Planned 200-unit apartment building for plan’s first phase.
Should a new two-bedroom apartment that costs $2,030 a month really be called “affordable”? What about a new studio apartment that costs $750 a month, and is subsidized by public low-income housing dollars?
And is any type of reduced-rent living better than the surface parking lot that currently swallows four acres of the Ninth Square?
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Sep 7, 2020 10:02 am
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At the intersection of Orange and Crown on Sunday afternoon, artist Michael DeAngelo (pictured) stood on a ladder, a can of spray paint in his hand, putting shading touching onto a blue figure that seemed to float across the black wall in front of him.
A few addresses north on Orange Street, artist Alexander Fournier was on a ladder of his own, sketching out the ghosts of skyscrapers on a blank white wall in front of Ninth Square Market.
Around the corner on Center, Francisco Del Carpio-Beltran was putting down the linework for an intricate mural that turned the city into a blueprint and back again.
Celebrating the new “Orange Street Promenade” in the Ninth Square.
Millie Yoshida, Jack Wolfe, and Matthew Shaffer on their lunch break.
Retail apocalypse? What retail apocalypse?
As commercial storefronts across the city and country struggle to stay open during the pandemic-induced economic crisis, a newly opened “Orange Street Promenade” showed off a Ninth Square in full bloom.
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Aug 31, 2020 8:08 am
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Love’N Co set up fast at the end of the block on Orange and Crown Streets and brought joyous songs to Black Art Matters, an art, music, and craft fair held on Saturday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. that — masks and social distancing and all — brought the arts back to New Haven’s summer streets, with a message.
Paul Mayer, owner of Cafe Nine on the corner of State and Crown, looked up at the mural of jazz legend Sun Ra that now graces the side of the building that houses his bar.
“I’m blown away,” he said. It was his first time seeing it in person, along with the accompanying boom box painted on a Dumpster.
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Jul 13, 2020 9:41 am
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Fiction.
As New Haven businesses slowly reopen and try to accommodate those looking to re-enter the world under less restricted Covid-19 guidelines, some of its more revered traditions, like nightly local live music, are still mostly on hold and searching for alternate ways to return. The Sunday Buzz at Cafe Nine, presented by Cygnus Radio and typically featuring a wide variety of local acts from all genres as well as a tight-knit group of regular patrons, came back the only way it could yesterday, via live stream on social media.
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Jun 26, 2020 11:02 am
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Alejandro and Andres Cordido at their newly opened eatery.
Alejandro and Andres Cordido dreamed for years of starting a restaurant of their own devoted to the Venezuelan recipes they grew up with. They never imagined that opening week would comes amidst a pandemic.
They never pictured tables spread six feet apart. Floor stickers spaced out to help customers keep their distance. Plexiglass barriers between employees behind the counter and the customers they feed. Surfaces sanitized extra frequently. Customers’ smiles undetectable behind their protective masks.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 18, 2020 9:45 am
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Album art for I Gave You My Worst.
“New Haven’s Premier Homocore Experience #1’ — the first song on local hardcore punk band Savage World’s new album I Gave You My Worst – hits the listener head on with a heavy onslaught of sound and a bold, obscenity-laced statement of identity.
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Jun 9, 2020 3:43 pm
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742 Chapel one of four 9th Sq. buildings bought by Beacon.
A Boston developer purchased four commercial buildings at the corner of Chapel and State Streets for $6.4 million, further increasing its already considerable Ninth Square real estate holdings.
… and plans to transform it into a mini city of apartments, retail, offices, and open space.
(Updated) A Norwalk-based developer plans to begin construction next spring on a new seven-story, 200-unit apartment building to be built at the corner of Orange Street and George Street.
That’s the first phase of a planned transformation of the 5.5‑acre surface lot atop the former Coliseum site into a mini-city of 700 apartments and tens of thousands of square feet of new retail, restaurants, offices, labs, and open green space.
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Apr 15, 2020 10:15 am
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Vapors of Morphine.
The bass comes in rumbling yet clear. It’s joined by pulsing drums and burbling sax. Then the singer’s rich voice intones the words. “You’re good, good, good — so good, good, good.” The lyrics are simple, but the pushing rhythm gives them a deeper meaning. It’s pulling light from darkness, hope from despair. It’s the band Vapors of Morphine playing at the State House on State Street. The set was from October. The State House, having recorded it that night, is streaming it now. And there’s much more to come.
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Mar 26, 2020 9:53 am
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Wednesday night’s virtual City Plan Commission meeting.
A Philadelphia-based developer’s plans to build a new nine-story apartment building on Crown Street and 30 new apartments atop the back of the former Chapel Square Mall won unanimous approval during the City Plan Commission’s first entirely virtual meeting.
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 5, 2020 1:23 pm
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75 Dollar Bill
After a Tuesday that wasn’t so super for a lot of folks, Wednesday provided a much-needed respite in the form of a double bill at The State House featuring New Haven’s own Headroom and returning favorites 75 Dollar Bill from Brooklyn. Could everyone decompress and feel the music? The answer was a hearty yes.
The artistic director of a Portland, Oregon-based visual arts nonprofit will be the next executive director of Artspace as the longtime leader of the innovative Ninth Square gallery and cultural institution plans to step down later this spring.
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 2, 2020 8:38 am
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The Olympics
Feb. 29 only comes around once every four years, and some people choose to celebrate it in a unique way. The State House not only chose to have a show on this day, but also booked one band with a long-standing dedication to that date, as well as three other bands more than ready to join in the fun. The Olympics headlined Saturday night. Along with that band was local legend The Vultures — making a rare appearance — with local punk partiers Flapjack Attack and Garbage Barge.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 24, 2020 1:06 pm
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GRIZZLOR
It was the last day of a long, noisy week. Fortunately there was a place in town that had a different type of noise to replace it, as Cafe Nine hosted three bands — Hylda, TRVSS, and GRIZZLOR — this past Friday night. All three were trios, and all three made enough raw and powerful sounds to replace any and all else in everyone’s brain for a few hours.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 20, 2020 1:23 pm
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Elisheva performing at The State House in December.
Belly dance: the phrase alone is usually enough to elicit a variety of reactions — often from those unfamiliar with its extensive history and endless variations. Two dancers are hoping to make belly dance more familiar, offering a setting where both the seasoned performer and the emerging student can share an experience in a safe and fun environment with those who already appreciate the art form, as well as those who want to learn more about it.
The back of the former Chapel Square Mall will grow by two stories, and a parking lot across from Cafe Nine will sprout a nine-story apartment building under plans revealed by a Philadelphia-based developer, the latest signs of a still-torrid downtown building boom.
Artspace can continue anchoring Ninth Square’s visual arts scene for another decade, thanks to a new lease it signed with the landlord of its first-floor 5,000-square-foot gallery space and offices at the corner of Orange and Crown Streets.
One of the statues in Broadway Triangle’s Civil War monument.
Sarah Adams walked between Elm Street and Broadway hundreds of times before she first realized that the unassuming triangular plot of grassy lawns and brick walkways between the two streets is a park.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 12, 2020 1:12 pm
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The music helps create the atmosphere of floating, but the banners do the trick. Never mind that one of the windows leads to the street. With the tapestries hung in front of one wall and a stripe of color on the wall opposite them, it’s possible to think of yourself in a submarine — albeit a microscopic one, because the view outside is of plankton.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 10, 2020 1:00 pm
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Sperm Donor.
“Give me a minute and I’ll say something entertaining,” said Phil of Sperm Donor, the second act of a three-band bill at The State House on Sunday night that gave everyone who wasn’t in the mood for Oscar speeches a reason to leave the house and experience the kind of live music you feel in your bones.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 7, 2020 8:50 am
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GA-20
“We’re gonna warm it up like that coal-fired pizza,” said Steve Balkun, one half of Balkun Brothers, who were one half of a powerful two-band bill Thursday night at Cafe Nine that included Boston’s GA-20 and filled the misty February night with enough heat to chase the forecasted snow away.
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Feb 3, 2020 1:02 pm
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Jon Kessler
It Takes a Global Village Idiot.
People walking by Artspace since December have been treated to It Takes a Global Village Idiot, the chaotic kinetic sculpture by Jon Kessler that serves as a gateway to the rest of Strange Loops, the exhibit running at Artspace through Feb. 29. Curated by Johannes DeYoung and Federico Solmi, the exhibit seeks to explore “the social and psychological impacts of rapid technological change, and the consequential ways in which contemporary notions of self might be transforming.” The exhibit itself just might prove to be as distracting as a constantly pinging cell phone — and that’s part of the point.
