Downtown and the Hill back together.
by | Apr 21, 2021 5:40 pm | Comments (8)
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SWAN Executive Director Codianni at Wednesday’s courthouse protest.
Beatrice Codianni said she assumed that, if two separate sex workers spoke up about being raped by the same police officer, and if that officer then confessed to having had sex with both women, the officer would wind up arrested and in court.
by | Apr 21, 2021 2:41 pm | Comments (15)
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Updated construction schedule for 101 College.
Construction should begin in June on a planned new 10-story, 500,000 square-foot bioscience lab and office tower slated to be built atop the former Route 34 Connector downtown.
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by | Apr 21, 2021 9:06 am | Comments (0)
It’s a soft, gentle sculpture, of a woman sitting next to a body of water. But the context in which that woman sits — an Afro pick — is nearly as old as civilization itself.
For artist Yvonne Shortt, it’s a connection to her personal history and to her African heritage. It’s also a way for her to connect with the struggles of other ethnicities — and reach out to everyone.
by | Apr 20, 2021 9:09 am | Comments (5)
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A Yale union-led rally downtown in July.
The Board of Alders unanimously approved closing off sections of Prospect Street on May 1 and May 5 to accommodate UNITE HERE plans to install a new work of public art and to hold a rally in support of local hiring, as the union continues to negotiate a new contract with the university.
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by | Apr 19, 2021 10:04 am | Comments (5)
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Cyclists stop at Orchard and Sylvan to discuss potential improvements.
A group of 16 cyclists were riding down Orchard Street Saturday when a driver of a car sped up and without signaling, cut in front of the leader.
That sent the cyclists to the sidewalk — and gave them a data point to note.
Continue reading ‘Cyclists, Pedestrians Track Trouble Spots’
by | Apr 18, 2021 9:43 pm | Comments (12)
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Scenes from Sunday’s protest.
Civil rights activists marched from City Hall to Yale Police Department headquarters to protest the recent police killings of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo in the Midwest.
by | Apr 15, 2021 1:47 pm | Comments (4)
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Main branch’s Sharon Lovett-Graff and Alana Delgado: Please come back! We missed you.
The doors were wide open again at the public library’s main branch — and two patrons were found browsing through the wide variety of nonfiction books in the stacks.
Staffers are trying to get the word out so more New Haveners come back inside.
by | Apr 15, 2021 8:52 am | Comments (3)
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School of Rock rocking.
Pitkin Plaza Wednesday evening played host to a rock ‘n’ roll show, not live on stage, but in a film celebrating the fun and excitement of being part of that world.
School of Rock, the beloved 2003 comedy starring Jack Black, was the second of this year’s weekly “Movies in the Plaza,” the free outdoor film series presented every Wednesday at 8 p.m. by the Town Green District.
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by | Apr 15, 2021 8:47 am | Comments (1)
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The Nympho and Other Maniacs. The Sun Is My Undoing. I Who Should Command All.
All three are book titles from the far-flung collection of the Institute Library on Chapel Street, and all three catch the eye through the sheer absurdity of their language.
In another part of the collection, the books Oil for the Lamps of China and The Ghost Book draw the gaze by virtue of their dazzling cover art. And then there are books like Never Fire First and Raising Demons that manage to do both.
by | Apr 13, 2021 9:30 pm | Comments (48)
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Karen DuBois-Walton at Tuesday’s presser.
Spend $10 million of New Haven’s incoming federal pandemic relief on police accountability and gun violence prevention.
Karen DuBois-Walton issued that fiscal call to action Tuesday evening, detailing for the first time since she announced her exploratory bid for mayor some of her top policy priorities for City Hall.
Continue reading ‘DuBois-Walton: Use “Rescue” $ vs. Violence’
by | Apr 7, 2021 10:20 am | Comments (3)
First row, left to right: Alders Charles Decker, Abigail Roth at Tuesday night’s hearing. Second row: Alders Adam Marchand, Rosa Ferraro-Santana, Richard Furlow. Third row: Alders Frank Douglass, Eli Sabin, Jeanette L. Morrison.
A proposal aimed at limiting pre-dawn noise from downtown garbage collection met with general support from alders, but not yet a vote to advance it.
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by | Apr 2, 2021 8:50 am | Comments (0)
Ceschi stood alone on the stage of the State House Thursday night, surrounded by another band’s gear.
“I’m from here, New Haven, Connecticut, and I’m here live at the State House,” he said.
The other band in question was the New Haven-based experimental neo-soul band Phat A$tronaut, as the two acts were splitting a bill, livestreamed from the State House, to help raise money for the Semilla Collective, an organization that has focused on getting food during the pandemic to migrant families in New Haven who need it.
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by | Apr 1, 2021 9:30 am | Comments (1)
Two murder mysteries. A string of love letters. A Choose Your Own Adventure-style story. And testimony after testimony of the things lost and found during the pandemic.
Co-op High School’s theater department has joined a national theater-by-mail festival, and in doing so, will have a chance to show New Haven and beyond how a high school theater program can continue to make art even when stages have to stay dark.
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by | Mar 29, 2021 8:02 pm | Comments (0)
Tarsha Calloway: Glad to do something with this grief.
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Robyn Porter at Monday’s rally: If it doesn’t seem right, check it out.
Robyn Porter didn’t fully realize that she was in a dangerous relationship until her friend pointed that fact out for her.
Continue reading ‘Partner Violence Survivors Rally For HOPE’
by | Mar 26, 2021 10:25 am | Comments (18)
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New apartments on the rise at 87 Union St. …
… 104 Howe St …
& 9 Tower Ln.
Surface parking lots and piles of dirt have given way to rising cranes, skeletal assemblies of wood and steel, and even the occasional “Now Leasing” sign — as the city’s years-long building boom transitions into its next stage of development with over 1,700 new apartments coming online.
by | Mar 25, 2021 5:44 pm | Comments (6)
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Christine Kim: We are not a monolith, but we need the protection of a pan-Asian movement.
In the first days after a gunman killed six Asian women in Atlanta, Christine Kim was afraid to take her children out in public.
Then Kim and friend Jennifer Heikkila Diaz decided to start the change they wanted to see — with a new coalition for Asian New Haveners.
by | Mar 24, 2021 9:24 am | Comments (0)
Mooncha (a.k.a. Thailend Delaine Parker) kicks off “Mojo Jojo” with a deliciously fuzzy chromatic surf line from their guitar. Chris Chew responds with pounding drums, while Marcus-Aurelius C. Benton fills in the bottom end of the frequency range with keys. “Just watch me!” Mooncha screams, and the band digs into a sound as grungy as it is danceable.
But mere minutes later, on “Upside Down,” the band is delivering sunny yet anxious pop.
And on the third song, “Harder,” they dive straight into live hip hop. It’s the latest delirious — and live — performance from the Sans Serif Sessions, a series begun by the New Haven-based recording studio in the fall that, on the cusp of venues in town returning to being able to have live shows, let New Haven have a taste of what they may be in for.
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by | Mar 19, 2021 9:54 am | Comments (5)
Jose Flores: It’s been a long wait.
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One possible design for new real-time info bus stop signs.
Downtown bus riders should soon have a better sense of when their rides will actually arrive, as the state prepares to roll out new digital signs with real-time information on where a bus is, and when it will get to a stop.
That’s one initiative planned among many in a state Department of Transportation (DOT) push to make New Haven’s beleaguered bus system easier and more enjoyable to use.
by | Mar 18, 2021 9:16 pm | Comments (4)
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Service truck, post-explosion.
A deafening explosion that occurred in a tunnel beneath Gateway Community College and the Knights of Columbus tower was an accident, investigators have concluded.