by | Jul 17, 2020 2:08 pm | Comments (31)
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Four of Xu’s local rental properties: 113 Ivy St., 761 Winchester Ave., 126 Sheffield Ave., 50 Nash St.
Dr. Xu.
A prominent Bethany-based doctor has slowly rebuilt his poverty-landlord business four years after he dumped many of his rundown, code-defying local rental properties.
So far, he appears to be staying out of trouble this time with the city and his tenants.
by | Jul 16, 2020 10:00 pm | Comments (2)
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The Whitney Avenue Fire Station.
A New Haven firefighter lost his job Thursday after allegedly committing domestic violence and stealing over $10,000 in firehouse funds.
Continue reading ‘Firefighter Fired After Alleged Theft, Domestic Violence’
by | Jul 16, 2020 12:44 pm | Comments (34)
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Pearl Street looking west toward Yale SOM.
A perilous stretch of Pearl Street may finally get a sidewalk between Orange Street and the Yale School of Management campus.
Continue reading ‘Sidewalk On Way For Perilous Pearl Street’
by | Jul 10, 2020 10:38 am | Comments (21)
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Dead fish floating down the Mill River in East Rock.
The water at Lighthouse Point is safe to swim in again, and the acute crisis of Monday’s two million-gallon sewage spill appears to be mostly over — even if dead fish can still be found floating along the Mill River.
But, local environmentalists cautioned, the threat of more sewage flowing into fresh water remains, thanks to the region’s old and decaying infrastructure and its combined sewers that mix storm runoff and sewage.
Continue reading ‘After Spill, Concerns Turn To Infrastructure’
by | Jul 9, 2020 3:38 pm | Comments (18)
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Dan Barvir, who is retiring as East Rock Park ranger.
Dan Barvir has noticed chipmunks and bunnies scampering around these days like never before in his 35 years as guardian of East Rock Park.
by | Jun 30, 2020 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Zhi Yong Wang, tends to customer at Million Asian Market.
For a week now, more than a dozen customers have asked Tom Zhang when the kimchi will arrive.
Continue reading ‘Asian Grocers Roll With Virus Disruptions’
by | Jun 25, 2020 2:26 pm | Comments (1)
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Recaffeinating, on East Street.
Six days after the state of Connecticut commenced Phase 2 of reopening the economy during the pandemic, allowing coffee shops and restaurants to resume indoor dining at 50 percent capacity, Michael Sakelarakis had just finished taking the final exam for his pediatric advanced life support certificate. He decided to head to The Coffee Pedaler, his favorite neighborhood coffee shop.
by | Jun 23, 2020 1:58 pm | Comments (1)
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In another continuing sign that the pandemic is easing its grip on our area, officials announced that the Blake Field Drop-In Center—a pop-up facility (pictured) providing on-site Covid-19 testing and other services for the homeless amid the pandemic— will soon fold its flaps.
The shut down date is scheduled for Friday.
Continue reading ‘Blake Field Covid Drop-In Center To Close’
by | Jun 23, 2020 1:56 pm | Comments (6)
Bradley at State.
If there were a touch of poetic justice to street design in New Haven these days, Bradley Street, home of the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-Op, should have been given its own bike lane as part of the recent repaving operations conducted by the Public Works Department.
Alas!
by | Jun 19, 2020 10:53 pm | Comments (2)
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Marching up Orange Street to East Rock park.
One of the youth leaders of Friday’s liberation march.
Over 500 people filled the streets of downtown and East Rock to celebrate the 155th anniversary of the end of slavery — and to lift up the movement for black liberation that continues to this day.
by | Jun 17, 2020 5:26 pm | Comments (2)
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Jaylen Edwards learned how much he loved going to East Rock Community Magnet School when, after the pandemic struck, he and his classmates had to stay home.
Continue reading ‘55 Graduate From East Rock Community Magnet School’
by | May 30, 2020 11:45 am | Comments (89)
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Organizer Vanesa Suarez protests on the mayor’s lawn Friday.
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Elicker tries to engage a crowd not interested in dialogue.
“Shame!” “Fire the officer!” “Black Lives Matter!” “We can’t breathe!”
Dozens of protesters shouted those words on the front lawn of the mayor’s house during a heated five-hour, late-night rally that sought to frame roiling nationwide outrage against police violence in a hyperlocal context.
by | May 29, 2020 1:37 pm | Comments (28)
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SoHu Block Watch Captain Lisa Siedlarz.
When Susan Frew’s husband came home from the hospital with Covid-19, a neighborhood network was ready to swing into action to help.
by | May 29, 2020 12:20 pm | Comments (7)
Call in the time you see them, and the location.
That’s among the critical pieces of intelligence cops need from citizens who want to help them track and apprehend dirt bikers and ATVs terrorizing citizens on city streets as the weather warms up.
Continue reading ‘Top East Rock Cop Seeks Public Help With Dirt-Bike Strategy’
by | May 26, 2020 10:32 am | Comments (13)
Memorial Day came and went, and as this version was far different than those previous, it affected me in a new way. The change came through an encounter at Nica’s Market on Orange Street, where two generations met, where war and politics were discussed, and where I decided in the interest of harmony and respect to bury my own feelings.
by | May 19, 2020 2:50 pm | Comments (67)
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Protesters outside Skull & Combs barber shop on State Street.
Standing shoulder to shoulder outside of a State Street barbershop, several dozen protesters waved American flags and “Don’t Tread on Me” signs as they decried what one Branford salon owner described as the “dictatorship” of Gov. Ned Lamont.
by | May 18, 2020 9:55 am | Comments (0)
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Jungden.
Three concerts, 15 minutes each, in three different locations.
That was musician Jan Jungden’s assignment as the first performer in the International Festival of Arts & Ideas’s Arts on Call series, which allows patrons to support artists by booking them and having them deliver a short outdoor concert at their home.
Jungden made the rounds on Friday, from Orange to East Rock to downtown, leaving dozens of concertgoers swinging in her wake.
by | May 6, 2020 9:31 am | Comments (2)
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Ruben Thompson Jr. gets a spray with hand sanitizer.
While on his daily stroll around East Rock, Ruben Thompson Jr., 61, found himself welcomed by on-site services for the homeless like food, a face mask, toiletries, hand sanitizer, and clothing at the new Blake Field Drop-in Center.
by | May 5, 2020 7:01 pm | Comments (11)
It was about 7:50 pm. The streets were empty. And the unlikeliest sound was wafting onto Sachem Street: a tenor saxophone playing pop.
by | Apr 30, 2020 12:08 pm | Comments (1)
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The sunshine earlier this week beckoned pandemic-weary East Rockers from their homes out to the park, where they worked to maintain a “social distance.”
by | Apr 28, 2020 11:49 am | Comments (5)
Monday night’s Zoom community management team gathering.
Early next week an “open-air resource center” — otherwise known as a tent — is scheduled to pop up in Blake Field opposite the East Rock Community Magnet School, not far from homeless encampments in the woods near the Willow Street I‑91 off-ramps.
Its purpose: To offer medical treatment, food, and, potentially, testing for Covid-19 symptomatic people and to serve as a triage point for those homeless folks who decline to come into one of the city’s sheltered environments.
Continue reading ‘Pop-Up Covid-19 Help Tent Planned For Hardcore Homeless’
by | Apr 27, 2020 10:08 am | Comments (2)
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Todd Lyon and Nancy Shea at Fashionista.
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Fash-made masks.
While Covid-19 restrictions have inspired many to become more resourceful for the first time in their lives, Todd Lyon and Nancy Shea are continuing to practice what they have preached for 15 years through their partnership in Fashionista Vintage and Variety: reuse, repurpose, recycle.
by | Apr 25, 2020 3:43 pm | Comments (25)
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Mayor Justin Elicker at Saturday’s virtual presser.
The city is staring down a projected $15 million deficit thanks to steep pandemic-induced drops in delinquent property tax collections, building permits, and parking meter and ticket revenue.
Continue reading ‘Covid Updates: $15M Deficit Projected; English, Farnam Drives Closing To Cars’
by | Apr 21, 2020 8:25 pm | Comments (18)
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Maria Fiore.
Maria Fiore instilled a love of language into young New Haveners, and brought that love home to her family’s table.
She was a dedicated teacher, a fluent speaker of six languages, a world traveler.
On Monday she also became one of the latest New Haveners to die of Covid-19, two days after her aunt Gerardina Renna died of the same disease.
Covid-19 has also killed at least one cousin of hers in New York, with another wrestling with the disease.
by | Apr 13, 2020 11:38 am | Comments (5)
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East Rock, from atop East Rock.
On a walk last week in East Rock, where Suzanne and I shelter 23 hours a day, we got ready to pass a young family coming in the opposite direction on the sidewalk. Normally, of course, this would not present any sense of panic; sidewalks are meant to be shared. But considering our tenuous circumstance these days, we were careful to keep our distance alongside Orange Street by stepping all over a well-tended lawn.