by | Dec 5, 2016 2:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Flashing lights accompanySanta to Shell and Bones.
A train, a doll house, an iPhone 6, an iPhone7, an American Girl doll, and a happy city.
Those were some of the wishes made by the kids of City Point along with their mayor.
by | Aug 10, 2016 3:56 pm | Comments (20)
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A new raised obstruction slows a Chapel Street motorist.
Instead of zooming by as usual, drivers approached with caution a new square island in the middle of the street just a few feet away from the intersection of Chapel Street at Alden Avenue.
That new driving pattern is just what the city’s engineer, traffic chief and nearby neighbors had in mind.
by | Jul 1, 2016 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Former GOP Town Chair Richter Elser with ex-state consumer protection chief Mark Shiffrin at GOP happy hour.
You might not have guessed that New Haven is a Democratic city if you wandered into City Point Kitchen on Thursday evening.
by | Jun 29, 2016 1:01 pm | Comments (4)
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GOP Town Chair Wharton.
Jonathan Wharton believes that plotting New Haven’s future and sampling draft beers can go together.
by | Apr 28, 2016 5:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Oysters at Florian.
Eric Rowe was having an otherwise normal week when, on his walk home from work, he made a discovery that rocked his boat: Four different New Haven bars offer dollar oysters on Wednesdays during happy hour.
For Rowe, an Indiana transplant who had developed an affinity for seafood, especially shellfish, after his move to the East Coast in 2012, this wasn’t just good news. It was cause for an oyster crawl. And some research into a one-time pearl of New Haven’s economy.
by | Mar 25, 2016 7:25 am | Comments (2)
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Long Island Sound, at Sound School.
Thousands of fish and hundreds of turtles in the Long Island Sound died of nitrogen pollution last summer, just before the federal government decided to crack down on water quality standards.
by | Dec 10, 2015 8:31 am | Comments (15)
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Beagle Momo and owner Nakamura set off on damaged, gated trail.
City Building Official Jim Turcio has given a City Point condo association until next week to repair and reopen a boardwalk so neighbors can walk along the harbor — as the condo association was legally required to do more than two decades ago.
by | Nov 30, 2015 4:11 pm | Comments (0)
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Santa Claus made his usual landing at the annual City Point holiday celebration, traditionally the earliest of numerous neighborhood Christmas celebrations scheduled to unfold in the next month across town.
by | Sep 7, 2015 9:52 am | Comments (4)
Immunologist Frank Lobo opened City Point Kitchen to help increase microbial diversity in New Haveners’ stomachs.
The local kale and swiss chard chef Derek Armodio (pictured) threw into a rice and scallop dish should help with that.
by | Jul 22, 2015 1:29 pm | Comments (7)
City Point neighbors spent as much time disagreeing with each other as they did blasting state officials in their latest encounter over traffic problems caused by the rebuilding of I‑95.
Continue reading ‘City Point Neighbors Argue Against Each Other On I-95 Mess’
by | Jul 10, 2015 1:48 pm | Comments (5)
Stephanie Addenbrooke.
DOT’s Pelletier at Thrusday night’s meeting.
Overlooking the harbor at Harbour Landing’s condo complex, the team overseeing the rebuilding I‑95 near told a gathering of some 60 angry City Point neighbors that the state might change some plans to relieve traffic jams — but it made no promises.
Continue reading ‘DOT Listens To City Point, Makes No Promises’
by | Jun 29, 2015 1:14 pm | Comments (3)
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Former Alders James and Perez with newcomer Reyes.
Two alders representing the Hill neighborhood kicked off their bids for reelection at Trowbridge Square Park, while the nephew of a former longstanding alder sought to follow in his footsteps.
Continue reading ‘2 Incumbents, 1 Newcomer Announce Hill Candidacies’
by and | Apr 9, 2015 1:00 pm | Comments (1)
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After a week of community outcry, John Cesaroni heard the city’s reasoning for seeking to fell a beloved neighborhood tree in front of his house — and embraced the inevitable.
Continue reading ‘City Point Bids Farewell To 60-Year-Old Maple’
by | Mar 20, 2015 12:46 pm | Comments (0)
You’re heard of Skull & Bones, the Yale secret society. Now New Haven’s getting a “Shell & Bones” — and this one’s open for anyone to walk inside, whether or not you have ties to the CIA or your last name is Bush.
by | May 23, 2014 3:00 pm | Comments (2)
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Two three-foot-high books made of purple and orange stainless steel have been added to Stetson Branch Library’s collection.
You can’t take them out. Ever.