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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.
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Mar 20, 2020 10:37 am
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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.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 18, 2020 1:20 pm
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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.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 28, 2020 1:26 pm
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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.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 25, 2020 9:50 pm
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“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?
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Allan Appel |
Feb 25, 2020 9:45 pm
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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.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 20, 2020 8:59 am
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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.
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.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 20, 2020 10:02 pm
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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.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 15, 2020 5:22 pm
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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.
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.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 10, 2019 3:39 pm
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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.
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.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 2, 2019 4:18 pm
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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.
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.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 21, 2019 8:56 am
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Yale plans to move an historic two-story Trumbull Street building a few hundred feet down the block — and then build in its stead a new four-story building for the university’s Economics Department.
Mayor-Elect Justin Elicker offered that idea Thursday afternoon in response to the first surprise question he fielded since Tuesday’s election by a local reporter — who also happens to be a third-grader at East Rock Community School.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 31, 2019 12:40 pm
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Incumbent East Rock Alder Anna Festa faces a Republican challenge this year from a Cedar Hill native and U.S. Navy veteran in her bid for a fourth two-year term on the Board of Alders.
The local real estate giant Pike International purchased two Crown Street lots and an adjacent two-family home for $2.9 million, and another large local landlord, Mandy Management, spent $2.475 million on a 24-unit Beaver Hills apartment complex, in the city’s latest property transactions.