Cars Smashed In Crash
by | Dec 9, 2020 5:36 pm | Comments (3)
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Matthew Larson heard a crash around 1 p.m. Wednesday — and came outside to see what you see in the above picture. That’s his Camry.
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Beloved Doc Embraced In Life & Death
by | Dec 6, 2020 6:58 pm | Comments (3)
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Maya, Margi and Elina Rosenthal “front porching.”
A slow-moving parade of cars made its way down West Rock Avenue as gleeful shouts of “We Love you Margi!” were punctuated with handmade placards, balloons and sounds of celebration.
This was no ordinary procession. And “Margi” was no ordinary person.
371 Crashes Later, Fountain Fixes Floated
by | Dec 2, 2020 11:16 am | Comments (13)
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Central between Fountain & Whalley: Future pedestrian-only plaza?
Neighbors explored the merits of woonerfs and bumpouts, as consultants proposed changes for a crash-wracked stretch of Fountain Street.
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Family, Neighbors Skate Through Pandemic
by | Nov 27, 2020 3:45 pm | Comments (11)
Laura Glesby Photo
Gus, right, gets ready to roll.
Before taking off, toddler Gus Rosa glanced over his shoulder with a grin. He was standing on his brother’s skateboard at one end of a newly-constructed half pipe in his backyard. With his dad’s help, he tipped the board upwards and dropped in.
City To Shoppers: Buy Local During Covid
by | Nov 25, 2020 4:53 pm | Comments (0)
City of New Haven
The new Together New Haven Marketplace website.
Shop online, if you can. Shop in-person, if you must.
But no matter what, city officials implored, during this Covid-heavy holiday season, please shop local.
Two Second Chances Take Root
by | Nov 20, 2020 4:31 pm | Comments (2)
Paul Bass Photo
Wilkins Guadalupe helped elm trees launch a second shot at surviving in the Elm City.
In the process, he was embarking on his own second-chance survival quest.
Kehler Liddell Takes Its Time
by | Nov 17, 2020 11:36 am | Comments (0)
Liz Antle-O’Donnell
Tick Tock 2
Liz Antle‑O’Donnell’s clock is an older work made new. Those who’ve followed her work recognize the busy circular pattern of buildings and color. Turning it into a clock doesn’t just lend a piece a functional air. The moving hands animate the image behind them. In a sense it can be understood as a clock for our times. The pattern resonates with the way time feels a little different during the pandemic, a little more flexible, as days can sometimes seem slower while weeks slip away. The buildings can be read as waiting, minute by minute, for the busier street life we know before March.
Kosher Restaurants Coming To Whalley
by | Nov 12, 2020 3:55 pm | Comments (18)
Ephrat and Benny Lieblich inside soon-to-open Ladle and Loaf near Edge of the Woods.
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Co-owners Choni and Esther Grunblatt with Operations Manager Zee Kessler outside their soon-to-open Westville Village restaurant.
An Argentinian entrepreneur is about to start selling kosher sushi up the block from a new Peruvian restaurant, a new Mexican eatery, and a new Syrian coffee shop.
Did somebody say something about a pandemic recession?
Clinic Vote Sparks “Originalism” Debate
by | Nov 11, 2020 4:20 pm | Comments (5)
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The Blake Street office complex where Waterstone Counseling needed zoning relief before moving in.
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BZA Commissioner Daum: But is there hardship in the land itself?
A new counseling center won approval to move into a Westville office complex — after a debate about how close zoning commissioners should hew to the letter of the law in making decisions in New Haven.
Joy Breaks Out In New Haven
by | Nov 7, 2020 7:26 pm | Comments (16)
Cynthia Beth Rubin
Foster Street neighbors respond to the election news …
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… as did Angela Clinton, Kidan Kashuan, and Tagan Engel on Central Avenue.
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There was joy in Goatville — the once-“mighty” Donald had struck out.
Outdoor Art Comes “Full Circle”
by | Nov 5, 2020 10:36 am | Comments (5)
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Brian Slattery Photo
With David Sepulveda’s new work on residential Westville street.
Why Naszier Robinson Traveled Miles, Waited Hours To Vote
by | Nov 3, 2020 2:52 pm | Comments (1)
Laura Glesby Photo
Robinson: With Alder Furlow’s help, in time for class, as well.
Naszier Robinson arrived at City Hall at 6 a.m. to register to vote for the first time ever — and wound up on an hours-long journey back and forth between downtown and his Westville neighborhood in order to cast his ballot.
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2 AM Driver Barrels Into Building
by | Nov 2, 2020 3:17 pm | Comments (3)
Paul Bass Photo
A 20-year-old man drove straight into a Westville Village storefront — and now a business that usually repairs teeth is repairing its windows instead.
Westville Celebrates Restaurant Renaissance
by | Oct 23, 2020 10:26 am | Comments (8)
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The ribbon cutting at Pistachio
Four years ago in Westville, there were 11 empty storefronts. This year, there’s only one.
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Non-Cop Crisis Team Pitched To West Siders
by | Oct 15, 2020 5:23 pm | Comments (8)
City of New Haven
You can’t throw a rock in New Haven without hitting a nonprofit organization, quipped one neighbor.
Yale-New Haven Hospital services are all over the place. And there already are mobile units out there from a range of state and local mental health services.
So why does the city need for yet a new agency, however worthy, especially when government budgets are so tight?
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Church’s Path Cleared To Sell Ex-Convent
by | Oct 14, 2020 10:16 am | Comments (2)
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Former convent at 349 McKinley.
Saints Aedan & Brendan Church is one step closer to selling a former convent building on McKinley Avenue, after winning zoning relief for the church’s Westville campus. The building’s future use remains uncertain.
City Mourns Death Of Beloved Longtime Crossing Guard
by | Oct 1, 2020 3:44 pm | Comments (24)
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CeCe Staten Gilchrist.
(Updated) — City staffers are mourning the loss of one of their own — Celeste “CeCe” Staten Gilchrist, a 68-year-old New Havener who worked for over two decades as a school crossing guard.
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59-Yr-Old Hamden Woman Dies After Westville Car Crash
by | Sep 28, 2020 12:20 pm | Comments (4)
A 59-year-old Hamden woman has died after a 23-year-old Oxford man drove his Saab directly into her car on Fountain Street.
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Sneak Peak Reveals Spicy “Garage”
by | Sep 24, 2020 9:29 am | Comments (9)
Thomas Breen photos
No guacamole left behind at Westville’s new “Camacho Garage.”
The chipotle ketchup on my notebook didn’t quite fit the script.
Duo Does Break-Ins, Shoots Man, Crashes
by | Sep 21, 2020 12:53 pm | Comments (23)
Thomas Breen Photo
Home-invasion victim Doyens: “We are in a bizarre time.”
A 19-year-old man is back home nursing shoulder pains as police look for the men responsible for shooting him during a weekend crime spree in Westville.
The series of pre-dawn crimes took place in Westville and included at least one home invasion, a car theft, attempted car thefts, the shooting, and a car crash.
Photographs Find The Ways The World Rhymes
by | Sep 15, 2020 10:38 am | Comments (0)
Sven Martson
Street Food Vendor, Juliaca, Peru; Man in Restaurant Window, New Haven CT; Three Men in a Truck, Havana, Cuba; Antique Car Show, Torrington, CT.
In one photograph, a man lounges against a food cart; in an adjacent picture, a man rests at a counter. In one photograph, three men sit in an antique car; in another, the car is similar, but now there’s no one in it, though there is a man standing next to it. Maybe one can detect a hint of pride in his stance.
The pictures are separated by time and distance. The street food vendor is in Peru, the man at the counter in New Haven. The men in the truck are in Havana, the man standing in front of the car in Torrington. But they are unified by form — first, by the photographer’s eye, and second, by the echoes of one picture in another, whether it’s the bend of an elbow or the shape of the car’s hood.
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Post Office Lags Worry Westville
by | Sep 10, 2020 12:49 pm | Comments (12)
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WPA mural inside the Westville branch library.
One neighbor hasn’t gotten any mail in several days.
Others have not yet received applications for absentee ballots that they requested.
In the experience of other neighbors, their beloved post office branch at 95 Fountain St. has few stamps for sale and seems under-supplied and over-neglected.
And this is occurring right at the time of widespread general concern that the United States Postal Service is under bureaucratic attack and may not be up for the expected onslaught of mailed-in ballots.
1 Night, 4 Plans, 51 More Apts Ok’d
by | Aug 20, 2020 8:01 am | Comments (10)
Google Maps / 98 Olive LLC
New apartments coming soon to (clockwise from top left) 109 Court, 98 Olive, 192 Fitch, and 904 Quinnipiac.
New Haven’s market-rate apartment boom continued apace as four different projects that would add 51 new units of housing across town — including in former ground-floor commercial and office spaces — won key city sign-offs.
New Coffee Shop Brings Majlis To Westville
by | Aug 19, 2020 12:07 pm | Comments (6)
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Inside the new Westville cafe, Pistachio.
The coffee was silky and smooth, with a rich, complex flavor. The foam on the top was thick and creamy, with a stripe of sweetness in it, a mystery ingredient. What made it taste like that? “You start with the best bean you can find,” said Mohamed Hafez, architect, artist, and now owner of Pistachio, the new coffee shop opening imminently at Lotta Studio in Westville. “Good milk that is fresh and coming from close by.” And maybe, he said, the sweetness came from a dash of agave.
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Yale Buys York Townhouses For $2.85M
by | Aug 11, 2020 11:32 am | Comments (16)
Yale University consolidated its control of the southwest corner of York Street and Chapel Street by purchasing two adjacent brick townhouses for $2.85 million, among the city’s latest property transactions.