by | Oct 27, 2021 1:36 pm | Comments (14)
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The Contois Tavern cheeseburger.
Fresh ground beef. Grilled onions. Tomato. American cheese. Poppy seed bun.
No spices or seasoning or special sauce. No breadcrumbs. No meat thermometer needlessly complicating the process.
Continue reading ‘Today’s Special: Billy Contois’ Cheeseburger’
by | Oct 26, 2021 8:04 am | Comments (12)
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Dishing at DISTRICT: CEOs Bailey, Swanston, Zamani, Londa.
Fiber.
Family.
Football?
by | Oct 25, 2021 10:15 am | Comments (2)
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Katalina Riegelmann at Sunday’s party.
Katalina’s Bakery and Coffee Shop celebrated its 10-year anniversary on Sunday afternoon with a birthday party open to family and friends.
Continue reading ‘Woven Into Community, Katalina’s Cupcake Spot Celebrates 10th Anniversary’
by | Oct 21, 2021 2:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Turcio: “One week it’s sheetrock. Next week it’s electrical boxes.”
As ports around the world struggle to ease congestion, and manufacturers around the globe wrestle with power problems and Covid-spawned worker shortages, communities across U.S. are feeling the domino effect of supply-chain jam-ups — and New Haven is no exception.
by | Oct 21, 2021 10:35 am | Comments (36)
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Rendering of Fusco’s proposed waterfront apartments.
The City Plan Commission unanimously advanced a proposal to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf — despite the advice of a top state environmental regulator who advocated rejecting waterfront residential developments as unduly dangerous due to climate-change-induced flooding.
Continue reading ‘Harbor Plan Advances, Against State Advice’
by | Oct 21, 2021 8:07 am | Comments (17)
Avelo Airlines announced that it will begin nonstop flights from Tweed-New Haven Airport to Sarasota, Florida, beginning Jan. 13.
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by | Oct 20, 2021 3:05 pm | Comments (10)
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Sean Scanlon and Andrea Corazzini down Tweed-bound brew.
Sean Scanlon tried his first-ever cup of coffee Wednesday — after toasting a deal to bring an outpost of New Haven’s popular G Cafe to the growing airport he oversees.
by | Oct 15, 2021 1:07 pm | Comments (4)
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New board Chair Howard K. Hill.
The Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce honored three local movers and shakers at its annual meeting and business leadership awards event: Howard K. Hill, Carlton Highsmith, and Heather LaTorra.
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by | Oct 14, 2021 3:54 pm | Comments (5)
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Fans at Cardi B’s five-minutes-before-superstardom Toad’s show.
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Randall Beach, co-author of new history of Toad’s Place, at WNHH FM.
Toad’s Place outlasted decades’ worth of music-club competitors in New Haven.
It also outmaneuvered Yale — and pivoted and mastered digital marketing while competitors were still addicted to print advertising.
A new book offers a look at how that happened.
Continue reading ‘The Rise Of Toad’s Place: How Hip Capitalism Redefined The Mainstream’
by | Oct 13, 2021 11:36 am | Comments (21)
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Pedestrian, bike infrastructure at almost-done Orange intersection.
Donna Hall (right) leads Wednesday morning’s site visit.
Painted crosswalks, protected bike lanes, sculptural light fixtures, and pedestrian crossing signals now line a new almost-finished Orange Street intersection that — when it opens in a few weeks — will mark the culmination of the city’s latest efforts to stitch together downtown and the Hill.
by | Oct 12, 2021 3:08 pm | Comments (1)
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Restaurant Week diners enjoying al fresco meals on the College Street “promenade” Tuesday afternoon.
You get to enjoy great food, out in public. Restaurant owners and workers get a needed boost. And money flows to hungry families.
by | Oct 8, 2021 8:36 am | Comments (1)
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Dunn Pearson Jr. at WNHH FM.
Back in the day, Dunn Pearson Jr. played “Love Train” on the keyboard with the O’Jays before 20,000 fans at Madison Square Garden.
This past Sunday, he was at the keyboards at Hamden Plains United Methodist Church playing “Cry Me a River” at worship services.
The venues, the gigs differed. Pearson saw a link.
Continue reading ‘Love Train Leads “Black Beethoven” To Lay Down Local Roots’
by | Oct 7, 2021 4:44 pm | Comments (8)
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A ConnCAT flag newly raised above Dixwell Plaza.
Dixwell Plaza’s redevelopers raised a flag above the fraying mid-century shopping complex to celebrate gaining site control of the neighborhood-anchoring block — and to point ahead towards the strip’s pending transformation into ConnCAT Place.
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by | Oct 5, 2021 2:44 pm | Comments (3)
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United Way President Lisa Tepper Bates: “The work isn’t easy.”
United Way of Connecticut is proposing that businesses help people “get back to work” with an equity approach.
Continue reading ‘United Way Makes Flexibility Pitch To Lure Back Workers’
by | Sep 28, 2021 8:10 am | Comments (6)
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Kwame Asari (right) discussing his Oh Shito savory Ghanaian hot sauce with a wholesaler at Monday’s pitch event.
fatto a mano founder Pierluigi Mazzella, with his beloved panettone.
Pierluigi Mazzella never sleeps. This is because he’s obsessed. And in love.
At Monday’s CT Food Launchpad Pitch Night in East Rock, the founder and owner of fatto a mano stood beside the object that has kept him awake at all hours: the panettone, a towering round of sweet bread naturally leavened with sourdough and studded with organic raisins and semi-sweet Valrhona chocolate.
It took him 72 hours to make.
Continue reading ‘Pitch Night Showcases Pannetone, “Bacorn”’
by | Sep 20, 2021 12:23 pm | Comments (2)
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Chamber of Commerce members Madison Stout, Mimsie Coleman, Nancy Dudchik, and Meegia Wojcik.
Hamden a capella group Silk’n Sounds, featuring lead singers Mary Beth and Michele Cohen and baritones Debbie Clark and Louise Talarczyk. They posted sign-ups for auditions and booked two private gigs during their first run at Hamden Fest.
Hamden Fest returned for a second spin after a pandemic pause, planting its roots Saturday in Town Center Park.
by | Sep 13, 2021 8:11 am | Comments (30)
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Up to 500 new apartments planned for Long Wharf.
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A rendering of 27 apartments planned for Hemingway St.
A Long Wharf-based developer plans to build up to 500 new apartments along the underused waterfront in a bid to make good on the city’s long-sought redevelopment plans for the area.
by | Sep 4, 2021 9:12 pm | Comments (15)
ConnCORP’s Erik Clemons, Carlton Highsmith, Anna Blanding, Paul McCraven, and Elaine Roper at Saturday’s event.
One hundred residents, city officials, and outreach members celebrated the planned transformation of Dixwell Plaza into “ConnCAT Place.”
ConnCORP, the complex’s new owner, threw a block party Saturday afternoon behind Stetson Library in the plaza’s parking lot as a way to thank the community for support as the organization proceeds with plans to build a new $200 million mixed-use complex on the site.
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by | Sep 3, 2021 11:23 am | Comments (21)
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CEO Chime: Got $100K to drop out of Yale and develop new emergency-communications tech.
A witness called 911 to report an assault on the Green. The dispatcher texted back a link to a new app, enabling the witness to live-stream video of the attack and provide more details for first responders.
That happened recently thanks to an experiment taking place in New Haven.
by | Sep 3, 2021 8:31 am | Comments (19)
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Proposed Fair St. “greenway” beside 185 new apartments (below).
A closed-off section of Fair Street will open to pedestrians — but not to cars or bikes — according to the latest plans from a Wooster Square developer looking to build 185 more market-rate apartments in the neighborhood.
by | Aug 31, 2021 3:41 pm | Comments (5)
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Chef Jeyson Santoni; his jam-packed 259 Orange burger (top).
You might call the 259 Orange a cheeseburger, a bacon burger, or an egg burger. Or maybe a short rib burger or an avocado burger.
The only thing certain is that the 259 Orange Burger nearly didn’t happen. Nor, for that matter, did Dangle’s Bar and Grill, which serves the 259 Burger, and which opened three weeks ago on 259 Orange just up the street from the New Haven County Courthouse.
Continue reading ‘Jey’s Burger Brings 259 Orange Back To Life’
by | Aug 31, 2021 1:26 pm | Comments (5)
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Carlos Eyzaguirre presents Mike Amore Jr. with mayoral proclamation.
Since the 1950s, much of New Haven has kept its attire fresh and clean thanks to Jet Cleaners, which celebrated its 65th year in business Tuesday with city officials and neighbors.
Continue reading ‘Upper State Street Celebrates Jet Cleaners’ 65th Birthday, New Parklet’
by | Aug 23, 2021 1:48 pm | Comments (4)
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Design for self-storage site at 129 Amity: Plans OK’d. No tenant yet.
Will the third time prove the charm?
That’s the question for a vacant parkway-adjacent Amity lot, where a property owner won city permission to build a four-story self-storage facility — after that same landlord won approvals for projects that never got built.
by | Aug 23, 2021 12:20 pm | Comments (0)
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New Dixwell corner name is unveiled Saturday.
The late Bishop Lethenial McClam.
The “legacy, integrity, generosity, and love” of the Bishop Lethenial McClam will now live on forever at the corner of Bristol Street and Dixwell Avenue.
“Bishop Lethenial McClam Corner” was unveiled at that spot Saturday afternoon to the family, friends, and community members whom McClam helped throughout his lifetime through unspoken acts of kindness, prayer, and his establishing of the McClam Funeral Home more than 20 years ago.
by | Aug 18, 2021 8:54 am | Comments (23)
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Public updated, weighs in Tuesday night on pandemic-relief plans.
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Give small businesses and homebuyers needed cash. Encourage non-car transportation. Teach kids budgeting, saving, investing. Boost wages to keep up with the cost of living.
City Hall has heard those priorities about how to spend $90 million in federal pandemic relief — and is now crafting plans to convert those goals into action.
Continue reading ‘The People Spoke. $90M In Plans Come Next’