“Are there any volunteers at home who want to do this problem?” said New Haven Academy biology teacher David Herndon, addressing the portion of his class tuned in via computer. “Don’t all jump at once.”
His in-person students giggled.
Herndon switched his attention back to the physical classroom — and, like high school teachers all over New Haven, navigated a new normal of teaching two types of classes at once: Remote, and in-person.
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Police take suspect into custody Thursday.
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A tense standoff on Livingston Street between a barricaded man and local cops and federal agents that led to evacuation of nearby residents ended peacefully when the suspect surrendered with no shots fired on either side.
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Armando Muñoz, a.k.a. Decoy, danced at the top of East Rock, popping and locking, the city of New Haven unfurling behind and beneath him all the way to the Long Island Sound. In front of him, armed with a tiny handheld camera, cinematographer Mike Pollack moved with Muñoz, following the arcs of Muños’s steps, the bending of arms, the fluttering of fingers.
A few families were at the top of East Rock at the same time, and one of them drifted close to watch.
“You’re so good!” one of the family members exclaimed.
(Opinion.) The results of the New Haven school choice system are out. It’s a good time for our city’s most privileged families to think about how we talk about our “wins” and “losses” in this lottery.
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Inside the renovated 771 Orange St.
Atticus CEO Negaro: A market that keeps people in New Haven.
Seven floors, four ceilings, two storefronts, and 15 months of renovations later, the longtime downtown cafe and bookstore Atticus has opened up a second shop in East Rock.
The city plans to ditch a vacant lot (bottom right in photo) to facilitate the development of next phase of Corsair.
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City’s Carlos Eyzaguirre: Lot is currently empty and trashed.
Forty-four years after first acquiring a triangular sliver of highway-adjacent land from the state, the city plans to give it back — with the hopes that the parcel could soon sprout roughly 70 Upper State Street apartments as part of “Corsair II.”
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Mar 22, 2021 4:52 pm
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The empty pit at 31 Sheffield Ave. Landlord Edward Zislis (below): New 3-family home in the works.
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A new three-family house on Sheffield Avenue is one step closer to rising from the ashes of its burned-down predecessor — and, two neighborhoods away, three new townhouses won the thumbs up to pop up atop a Humphrey Street backyard.
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It’ll be easier for East Rockers to find their way to the gym and then an after-workout stop at the brewery.
That’s because Tuesday night, at its regular Zoom-assisted meeting, the Board of Zoning Appeals approved the placing of two signs at 268 Nicoll St. in the Goatville section of East Rock.
That’s the parking lot adjacent to the mActivity Fitness Center, part of a complex that also houses the East Rock Brewery.
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570 Whitney Ave., where Mandy Management recently purchased 16 condos.
For only the second time in two and a half years, the megalandlord Mandy Management purchased market-rate rental housing in East Rock — picking up 16 condos on Whitney Avenue as part of a monthlong, $4 million, 45-unit buying spree.
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Mar 3, 2021 5:25 pm
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Dr. Lagarde vaccinates Jonathan Hill at Cross clinic Wednesday.
King/Robinson middle school STEM teacher Jonathan Hill breathed a sigh of relief.
Not only will he be returning to the classroom in person for the first time in nearly a year later this week. He’ll also be doing so with a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine already in his arm.
Zinn (top right) Zooms in on proposed Whitney changes.
The city’s Engineering Department has restarted $2.7 million in plans to reconfigure Whitney Avenue to encourage slower car speeds, safer pedestrian crossings, and easier access for cyclists hoping not to get slammed by a motor vehicle.
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A picture of Linda Liu and her late son Kevin Jiang, shared at Jiang’s memorial service Saturday.
Liu (left), with a translator, at Saturday’s service.
“Kevin lived full-heartedly, enthusiastically, like a ray of sunlight,” Linda Liu said about her late son, Kevin Jiang, a 26-year-old Yale grad student who was shot to death in the Goatville section of East Rock last week.
“He gave so much joy and happiness to me and to the people around us. I could not believe that a life full of so much energy and light could vanish from before my eyes.”
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Katz at Tuesday’s vigil. Below: A memorial for Kevin Jiang at Nicoll and Lawrence.
Natalia Katz attended an anti-gun violence rally in Fair Haven Saturday afternoon, and left feeling buoyed by community efforts to stop further bloodshed.
By the time she got home to her East Rock apartment later that same night, she found police cars everywhere and a dead body in the middle of the street — the city’s sixth homicide victim already this year.
Kevin Jiang and Zion Perry, after getting engaged on Jan. 30, a week before a man shot Jiang to death in New Haven. Jiang and Perry met while she was still an undergraduate at MIT.
On what would be the newly engaged couple’s last day together before a brutal murder, Zion Perry and Kevin Jiang went ice fishing, caught a pickerel, and cooked dinner at her East Rock apartment.
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Feb 8, 2021 12:18 pm
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Chief Reyes at Monday’s press conference.
The murder of a 26-year-old Yale forestry graduate student near his new fiancee’s home in the Goatville section of East Rock appears not to have been a “random” act, New Haven’s police chief revealed Monday.
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Feb 2, 2021 2:21 pm
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Georgeanne Flanagan takes a quick break from shoveling in Cedar Hill.
Plow truck drivers take a coffee-and-donut break at Middletown Avenue HQ after their 12-hour shifts.
Eighty-one-year-old Georgeanne Flanagan dug her shovel into a foot-tall pile of snow near her car. Determined to make it to her Covid-19 vaccination appointment later this week, she heaved the heavy white stuff onto her lawn.
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Jan 15, 2021 4:40 pm
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Friday’s virtual Love March.
To Rev. Boise Kimber, last week’s Capitol insurrection inspired by the president is proof that systemic racism is “here to stay.”
To U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Thursday night’s $1.9 trillion economic plan proposed by the president-elect is proof that sound public policy can undo the material harms of hate.
