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.
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.
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.
by | Jun 11, 2019 8:21 am | Comments (3)
Allan Appel Photo
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.
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.
by | Jun 3, 2019 11:57 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photos
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
by | May 15, 2019 11:23 pm | Comments (35)
Harp, Hamilton, Elicker at Wednesday night’s debate.
Paul Bass Photos
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.
by | May 15, 2019 4:32 pm | Comments (1)
Thomas Breen photo
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.
by | May 14, 2019 1:19 pm | Comments (8)
Staff Photos
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Artist Captures Action At Da Silva Gallery’
by | May 13, 2019 1:12 pm | Comments (1)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
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.
Continue reading ‘Tires, Wheels Stolen; Roosevelt’s In More Trouble’
by | May 13, 2019 7:22 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photos
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.
by | May 10, 2019 1:03 pm | Comments (5)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
Ruiz pitches at Westville/West Hills.
The app in real time.
Finding out information about your local political representatives could get a lot easier thanks to a new phone app created by two homegrown developers.
by | May 9, 2019 1:24 pm | Comments (1)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
Lindquist.
Six neighborhoods will learn two new words this summer and fall: “tactical urbanism.”
The hope is the term will help make their communities safer to bike and walk.
by | May 6, 2019 2:28 pm | Comments (1)
An Augustine Street man was accessorized to ride his Harley Davidson with heated pants and jacket and gloves — until someone made off with the hot items.
by | May 6, 2019 1:46 pm | Comments (1)
Janet Warner
Carry Us Away Again.
The buildings in the middle are New Haven’s downtown, there’s no doubt about it. But now the downtown has become an island unto itself, floating off into a gray sky, trailing vines and tree roots as it rises. Carry Us Away Again, artist Janet Warner’s portrait of the Elm City, feels weighty in one sense — it’s New Haven as sanctuary city, New Haven as an oasis. But there’s also no denying the fun in the image, its surreal playfulness.
That combination runs rampant throughout “2020,” Kehler Liddell’s latest show — running through May 26 — which challenged 47 artists to take that titular number and tell us what it meant to them.
by | Apr 29, 2019 4:01 pm | Comments (0)
A scammer first stole money from an Austin Street woman through a phony “Cash App,” then doubled the take through a Google Play gift card transaction.
by | Apr 22, 2019 3:50 pm | Comments (3)
Two pit bulls — one white, the other white and brown — ran into a man’s Pond Lily Avenue backyard.
The white and brown pit bull did the killing. The same dog killed the man’s rabbit last year. But this year the dog got caught, by New Haven Animal Control.
Meanwhile, the police department’s bomb squad also got to detonate a Japanese World War II grenade found in a resident’s garage.
Top Westville /West Hills/ Amity/West Rock/ Beverly Hills cop Lt. Rose Dell details this incident and other crimes in her latest weekly summary of notable police calls.
Her summary follows:
by | Apr 19, 2019 2:05 pm | Comments (4)
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Roosevelt’s at 883 Whalley Ave.
A large local real estate company is the new landlord of a half-dozen commercial buildings and vacant parking lots at the heart of Westville, including the former home of the long-shuttered 500 Blake Street Cafe.
Continue reading ‘Ocean Management Acquires Perrotti Westville Properties’
by | Apr 16, 2019 11:26 pm | Comments (10)
Allan Appel Photo
Amity Stop & Shop strikers during picket duty Tuesday.
Manganello and St. Clair.
Personal stories from the picket line.
by | Apr 15, 2019 4:42 pm | Comments (6)
Allan Appel Photo
In one hand he had his cell phone, with mom on the line for shopping advice. In the other hand was a handout with a Westville rabbi’s admonition against crossing a picket line to buy food for the Feast of Freedom. His basket was empty.
There David stood amid walls of macaroons, white fish, and grape juice in Aisle 13 of the Amity Stop & Shop, pondering the fifth question added to this year’s traditional Passover four questions: To buy? Or not to buy?
Continue reading ‘Let My Matzah Go: Stop & Shop Purchases Deemed Not Kosher For Passover’