by | Nov 19, 2021 3:20 pm | Comments (5)
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590 Orange St., cleared to become apartments.
A New York City-based developer has won approval for plans to convert a century-old church building into seven new apartments in East Rock.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Church-To-Housing Conversion OK’d’
by | Nov 9, 2021 1:04 pm | Comments (4)
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Lucca (at right) greets his cousin, Sora, another Italian water dog, who arrived at the park with her “grandmother.”
On the way to the dog park one recent afternoon, I watched a speeding car hit a highway barrier and spin in a 360-degree revolution. The driver, one of many daft people at the wheel of late, managed to total only his sedan and not any eyewitnesses. Then he crept off to the exit on his rims, smoke billowing from the hood, and succeeded in reminding all of us how close we come every day to profound misfortune
by | Nov 8, 2021 12:38 pm | Comments (3)
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Zoom? What’s Zoom?: Sunday’s gathering.
A neighbor’s raucous late night parties. Speed bumps. How to close down parts of State Street for a spring festival.
For a time, the first in-person monthly gathering of the East Rock Community Management Team (CMT) since the pandemic started, seemed, well, a return to normal.
by | Oct 26, 2021 1:08 pm | Comments (58)
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The city engineer unveiled a plan to slow traffic and protect cyclists and pedestrians on Whitney Avenue — eliciting general praise along with some concerns from neighbors.
by | Oct 14, 2021 12:36 pm | Comments (2)
Seekers at opening of Eckhart Center for Catholic and Dominican Life.
Medieval mystic Meister Eckhart.
Unable to find a convenient or affordable cave? Are the crazy schedules, noise, and constant challenges of New Haven life playing havoc with your quest for solitude and purpose?
Don’t fear. Albertus Magnus College’s new Meister Eckhart Center just may have a solution for you: Learn how to be an “urban mystic.”
You might start by having pizza with one.
by | Sep 28, 2021 1:14 pm | Comments (6)
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Lt. Dana Smith: Now the top cop for East Rock/Newhallvillle.
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Newly minted Dwight/Beaver Hills top cop Lt. Ryan Przybylski.
Newhallville, East Rock and Cedar Hill have a new neighborhood top cop — Lt. Dana Smith, who has stepped into the district manager role as Lt. Manmeet Colon moves over to Internal Affairs.
And a little further west in Dwight and Beaver Hills, Lt. Ryan Przybylski has risen to the role of district manager, replacing recently promoted Capt. John Healy.
by | Sep 28, 2021 8:10 am | Comments (6)
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Kwame Asari (right) discussing his Oh Shito savory Ghanaian hot sauce with a wholesaler at Monday’s pitch event.
fatto a mano founder Pierluigi Mazzella, with his beloved panettone.
Pierluigi Mazzella never sleeps. This is because he’s obsessed. And in love.
At Monday’s CT Food Launchpad Pitch Night in East Rock, the founder and owner of fatto a mano stood beside the object that has kept him awake at all hours: the panettone, a towering round of sweet bread naturally leavened with sourdough and studded with organic raisins and semi-sweet Valrhona chocolate.
It took him 72 hours to make.
Continue reading ‘Pitch Night Showcases Pannetone, “Bacorn”’
by | Sep 27, 2021 10:27 am | Comments (0)
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Brackeen with Rev. Steve Cousin at East Rock fundraiser.
Upper Westville Darryl Brackeen took his quest to demonstrate viability as a statewide candidate to a tap room in New Haven’s Goatville neighborhood, with a fundraiser at East Rock Brewing Company.
Continue reading ‘Brackeen Campaign Taps 3rd-Quarter Support At East Rock Brewing’
by | Sep 15, 2021 8:07 am | Comments (1)
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Kang.
Without warning, pianist Min Young Kang laid into the keys to declare the opening figure to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor. The players in the Ulysses Quartet — sharing the stage with her at First Presbyterian Church on Whitney Avenue Tuesday evening — followed with choral declarations of their own. Ideas flowed one into the other from there, passed from instrument to instrument until it all came together in a sweeping, heroic theme that fell into an aching fugue.
by | Aug 30, 2021 10:19 am | Comments (2)
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Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman.
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Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman are ready for the new school year to begin Monday: They have their vaccine shots, they’re even OK with wearing masks. And, after experiencing remote learning, they much prefer the idea of being back in class in person.
by | Aug 24, 2021 12:26 pm | Comments (6)
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More than 600 Afghan citizens fleeing Taliban aboard U.S. Air Force C-17 on Aug. 15.
A New Haven agency on the front lines of resettling Afghan refugees came to East Rock neighbors with a wish list for help.
Continue reading ‘IRIS Puts Out Call For Help For Afghan Arrivals’
by | Aug 11, 2021 9:50 am | Comments (12)
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BoomBoomBoom! 186 units on tap for Fair Street.
City zoners unanimously approved land-use relief for two projects that promise to bring hundreds of new market-rate apartments to Wooster Square and East Rock.
by | Aug 10, 2021 3:40 pm | Comments (2)
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Ralph Walker Skating Rink.
Alders unanimously advanced two proposed public-private accords — one that would keep a community health center in Dixwell for the next two decades, another that would bring an ice rink management company to Upper State Street for the next five years.
Continue reading ‘Hill Health, Skating Rink Contracts Advance’
by | Aug 2, 2021 8:36 pm | Comments (6)
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St. Francis & St. Rose of Lima School at the ice rink in February 2020.
The city has tapped a Bridgeport-based management company with three decades of experience operating ice rinks to help turn the renovated Ralph Walker Skating Rink into a “wonderland of ice” starting this October.
Continue reading ‘City Pitches 5-Year Skating Rink Contract’
by | Jul 28, 2021 6:43 pm | Comments (6)
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Tarrell Stafford on Wednesday’s group ride from Newhallville to East Rock.
Heading down the canal greenway, with a police escort.
Budding bike mechanic Tarrell Stafford, 12, found a potential new home to hone his craft — and teach others the importance of bicycle safety — as part of a summer camp group ride from Newhallville to East Rock.
by | Jul 19, 2021 9:54 am | Comments (21)
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Bike co-op-turned-committee space for existentialist rumination.
East Rock and Downtown Democrats voted — then wondered why.
Continue reading ‘Ward Wonders: Why Bother With Committee Votes For Mayor?’
by | Jul 15, 2021 9:32 am | Comments (6)
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Tom Pescatore: Bringing the public onto the water.
Here is some of what you see while gliding through lily pads on a kayak trip down the Mill River: Turtles dipping their heads out of the water. Deer wandering the shores. A roaring waterfall by Goose Dam.
by | Jul 13, 2021 2:23 pm | Comments (18)
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Qinxuan Pan (right) in court Tuesday with attorney William Gerace.
A North Haven cop was with Qinxuan Pan when the officer received a New Haven police broadcast that an alleged murderer was on the loose — someone driving a dark-colored GMC Terrain SUV.
by | Jul 12, 2021 3:58 pm | Comments (4)
(Opinion) I’m sorry to show you the above, which I noticed just a day ago on an otherwise politics-free sidewalk on Orange Street. It’s enough already. Enough of him.
I would rather tell you in this space about an act of kindness – a minor miracle, really. Yes, an uplifting story about people helping people, the kind of act that can restore peace of mind.
Continue reading ‘The Case Of The Former Guy & The Missing Wallet’
by | Jul 8, 2021 10:26 am | Comments (10)
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Nina Silva (pictured at right, with Pat Solomon) presses paraprofessional living-wage concern at mayoral forum.
New Haven’s “upstairs-downstairs” divide was on display at a Democratic ward committee meeting Wednesday night in both a vote taken and an exchange about low-wage workers.
by | Jul 5, 2021 10:58 am | Comments (3)
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Their interpretations of the holiday varied, but the crowd that returned to East Rock for the resumption of the city’s Independence Day fireworks shared a sense of post-pandemic safety — and awe at the explosions of color in the sky.
by | Jul 2, 2021 10:48 am | Comments (7)
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Pillsbury & Perry at Thursday gathering: “A politically open marriage.”
Another mayoral election has divided an influential married couple in Prospect Hill — and once again has not prevented them from welcoming all points of view into their home.
Continue reading ‘Peace Couple Peacefully Splits On Election’
by | Jun 29, 2021 4:33 pm | Comments (3)
Outgoing CMT Chair David Budries; incoming Chair Elena Grewal.
The leadership baton — or is it the Zoom account? — of the East Rock Community Management Team (ERCMT) passed a longtime chair who is retiring to California to a New Haven native returned from the golden state to resettle in East Rock.
by | Jun 23, 2021 12:22 pm | Comments (1)
Carla Garzón, 19, pencils out her desk design.
Look out IKEA —these desks only take a minute to build and take apart.
And they’re compostable.
Continue reading ‘Free Cardboard Desks Help Kids Learn At Home’
by | Jun 21, 2021 11:51 am | Comments (3)
Last week, as always, a diversity of pedestrians paraded up and down Orange Street.