by | Dec 19, 2024 12:00 pm | Comments (24)
5 demolished buildings to be repurposed as brick mural, on ground floor of new Yale drama building at Crown & York.
Yale won a key city approval for its plans to construct a new seven-story drama school and Yale Repertory Theater building — at a downtown corner where the university intends to demolish five existing buildings, and then incorporate the brick wreckage into a new mural.
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Yale's proposed dramatic arts building, circa 2029 ...
... to be located at York and Crown.
All the world’s a stage — for Yale, which plans to construct a new seven-story, 188,000 square-foot building for its drama school and the Yale Repertory Theater, to be located at the northwest corner of Crown and York streets.
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Sasa Harriott: "My fight was not over yet."
The crowd listened, rapt, as Sasa Harriott told them about her lowest point.
by | Oct 23, 2024 2:23 pm | Comments (6)
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The Whalley Ave. jail, as viewed from Hudson St.
Correction officers, or C.O.s, are so stressed they divorce at a 70 percent rate, and their average life expectancy is an alarming 59 years, far less than the national average.
Those stats and “un-siloing” of the plight of C.O.s were at the heart of an unusual, sobering panel discussion at Albertus Magnus College — all about trying to find holistic reform of a broken prison system.
by | Oct 2, 2024 12:37 pm | Comments (20)
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Don't look now, but this stretch of High St ...
... will soon be turned by Yale into a pedestrian utopia.
More lighting, moveable tables and chairs, a stormwater teaching garden, and an eco-friendlier “community plaza” open to pedestrians and bikes but not cars — except during Yale move-in and move-out days.
All of that is on tap for a portion of High Street, as Yale planners unveiled early-stage designs for how a city-owned downtown block will be transformed by summer 2026.
by | Sep 30, 2024 7:20 pm | Comments (36)
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Notice the "Q" lapel: Yale Associate VP Rich Jacob, at center, at Monday's Upper Science Hill groundbreaking with new Yale prez Maurie McInnis and Gov. Ned Lamont.
McInnis and Lamont kick up some dirt with Mayor Justin Elicker and Provost Scott Strobel.
A mystery letter “Q” lapel pin whispered a dream about New Haven’s future at a groundbreaking Monday afternoon for a project that will transform Yale’s campus at the border of the East Rock neighborhood.
by | Sep 25, 2024 9:32 am | Comments (1)
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Frankie Roman, Casey Gargano, and Patricia Melton at New Haven Promise.
Like the young people it helps develop into successful college students and adults, New Haven Promise has entered its teens full of growth of possibility.
by | Sep 23, 2024 9:20 am | Comments (0)
Reach out and touch (screen) someone?: Erik Campano at WNHH FM.
Erik Campano has been camping out in person in the hospital ICU watching people watch each other die — on screens.
In the process, he’s working at the forefront of an emerging field that is touching all of our lives, not to mention our post-lives.
by | Aug 30, 2024 3:33 pm | Comments (14)
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Yale police arrest a student protester in the morning of April 22.
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The first night of the Beinecke Plaza encampment, on April 19.
More than 40 Yale student protesters who were arrested en masse at a pro-Palestinian encampment in Beinecke Plaza last semester are calling for a state judge to throw out their criminal trespassing charges on the grounds that they weren’t all properly notified before Yale police started making arrests.
by | Aug 26, 2024 1:44 pm | Comments (1)
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Albertus first-year Jeremiah Oliver: Looking to become a nurse, following his mom's footsteps.
Laura Gunneson (right) helps her daughter Kierra move into her new dorm at Albertus.
Kierra Gunneson moved into her new room at Albertus Magnus College with all of the dorm staples: fans, blankets, outfits, and of course, her blue weighted dragon pillow to accompany her as she embarked on her new chapter of young adulthood.
First-year students like Gunneson and their parents lined up in front of Dominican Hall Friday morning at the local Catholic college on the border of Prospect Hill and Newhallville as they packed their bags and prepped for their first day of school.
by | Aug 23, 2024 4:10 pm | Comments (47)
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Charles Warner, Jr.: "We would have had a different city economically, educationally, politically" with the 1831 Black college.
Warner's pin.
A resolution before the Board of Alders would issue a formal apology for the city’s actions preventing the founding of a local Black college in 1831.
Continue reading ‘City Apology Proposed For Blocking Black College’
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 13, 2024 9:37 am | Comments (7)
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Sophia Rivkin, Mila Volpe, Ila Sundstrom: En route from NHPS to Yale.
Here’s something to celebrate in the midst of the dog days of August: This fall, 21 local New Haven high school graduates, a record number accepted from New Haven’s public schools, will be attending Yale College.
by | Jul 18, 2024 3:19 pm | Comments (7)
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New lab building, new greenspace, OK'd for Science Hill.
A green, landscaped, public-welcoming entry point to Yale’s northeastern campus is coming to Science Hill — as part of a Yale Bowl-sized redevelopment project, including a massive new lab and classroom building, newly approved by the City Plan Commission.
Continue reading ‘Science Hill Build-Up Cleared For Takeoff’
by | Jul 17, 2024 4:06 pm | Comments (1)
Local Catholic college Albertus Magnus is expanding its partnership with New Haven Promise to include adult learners — specifically, New Haven Promise alumni earning a degree through Albertus’s Professional and Graduate Studies (PGS) Division.
by | Jun 28, 2024 12:32 pm | Comments (20)
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Bye-bye berms, at Yale construction site on Whitney.
Yale won permission to demolish a handful of Science Hill buildings, including a 661-space parking garage, and then construct a new 406-space parking garage — in the latest set of approvals designed to tee up the future development of a major new laboratory and classroom building.
by | May 29, 2024 10:02 am | Comments (9)
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McInnis, a surprise pick and Yale's first (official) female president.
New Haven has a new top corporate CEO to do business with: Maurie D. McInnis, whom Yale has named its next president.
by | May 20, 2024 2:35 pm | Comments (6)
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Matt: These "people are peaceful."
Matt flew in from Minnesota for the day to celebrate his brother-in-law’s graduation from Yale’s medical school.
But his family didn’t have enough tickets for him to join in with the thousands of other proud family members and friends at the university’s commencement ceremony.
So instead, he found himself out on College Street on the Green — wearing a suit and holding a bouquet of flowers, and watching approvingly as several dozen pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated against Israel’s continued war in Gaza.
Continue reading ‘No Tickets Required At Commencement Protest’
by | May 20, 2024 1:11 pm | Comments (10)
At Monday's protest on the Green.
Wearing keffiyehs and mortarboards decorated with the colors of the Palestinian flag, a group of Yale students walked out of commencement and onto the Green to continue calling for the university to “disclose and divest” from weapons manufacturers implicated in Israel’s war in Gaza.
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 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 22, 2024 6:00 pm | Comments (134)
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Protesters out of the street, back on Yale's campus, at around 5:45.
(Updated at 5:59 p.m.) The streets around Yale’s downtown campus are back open now that pro-Palestinian protesters who had blocked traffic at the intersection of Grove, Prospect, and College for more than eight hours reached a deal with police to leave — without anyone else getting arrested.
Continue reading ‘Protesters Leave Street; No Further Arrests’
by | Apr 10, 2024 9:06 am | Comments (0)
Henry "Sam" Chauncey, Jr., at center with initial fellows Jonathan Weiss and Samantha Sims.
Samantha Sims will get a chance to spend her first post-college year taking what she’s learned in New Haven to build a new roots tradition.
by | Mar 19, 2024 9:22 am | Comments (2)
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Junior Aedan Heffernan (pictured) led a gathering honoring the Stations of the Cross for Lent across the Albertus Magnus campus Monday in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Lent March Message: "Be Peace, Live Peace"’
by | Mar 5, 2024 3:37 pm | Comments (15)
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Dawn Leaks Ragsdale (center), Yale VP Alexandra Daum & Mayor Justin Elicker.
A local champion of entrepreneurial equity has been chosen to to lead the New Haven-focused “Center for Inclusive Growth” that Yale promised to build in 2021 — and now will start trying to define two years later.