by | Aug 23, 2024 11:02 am | Comments (22)
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Giulia Gambale: Known was a source of motivation and community.
The coworking space: Relatively quiet, closing in October.
Remote workers, local artists, and self-employed entrepreneurs who currently rent desks at Known will have to find a new place to work by mid-fall.
by | Aug 20, 2024 5:18 pm | Comments (2)
Portrait of the marquis by Samuel F. B. Morse.
This week, in case you hadn’t noticed the look-alikes abounding, the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette is visiting Connecticut and many of the other former colonies — as part of a tour that has been two centuries in the making.
Continue reading ‘Revolutionary War Hero To Come Back To New Haven’
by | Aug 20, 2024 10:30 am | Comments (18)
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Anstress Farwell at Monday's meetup: Hadley Hall's replacement should prioritize "eyes on the street."
Yale plans to start the months-long process of demolishing a former graduate student dormitory at 420 Temple St. in February, while the building slated to replace it is still being designed.
by | Aug 20, 2024 9:26 am | Comments (1)
Bethany Edwards
The Eye of the Beholder.
Bethany Edwards’s The Eye of the Beholder is both formal and relaxed. It’s formal in the staged positioning of the two subjects, the way that (it appears) they aren’t interacting with one another, and that one of them is interacting with the camera. But it’s relaxed in the apparent comfort the subjects have with the photographer. They’re told to stand still, but you can see the wheels turning in their heads, their personalities coming through.
Continue reading ‘Photography Show Sees Through Younger Eyes’
by | Aug 19, 2024 2:14 pm | Comments (7)
Thomas Breen photo
402 Crown St.: 2 apartments, coming up?
A vacant former Crown Street car rental center is slated to become two new apartments — after the landlord’s attorney explained that now is not the best financial time to knock down the commercial structure and build a big new building in its stead.
by | Aug 19, 2024 2:02 pm | Comments (9)
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"STRIKE READY" Omni workers rally outside the hotel.
Hundreds of protesters filled a downtown block on Yale’s move-in day to throw their support behind Omni Hotel workers who are ready to strike, if necessary, as they bargain for better pay, healthcare, and pensions in a new contract.
Continue reading ‘100s Rally For "Strike Ready" Hotel Workers’
by | Aug 19, 2024 9:40 am | Comments (7)
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Matthew Boland at Saturday's fest: Self-love "starts with you."
Cerella Griffin, with 4 types of fruit-flavored lemonades.
Adriane Jefferson, with Babz Rawls Ivy: “I have goosebumps seeing what we have been able to create.”
The sky hanging over the New Haven Green may have been hazy Saturday, but to anyone attending the Black Wall Street Festival it was clear that this was the place to be.
Over 200 vendors dotted the lawn and lined up along Temple and Church Streets to offer a stunning variety of products and services — some to help treat your body, mind, soul, and spirit, some to help you look and feel good, and some to simply help you have fun under the summer sun.
Continue reading ‘Business Is Beautiful At Black Wall Street’
by | Aug 14, 2024 3:40 pm | Comments (24)
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"Exploratory work" underway on High, on Aug. 5. The street is now back open.
Yale University undertook two weeks’ worth of underground utility “exploratory work” on High Street between Chapel and Elm — as it inched towards turning the downtown block into a pedestrian- and cyclist-only plaza, in line with a deal struck by the city more than two years ago.
Continue reading ‘Yale Steps Towards High Street Conversion’
by | Aug 14, 2024 11:33 am | Comments (6)
Eleanor Polak photos
Statue of Bl. Michael McGivney outside St. Mary.
Father Joseph McNeill and altar boys at Tuesday's "feast day."
Outside the St. Mary Church at 5 Hillhouse Ave. stands a life-sized statue of the Blessed Michael McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus and the patron of that parish. The sculpture has its arms outstretched, as if embracing everyone who enters the church, welcoming them in.
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by | Aug 12, 2024 9:44 am | Comments (2)
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One of the many Puerto Rican flags at Saturday's fest.
Saturday was a scorcher throughout the city, but nowhere was it hotter than the New Haven Green, where the 2024 Puerto Rican Festival brought thousands to celebrate the culture with food, fun, and music.
Continue reading ‘"Everybody Today Is Boricua In New Haven"’
by | Aug 9, 2024 9:41 am | Comments (0)
Howardena Pindell
Katrina Footprint.
Howardena Pindell had already created the spiraling mess of oranges, yellows, blues, and greens, footprinted with red arrows indicating the path of the swirls, when she realized that the lithograph resembled a hurricane tracking map. She titled the piece Katrina Footprint, memorializing the over 1,800 people killed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. What was once a relatively simple design of colors and shapes became a political statement. In hindsight, it feels as if the politics were already embedded in the art. Pindell only had to bring them to the surface.
Continue reading ‘"Everything Is Political In America," Including The Art’
by | Aug 7, 2024 9:32 pm | Comments (20)
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Isadora Milanez and Carla Vallati embrace after 93-0 strike authorization vote: "We all deserve better."
Omni workers explain on paper why they're willing to strike.
Omni Hotel workers unanimously voted to authorize a strike Wednesday night — in a bid to win better pay, healthcare, and pensions amid ongoing negotiations over a new union contract.
The vote doesn’t mean that the Omni’s housekeepers, front desk agents, cooks, and other employees will immediately stop coming to work. But it does mean their union can call a strike at any time.
by | Aug 6, 2024 1:37 pm | Comments (4)
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City Peace Commissioners Millie Grenough and Paul Bloom, at Tuesday's vigil.
On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, a half dozen American aircraft arrived and hovered over Hiroshima, Japan. They included planes tracking the weather, taking pictures, and monitoring weapons systems. One carried the world’s first atomic bomb.
Continue reading ‘Hiroshima Bombing Remembered On The Green’
by | Aug 6, 2024 12:22 pm | Comments (2)
Jabez Choi photo
101 College: Now open for biz, ready for students.
A cohort of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students will begin cancer and vaccine research this fall at the newly opened laboratory facilities at 101 College St. — thanks to a suite of “BioCity” approvals granted Monday night by the Board of Alders.
by | Aug 6, 2024 8:27 am | Comments (12)
Lisa Reisman photo
Danilo Mongillo's Ragú Napolitano
“This is the story of the ragú,” Danilo Mongillo said, sliding a small bowl of sauce from the refrigerator and setting it on the counter of the newly opened Strega New Haven on Chapel Street, “and it’s a slow story.”
The story began with a mix of pork and beef.
Continue reading ‘Grandmothers' Ragú Transported From Puglianello’
by | Aug 5, 2024 8:26 am | Comments (2)
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Jody Sharninghausen, at The Loop: “I think some of these things you couldn’t get in New Haven before.”
Beef and rice bowls, ready to eat.
Jody Sharninghausen bought matcha powder, umeboshi, and furikake powder to go — and ordered a fried chicken bento box to stay — at a new Japanese grocery store and restaurant downtown.
Continue reading ‘New Japanese Grocery Keeps Customers In The Loop’
by | Aug 1, 2024 3:57 pm | Comments (20)
Thomas Breen photo
The former SNET HQ on Orange: Lots and lots and lots of empty space inside.
More than 150,000 square feet of downtown office space is up for lease — at a mid-century phone company headquarters half-filled with electronic equipment, and ready for conversion to life science laboratories.
by | Jul 31, 2024 8:54 am | Comments (5)
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Sandra Redjali, Kristin Barendregt-Ludwig, and Amanda Glatter celebrate the "fruits of [their] labor."
A New Haven age snapshot, thanks to the CT Town Data Viewer.
Want to know what percentage of New Haven households are owner-occupied?
Or how much of the city’s population is foreign-born?
Or how New Haven’s mid-century Urban Renewal changes were rooted in a long history of city planning ideas from Europe, and weren’t just a response to post-war blight?
Well then you’re in luck, thanks to the launch of two new research resources focused on Elm City data and the interaction of New Haveners and the built and natural environment.
by | Jul 30, 2024 3:37 pm | Comments (100)
Thomas Breen photos
Here comes the neighborhood: Potential buildings to come (in white) to transform the Ninth Square. (Cafe 9 is at center near bottom.)
Housing authority head Karen DuBois-Walton: "We need to be building more housing. That is how we move forward."
Builders are ready to un-pave parking lots — and erect hundreds of new mixed-income apartments downtown.
Two dozen officials announced that news Tuesday afternoon alongside developers during a press conference heralding newly inked agreements to redevelop a car-centric stretch of State and George streets.
by | Jul 29, 2024 4:47 pm | Comments (8)
Allan Appel Photo
Greenberg at Lost New Haven's Benedict Arnold display.
Paving stones dug up by developers' excavation at 294-300 State St.
Robert Greenberg wants to “read the dirt” at one of New Haven’s latest downtown apartment construction sites.
He’d like to sift through the speckled ground for signs like oyster shells — which serve as a “tell” that a little further below may be an old smoking pipe, coins, buttons from military uniforms, medicine bottles, a spout from a once elegant tea set from the China trade.
Continue reading ‘Might History Lie Beneath Developer's Dirt?’
by | Jul 26, 2024 3:02 pm | Comments (1)
Annette Walton with Minh Vu.
Outside Yorkside Pizza, Yale doctoral student Minh Vu surveyed a basket of roughly 70 chrysanthemums.
“I’ll take them all,” Vu told a woman bedecked in a party hat, aka “Flower Lady” Annette Walton.
Walton invited Vu and fellow Yalies to an impromptu 64th birthday sidewalk celebration for the lifelong New Havener who, except for a hiatus during the pandemic, has been selling flowers around Yale’s downtown campus since the 1990s.
by | Jul 24, 2024 9:19 am | Comments (1)
Even though the signs are in sync with one another, not offering contradictory information, the photograph conveys a sense of disorientation. You have to read them twice, maybe, to see that they line up. The inclusion of the house matters, too; it gives the disorientation context. What does it mean for the people who live on that block, that multiple signs tell people unfamiliar with the street layout that they’re not supposed to go there? What does it mean that there’s only one way off the block for the residents, a sense of limited options? Who made these decisions in the first place?
The picture is unsigned, but it was shot by one of 17 students from Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School and High School in the Community for “New Haven Revisited,” a photography show running through July 31 in the gallery on the lower level of the Ives Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library.
Continue reading ‘Student Photographers Roll Out (Un?)Welcome Mat’
by | Jul 23, 2024 9:26 am | Comments (0)
Can Yağız
Not today either, detail.
It’s not entirely clear what New Haven-based artist Can Yağız’s image is of, though in its first iteration it has just enough shape to suggest a prone human form. If it’s a person, are they sleeping or dying? In either case, the image itself is about decay, the loss of light, shape, defined borders. But there’s acceptance in it, too, an embrace and investigation of change.
by | Jul 19, 2024 5:02 pm | Comments (5)
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Kica Matos (right) flips the script and has LEAP students read aloud to her ...
... as books and kids and volunteers come out to the Green.
Nose deep in books on the Green, roughly 800 young New Haveners were transported to watching a Bronx street performer bust a move, to visiting a second-floor apartment in a Russian mining town, to spending some time with the Cat in the Hat — all as part of an annual “read-in” downtown.
by | Jul 16, 2024 9:05 am | Comments (0)
Horacio Marquinez photo
Gallup, New Mexico.
It’s a road in the Southwest, and the photograph’s exposure emphasizes the blasting sun and shadows it makes. The weathered face of the subject, the cast of his eyes, makes him seem as though he has a thousand stories, and maybe he’ll tell us one. But, the photographer reveals, he never did.
“At the height of the summer of 2020, we landed in Gallup, NM empty streets. An eerie desert silence mixed with the constant whistle and screeching metal on metal wheels and track of the never-ending present locomotive,” the photographer writes. “Here I encountered these two Native American gentlemen. We never spoke a word.”