by | Feb 14, 2018 8:36 am | Comments (14)
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Manjares Bistro’s Ana De Los Angeles and Miguel Trelles.
Westvillers came out to a zoning hearing to support two new plans to build up and boost nightlife in their commercial village, while upstairs music teachers added a discordant note.
by | Feb 13, 2018 4:17 pm | Comments (9)
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The new proposed Village Center, or BA-2, zone for Westville Village.
An assisted living facility would be OK, but not a boarding house. An apartment building could rise four stories and have a first-floor pharmacy — but no convenience store. Boutique hotel? Fine. Motel? Not fine.
And never shall there be a drive-through fast food restaurant in the heart of the Village.
by | Feb 8, 2018 5:23 pm | Comments (12)
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Leon Mularski, Delaney’s architect.
A developer planning to resurrect the popular Delaney’s Restaurant & Tap Room in Westville Village told neighbors Wednesday night that he has taken pains to preserve what made the spot beloved, down to the same number of tables, operating hours and staff.
But, much to neighbors’ disappointment, the century-old building’s look won’t be making a comeback.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Back Delaney’s Plan, Despite Design’
by | Feb 7, 2018 3:03 pm | Comments (4)
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The current skate park.
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BMX biker Justin Kearney points out favorite features of the new design.
Parks Director Becky Bombero asked the dozen skaters, skateboarders and bikers assembled before her what day of the week they would be available to come to help pull weeds as their sweat equity contribution to a new skate park.
by | Feb 5, 2018 9:08 am | Comments (0)
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Chapel Haven resident Andrew Auerbach cuts the ribbon on the new welcome center.
The first glimpse of Chapel Haven’s expansion of its Westville home was a little hard to see during a Friday afternoon ribbon-cutting.
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by | Jan 29, 2018 8:55 am | Comments (0)
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The Dalatis Sunday in their Westville apartment.
The timing of Donald Trump’s travel ban has split a Syrian family between New Haven and Lebanon — only in this case it’s the grandparents who made it to the Promised Land, praying for a breakthrough so their beloved daughter and grandchildren can join them.
by | Jan 26, 2018 9:14 am | Comments (37)
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A rendering of the new Delaney’s-apartment complex planned for Central and Whalley.
The burned-down Delaney’s Restaurant & Tap Room is making a comeback to Westville Village along with new apartments on top, if a newly submitted zoning application gets approved.
by | Jan 22, 2018 5:54 pm | Comments (7)
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On Saturday, a man with a gun went into the Westville Quality Market and demanded money — the third time in just over a year that the store at the corner of Alden Avenue and West Elm Street has been robbed at gunpoint.
by | Jan 19, 2018 2:04 pm | Comments (3)
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Engineer David Sacco details site improvements.
The old Whalley Avenue CVS will get a new parking lot and cosmetic improvements — and still, despite some neighborhood opposition, become a Family Dollar in the end.
by and | Jan 11, 2018 4:17 pm | Comments (19)
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Car remains in frozen prison along emergency route on Edgewood Ave.’s odd-numbered side, a week after storm.
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Smith with Hill neighbors.
Kate Bradley went door to door ahead of last week’s “bomb cyclone” that dumped a foot of snow to remind neighbors to move their cars to the even side of the street to make way for the plows.
The only problem: The plows never came to clear the snow.
by | Jan 10, 2018 6:44 pm | Comments (26)
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Darryl Brackeen and Pat Dillon.
New Haven’s longest-serving state representative is facing a likely challenge from a fellow Democrat who claims he can help bring home more bacon from Hartford.
by | Dec 20, 2017 8:51 am | Comments (0)
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Bruckmann’s oil painting “Fish House” has sold.
Painter Frank Bruckmann often puts his intensely colored, evocative scenes on large canvases. But at holiday time, he offers smaller formats — and the works, like those of his colleagues, are selling.
Continue reading ‘Kehler Liddell Goes Smaller, Affordable, Local’
by | Dec 19, 2017 11:49 am | Comments (0)
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Thabisa at Kehler Liddell.
Thabisa strolled from the back of Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville with a megaphone in her hand, already singing. The people in the audience, seated on the gallery floor — many on blankets and pillows — fell quiet as soon as they heard her voice.She strolled in, took her stand on the small carpet set up under the lights to make a stage. Various percussion to her right. A guitar and a trumpet on stands to her left. Behind her, a large yellow wingback chair, a floor lamp, an end table with a framed picture on it.The South-African born and now New Haven-based musician sang mostly in Xhosa, but a line in English leapt into the audience’s ears.“This is where I am,” she sang, “I’m here to stay.”
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.
Continue reading ‘Tax Plan Could Hit 1,780 Homeowners Hardest’
by | Dec 14, 2017 4:31 pm | Comments (8)
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Nemerson breaks news to riled neighbors.
After months of debate of what kind of retail belongs in Westville — and how much government can and cannot exert its will on private property owners — a Family Dollar is likely coming to a vacant building on upper Whalley Avenue.
by | Dec 14, 2017 1:40 pm | Comments (0)
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Thabisa and Steve Mednick Thursday in the WNHH studio.
When Thabisa performs her music in Xhosa, the language from her native South Africa, people in Westville understand what she’s singing. Even if they don’t understand the words.
by | Dec 1, 2017 8:57 am | Comments (2)
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Jackson shows Dillon a growing crack in her house.
Cheryl Jackson has watched over the years as neighbors got help saving their sinking homes. Now she’s hoping her turn has finally arrived.
by | Nov 29, 2017 8:43 am | Comments (3)
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Cats fuel up at Mew Haven.
Westville’s newest business is trying to start the holiday season off on the right paw — by offering visitors a furry reprieve from shopping, baking, final exams and holiday stress.
by | Nov 10, 2017 11:30 am | Comments (0)
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New Haven geneaologist Jeanne Insalaco documenting names yp contribute to the Honor Roll Project this Veterans Day.
When Jeanne Insalaco focused her Nikon 5200 camera on the Prospect Soldiers Monument recently, she drew from her experience shooting various monuments in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘She’s Preserving Vets’ Names For Digital Age’
by | Oct 30, 2017 8:36 am | Comments (6)
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The scene on Howard Avenue.
Winds reached 56 miles per hour in town overnight, downing at least 15 trees citywide and plunging the City Point neighborhood into darkness.
Meanwhile, officials were scrambling past midnight to deal with two storm-unrelated matters: a busload of Hillhouse High students stranded off a Baltimore highway, and a piercing alarm in a bank-owned home that was keeping upper Westville awake.
by | Oct 19, 2017 8:10 am | Comments (31)
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Brackeen walks Beverly Hills with LCI’s Rick Mazzadra & Driscoll.
Airbnb-er Leventhal.
Amid growing complaints from neighbors, New Haven is looking to start regulating the mushrooming Airbnb business in town — in such a way that they won’t land the city in court.
by | Oct 18, 2017 12:33 pm | Comments (15)
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WVRA’s Donius: Have you asked anyone else?
Should a Family Dollar make upper Whalley Avenue its home — a prospect some neighbors have opposed— the building it moves into will get a facelift that includes masonry repair, a paint job and a redone façade, landscaping and a repaved parking lot.
by | Oct 10, 2017 12:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Antle-O’Donnell.
Liz Antle‑O’Donnell won’t have to learn a roster of new names in her new position at Kehler Liddell Gallery. But she hopes to have new names coming through the door before the end of the year.
by | Oct 9, 2017 12:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Sarah J. Bratchell’s and Kate Stephen’s gallery on Saturday.
There was plenty of finished art to see in West River Arts on Whalley Avenue as artists threw open the doors of their studios for City Wide Open Studios’s Westville weekend. For some artists the weekend was as much about making the art as showing it.
Continue reading ‘Sometimes It’s About How You Make The Art’
by | Oct 5, 2017 12:38 pm | Comments (1)
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Yale-China Fellow Onnie Chan recording her story.
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The original Boardman Building.
A fledgling experiment after the Civil War. A voice, clear as a bell, on the other end of the line. A heartbeat of current and wire. A signal that the only way was onward, through person-to-person communication.
This is the starting point for Exchange: This Electronic Age is Both Wondrous and Horrible, a new work from A Broken Umbrella Theatre (ABUT) based on the history of the telephone exchange in downtown New Haven.