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 | Feb 26, 2020 5:01 pm | Comments (0)
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Sixty students from St. Francis & St. Rose of Lima School had an icy start to their morning Wednesday, getting in a skating trip to the Ralph Walker Skating Rink before it temporarily closes mid-March.
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 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 | 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 | Jul 5, 2019 8:54 am | Comments (0)
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Two new friends connected over a board game, and others reflected about the meaning of the holiday, as hundreds gathered at Wilbur Cross High School’s athletic field Thursday night for a view of the Fourth of July fireworks display at East Rock Park.
by | Jun 26, 2019 2:13 pm | Comments (7)
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Quinn presents to the East Rock CMT.
Amid the usual updates about government and crime, neighbors heard a different kind of presentation at the latest East Rock Community Management Team meeting: a sales pitch, for fiber-optic internet service.
by | Jun 25, 2019 1:25 pm | Comments (27)
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Joe Jadach in his tent under I-91. Below: A city notice ordering the homeless to vacate their encampments under the highway overpass.
Joe Jadach has lived in a tent under the I‑91 overpass behind the Ralph Walker Skating Rink for the past seven months.
Now that the city has ordered the clearing out of his and a handful of other Goatville homeless encampments, Jadach is packing up his belongings and getting ready to move … where? He’s not sure. But he has survived outdoors this long, and figures he can last a bit longer until he lands a stable job and apartment.
by | Jun 4, 2019 8:03 am | Comments (0)
Sunday night saw another double billing at mActivity’s East Rock Concert series, a near-perpetual lineup of acoustic music gems curated by Fernando Pinto. Rounding the corner to stroll up to the venue, I came across musician Randy Burns holding a cigarette and sitting on the steps of the venue, looking like he’d always sat there, with the ease of a performer who has been enjoying the preshow nicotine for decades. This was, after all, a homecoming show.
by | May 13, 2019 1:54 pm | Comments (2)
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Oak Haven Chef Kevin Wolcott inside the new mobile kitchen.
The farm-to-table dining experience Oak Haven Table & Bar brought to Upper State Street six years ago will be pulling up to farms, festivals, and fairs this summer.
by | Apr 3, 2019 7:49 am | Comments (6)
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Jones and Gormany.
Elicker.
Mayor Toni Harp’s budget roadshow pulled into Goatville’s mActivity center Tuesday night to face a crowd of East Rockers curious about the state of the city’s finances and what the future might hold.
Continue reading ‘Budget Road Show (Down) Lands In Goatville’
by | Mar 28, 2019 7:42 am | Comments (10)
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Martin with Atelier Cue’s Ioana Barac beneath the overpass.
These old grey concrete and frequently graffitied highway underpass walls won’t remain that way much longer.
That’s thanks to grants that the Upper State Street (Business) Association (USSA) and other neighborhood partners just received to spruce up the concrete with light and color, design and art, and remind folks of how it used to be before the highway sliced the area in two.
Continue reading ‘Art, Light, Life Coming To State/Trumbull Overpass’
by | Mar 18, 2019 7:35 am | Comments (0)
St. Patrick’s Day evening, East Rock’s mActivity saw another installment of Fernando Pinto’s wide-ranging and ever acoustically minded East Rock Concert Series, this evening featuring a double billing of New Haven’s Goodnight Blue Moon and Ithaca, N.Y.‘s Richie and Rosie, that is, Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton.
by | Feb 15, 2019 8:59 am | Comments (17)
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Boxcutter-wielding landlord Xie Meiqiang flees a reporter Thursday outside his Orchard Street property.
68 Mechanic St.: Condemned.
The city condemned a two-family home that two Guilford-based landlords had illegally converted into a five-unit rooming house. Four tenants were displaced.
The landlords’ — and their citywide tenants’ — problems may have just begun.
by | Feb 11, 2019 8:40 am | Comments (0)
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Kinobe.
As Kinobe Herbert of Uganda looked out over the expectant Sunday evening crowd at mActivity on Nicoll Street in East Rock, he allowed himself a small smile.
“I feel like I’m in a classroom,” he joked.
As it turned out, he had a lot to teach.
by | Nov 28, 2018 4:14 pm | Comments (5)
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Envisioned new museum terrace, facing west.
There’s still a year or so to take in the great Brontosaurus and other treats of the natural world, past and present, at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Then, beginning in 2020, the galleries will close for major renovations — the first such pause in the museum’s history.
Continue reading ‘Brontosaurus Plans Vacation—For Peabody Renovation’
by | Nov 26, 2018 8:24 am | Comments (3)
Posted by Fernando Pinto on Saturday, November 24, 2018
It was a night of multitasking in an already multifaceted space this past Saturday, as mActivity — gym by day, and now, thanks to Fernando Pinto and his East Rock Concert Series, concert venue and café by night — hosted Kevin Burt and Dom Flemons in a double feature
Both musicians never seemed to just play one instrument, whether it was Burt’s virtuosic harmonica or Flemons’s quills, bones, or otherwise.
Continue reading ‘Concert Series Turns Goatville Into The Village’
by | Nov 1, 2018 9:35 pm | Comments (15)
Tim Wilson explains the growler to Mayor Harp.
It took brothers Tim and Shaun Wilson a little longer than they’d hope to get the doors of the city’s first production brewery and beer hall open — about three years — but nobody was counting during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at their Nicoll Street facility.
by | Aug 21, 2018 7:58 am | Comments (0)
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Sam Moth.
Guitarist Kryssi Battalene, going under the name Kryssi B for a solo set at Never Ending Books, thanked everyone for coming out on a Monday night. But she spoke through a tremolo effect, making her voice distant, submerged, the consonants blurring together.
With the house lights dimmed, it was an apt beginning for a night of music that often swelled and floated in surprising yet soothing ways, as four acts ranging from folk to electronic music — Battalene, Sam Moth, Village of Spaces, and Kath Bloom — showed what they could do.
by | Jun 14, 2018 8:03 am | Comments (8)
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Lehman Brothers engraving plant on Foster Street, overrun with weeds.
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Miguel Almodovar.
A project testing the feasibility of selling condos in New Haven won an endorsement from city planning staff, calling the proposal to convert an abandoned printing press into townhouses and apartments “a solid example” of adaptive reuse.
by | Apr 25, 2018 7:48 am | Comments (4)
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Two survivors of the school shooting in Parkland at East Rock Community Magnet School on Tuesday.
The kids at East Rock Community Magnet School wanted to know what it was like to live through a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and then emerge as leaders of a national movement.
The two students visiting from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School wanted local kids to realize that they too have survived an epidemic of urban gun violence and could become activists as well.
by | Apr 10, 2018 2:59 pm | Comments (20)
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The backyard at 68 Mechanic St.
The city found a Mechanic Street home owned by two Guilford-based landlords to be “unfit for human occupancy” due to an absence of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, unpermitted and uninspected interior renovations, and the illegal conversion of a two-family dwelling into five separate rental units.
by | Apr 2, 2018 8:18 am | Comments (0)
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Denise Renee.
Denise Renee began her set at Sofar on Saturday night with a song patterned first from pats and clicks, sounds she could make into a microphone. A sung riff suggested a chord progression. That was all she needed to build her song. Within minutes, with just a few effects — some echo, a pitch shifter, a looper — and a lot of musical ingenuity, she had made a powerful uplifting song full of voices. “Because I need freedom, freedom, freedom,” she sang. As she got most of the audience to sing along, she sounded like she had all the freedom she needed.