by | May 28, 2024 5:29 pm | Comments (4)
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4th-generation Louis' Lunch burgermeister Jeff Lassen tends to lunchtime crowd in between hosting elected officials.
Fresh off planting New Haven’s pizza flag in D.C., Mayor Justin Elicker led an official delegation to Crown Street Tuesday to lay claim to yet another round-and-flat New Haven original.
by | May 22, 2024 3:29 pm | Comments (19)
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Raymond Thompson and Jean Jenkins at Tuesday's meetup.
A rendering of ConnCORP's anticipated Dixwell redevelopment.
Now that the old Dixwell Plaza has been knocked down and remediated, Terrance Lee wants a chance to help build it back up alongside other New Haveners.
by | May 15, 2024 3:29 pm | Comments (4)
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The Synergists -- music promoter Keith Mahler and restaurateur Claire Criscuolo -- with city's Cathy Graves outside College Street Music Hall for Wednesday's presser.
Downtown boosters stood outside amid the rain Wednesday to proclaim the start of outdoor dining season.
Continue reading ‘College St.'s Lit -- With Sidewalk Tables Ready’
by | May 15, 2024 1:02 pm | Comments (8)
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Steve Fontana in his last week as a New Haven development official, recording a press conference outside College Street Music Hall Wednesday.
A third New Haven city government official is heading west to help a new mayor build up her city.
Continue reading ‘West Haven Mayor Steals 2nd New Haven Fontana’
by | May 15, 2024 11:00 am | Comments (10)
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Data Deep-Divers Jacob Hacker and Jonathan Cohen at WNHH FM.
The economy’s roaring, according to official measures like the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the GDP (Gross Domestic Product).
The economy’s ailing, and we’re all hurting, according to the human beings who live in it.
Maybe it’s time for a new way to measure the economy?
by | May 14, 2024 11:34 am | Comments (1)
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Elizabeth Laconi, Anne Hartjen, Shayla Streater, and Amayah Smith.
Amid the sea of vendors and artisans on Saturday afternoon at the 27th annual Westville ArtWalk neighborhood festival and arts market, 11-year-old Amayah Smith looked around in awe at the multitude of goods people had to offer, from handmade soaps to crochet plushies. Amayah could imagine herself taking part, so folks better watch out at next year’s ArtWalk for a new business — “‘Mayah’s Joy” — bringing homemade stickers to you.
Continue reading ‘Westville's ArtWalk Cultivates New Artisans’
by | May 8, 2024 11:11 am | Comments (4)
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On the canal trail by the William "King" Lanson statue.
The history of New Haven entrepreneurship past and present. The fortunes of a neighborhood rising and falling, and rising again. The legacies of environmental depredation, and the work to create healthier, more sustainable places.
All these themes were touched upon in the latest walk from the New Haven Bioregional Group, in which Aaron Goode of Friends of the Farmington Canal Greenway led a group of about 30 walkers through the New Haven section of the urban trail that today connects almost seamlessly to Northampton, Mass.
Continue reading ‘Canal Walk Connects City's Past, Present, Future’
by and | May 6, 2024 5:33 pm | Comments (12)
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Alexandra Daum highlights new landscaping and more sustainable energy ...
... as part of Science Hill development projects.
Yale is seeking to build up its scientific campus by digging down into the earth, as revealed during a presentation on future buildings with a massive underground presence.
Continue reading ‘With Science Hill Build, Yale's Going Down’
by | Apr 25, 2024 11:54 am | Comments (17)
Schiavone at 80 performs in the living room of a Chapel Street frat house apartment while fighting an eviction.
Joel Schiavone, the sockless banjo-strumming real estate developer who launched New Haven’s downtown renaissance, has died at the age of 87, leaving behind a legacy that will long outlive him.
by | Apr 18, 2024 4:04 pm | Comments (3)
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11-year-old Avery with her favorite Black Raspberry Newhall Street soap.
Bassett Street smells like lemongrass and poppy seeds to 11-year-old Kauren, now that her favorite sweet-citrusy soap is up for sale in honor of the street where she goes to school.
Continue reading ‘Soaps Honor Newhallville At Kids' Black Wall Street’
by | Apr 12, 2024 1:16 pm | Comments (25)
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Erick Gonzalez, Annette Genovese, and Rosa at Martinez-hosted meetup.
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One possibility: a Mill River boardwalk?
To revitalize a neighborhood known for its warehouses and abandoned factories, focus on nature.
Residents and business owners offered that advice to city officials planning a more walkable, community-oriented Mill River district.
by | Apr 9, 2024 1:28 pm | Comments (11)
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Hilton is acquiring Graduate Hotels for $210 million, according to a March 14 press release.
by | Apr 4, 2024 4:18 pm | Comments (9)
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Lunch is self-served.
After a single bite, I realized I had ordered the wrong entree at IKEA. The “veggie balls” were a blank slate: a mush of chickpeas, carrots, peppers, and other veggies I usually enjoy, mashed and blended until they amounted to something almost as thoroughly bland as the cauliflower rice I got on the side.
by | Apr 4, 2024 11:34 am | Comments (29)
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Big buildings, not empty lots, envisioned for Union Station area.
With climate change in mind, an aldermanic committee advanced a zoning proposal that would allow as-of-right restaurants, supermarkets, and offices — but not housing — along the Union Station railroad tracks.
Continue reading ‘Extra Step Added For Transit-Oriented Housing’
by | Mar 26, 2024 3:27 pm | Comments (19)
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Developer Joseph: Big plans for Rte 34.
Four stories of medical research will join a daycare, a 130-room hotel, and a social services center — as the last development in the decade-long construction of the Route 34 West “superblock.”
by | Mar 25, 2024 8:58 am | Comments (11)
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Mt. Calvary Revival Center on Legion Avenue.
Jesus Christ and pre‑K kids will each get a “sliver” of city land — if the sale of two odd-cut, publicly-owned properties next to an adjacent Pentecostal church with plans for a daycare wins final approval.
Continue reading ‘Legion Sliver Lot Eyed For Church Daycare’
by | Mar 22, 2024 3:57 pm | Comments (12)
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Milling your own grain is like grinding coffee to order, according to Frisch, who does both.
Bill Frisch signed up for the city’s DNA of the Entrepreneur program — and found the right recipe to make his business, East Rock Breads, rise to the top.
City officials joined Frisch outside his shop at 942 State Street Friday to cut a formal ribbon for the new shop and publicize the secret ingredient to that shared success: $15,000 in funding from the city’s Leaseholder Improvement Program.
by | Mar 21, 2024 4:14 pm | Comments (24)
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The ex-Monterey club: Still vacant. Still Ocean-owned.
Reator Latasha Eaddy: City-Ocean deal fell apart "quite some time ago." Private sales in the works, including for 269 Dixwell (pictured).
A city plan to acquire the derelict former Monterey jazz club and three surrounding Dixwell buildings from an oft-fined megalandlord has hit a flat note — and, apparently, collapsed altogether — after the Elicker administration ditched a purchase-and-sale agreement and issued new clean-up orders.
Months after that public deal fell apart, Ocean Management is reportedly now lining up new private buyers for these same properties.
by | Mar 21, 2024 3:46 pm | Comments (4)
From "mass-level instruments of death" to homes and community: Matt Pugliese, Alder Kim Edwards, Alder Troy Streater, Eric Steinberg, Alex Twining, Arlevia Samuel, David Silverstone, Jake Pine and Mayor Justin Elicker break ground on Winchester Green.
As excavators pushed dirt from side to side at 315 Winchester Ave., city officials and housing developers dug shovels into a picture-planned pile of rocks to symbolically break ground on the mixed-use development that will one day be called the Winchester Green.
Continue reading ‘"Winchester Green" Grows Into Construction Zone’
by | Mar 20, 2024 9:36 am | Comments (8)
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Grand Avenue business owners Carolina Vergara and Yolanda Guzman: Customers are getting assaulted.
Grand Avenue business owners left their shops and rallied on the side of the road — in hopes the city would hear their call to clean up crime across the streets of Fair Haven.
by | Mar 19, 2024 4:25 pm | Comments (5)
Alex Ankrah and Josephine Bailey: Family Dollar is a top-dollar date space.
Mother and daughter Hinasta L and Celeste Burrell left Family Dollar with Rockin’ Protein, hand sanitizer, period pads and heavy hearts — as they prepared for potential closure of the only store in the city keeping their pockets lined with more than lint.
by | Mar 19, 2024 10:18 am | Comments (4)
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Ball & Socket Arts front view.
When asked to name the cultural hubs of the Northeast, most people would not consider Cheshire, Connecticut a part of that list. A group of enthusiastic artists and supporters of the arts are hoping to change that over the next few years, as Ball & Socket Arts, a complex located on West Main Street right along the Farmington Canal Linear Path, continues its efforts to create a central location aimed at encouraging ongoing creativity and attracting New Haven County residents and beyond to its galleries, performance venue, art education center, and more.
Continue reading ‘Ball & Socket Arts Turns Factory Into Gallery’
by | Mar 15, 2024 3:35 pm | Comments (25)
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The gas station at 9 p.m. Thursday.
A Kimberly Avenue gas station ran out of fuel while requesting extended hours of operation — after community members complained over the convenience store’s contribution to neighborhood crime.
by | Mar 14, 2024 4:30 pm | Comments (9)
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Looking east from where wall would begin.
“We build too many walls and not enough bridges,” quoth Sir Isaac Newton. But it gets a little complicated when the wall you are building is also along a beloved bridge and river, and the construction is all unfolding in a historic district.
by | Mar 13, 2024 12:57 pm | Comments (3)
Joshua McCown.
Spaced out on the walls of Time A Tell, a clothing store and smoke shop at 1700 Dixwell Ave., are black-and-white photos. Each shows a celebrated rap artist — Baby Money, DThang, Cuban Doll, Skilla Baby, and Babyfxce E — wearing Time A Tell clothing made by Joshua McCown, the shop’s 20-year-old owner.
Continue reading ‘Prodigy Designer, 20, Turns Heads Worldwide’