by | Apr 7, 2021 2:06 pm | Comments (6)
Yevgeniya (Jane) Rivers.
(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.
Continue reading ‘Parents: Disrupt The “Good School” Narrative’
by | Mar 29, 2021 5:49 pm | Comments (8)
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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.
by | Mar 23, 2021 12:04 pm | Comments (7)
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Lucca.
I took our new puppy for a walk around the block one day last week, and presumed I could keep him safe.
As I look back on what happened, little Lucca may wonder the opposite: if he can become the caretaker, and keep me from harm and pain.
And I question, in taking on parenthood as a septuagenarian, if I have bitten off too much.
by | Mar 23, 2021 9:35 am | Comments (17)
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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.”
by | Mar 22, 2021 4:52 pm | Comments (4)
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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.
Continue reading ‘City Plan OKs 3-Family Home, 3 Townhouses Aimed At “Missing Middle”’
by | Mar 17, 2021 10:18 am | Comments (0)
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.
by | Mar 16, 2021 5:00 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
by | Mar 3, 2021 5:25 pm | Comments (1)
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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.
by | Feb 22, 2021 7:26 pm | Comments (3)
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Monday’s ribbon-cutting.
Living room in the Modern.
A new East Rock luxury apartment complex called the Whitney Modern has opened its trio of buildings on the former Red Cross headquarters on Whitney Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Ribbon Cut On 42 “Modern” Historic Apartments’
by | Feb 17, 2021 2:05 pm | Comments (4)
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Police block off area Monday near where body was discovered.
Police have identified the man whose body was found Monday near the Mill River, and they have labeled his death a homicide.
by | Feb 16, 2021 11:14 am | Comments (24)
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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.
by | Feb 15, 2021 4:11 pm | Comments (3)
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Police blocking Farnam Drive and Orange Street in East Rock Park.
Three dead bodies were found in two separate locations in New Haven Monday.
by | Feb 13, 2021 7:17 pm | Comments (0)
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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.”
Continue reading ‘Pain, Shock, Anger, Love Mix At Memorial Service’
by | Feb 10, 2021 4:55 pm | Comments (1)
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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.
by | Feb 8, 2021 6:52 pm | Comments (27)
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.
Continue reading ‘Murder Cut Short Romance Nurtured In Nature’
by and | Feb 8, 2021 12:18 pm | Comments (37)
Kevin Jiang.
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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.
Continue reading ‘Murdered Student May Have Been “Targeted”’
by , and | Feb 2, 2021 2:21 pm | Comments (16)
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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.
by | Jan 27, 2021 10:50 am | Comments (2)
Walking down a street, you see someone systematically stealing packages from porches and stoops.
You pull out your phone. You call 911 and report the crime in progress. Because that’s what you’ve been told: report crimes in progress to 911.
The dispatcher thanks you and says you should call the non-violent crime emergency number.
Meanwhile, the guy is filling his duffel bag like some kind of reverse St. Nick.
Twenty minutes later, the crime’s still going on. You call back. Same response.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Presses Police On Package Thefts’
by | Jan 15, 2021 4:40 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Virtual MLK Love March Puts Tumultuous Week In Perspective’
by | Jan 13, 2021 1:45 pm | Comments (2)
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Connecticut’s Capitol building.
David Ottenstein and Robert Lisak’s 50-state photo journey, now on display in Goatville, assumes sudden newsworthy gravity.
by | Dec 22, 2020 4:15 pm | Comments (20)
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East Rock’s English Drive, soon to reopen to car traffic.
The city plans to reopen East Rock’s English Drive and a section of Orange Street to car traffic starting in early January in order to ease Cedar Hill residents’ concerns that closings dangerously bottled up their isolated neighborhood.
by | Dec 8, 2020 10:41 am | Comments (1)
Musician Robert Messore sat in front of the camera, surrounded by cozy blankets and colorful Christmas lights. It was already an hour into the latest installment of Live From the Blanket Fort, with Sunday turning into Monday. Eager listeners filled the chat box in his livestream as he did a sweet rendition of “Dream A Little Dream of Me,” then a straight-faced, low-register take on “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.” After chatting with listeners about everything from the bridge in the Aretha Franklin song to Star Trek to television writer Joss Whedon, he unfurled a delicious version of Jerry Douglas’s and Russ Barenberg’s “Hymn of Ordinary Motion.”
As he moved it was as though, for a moment, the internet was actually quiet.
by | Nov 17, 2020 2:20 pm | Comments (12)
Message (since removed) on garage of searched home.
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Officers retrieving guns from house Tuesday.
New Haven and Yale police suited up to search an East Rock home early Tuesday and emerged with a “large number” of firearms belonging to a man who was involved in a psychiatric episode.
by | Nov 3, 2020 9:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Harriet Welfare is ready for Ward 25 voters.
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Gabriell Matos: Young person’s turn to step up.
Twenty-year-old Gabriell Matos, dressed in full PPE gear, was stationed outside Bishop Woods School Tuesday morning. He held the door open to voters and pumped out hand sanitizer to all.
by | Nov 3, 2020 11:50 am | Comments (0)
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Mayor Elicker, with daughter April, casting his vote at Wilbur Cross.
Mayor Justin Elicker voted in person, including for the Democrat who currently helms the city’s voting process, as he and his family turned out to Wilbur Cross High School Election Day morning.