by | Jul 22, 2020 12:55 pm | Comments (1)
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Streeter at work at Streets Boathouse Smokehouse on Front Street.
Many more of those unique smoked lobster rolls will be rolling out in Fair Haven, and jerked chicken and spicy plantains will soon be making their debut in the Hill.
by | Jul 22, 2020 11:38 am | Comments (2)
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101 College St. rendering.
A planned new 10-story, 500,000 square-foot bioscience lab and office tower won its last needed city approval, paving the way for construction to start later this summer.
by | Jul 21, 2020 2:13 pm | Comments (2)
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The planned new 101 College St. biotower.
The city pulled in a $3 million state grant to help cover some of the infrastructure development costs associated with the planned new $100 million bioscience lab tower to be built at 101 College St.
Continue reading ‘City Lands $3M State Grant For 101 College Biotower’
by | Jul 15, 2020 5:48 pm | Comments (1)
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Richard B gets a Covid-safe Ricky D welcome on Winchester Wednesday.
Ricky Evans had another visit from a U.S. senator Wednesday — this time to offer some inspiration for how to help Black-owned businesses survive the Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Jul 14, 2020 10:06 am | Comments (1)
Standing in the corner of the back room at Next Door on Saturday evening, Seth Adam rearranged his mask without dropping a beat. The rhythm he had looped stayed steady behind him, and he turned the pause into something musically dramatic, then kept going, singing, and into a lithe solo.
“That was tough with a mask on,” he said at the end, when the audience gave him its applause. He mused on the possibility of having a mask that would somehow make it easier to perform music while wearing one. “Someone’s going to design one — you know it.”
by | Jul 13, 2020 12:43 pm | Comments (4)
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Testing the new chatbot at Cast Iron Chef.
Developer Morehead at debut.
Diners interested in ordering a Prime New York Strip or other meaty morsels at Cast Iron Chef Chop House no longer need a physical menu when placing their orders.
Thanks to local entrepreneur Greg Morehead, there’s now a solution for that.
by | Jul 13, 2020 10:21 am | Comments (21)
American Airlines will offer two daily flights from Tweed-New Haven Airport (HVN) to Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) starting Sept. 9.
by | Jul 11, 2020 10:32 pm | Comments (57)
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Andre Alexander outside DiBella’s with his forbidden mask.
Demonstrators converged on a Hamden sub shop Friday and the store closed early, after an employee was sent home for showing up in a face mask reading, “Black Lives Matter.”
by | Jul 9, 2020 10:41 am | Comments (4)
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Among top local PPP recipients (clockwise from top left): Fair Haven Community Health Care, Achievement First, Albertus Magnus College, Wiggin & Dana.
Law firms topped the list of New Haven small businesses that have received the most financial help so far from a pandemic-era federal relief program.
Webster Bank and Bank of America, meanwhile, have been the two busiest lenders in distributing local loans through that same publicly-funded, privately-administered effort.
by | Jul 7, 2020 4:40 pm | Comments (4)
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Divy Geli attends to a customer of 16 years, Maila Oksanen.
Audubon Street barber Divy Geli knows his shop would benefit from a cash infusion provided by a newly-announced low-interest loan program targeted at helping minority- and women-owned small businesses in New Haven.
What he’s not so certain of is whether it’s worth tapping into the program and taking out a loan he may not be able to pay back.
by | Jul 3, 2020 5:27 pm | Comments (1)
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With the printed red flames from a fiery chicken wing visible on the glass storefront behind him, as if protruding from his head, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal delivered a message for the state’s small businesses: there are still federal dollars waiting to help them.
Continue reading ‘Blumenthal Plugs PPP For Black-Owned Businesses’
by | Jul 3, 2020 10:19 am | Comments (6)
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Beer Collective co-owners Sklar and Davis.
A Court Street craft beer bar has shut off its taps and closed its doors for good — becoming downtown’s latest small-business casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Jul 2, 2020 10:52 am | Comments (16)
Rajachack back at work Wednesday, mostly healed.
Ketkeo Rajachack had one question as teens were pounding on her inside the Temple Street Garage: Why?
Continue reading ‘After 2nd Attack, Restaurateur Presses On’
by | Jul 2, 2020 10:08 am | Comments (0)
After 40 years in journalism and 25 years covering the Capitol, Hearst Connecticut Media’s Ken Dixon is still learning on the job.
Continue reading ‘Capitol Reporter On State Of Journalism, Covid-19, BLM’
by | Jul 1, 2020 5:37 pm | Comments (1)
A local community-empowerment organization is stepping in where the federal and state governments failed: to help black-owned businesses recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading ‘ConnCAT Steps In To Help Black-Owned Businesses’
by | Jul 1, 2020 11:46 am | Comments (6)
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Walker-Myers: Yale should work with unions to ensure safety.
New Haven’s university-dominant retail economy got some partial hopeful news Wednesday morning: Of Yale’s 6,250 undergraduate students, three out of four class years will be allowed on campus for the fall semester.
by | Jun 30, 2020 6:34 pm | Comments (0)
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Jose Merced at his salon: Hanging in for now.
Jose Merced watched customers disappear and the rent bills mount at La Isla Barbershop on Washington Avenue in the Hill. Now he’s hoping a pot of federal COVID-19 relief money headed toward New Haven will offer him some belated business-survival relief.
by | Jun 30, 2020 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Zhi Yong Wang, tends to customer at Million Asian Market.
For a week now, more than a dozen customers have asked Tom Zhang when the kimchi will arrive.
Continue reading ‘Asian Grocers Roll With Virus Disruptions’
by | Jun 29, 2020 9:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Joe Minsky cuts the ribbon.
A family-owned Brooklyn-based company is bringing custom-made art frames and decorative furnishings to New Haven — along with 200 protective face shields donated to local barbers.
Continue reading ‘New Art Frame Manufacturer Cuts Ribbon, Pivots To Face Shields’
by | Jun 26, 2020 4:56 pm | Comments (1)
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Romero, Filardo, Wnek, and Ramirez pop in on Grand Fish Thursday evening.
Inside, Wnek checks the signs.
Grand Avenue was trying its best.
Plastic barriers were up. In most cases, people had masks on. Some required signs were prominent and bilingual. Others were missing, but could be easily replaced.
by | Jun 26, 2020 11:02 am | Comments (1)
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Alejandro and Andres Cordido at their newly opened eatery.
Alejandro and Andres Cordido dreamed for years of starting a restaurant of their own devoted to the Venezuelan recipes they grew up with. They never imagined that opening week would comes amidst a pandemic.
They never pictured tables spread six feet apart. Floor stickers spaced out to help customers keep their distance. Plexiglass barriers between employees behind the counter and the customers they feed. Surfaces sanitized extra frequently. Customers’ smiles undetectable behind their protective masks.
by | Jun 25, 2020 5:00 pm | Comments (15)
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Carpenter Ernest Pagan and small business contractor Rodney Williams outside the Q House construction site Thursday.
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A third of the way through the construction of the new Q House, only 9 percent of subcontractors working on the project have been African American-owned companies, and less than 8 percent of the total construction workforce for the project has been Black.
A dozen local, Black small business contractors rallied outside of the future community center site to protest that lack of work, and to lambast a city-funded hiring initiative they argued benefits the county more than it does New Haven proper.
by | Jun 25, 2020 2:26 pm | Comments (1)
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Recaffeinating, on East Street.
Six days after the state of Connecticut commenced Phase 2 of reopening the economy during the pandemic, allowing coffee shops and restaurants to resume indoor dining at 50 percent capacity, Michael Sakelarakis had just finished taking the final exam for his pediatric advanced life support certificate. He decided to head to The Coffee Pedaler, his favorite neighborhood coffee shop.
by | Jun 18, 2020 1:46 pm | Comments (1)
District, the bustling James Street tech and innovation center, has a new executive director, whose responsibilities include overseeing the Holberton digital-job-training school.
by | Jun 18, 2020 12:04 pm | Comments (7)
Example of Fortier’s zone-threatening work.
Wes Fortier has to drive 40 minutes from home to do his job — giving people tattoos.
It’s not for lack of business in Hamden that he drives so far; it’s because Hamden’s zoning regulations make it tough to do his job there.