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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.
by | Nov 21, 2019 8:56 am | Comments (4)
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Yale Planner James Elmasry with rendering of Economics building proposed for 87 Trumbull (top).
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.
by | Nov 8, 2019 9:05 am | Comments (20)
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Reporter Anthony Contreras in the foreground listening to his answer.
The city should have a community conversation about potentially renaming Christopher Columbus Family Academy on Grand Avenue in Fair Haven.
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.
by | Oct 31, 2019 12:40 pm | Comments (3)
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Challenger Eric Mastroianni, incumbent Alder Anna Festa.
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.
by | Oct 22, 2019 1:08 pm | Comments (13)
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Vacant lot and garage at 386 Crown, bought by Pike.
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.
by | Sep 27, 2019 10:54 am | Comments (6)
Occupants fired bullets at each other along a ride that took them from Grand Avenue up Orange Street.
by | Sep 10, 2019 9:39 pm | Comments (2)
Three incumbent New Haven alders defeated challengers in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries, while a party convention-endorsed candidate also prevailed against a petitioning challenger.
Continue reading ‘Incumbent Alders Beat Back Primary Challenges’
by | Sep 9, 2019 11:11 am | Comments (3)
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Candidates Eddie Gist, Steve Winter, Troy Streater, Anais Nunez.
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The three neighborhood-spanning Ward 21.
A four-way alder race in the jigsaw-shaped Ward 21 pits a first-term incumbent focused on challenges ranging from street light improvements to affordable housing to climate change against a slate of challengers calling for more opportunities for neighborhood youth.
by | Sep 9, 2019 7:38 am | Comments (1)
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Amythyst Kiah.
The CT Folk Festival and Green Expo hit all the marks of a good festival on Saturday: great music, lots of things to do beyond the music, and a celebration of space and community built not just around the music, but the people and nature that make a special day possible.
by | Aug 28, 2019 7:24 am | Comments (0)
Jim Allyn plays with a right hand confident and sure. His singing voice is strong yet plaintive. “Tonight she lifts her flame, and history’s taking names,” he sings. “The mother of exiles prays her child will be found.”
Continue reading ‘CT Folk Fest Makes Changes On Solid Ground’
by | Aug 23, 2019 12:14 pm | Comments (1)
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Saul Fussiner.
“I wanted to be Billy Bragg,” said Saul Fussiner: storyteller, playwright, screenwriter, teacher, and music fan. “The reason why I’m a live storyteller, I think really, is because of music. But I can’t play guitar and I can’t sing really well, so I needed a different way of doing storytelling.”
Had Fussiner ever played guitar? He laughed. He had a story about that.
by | Aug 19, 2019 7:27 am | Comments (0)
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Christopher Seiler, Kaia Monroe, Terra Chaney.
A twin named Dromio is yelling at his twin brother, also named Dromio. The Dromio outside wants to be let in the house. The Dromio inside the house doesn’t want to let him in. They don’t believe each other’s stories. As hatches in the door fly open and closed, the entire misunderstanding could be cleared up, if they ever made eye contact, got a good look at each other. But fate and some tight choreography prevent that from happening. The misunderstandings grow — and get funnier.
by | Aug 12, 2019 1:53 pm | Comments (3)
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206 Wallace St.
Mandy Management purchased a Mill River warehouse to store boilers, washing machines, refrigerators, and other household appliances needed for its local property management empire.
Meanwhile, four homes sold on Livingston Street home, totaling almost $3.7 million, in the city’s latest property transactions.