Mooncha Goes Live
by | Jul 2, 2019 7:02 am | Comments (0)
New Haven’s Mad Hatter drops “Blk Teenz” video w/Wisdom.
Westville
Hit & Run Driver Nabbed
by | Jul 1, 2019 3:09 pm | Comments (0)
A driver sped off after rear-ending a Mercedes on Fountain Street. But not before the Mercedes driver got the fleeing driver’s license plate.
Family Dollar Sells For 1.8M Dollars
by | Jun 28, 2019 1:12 pm | Comments (1)
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The Family Dollar at 1168-1186 Whalley Ave.
A Windsor-based development company sold the Family Dollar site on Upper Whalley Avenue to a group of California investors for $1.8 million, in one of the city’s latest property transactions.
Porch Pirate Descends
by | Jun 24, 2019 2:28 pm | Comments (0)
The Louis Vuitton Apple watchband and shoes appeared on the porch of a South Genessee Street e‑shopper —then disappeared.
Bruegger’s Bagels Becomes Barbarossa
by | Jun 19, 2019 12:43 pm | Comments (2)
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Burcu, Barbarossa, 3, and Volkan Gokkiyas, Mayor Toni Harp, and Alders Hacibey Catalbasoglu and Richard Furlow.
Like his father before him, Volkan Gokkiyas named his newest restaurant, Barbarossa Pizza & Kebabs, after his son.
Elicker Wins Harp’s Ward Committee
by | Jun 17, 2019 10:30 pm | Comments (15)
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James Barber, Mychal Brown, Nick Neely count the vote.
Mayor Toni Harp got a reminder Monday night that she faces a tough reelection campaign — a reminder that came on her home turf.
Gun Found in Trash Can
by | Jun 17, 2019 2:11 pm | Comments (0)
A Fairfield Street resident saw a hoodie in his trash can — and a found a gun inside.
Marchand Files For Fifth-Term Run
by | Jun 14, 2019 2:03 pm | Comments (10)
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Marchand Friday at City Clerk’s office.
Adam Marchand is looking to make it a decade as a Westville alder.
Artist Captures The “Future History” Of New Haven
by | Jun 13, 2019 12:24 pm | Comments (2)
Daniel Eugene Photos
Self Portrait with Madison Sapphire Duchanne, Partners Café – New Haven, CT – August, 2018.
Daniel Eugene was dressed down. Classical music played over the speakers on a recent visit to his Westville live and work space, periodically punctuated by the ping of incoming emails.
Eugene is, after all, a busy person, especially as he shifts his art from pens to lens.
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Edgewood Cycletrack Finally Out To Bid
by | Jun 12, 2019 1:29 pm | Comments (30)
CDN Smith
Before and after: Plan for Winthrop-Edgewood stretch.
The city has finally gone out to bid to build a 2.1‑mile cycletrack along Edgewood Avenue after receiving all necessary project sign-offs from the state Department of Transportation.
Knock, Knock
by | Jun 11, 2019 2:26 pm | Comments (0)
An intoxicated guest at the Three Judges Motel acceded to a woman’s request to use his bathroom — then lost his clothes and money in a robbery.
Opposites Attract at Kehler Liddell
by | Jun 11, 2019 12:55 pm | Comments (0)
Alan Shulik
Quiescence — Crescent Moon, Totem Rock, Dawn, Utah.
The background colors seem too vivid, and the shapes in the foreground too stark, to be real. But they are. It’s a photograph from Utah. It’s photographer Alan Shulik’s heightened sense of reality that makes it pop. But as the title of the image — “Quiescence” — suggests, Shulik isn’t drawing out the details to excite it. He wants us to drink, long and slow, from his images, and maybe feel our heart rates drop a little in the meantime.
Never mind that on the opposite wall, there’s a party going on.
Paving Starts; Wild Roses Persevere
by | Jun 11, 2019 8:21 am | Comments (3)
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Jacob Oakes at work milling around catch basins and curbs.
Karina Courtmanche rushed outside Monday morning — to make sure the machines making noise outside didn’t inadvertently crush the wild roses growing along the curb outside her Greenhill Terrace home.
Nosy Neighbor Noticed
by | Jun 3, 2019 3:21 pm | Comments (5)
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Police did not yet on Monday have details to report on the crash pictured above, which occurred Sunday morning at Chapel Street and Yale Avenue.
The neighbor said she was checking out her appearance in the car window. The car’s owner believed she was casing it with theft in her heart.
Mauro-Sheridan Takes On The Dark Prince
by | Jun 3, 2019 11:57 am | Comments (0)
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Luna Candelario, Luciana Campoverde, and Charles Jefferey.
On the stage Saturday afternoon at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School — in preparation for the school’s performance of Hamlet on Tuesday, June 4, at 6 p.m. — Luna Candelario, as Hamlet, was getting some advice from co-directors Sarah Bowles and Michael Hinton on the best way to stab a man behind a curtain.
Edgewood Principal Heads To Greenwich
by | May 30, 2019 7:53 am | Comments (8)
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Shanta Smith.
Edgewood Principal Shanta Smith is the latest school administrator leaving for a job outside the district.
Hess-y Fit Leads To Arrest
by | May 28, 2019 3:05 pm | Comments (0)
A customer at the Hess station on Whalley apparently wasn’t pleased that the attendant didn’t have change for a $100 bill.
“Adult Toy” Threat Ends In Arrest
by | May 20, 2019 2:58 pm | Comments (0)
It was another week of scams and wheel thieves in Westville, plus a threat against a foot surgeon’s staff involving an “adult toy.”
The Ernie’s vs. The Manjares Vote
by | May 16, 2019 12:19 pm | Comments (3)
Clockwise from top left: Tomato pie at Ernies; West River in Edgewood Park; Strange Ways merch; Manjares’ Ana De Los Angeles whips up fresh guacamole.
The most revealing answers at the first debate of the mayoral campaign season — at least about the nature of the candidates and their candidacies — may have had to do with old-school versus new-school tastes in downtime pleasures.
Debate Theme: Stay Course? Or Change?
by | May 15, 2019 11:23 pm | Comments (35)
Harp, Hamilton, Elicker at Wednesday night’s debate.
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Urn Pendragon wades through crowd for Oprah-style closing.
The gloves came off at the tail end of the first debate of this year’s mayoral campaign, as candidates established a central theme: Either New Haven has made great progress and should build on it by staying the course. Or its government has gone off the rails and needs drastic change amid looming crises.
Kosher Lifeline Closing After 34 Years
by | May 15, 2019 4:32 pm | Comments (1)
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Westville Kosher Market co-founders Yuval and Rachel Hamenachem.
Three days before Passover, a longtime customer of Westville Kosher Market called Rachel Hamenachem in a panic. Her husband, a celebrated Yale professor, had just died. Now she needed enough food to feed 100 people who would be coming to her house to sit shiva.
So Hamenachem and her husband Yuval stayed up all night cooking. The co-owners of the decades-old Upper Westville market made sure their customer, and friend, got what she needed in time for the week-long ritual mourning.
Mayoral Forum Set
by | May 14, 2019 1:19 pm | Comments (8)
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Mayoral hopefuls Justin Elicker, Wendy Hamilton, Urn Pendragon, Toni Harp.
The four candidates who have taken out papers to run for mayor witht he intention of seeking the Democratic Party nomination are scheduled to appear together for their first joint forum— not a debate — Wednesday, May 15.
Artist Captures Action At Da Silva Gallery
by | May 14, 2019 12:33 pm | Comments (0)
Michael Quirk
Molotov Cocktail.
It’s a lone figure against an undefined background, but the details of the silhouette are crisp enough to make the figure an individual, a real person frozen in mid-action. And that action happens to be throwing a Molotov cocktail.
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Tires, Wheels Stolen; Roosevelt’s In More Trouble
by | May 13, 2019 1:12 pm | Comments (1)
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Tires and wheels disappeared from numerous cars parked in Westville.
Roosevelt’s nightclub was caught twice allegedly serving booze after having its permit revoked.
And the driver of a Camry drove fast at a car in the parking lot, got out, then sprayed the other driver’s eyes with Lysol, tased her, and stole her cellphone. Witnesses video-recorded the incident.
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Sun Shines On ArtWalk
by | May 13, 2019 7:22 am | Comments (0)
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Heather and Ed Gendron shared a table at Cafe X on the corner of Whalley and Blake. Outside, throughout Westville, the 22nd annual ArtWalk was in full swing, with studios thrown open upstairs at West River Arts, vendors attracting customers to their booths on Central Avenue and Fountain Street, and bands regaling audiences in Edgewood Park. Together, the Gendrons were making art.
“It’s not an organized event,” Ed joked. “There’s no manifesto involved.”
“It’s called, ‘day off,’” Heather said.