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The Love March.
President Donald Trump’s policies and especially his recent “shithole” statements about Africa and Haiti inspired the 150 people who prayed and hit the streets for New Haven’s 48th annual Martin Luther King Day “Love March.”
No, they didn’t agree with Trump’s statements. They statements gave them renewed energy to carry on King’s fight for racial and social justice.
by | Nov 28, 2017 9:12 am | Comments (12)
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A tent from a homeless encampment set up by the Mill River near the Ralph Walker Rink earlier this summer.
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LCI’s Linda Davis at Monday night’s meeting.
The city is planning to clear a large Mill River homeless encampment near the Ralph Walker Skating Rink sometime before the beginning of the new year.
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by | Oct 24, 2017 8:03 am | Comments (21)
The old Lehman Brothers Inc. printing company, which has been empty for almost 10 years.
Garrick, Paris, and Rozich unveil project.
With a plan to renovate a shuttered Goatville printing plant, a fast-growing New Haven real estate company is betting that New Haven’s housing boom is ready for condominiums, not just high-end rental apartments.
by | Aug 4, 2017 5:32 pm | Comments (21)
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A makeshift tent, right behind Ralph Walker Rink.
Camper Luke and partner.
Homeless people have pitched tents, erected lean-tos and stacked mattresses along the Mill River beneath I‑91, leading neighbors to push the city to clear out the new encampment.
by | Jun 6, 2017 12:55 pm | Comments (0)
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Wisdom at his Whalley Avenue store.
The calm that couturier Neville Wisdom exudes standing in front of his Westville Village showroom while casually sipping his vegetable power smoothie is deceiving.
It is Sunday and his shop is officially closed, but it’s the final week in the lead-up to his spring-summer fashion extravaganza at Corsair this Friday, June 9, and there is not a day — or moment — to be wasted.
by | Mar 23, 2017 7:48 am | Comments (3)
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Wilson: Think Stony Creek Brewery.
A planned New Haven brewery has the go-ahead to open its doors in the fall and produce up to 45,000 barrels of beer a year — with the proper equipment to make that happen.
by | Feb 14, 2017 8:53 am | Comments (13)
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Pullen: Business hit more.
East Rockers who live near State Street saw their property values shoot up. Those nearer to Whitney Avenue didn’t.
That’s because the impact of the city’s latest revaluation comes down to location, location, location —- and often how close you live to new luxury apartments.
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Neighborhood breakdown for Revaluation 2016, including single and some multifamily homes.
Continue reading ‘Luxury Apts. Raise Values, Blood Pressure’
by | Jan 15, 2017 10:49 pm | Comments (1)
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Wanda Faison and Deacon Vincent Smith on the march.
Rodney Mitchell hoisted the American flag at the front of Sunday’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Love March, just as he has for the past decade and a half. His possible successor was right beside him.
by | Oct 14, 2016 8:21 am | Comments (6)
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Schweitzer, at right, accepts the prize Thursday night.
New Haven/Leon Sister City Project’s small size helped it sweep a prize for avoiding greenhouse gas emissions by a small organization in a recent citywide “Car Free Challenge” — given that one of its employees doesn’t even own a car.
by | Sep 23, 2016 11:56 am | Comments (0)
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Detail from the new Corsair “New Haven” mural.
Though not quite Philadelphia, considered by some as the “mural capital of the world,” New Haven is seeing a flowering of the ages-old form of visual communication, community engagement, education, and storytelling on its buildings.
by | Sep 22, 2016 12:16 pm | Comments (1)
Blend Foxon Park White Birch soda and maple syrup together with smoked shallots, smoked jalapeños, and tart cherry juice. Add a little brown sugar and some salt and pepper. Simmer it down and you have the makings of the house, signature New Haven-style barbecue sauce at Bull & Swine.
by | Aug 17, 2016 3:48 pm | Comments (3)
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Sincavage: Who needs “Brooklyn”?
The new logo.
The supermarket retailer turned up his nose at New Haven’s Ninth Square-created balsamic red onion sandwich spread. “Not Brooklyn enough,” the buyer sniffed.
That hurt. But buyers may not be sniffing for long: People will soon be seeing “Made in New Haven” far and wide.
by | Aug 8, 2016 2:06 pm | Comments (7)
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Alexa and Jack Flagge hand-decorate pizza boxes.
Jack Flagge and his family held the inauguration of their new pizza restaurant in East Rock during a blizzard. They were shocked when customers started rolling in.
by | Jul 13, 2016 7:34 am | Comments (1)
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The Corsair complex.
The sprawling new luxury housing complex at State and Mechanic will get a tiny bit bigger — now that developers won permission to add three new apartments.
by | Jun 16, 2016 7:42 am | Comments (6)
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Old architecture meets new at 1050 State Street.
Proclaiming that “this isn’t just another project,” Andy Montelli, Post Road Residential founder and developer of Corsair, a new luxury residential complex at 1050 State St., has not only embraced a slice of New Haven manufacturing history in the project’s creation, but commissioned some of New Haven’s best-known artists and artisans for site-specific installations at Corsair that highlight local manufacturing and the spirit of a people building a nation.
by | Jan 25, 2016 5:32 pm | Comments (10)
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Everything must go: second-hand wire, cable, optical fiber machinery.
“Why the m?” clients and the curious are asking Burch Valldejuli and Pablo Perez about their new mActivity fitness center in the Goatville section of the East Rock neighborhood.
by | Jan 1, 2016 11:07 am | Comments (2)
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Jesse and Carol Horsford by one of their restorations.
Two decrepit buildings were dragging down a pocket of the East Rock section in Goatville until a husband-and-wife development team stepped in. Now neighbors are sighing with pride and relief.
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Goatvillers Charlene McMillan and Padilla Nash take their first walk in six years across the State Street Bridge.
(Update Friday 5:05 p.m.: The bridge is open!)
A hole in the fresh blacktop of the rebuilt State Street Bridge gave celebrants an understandable moment of pause Thursday, one day before the long-closed span reopened to the public.
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Jose García orchestrated 300 individual chicken wings bubbling away in the seven-basket fryolator for 15 minutes. He gave each basket ten deft shakes a minute so the vegetable oil parboiled them evenly. Then out they went to the refrigerated truck in the parking lot to await saucing.
They joined what in the end will be — count ‘em — 25,000 individual wings, 360 pounds of cut celery, and 17 five-gallon buckets of Buffalo wing sauce, which will fill about 1,000 Super Bowl orders at Archie Moore’s between 11:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Asked if he could reveal what’s in the wing sauce, longtime manager Jim Wooley thought deeply and then replied, “No.”
Continue reading ‘Archie Moore’s Wings It For The Super Bowl’
by | Jan 16, 2015 9:00 am | Comments (6)
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The 45th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Love March launched from Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church on Lawrence Street under fair skies, and chilly, but warming temperatures. If history is a guide, the march would have launched under stormy skies as well.
by | Dec 15, 2014 4:27 pm | Comments (18)
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Asked how long the State Street Bridge has been closed, Mezcal Restaurante Mexicano’s gregarious owner, Ricardo Trejo, rolled his eyes and sighed. “I’ve lost track of time,” he said.
Continue reading ‘State St. Bridge Debacle Nears $30M, & Counting’
by | Dec 11, 2014 2:51 pm | Comments (25)
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A groundbreaking in East Rock’s Goatville section Tuesday was a celebration of not just new lofts, but of what can happen when a community and a developer actually agree on a project.
by | Apr 18, 2014 8:14 am | Comments (18)
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Engineer James Rotondo lays out the plan.
A plan to bring new life to a long-shuttered industrial complex won another approval Wednesday night, with an aim for completion in 2 years.
by | Dec 19, 2013 8:27 am | Comments (2)
Two major development plans got the thumbs up from the City Plan Commission, and now head back for approval from the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Continue reading ‘City Plan OKs Star Supply, St. Luke’s Plans’