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.
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)
Posted by Brian Slattery on Sunday, March 15, 2020
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?