by | Nov 25, 2020 4:53 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
by | Nov 20, 2020 4:31 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Ted Littleford
There was joy in Goatville — the once-“mighty” Donald had struck out.
by | Nov 5, 2020 10:36 am | Comments (5)
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With David Sepulveda’s new work on residential Westville street.
by | Nov 3, 2020 2:52 pm | Comments (1)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Why Naszier Robinson Traveled Miles, Waited Hours To Vote’
by | Nov 2, 2020 3:17 pm | Comments (3)
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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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Westville Celebrates Restaurant Renaissance’
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?
Continue reading ‘Non-Cop Crisis Team Pitched To West Siders’
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘City Mourns Death Of Beloved Longtime Crossing Guard’
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.
Continue reading ‘59-Yr-Old Hamden Woman Dies After Westville Car Crash’
by | Sep 24, 2020 9:29 am | Comments (9)
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No guacamole left behind at Westville’s new “Camacho Garage.”
The chipotle ketchup on my notebook didn’t quite fit the script.
by | Sep 21, 2020 12:53 pm | Comments (23)
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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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Photographs Find The Ways The World Rhymes’
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.
by | Aug 20, 2020 8:01 am | Comments (10)
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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.
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.
Continue reading ‘New Coffee Shop Brings Majlis To Westville’
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.
by | Aug 10, 2020 12:04 pm | Comments (5)
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Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen, Jr.
(Opinion) As a nation, we are facing troubling times during this pandemic. But the truth is many issues, gaps, and weaknesses have been exposed within so many of our state institutions. Not only the vulnerabilities in our healthcare system but equally true of our voting system as well.
by | Aug 10, 2020 9:47 am | Comments (0)
Nora Grace-Flood
Julie Robbins shows off her new PPE to Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz .
“We love our clients to the moon and back!” small business owner Julie Robbins declared from behind her new BioVYZR, a masked air filtration system with an astronaut-like flair.
Since reopening The Well For Women, a center that specializes in massage therapy for prenatal and postnatal women, on June 28, Robbins has been “going hardcore on PPE.” The CEO, doula, licensed massage therapist, entrepreneur and mom said that she has been able to invest in new safety protocols — and pay her rent and employees — thanks to various grants and loans from state and federal governments.
Continue reading ‘Westville’s Well, Wisdom Highlighted For Covid-19 Resilience’
by | Aug 6, 2020 9:48 am | Comments (0)
Amanda Duchen
I Am … A Dreamer.
A cluster of heads floating like balloons on stalks. An oil painting of a woman eating a hoagie. A connection with a goddess. All these and more are part of “I Am…,” the latest riotous exhibition at Kehler Liddell Gallery, which is now open by appointment and for limited weekend hours.
by | Jul 21, 2020 9:41 am | Comments (7)
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Chapel Haven residents honoring the organization’s recently-expanded name, the Chapel Haven Schleifer Center, in 2018.
A former employee of Chapel Haven was sentenced to 33 months in prison on Monday, after stealing at least $240,000 from both clients and the institution — and puncturing the school’s culture of “family” trust.
Continue reading ‘Ex-Chapel Haven Employee Sentenced To 33 Months For Stealing $240K’