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Blumenthal at Monday’s presser.
65 to 25. 57 to 17.
Those are the staffing-level cuts at two local theaters since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. On Monday, theater managers and advocates joined U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal in calling for help to save their stages.
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by | Aug 24, 2020 9:05 am | Comments (3)
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Raised crosswalk under construction on Long Wharf in lead-up to weekend races.
Police made eight arrests, towed nine vehicles, and issued 34 summonses and tickets in a crackdown on illegal drag racing.
by | Aug 24, 2020 8:36 am | Comments (2)
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Members of the National Veteran’s Council for Legal Redress (NVCLR) gathered in front of the Vietnam War monument at Vietnam War Memorial Park Saturday afternoon to serve fellow New Haven veteran by handing out personal protective equipment (PPE) and other essentials.
by | Aug 20, 2020 3:29 pm | Comments (13)
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Al Alston, a Wallingford postal worker, at Thursday’s protest.
A steep slowdown in mail processing isn’t just the subject of a red-hot national political debate for Al Alston.
The Wallingford postal worker has seen that reality play out first hand at the station he works at in the New Haven suburbs — where he’s seen massive backlogs caused by two mail sorting machines dismantled and left unused, as well as by his fellow mail carriers losing overtime pay.
by | Aug 20, 2020 2:27 pm | Comments (9)
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Building out new speed humps on Long Wharf Drive.
Three new speed humps are being built on Long Wharf Drive, as part of the city’s latest attempts to deter drag racing on the waterfront roadway.
by | Aug 3, 2020 10:09 am | Comments (2)
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Susan Bysiewiecz encourages people to fill out the census.
Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewiecz visited the food trucks at Long Wharf Drive to encourage “hard-to-count” populations to take the once-in-a-decade census in her latest effort to boost Connecticut’s census response rate.
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by | Jul 10, 2020 11:20 am | Comments (2)
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The Freedom Amistad Schooner raised the Black Lives Matter flag — and in the process drew a link between the Amistad revolt in 1839 and freedom struggles of the modern day.
by | Jun 30, 2020 11:51 am | Comments (9)
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Mayor swabs himself at now-closed CVS testing site …
… and downtown passerby get swabbed on Green, where a new weekly testing site will soon open.
New Haven has lost another Covid-19 drive-through testing site on Long Wharf, and will gain a new Covid-19 walk-up testing site on the Green.
by | May 12, 2020 12:36 pm | Comments (9)
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In hopes of encouraging the community to get tested for Covid-19 at one of New Haven’s five sites, Mayor Justin Elicker was swabbed and received an answer in less than a half hour Tuesday morning at the CVS rapid-testing site at 60 Sargent Dr.
by | Apr 17, 2020 5:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Friday’s virtual press briefing.
The newly opened CVS rapid-testing site on Long Wharf is slated to have tested between 500 and 550 people for the novel coronavirus by the time the site wraps up its first day taking patients.
by | Apr 17, 2020 8:59 am | Comments (2)
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The former Gateway campus on Long Wharf.
The pharmaceutical and healthcare giant CVS has opened a new Covid-19 rapid testing site at the former Gateway Community College on Long Wharf, where New Haveners who register for an appointment in advance and show up in a vehicle can get tested for the novel coronavirus for free.
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by | Mar 17, 2020 12:53 pm | Comments (9)
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At the Sargent Drive collection site.
Yale New Haven Hospital has established its first local testing and specimen collection center on Long Wharf where, only with a doctor’s order and a previously scheduled appointment, patients can be tested for a variety of respiratory viruses, including the novel coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic.
by | Mar 3, 2020 4:38 pm | Comments (5)
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The city-owned, nonprofit-managed Canal Dock Boathouse.
Alders unanimously signed off on a new 10-year, $10-per-square-foot lease between the University of New Haven and the city that will allow the West Haven-based educational institution to build out new labs, classroom space, and public programs at the Canal Dock Boathouse on Long Wharf.
The lease will also give the financially struggling nonprofit that manages the city-owned building a reliable source of income.
by | Feb 14, 2020 8:30 am | Comments (1)
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The Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin houses transgender survivor of Nazi Germany and East Germany Charlotte von Mahlsdorf’s collection of manufactured objects from the “founder’s period” of Germany — the 1870s through the start of World War I. Set in a “memory space” inside the museum, Long Wharf Theatre’s revival of I Am My Own Wife, the Tony and Pulitzer-winning one-person show by Doug Wright, creates an eerie space that is both inside and outside.
by | Feb 7, 2020 9:06 am | Comments (15)
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The city-owned, nonprofit-managed Canal Dock Boathouse. Below: UNH’s Kristen Przyborski: Excited to partner.
The University of New Haven’s plans to lease part of the Canal Dock Boathouse to build out new classroom and lab space won cautious support from alders wary of the finances behind the proposed deal.
by | Jan 16, 2020 3:59 pm | Comments (14)
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545 Long Wharf Dr.
The Knights of Columbus has purchased a nine-story Long Wharf office tower for $12.8 million a year after the building went into foreclosure, and over a decade after the building last sold for $40 million.
by | Jan 6, 2020 4:03 pm | Comments (9)
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The Pirelli Building.
Plans to transform the historic Pirelli Building on Sargent Drive into a hotel have moved forward, as a local developer has purchased the property from IKEA for $1.2 million.
by | Dec 5, 2019 1:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Hicks, Ramirez, Eisen-Martin.
There is a point, at one of the dramatic peaks in the story of Pride and Prejudice, when Lizzy Bennet (Aneisa J. Hicks) is staring down the man who is either her nemesis or partner for life, Mr. Darcy (Biko Eisen-Martin). The sparring they’ve been doing has gotten about as intense as it can. The verbal gloves are coming off, and the illusions are all being stripped away. It’s then that Hicks’s take on the iconic character comes into full bloom. She’s one of the most famous characters in literature. But on the Long Wharf stage, she’s also a thoroughly contemporary black woman — and even more broadly, a person of our time. She’s fiercely intelligent, craving total honesty, and also a little frightened of what might happen if she actually gets it.
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by | Nov 26, 2019 1:05 pm | Comments (2)
Aneisa J. Hicks and Octavia Chávez-Richmond, who play Lizzie and Jane Bennett in Long Wharf Theatre’s upcoming production of Pride and Prejudice, are seizing the moment, along with the rest of the cast and crew, as the theatre heads in a bold new direction under Artistic Director Jacob G. Padrón. This direction includes bringing younger and more diverse voices, and hopefully audiences, to the regional theatre anchor.
But then why revisit Jane Austen? Hicks and Chávez-Richmond have answers to that.
by | Oct 17, 2019 7:34 am | Comments (2)
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Smith and Clapp.
It’s two men in a bar. The bartender, seeing the heat rising between them and realizing they have nowhere else to go that’s safe, leaves the keys with one of them and tells him he can lock up. So the two men begin a verbal dance. One is bold and direct. The other cautious, even afraid. But they both want the same thing. Finally one of them asks the question: “May I kiss you?”
The other hesitates. Someone in the audience can’t handle it anymore and calls out: “Do it!”
by | Sep 8, 2019 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
A hit-and-run driver injured city Police Officer David LaVorgna Saturday night.
by | Aug 16, 2019 4:24 pm | Comments (9)
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Primary care movers (from right): YNHH VP Jennifer Wilcox, Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde, YNHH VP Cynthia Sparer, Hill Health CEO Michael Taylor, Yale School of Medicine Associate Dean Stephen Huot.
The new primary consortium site at 150 Sargent Dr.
State regulators have approved, with conditions, Yale New Haven Hospital’s months-long bid to relocate its three primary care centers from downtown and Hamden to a single building on Long Wharf.
by | Jul 3, 2019 4:33 pm | Comments (12)
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Mayor Toni Harp on board the Amistad.
One hundred and eighty years after enslaved Africans revolted for their freedom off the coast of Cuba and made history, local African American elected officials set sail aboard a replica of that same ship off the coast of Long Wharf.
by | Jun 26, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (0)
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Diana Martinez and Mark P. Griffin.
Diana is a worker from Fellowship Place, which offers support to people with mental illness. Mark is a homeless man, everything he owns in a garbage bag at his feet. She offers him a cup of coffee, a sandwich, maybe a place to stay, maybe some help, and Mark doesn’t know how to take any of it.
“I’ve been using,” he says. He’s scared. He’s exasperated. “Is your program going to help or what?”
Diana listens and sits next to him. She’s undeterred. She suggests that Mark call 2 – 1‑1.
“I don’t have a phone,” he said. “I don’t have anything.” So Diana gives him her phone to use.
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by | Jun 4, 2019 8:12 am | Comments (7)
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YNHH architect William Brothers presents plan for 150 Sargent primary care hub (pictured below.)
Yale New Haven Hospital received its final needed city sign-offs Monday night for two major planned renovation projects, including for the Long Wharf building it has proposed to fit out as a new primary care hub.
The hospital now needs only a final approval from state regulators before it can start making that centralized primary care vision a reality.