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At the intersection of Orange and Crown on Sunday afternoon, artist Michael DeAngelo (pictured) stood on a ladder, a can of spray paint in his hand, putting shading touching onto a blue figure that seemed to float across the black wall in front of him.
A few addresses north on Orange Street, artist Alexander Fournier was on a ladder of his own, sketching out the ghosts of skyscrapers on a blank white wall in front of Ninth Square Market.
Around the corner on Center, Francisco Del Carpio-Beltran was putting down the linework for an intricate mural that turned the city into a blueprint and back again.
Chef Larry Lucky stood in the kitchen installed in the back of Lucky’s Star Bus Cafe, deftly cooking up a piece of blackened salmon, which he explained was a customer favorite.
The year-old, family-run business recently relocated from Fair Haven to Newhallville — bringing to the neighborhood Lucky’s decades of restaurant experience and his seasoned culinary chops.
As Mory’s private eating club reopened its doors this week, it instructed customers not to tip the help — but instead to pay a 20 percent “house charge” that may or may not make its way back to the servers, bartenders and bussers.
Celebrating the new “Orange Street Promenade” in the Ninth Square.
Millie Yoshida, Jack Wolfe, and Matthew Shaffer on their lunch break.
Retail apocalypse? What retail apocalypse?
As commercial storefronts across the city and country struggle to stay open during the pandemic-induced economic crisis, a newly opened “Orange Street Promenade” showed off a Ninth Square in full bloom.
Hamden environmental groups and Newhall neighborhood leaders are renewing a push for the state to force Olin Corporation to clean up, remediate and open a 102.5‑acre forest and wetlands site so that residents can finally enjoy the closed-off land.
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit New Haven in March, Reyna Ortiz lost her job waiting tables at the Omni Hotel. She also lost the health insurance she relies on to pay for her son’s insulin.
After several tough months, she stood alongside her coworkers across from her former workplace in a fight to get her job back.
A little triangular orphan lot across the street from the successful Corsair complex on State Street might become the site of another 60 units of spiffy apartments.
The proposed new project would incorporate an old existing building, add on to it on an adjoining surface parking lot, and toss “affordable” units in the mix.
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Aug 20, 2020 10:35 am
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The Coliseum lot
Downtown and Hill neighbors slammed the redevelopment plans for the old Coliseum site — and committed to trying to get the Norwalk-based developer to pause the development process and be more transparent, include more affordable housing, and devise a more appealing design.
Provisions on State — opening on Upper State Street in September — will be New Haven’s only whole-animal butcher shop that uses regional animals; it also plans to have “everything you’d need for a simple, excellent meal,” said chef Emily Mingrone, who is busily readying the shop for its opening with business partner Shane McGowan.
You have now seen almost everything new Downtown and Hill South neighbors learned on Thursday evening about the mini-city planned for the former Coliseum site.
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Aug 10, 2020 9:47 am
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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.
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Aug 6, 2020 3:34 pm
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Officer Bandy, promoting his pre-workout vape.
A New Haven cop has come up with a new business venture peddling a product aimed at athletes wary of bloating caused by dietary supplements. The pitch: Smoke before you hit the gym.
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Aug 3, 2020 10:15 am
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Todd Lyon get a leg up on the big move.
Like the vintage wares it has been selling for over 15 years, Fashionista Vintage and Variety will be continuing on in a new way and space: 85 Willow St., to be exact.
The beloved shop closed its doors at the corner of Whitney and Trumbull last week. It will be moving its abundance of top hats, taffeta, and everything else to its new home in the MarlinWorks building in East Rock this week.
Alana Dina, Craig Gomes, and Evongee Smart outside Pacifico.
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South Bay and Pacifico tables bustling on Wednesday night.
Ray Andrewsen felt like he was in Paris. Alana Dina, the Big Apple.
In reality, they were dining on pear and walnut salad and guacamole on College Street in New Haven — not inside eateries, but right out on the sidewalk, part of a Covid 19-sparked experiment that’s breathing new life into downtown’s battered restaurant industry.
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Jul 29, 2020 8:52 pm
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Gov. Ned Lamont came to New Haven Wednesday afternoon to announce the launch of an online platform to help people starting businesses in the state and attract businesses fleeing New York — as Connecticut gets its “mojo back.”
Several years after streaming services saw the mass extinction of video rentals, the original Tommy K’s Video at 1636 Dixwell Ave. in Hamden will be revived by a trio of package store pros promising to bring fresh spirit to the abandoned house.
The property’s owners Tuesday night brought their proposed site plans, which feature a new two-story building with a first floor package store and upstairs apartment units, to the Hamden Planning and Zoning Commission. After hours of debate, the commission voted to approve the plans.
Work proceeds on High; stalled spot on Orange (below).
Covid-19 has barely slowed developers’ race to build market-rate apartments in town, but it has thrown the future of some hotel development into question — as shown by the two above photos.
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Jul 27, 2020 10:35 am
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Clara Bowron Sunday with her final purchase.
After 66 years, Ann Taylor sold its last dress Sunday at the Chapel Street location where the upscale clothing chain got its start.
The store, geared towards female professionals, closed its Chapel Street location with a final sale on Sunday. It was the first Ann Taylor store to open, in 1954.
Of the 42 companies that clean New Haven school buildings, plow snow and help with other kinds of maintenance, three are owned by Black or Hispanic New Haveners. The only other minority-owned company on the list is run out of West Haven.
