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.
by | Apr 2, 2020 10:12 am | Comments (2)
As the evening light began to fade on Pearl Street, a message began to appear in one of the first-floor windows. The letters emerged from a warm, yellow field of fabric: “Fear is a terrible driver and a worse tour guide.”
It was the third of many projected daily messages that are the latest project from artist Martha Lewis, who, like many artists, is adapting to practicing art during the Covid-19 outbreak.
by | Apr 1, 2020 10:35 am | Comments (1)
Before Sam Haller’s “anchors aweigh” booty shorts graced the pages of The Guardian this week while he pretended to eat a doll’s head, before they were written up around the world, and before comforters were recognized as accurate renaissance garments, four roommates were chatting on a Google hangout in quarantine.
by | Mar 20, 2020 10:37 am | Comments (3)
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From his car, sidelined photog launches “Porch-Ritz” portrait project outside New Haveners’ homes — and helps keep a community stitched together, person by person.
by | Mar 18, 2020 1:20 pm | Comments (0)
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A propane leak at a construction site on Whitney Avenue has closed the East Rock block to through-traffic and led to the temporary evacuation of nearby residents.
The fire department’s assistant chief said that the leak is now under control and residents are allowed back in their homes as firefighters burn off the leaked propane while the Whitney Avenue block remains closed.
by | Mar 17, 2020 10:09 am | Comments (0)
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How does one visit an art gallery in the midst of social isolation and quarantine? It seems all roads still, somehow, lead to Facebook.
Continue reading ‘Art Exhibit Broadcasts Live From Quarantine’
by | Mar 5, 2020 12:08 pm | Comments (0)
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Aléwa Cooper.
The head of a Westport private elementary school will serve as the next head of school for The Foote School.
Continue reading ‘New Head Of School Tapped For The Foote School’
by | Feb 28, 2020 1:26 pm | Comments (1)
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Laura Clarke doesn’t know the exact number of people who have stopped in their sidewalk peregrinations to view the optical illusion art work down the Chapel Street alleyway leading to Temple Plaza. She believes it’s more than the number who attended Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Continue reading ‘Touch-Up Planned For Alleyway Optical Illusion’
by | Feb 25, 2020 9:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Shhhh! Last July 4’s fireworks atop East Rock.
“Quiet” fireworks for this July 4th?
They would certainly make the birds stay in their nests and please other animals and small children. But would it add up to a good ole Independence Day bash?
by | Feb 25, 2020 9:45 pm | Comments (4)
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The future Mulberry Jam site, State and Bradley Street, at the base of I-91 overpass, looking southwest.
The land for a future“Mulberry Jam” parklet on State Street near Bradley, which neighbors are trying to retrieve from disuse and long DOT neglect, got a big boost Monday night.
Continue reading ‘East Rockers Earmark $20K For “Mulberry Jam”’
by | Feb 20, 2020 8:59 am | Comments (6)
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The former Church of the Redeemer. Below: Jacob Feldman pitches 24 apartment conversion plan.
Plans to convert a recently closed East Rock church into 24 market-rate apartments won a key city sign-off along with promises from the developer to preserve the Federal-style landmark’s exterior as well as its interior columns, windows, and vaulted ceilings.
by | Feb 17, 2020 1:19 pm | Comments (8)
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Rendering of planned “Living Village.”
Soon you may be able to walk up Prospect Street — and enter utopia.
by | Feb 10, 2020 2:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Liliana Nevarez with tutor Cecilia Dondorful-Amos.
New Haven Reads has opened its doors on Saturdays at its 85 Willow St. location, to help cut into a 200-plus-student tutoring waitlist.
Continue reading ‘Saturday Becomes Reading Day On Willow Street’
by | Feb 5, 2020 10:34 pm | Comments (5)
Police have beefed up patrols in East Rock following three purse-snatchings in two weeks.
by | Feb 3, 2020 1:01 pm | Comments (8)
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The Lehman site, looking south on Canner at Foster
Anna Festa is distressed by the extent of graffiti defacing a long-delayed construction site in Goatville and other locations in the area, including a “first,” graffiti on stop signs. So she’s considering asking the new mayor to restart a citywide (anti-)graffiti initiative to deal with the problem that doesn’t go away.
Continue reading ‘Condo Plan Poised To Advance; Graffiti Targeted’
by | Jan 20, 2020 10:02 pm | Comments (5)
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487 East St. (center) and 485 East St. (right), two recent acquisitions by Ocean Management.
An affiliate company of the local mega-landlord Ocean Management spent $1.45 million buying seven different two- and three-family houses in Jocelyn Square, Fair Haven, the Hill, and Newhallville, in the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Jan 15, 2020 5:22 pm | Comments (2)
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The 50th Annual Love March makes its way down Lawrence Street.
Rev. Kennedy Hampton Sr. with a picture of his late father, Love March founder George Hampton Sr.
Young marchers saw a dream come true. Older marchers saw a dream turned nightmare.
Those differing perspectives on the successes of the Civil Rights Movement and on the persistence of racism, warmongering, and economic inequality permeated this year’s celebration of the city’s longest-running Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial birthday parade and church service.
by | Dec 16, 2019 6:25 pm | Comments (10)
Romeo Simeone cutting a block of pecorino. Below: The many cheeses of Romeo & Cesare’s Gourmet Shoppe.
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After over three decades of serving chicken marsala, sausage and peppers, fig and prosciutto pizza, and many, many more homemade Italian delicacies out of its Orange Street storefront, Romeo & Cesare’s Gourmet Shoppe will close for good on Christmas Eve.
by | Dec 10, 2019 3:39 pm | Comments (4)
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The proposed new Mulberry Jam greenspace. Below: Ming Thompson, John Martin, and Keith Appleby at the prospective future park site.
A fenced-in, overgrown, and overlooked pocket of state-owned land that sits in the shadow of I‑91 may soon transform into a lush communal greenspace, thanks to the vision — and labor — of a volunteer group of East Rock neighbors.
Continue reading ‘Bradley Street Lot Eyed For “Mulberry Jam”’
by | Dec 6, 2019 1:12 pm | Comments (8)
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Richard Watkins held a measuring tape in the position for a steel pole while Matt Viens leaned his weight into a drill that choked fragrant pink sawdust out of a slowly-forming hole in a red cedar post.
The future safety of New Haven’s stone stairway to the heavens hung in the balance.
by | Dec 2, 2019 4:18 pm | Comments (9)
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Whitney Avenue, looking north from Sachem Street. Below: City Engineer Giovanni Zinn.
Speed tables. Bike lanes. Bumpouts. Traffic signals.
Those potential pedestrian safety improvements are all now possibilities for Whitney Avenue thanks to $1.2 million in state bonding the city is slated to receive for reimagining the East Rock/Prospect Hill corridor.
by | Nov 26, 2019 8:56 am | Comments (12)
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The Church of the Redeemer on Whitney Avenue. Below: Jacob Feldman pitches plan for residential conversion.
The Feldman brothers development team plans to convert the Church of the Redeemer and its adjoining buildings into 24 market-rate apartments, all while preserving the Federal-style Whitney Avenue landmark.