by | Mar 11, 2022 9:46 am | Comments (5)
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Sultan Thahir: "Tonight, we're having..."
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Wednesday? Must be yoga night.
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Live music night.
After dusk, night after night, young crowds are swarming into an unassuming new coffeeshop on State Street to transform the place into an event hot spot — each time with a different reason to gather.
by | Mar 9, 2022 12:19 pm | Comments (8)
Tentative sketch of Elena's On Orange.
An ice cream shop — with alcoholic offerings on tap — is one step closer to materializing on Orange Street, after the Board of Zoning Appeals Tuesday night unanimously approved a parking and alcohol variance.
Continue reading ‘Zoning Board Approves Ice Cream Shop, With Ale’
by | Mar 3, 2022 9:06 am | Comments (0)
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Katherine Van Tassel and Nina Laverty.
“I’m exhausted,” said Salvatore DeLucia of Wilbur Cross’s Lights Up Drama Club, “but I’m absolutely riding on a cloud. I’m ecstatic. Because these kids are back on stage. It feels like it’s been forever, and at the same time, it feels like it was just yesterday, it was 2019, and we were performing Sister Act.”
Continue reading ‘Lights (Back) Up: Wilbur Cross Students Return To The Stage’
by | Mar 2, 2022 12:34 pm | Comments (11)
Top neighborhood cop Lt. Dana Smith promised East Rockers that police will focus on traffic-calming in response to five separate incidents of drivers hitting pedestrians in January alone.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Promised Increased Attention To Dangerous Drivers’
by | Mar 1, 2022 6:53 pm | Comments (43)
Rendering of project facade.
“This is absolutely ridiculous, who you people are. This is unbelievable. We’re trying to make a significant investment in your area. You really want the buildings that are there to continue to be there the way like this? You’re happy with the status quo?”
Jared Hutter — CEO and co-founder of real estate firm Aptitude Development — said that to the East Rock Community Management Team at a combative meeting Monday night.
He got as good as he gave.
by | Feb 28, 2022 8:43 am | Comments (0)
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Bridge & Tunnel Crowd booth: Sometimes wi-fi doesn't reach the loo.
The buzz and joy around the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op in East Rock was palpable, from the crowds of jacketed chatters outside to the low hum of many people inside the communal space. The community turned out for the NHV Zine Fair — the first such event in years.
by and | Feb 24, 2022 3:03 pm | Comments (2)
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John Geanakoplos: On a mission to walk away the pain.
The word on Mitchell Drive Thursday was healing — from a knee injury, and from the Zoom era.
by | Feb 18, 2022 3:03 pm | Comments (8)
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Chloe Rose models $50 look, styled by Todd Lyon with items from Fashionista's new vintage collection
In a jet-black 1950s Polack dress and gloves to match, Chloe Rose modeled a grieving widow look styled by Fashionista co-owner Todd Lyon — complete only with 1960s kitten heels, Aviators, and a maroon headscarf.
The outfit was one of four that Rose donned to promote “Persnickety Thrift,” the vintage store’s new line of thrifted clothing, which debuts this weekend. The line marks a new stage in the evolution of one of New Haven’s most colorful homegrown businesses, and a reflection of where fashion consciousness and society at large have moved amid the chaos of a pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Sign Of Times: "Persnickety Thrift" Debuts’
by | Feb 9, 2022 4:53 pm | Comments (18)
Grewal's design for ice cream shop.
Ice cream might be pure happiness for Elena Grewal — but not completely to some of her East Rock neighbors, if it’s offered up with wine and beer.
That divide emerged Tuesday night at a Zoom-assisted meeting of the Board of Zoning Appeals at which Grewal’s request for relief for a new shop was heard.
by and | Feb 3, 2022 4:39 pm | Comments (1)
Mary Ann Frank and Lauren Pinkza with Willow on Thursday's walk.
The word on Cliff Street Thursday was: Female friendships.
As in long-haul female friendships, nurtured on morning strolls. They can get you through a pandemic — and help you grapple with mortality.
They can even get you through a disappointing morning sandwich.
by | Feb 2, 2022 10:09 am | Comments (0)
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Cherelle Carr with sister Shenae at Tuesday's promotional ceremony.
As she and her colleagues took the oath to become New Haven police sergeants, Cherelle Carr thought back to when she almost went to school to be a lawyer.
by | Jan 27, 2022 3:16 pm | Comments (5)
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Demolition underway at 191, 197, 199 Foster St.
After more than three years of delays, the last remaining husk of the former Lehman Brothers printing factory has been demolished — making way for 30 planned new condos and townhouse units in Goatville.
by and | Jan 26, 2022 3:38 pm | Comments (0)
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Owner Rosanna Sabino and employee Marisol Ortega at Nica's Market.
The word on Orange Street Wednesday was: Caffeine.
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.
Continue reading ‘"Whitney Modern" Luxury Apts. Sold For $18.5M’
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.
Continue reading ‘Pies Fly At Atticus Market’s Inaugural Pizza Night’
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)
Quinton Jones.
Firefighters found a man who’d been shot dead in a car Sunday in the Prospect Hill section of the East Rock neighborhood.