by | Jan 25, 2022 1:15 pm | Comments (18)
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Grewal in front of the possible future ice cream shop.
When Elena Grewal looks at the vacant storefront at 831 Orange St., she envisions swirling soft-serve, dollops of hot fudge, coffee and wine, and neighbor-to-neighbor conversations.
by | Jan 16, 2022 10:32 am | Comments (10)
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Pastor Kennedy D. Hampton Sr. on Saturday march, beside father's poster.
The 52nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Love March trekked in 10-degree weather Saturday through the streets of Goatville and Upper State.
Continue reading ‘For 52nd Year, MLK Love Marchers Brave The Cold’
by | Jan 13, 2022 11:54 am | Comments (6)
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New Crown & High complex: ground-floor retail remains empty.
It’s fine to cluster liquor outlets on Crown Street. On Orange Street? Fuggedaboutit.
That at least was the import of two developments at this week’s zoning board meeting, where a Crown Street developer won permission to try to fill an empty storefront with a high-end package store while Atticus Market withdrew a request to start selling beer in East Rock.
Continue reading ‘More "Package" Purveyors Allowed Downtown’
by | Jan 11, 2022 9:58 am | Comments (10)
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At the Whitney Modern's February 2021 ribbon cutting; 10 months later, a new owner paid more than twice the city-appraised value.
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The "Whitney Modern" and the former American Red Cross-turned-apartment building at 703 Whitney Ave.
A newly built 42-unit East Rock luxury apartment complex sold for $18.5 million to a New Jersey-based investor duo that has poured tens of millions of dollars over the past year into New Haven real estate — in the latest example of the city’s housing market overflowing with cash, at least for those buying and selling.
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by | Jan 10, 2022 9:21 am | Comments (40)
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Plan for 3-lane Whitney.
The city is looking to put Whitney Avenue on a “diet” — to slim down the roadway to make it safer for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. Some neighbors at the latest community meeting embraced the waist-trimming regimen; others were not so sure.
by | Dec 15, 2021 4:50 pm | Comments (13)
Wilbur Cross' bottle filler machine: Prototype for what other schools are slated to receive in February.
Amid school-shooting threats and fights in the halls, New Haven Public School (NHPS) students are wrestling with a more prosaic concern these days: They’re thirsty.
Most public schools have no drinking water available because of the pandemic.
by | Dec 15, 2021 3:06 pm | Comments (14)
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Operations manager Brandi Hansen and manager Sam McGee awaiting order at Atticus Market.
Atticus Market, the new East Rock outpost downtown bookseller and café Atticus that which opened in the spring, has books. It has the groceries. It has pizza.
Now they want to add beer to the list. Neighbors turned up to show they love the store — but area package store owners had reservations about new competition.
Continue reading ‘Atticus Market's Beer Pitch Sparks Debate’
by | Dec 13, 2021 3:53 pm | Comments (3)
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The former Lehman printing factory site at 191 Foster.
A local megalandlord’s long-delayed plans to convert a former Goatville printing factory into 30 new condos and townhouse units got a shot in the arm, in the form of a $10 million mortgage loan from Goldman Sachs.
Continue reading ‘Ocean Lands $10M Mortgage For Stalled Lehman Factory-Condo Development’
by | Dec 10, 2021 3:18 pm | Comments (49)
Edwin Rodriguez outside of his home at 192 Exchange St.: Homeowners citywide received revaluation notices this week.
On Exchange Street in Fair Haven, Edwin Rodriguez opened his mail this week to find out that the two-family house his family has owned for three decades has increased in value by 68 percent.
On Livingston Street in East Rock, Nancy Angoff learned that the single-family home she and her husband “downsized” into less than three years ago has jumped in value by 31 percent.
Continue reading ‘Eye-Popping Revaluations Hit Different Blocks At Different Rates’
by | Dec 3, 2021 10:24 am | Comments (4)
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The ordering line on opening night.
One hour into the rousingly successful introduction of pizza at Atticus Market on Thursday night, someone asked owner Charlie Negaro, Jr. if all his dreams had come true.
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by | Nov 26, 2021 9:27 am | Comments (53)
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Enough already?
Alder Kim Edwards: “It took me weeks to get a car towed.”
How many parking tickets are issued, where and when?
Do traffic enforcers bring in more money than they cost? Should city hire more? Issue more tickets?
Do so many residential parking zones eliminate free, legal spots?
East Rock neighbors raised those questions — and started hunting for answers.
Continue reading ‘East Rockers Seek Parking Answers, & Fixes’
by | Nov 21, 2021 10:07 pm | Comments (15)
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Firefighters found a man who’d been shot dead in a car Sunday in the Prospect Hill section of the East Rock neighborhood.
by | Nov 19, 2021 3:20 pm | Comments (5)
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590 Orange St., cleared to become apartments.
A New York City-based developer has won approval for plans to convert a century-old church building into seven new apartments in East Rock.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Church-To-Housing Conversion OK’d’
by | Nov 9, 2021 1:04 pm | Comments (4)
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Lucca (at right) greets his cousin, Sora, another Italian water dog, who arrived at the park with her “grandmother.”
On the way to the dog park one recent afternoon, I watched a speeding car hit a highway barrier and spin in a 360-degree revolution. The driver, one of many daft people at the wheel of late, managed to total only his sedan and not any eyewitnesses. Then he crept off to the exit on his rims, smoke billowing from the hood, and succeeded in reminding all of us how close we come every day to profound misfortune
by | Nov 8, 2021 12:38 pm | Comments (3)
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Zoom? What’s Zoom?: Sunday’s gathering.
A neighbor’s raucous late night parties. Speed bumps. How to close down parts of State Street for a spring festival.
For a time, the first in-person monthly gathering of the East Rock Community Management Team (CMT) since the pandemic started, seemed, well, a return to normal.
by | Oct 26, 2021 1:08 pm | Comments (58)
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The city engineer unveiled a plan to slow traffic and protect cyclists and pedestrians on Whitney Avenue — eliciting general praise along with some concerns from neighbors.
by | Oct 14, 2021 12:36 pm | Comments (2)
Seekers at opening of Eckhart Center for Catholic and Dominican Life.
Medieval mystic Meister Eckhart.
Unable to find a convenient or affordable cave? Are the crazy schedules, noise, and constant challenges of New Haven life playing havoc with your quest for solitude and purpose?
Don’t fear. Albertus Magnus College’s new Meister Eckhart Center just may have a solution for you: Learn how to be an “urban mystic.”
You might start by having pizza with one.
by | Sep 28, 2021 1:14 pm | Comments (6)
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Lt. Dana Smith: Now the top cop for East Rock/Newhallvillle.
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Newly minted Dwight/Beaver Hills top cop Lt. Ryan Przybylski.
Newhallville, East Rock and Cedar Hill have a new neighborhood top cop — Lt. Dana Smith, who has stepped into the district manager role as Lt. Manmeet Colon moves over to Internal Affairs.
And a little further west in Dwight and Beaver Hills, Lt. Ryan Przybylski has risen to the role of district manager, replacing recently promoted Capt. John Healy.
by | Sep 28, 2021 8:10 am | Comments (6)
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Kwame Asari (right) discussing his Oh Shito savory Ghanaian hot sauce with a wholesaler at Monday’s pitch event.
fatto a mano founder Pierluigi Mazzella, with his beloved panettone.
Pierluigi Mazzella never sleeps. This is because he’s obsessed. And in love.
At Monday’s CT Food Launchpad Pitch Night in East Rock, the founder and owner of fatto a mano stood beside the object that has kept him awake at all hours: the panettone, a towering round of sweet bread naturally leavened with sourdough and studded with organic raisins and semi-sweet Valrhona chocolate.
It took him 72 hours to make.
Continue reading ‘Pitch Night Showcases Pannetone, “Bacorn”’
by | Sep 27, 2021 10:27 am | Comments (0)
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Brackeen with Rev. Steve Cousin at East Rock fundraiser.
Upper Westville Darryl Brackeen took his quest to demonstrate viability as a statewide candidate to a tap room in New Haven’s Goatville neighborhood, with a fundraiser at East Rock Brewing Company.
Continue reading ‘Brackeen Campaign Taps 3rd-Quarter Support At East Rock Brewing’
by | Sep 15, 2021 8:07 am | Comments (1)
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Kang.
Without warning, pianist Min Young Kang laid into the keys to declare the opening figure to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor. The players in the Ulysses Quartet — sharing the stage with her at First Presbyterian Church on Whitney Avenue Tuesday evening — followed with choral declarations of their own. Ideas flowed one into the other from there, passed from instrument to instrument until it all came together in a sweeping, heroic theme that fell into an aching fugue.
by | Aug 30, 2021 10:19 am | Comments (2)
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Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman.
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NHPS Student Enrollment Count by Race/Ethnicity.
Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman are ready for the new school year to begin Monday: They have their vaccine shots, they’re even OK with wearing masks. And, after experiencing remote learning, they much prefer the idea of being back in class in person.
by | Aug 24, 2021 12:26 pm | Comments (6)
U.S. AIR FORCE
More than 600 Afghan citizens fleeing Taliban aboard U.S. Air Force C-17 on Aug. 15.
A New Haven agency on the front lines of resettling Afghan refugees came to East Rock neighbors with a wish list for help.
Continue reading ‘IRIS Puts Out Call For Help For Afghan Arrivals’
by | Aug 11, 2021 9:50 am | Comments (12)
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BoomBoomBoom! 186 units on tap for Fair Street.
City zoners unanimously approved land-use relief for two projects that promise to bring hundreds of new market-rate apartments to Wooster Square and East Rock.
by | Aug 10, 2021 3:40 pm | Comments (2)
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Ralph Walker Skating Rink.
Alders unanimously advanced two proposed public-private accords — one that would keep a community health center in Dixwell for the next two decades, another that would bring an ice rink management company to Upper State Street for the next five years.
Continue reading ‘Hill Health, Skating Rink Contracts Advance’