Mansion Sells For Only $1.45M
by | Jun 11, 2019 3:17 pm | Comments (17)
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123 Ogden.
The sale price of a Prospect Hill mansion dropped nearly $95,000 in a decade a half, in one of the city’s recent property transactions.
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Mayoral Forum Focus: Slumlords
by | May 22, 2019 10:14 pm | Comments (10)
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Burnt-out wreckage of 150 West St. illegal rooming house. Top photo: Candidates at Wednesday night’s forum.
Out-of-town slumlords didn’t win any votes at the latest Democratic mayoral candidate forum.
But they did inspire campaign pitches from candidates looking to leverage policy expertise, ethical leadership, and boundary-pushing ideas to both protect renters and seize (or maintain) control of City Hall.
Nasty Women Get Divine
by | Mar 5, 2019 1:05 pm | Comments (12)
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Power Figure.
There’s a body in the hallway of the Yale Divinity School. Maybe it’s a mummy wrapped in linen, or a cast with a form inside it. Whatever the case, it’s on an ironing board, and it’s hard to miss the spikes driven into the spot where its sternum would be. Look again, and you see that a cable is wrapped around the body. One end goes to an outlet in the floor. The other to the iron itself. It is, in a sense, the embodiment of domestic violence — and standing next to it, it feels like a rebuke. Could you have done something to stop it?
Copper Heist Strips Edgerton Park
by | Feb 7, 2019 3:36 pm | Comments (14)
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Park’s northern wall, minus copper flashing.
Over $150,000 of lead-covered copper flashing was stolen from the north wall of Edgerton Park, leaving the century-old stone structure exposed to the destructive influence of freezing and thawing water for the remainder of the winter.
Div School Drops Plan To Buy East Rock Home
by | Feb 1, 2019 8:31 am | Comments (5)
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320 Canner St.
Yale’s Karen King updates neighbors.
The Yale Divinity School has decided not to purchase a single-family home near its Prospect Hill campus, citing neighbor concerns about taking $20,000-plus off the city’s annual property tax rolls.
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Folk Fest Offers Shelter From The Storm
by | Sep 6, 2018 12:27 pm | Comments (0)
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Folk tinged with blues and R&B. Folk tinged with pop. Just straight-up folk.Whatever the word means to you, the CT Folk Fest and Green Expo is likely to have it when it takes over Edgerton Park this Saturday, Sept. 8, featuring a range of performers and vendors from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Elm Shakespeare Does A Winning “Love’s Labour’s Lost”
by | Aug 23, 2018 1:13 pm | Comments (0)
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Kingston Farady and Betzabeth Castro.
A half-hour before Elm Shakespeare Company’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost is set to start in Edgerton Park, several of the cast members strut onstage with instruments — a guitar, a banjo, a bass, a trumpet, a sax, a drum — to explain that they’re going to warm up the crowd. And warm the crowd they do, with take after enthusiastic take on early jazz, with a few more modern flourishes thrown in. It’s the kind of music that makes the audience tap their feet and chuckle spontaneously. It’s also a great encapsulation of Elm Shakespeare’s approach to this not-often-performed Shakespeare play. This Love’s Labour’s Lost is smart, lighthearted, full of energy, and a lot of fun.
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3 “Hardship” Pitches: How Would You Vote?
by | May 11, 2018 12:05 pm | Comments (8)
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Elon and Stephanie Boms plead.
A college administrator asked for a bigger sign for athletic offerings. A couple sought permission for a two-story extension to move in relatives. Parents looked to build a side garage to safely transport their highly allergic daughter.
All three East Rock quests depended on proving “hardship” to win a variance to New Haven’s zoning rules.
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Albertus Inaugurates President Camille
by | May 4, 2018 5:27 pm | Comments (2)
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New Haven’s Albertus Magnus College, which has recently stepped up its commitment to closer town-gown relations, inaugurated its 14th president on Friday afternoon with calls for study, prayer, service, and community.
Tax Plan Could Hit 1,780 Homeowners Hardest
by | Dec 19, 2017 8:48 am | Comments (34)
The newly approved overhaul of the federal tax code could raise federal income taxes for at least 1,780 New Haven homeowners, according to the city.
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Piety, Virtue, Beefsteak On Display
by | Dec 8, 2017 8:40 am | Comments (1)
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The president of Yale College, Timothy Dwight, both educator and minister, delivered an impassioned sermon on the folly, guilt, and mischief of the notorious gentlemans’ practice of dueling in September 1804 — two months late for Alexander Hamilton, who had died that July in his famous duel with Aaron Burr.
2 Community Organizers Square Off
by | Oct 16, 2017 1:04 pm | Comments (47)
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Williams and Winter: vying for Ward 21 seat.
When Rodney “Rock” Williams watches the demolition of the last vestiges of the former Winchester Arms plant in Newhallville, he sees more than childhood memories and the neighborhood’s past slipping away. He sees the alarming potential for the neighborhood’s political power to slip away too.
Partial Eclipse Leads To Total Nerdfest
by | Aug 21, 2017 6:54 pm | Comments (1)
As the sun’s light turned from a bright yellow to a wan, extraterrestrial orange, thousands gathered Monday afternoon on the lawn of Leitner Observatory on Prospect Street. They had come with tinted glasses, telescopes modern and replica, sunspotters, and homemade pinpoint projectors to observe a partial solar eclipse.
They had brought their science-themed T‑shirts (“Spin Galactic”; “Stand Back — I’m Going to Try Science”). They made a party in the middle of the day where the small talk was peppered with discussions of the mechanics of the various viewing devices they had brought, and the astronomical trajectories that had aligned to make the event happen.
Edwards Snags Ward Committee Endorsement
by | Jul 12, 2017 3:22 pm | Comments (5)
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Kimberly Edwards and Sarah Ofosu pitch their candidacies Tuesday night.
One candidate promised to value constituent input and to promote government transparency and accessibility. The other vowed to fight for jobs, school funding, and lower taxes.
100+ Turn Out For “Neighborhood Girl”
by | Jun 29, 2017 3:47 pm | Comments (6)
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Edwards at the announcement.
Though a crowd of supporters spoke as if she has the coming election in the bag, Kim Edwards was taking nothing for granted.
Alder Race Pits Native Against Newcomer
by | Jun 9, 2017 8:07 am | Comments (11)
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Ward 19 candidates Kim Edwards, Sarah Ofosu.
A race for an open alder seat in Newhallville and Prospect Hill confronts voters with a question: Who has greater perspective on a neighborhood — a lifelong resident who knows how it has worked since her grandparents’ time? Or a newcomer who brings an outsider’s fresh eyes?
Celentano Search Sparks Security Review
by | May 31, 2017 2:16 pm | Comments (14)
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Students play outside Celentano School on Friday afternoon.
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Principal Keisha Redd-Hannans.
New Haven’s Board of Education is reexamining security policies citywide after parents raised questions about why security guards at Celentano School recently conducted searches of all students before letting them enter the building.
Albertus Magnus Picks A President
by | Mar 20, 2017 4:35 pm | Comments (0)
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Camille: From Jesuit to Dominican.
As the incoming 14th president of Albertus Magnus College, Marc M. Camille promises to lure more first-generation undergrduates and add more practical options to a growing curriculum — and bring Catholic education fully into the 21st century.
Luxury Apts. Raise Values, Blood Pressure
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.
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Thousands Slip, Slide Down Prospect Street
by | Jun 27, 2016 7:00 am | Comments (0)
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Sliders almost near the top of Prospect Street with their tubes at the ready.
The long hill on Prospect Street was transformed for a day from a road for cars to a huge Slip ‘n Slide.
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Yale Parking Plan Advances, WIth Bickering Attached
by | Jun 17, 2016 7:05 am | Comments (6)
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Yale attorneys press their case.
A parking dispute that has held up construction and job creation in town inched closer to resolution, but only amid new procedural contention between Yale and a union-backed alder.
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Science Hill Vote: Labor Wins, Yale Loses
by | May 20, 2016 7:51 am | Comments (31)
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Zucker: 280 construction jobs unnecessarily delayed.
A regulatory denial Thursday night means Yale must start all over with the process of getting zoning approval to construct a new bio lab — and first obtain an OK for a science district parking plan.
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Foote School Marks Centennial
by | Feb 17, 2016 9:06 am | Comments (2)
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Head of School Carol Maoz and Falco lead the parade.
The Foote School in East Rock is 100 years old, and Jenny Byers has been there for 40 of them — ten as a student in the graduating class of 1965 and the last 30 as a French teacher.
Morris And Sword Bring Up The Sun
by | May 1, 2015 11:41 am | Comments (0)
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“Here comes the sun!” an onlooker said. “We got the sun up.”
“We may not be responsible for getting it over the real horizon,” joked one of the members of New Haven Morris and Sword. “But we did get it over the mountains.”
Crash Kills Preservationist Scholar
by | Apr 30, 2015 12:04 pm | Comments (6)
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Firefighters at the crash scene.
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Hall.
Peter Dobkin Hall, an East Rock preservationist known nationally as an expert on not-for-profit organizations, died early Thursday in a crash on I‑95 in Branford.