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Joseph Villano addresses City Plan commissioners.
The owner of a local sign-making company does not want a proposed “Las Vegas-style” strip club to become his neighbor. And he stopped by the City Plan Commission to say so.
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by | May 15, 2019 8:06 am | Comments (13)
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Peter Forchetti pitching plan Tuesday night: Planet Venus will bring a little Las Vegas to the Elm City. Below: Vegas strip club.
The owner of a soon-to-close Mill River strip club is looking to open a “Las Vegas-style” entertainment complex just around the corner that will include a restaurant, a speakeasy-themed bar, and a live performance venue for comedians, magicians, and dancing topless women.
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by | Nov 16, 2018 8:28 am | Comments (5)
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Mayor Harp and Alder Greenberg join owners Coffin and Bodak, and GM Corina cutting the ribbon.
In a town where getting a good slice is a given, Robin Bodak and Doug Coffin thought adding one more place to the apizza landscape couldn’t hurt, especially when in a place where people have good memories.
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by | Jul 31, 2018 8:09 am | Comments (2)
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DeLauro sits with Zianna, 7, and her brother Jeremy, 6 in Jocelyn Square Park Monday.
New Haven will feed thousands of children meals this summer. It may be harder to do that next summer, thanks to potential changes to the federal funding that helps pay for the food.
by | Jul 5, 2018 8:12 am | Comments (17)
Pizza chef Mike Zullo makes a MSG pie with mushrooms, summer squash, and goat cheese at new Next Door eatery.
Mike Zullo tossed a ball of pizza dough in the air, rolled it flat, and topped it with sauteed mushrooms and slices of yellow summer squash that had been prepared in an adjacent kitchen earlier in the day.
As he lifted the pizza into a massive wood-fired oven, customers just a few feet away flipped through a drinks menu that contains cocktails infused with syrups and infusions made in that very same kitchen.
by | Aug 30, 2017 2:56 pm | Comments (36)
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A popular East Street coffee shop is seeking to branch out to evening wine sales — with some neighbors preparing to fight rather than sip.
by | May 25, 2017 1:45 pm | Comments (2)
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This year marks the third anniversary of New Haven activist Theresa Carr‘s death. The following was submitted by community member and former Spinsters Opposed to Nuclear Genocide (SONG) member Joan Cavanagh, a friend of Carr.
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by | Apr 13, 2017 3:05 pm | Comments (6)
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Trachten and Decker agreed and then slightly disagreed.
How late should restaurants with bars be allowed to stay open? What should matter more in the decision — the bar’s need to make money, or nearby residents needing sleep?
The Board of Zoning Appeal considered those questions, then decided to allow two proposed restaurant/bars on different sides of town to serve alcohol and provide a reduced amount of parking.
Continue reading ‘Money Wins Out Over Sleep In Zoning Votes’
by | Apr 6, 2017 3:22 pm | Comments (9)
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The three partners outside their restaurant-to-be.
Big Green Truck Pizza is planning to lay down brick-and-mortar roots — and feed the surrounding Jocelyn Square neighborhood the way owner Doug Coffin remembers Humphrey’s restaurant doing in the 1990s.
by | Sep 26, 2016 4:11 pm | Comments (15)
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UI crews replacing poles.
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Doomed substation’s site.
Thirty-eight trees and an old electrical substation are set to become history as United Illuminating crews begin to upgrade service in Fair Haven, Jocelyn Square and a slice of East Rock.
by | May 10, 2016 3:35 pm | Comments (3)
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The east side bear.
A black bear roamed around the Mill River, East Rock, Fair Haven, and Jocelyn Square Tuesday before cops and state Department of Environmental Protection officers cornered him, tranquilized him, and took him away.
by | Feb 11, 2015 5:08 pm | Comments (3)
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With shallots and garlic sautéing in a pan, Chef Pete Jaynes could have reached for a nice white wine for his sauce. But Valentine’s Day is coming. So instead he reached for the champagne to deglaze his pan.
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by | Sep 29, 2014 1:30 pm | Comments (4)
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As professional artist Ryan “Arcy” Christenson outlined an elaborate butterfly, a group of toddlers hurled paint at the wall and older kids added their own up-close touches — which was all part of the point.
by | May 29, 2014 9:37 am | Comments (5)
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Bright Big Wall.
That’s the name, at least for now, of the colorful, graffiti-esque collaborative mural that will enliven the Humphrey Street underpass beneath I‑91 and connect the Jocelyn Square and East Rock neighborhoods.
by | May 19, 2014 12:42 pm | Comments (2)
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A ballot box at an Under91 Project block party and cookout near the site of an upcoming community arts project was stuffed with the aspirations, visions and votes of artists, neighbors, and project organizers.
by | May 15, 2014 4:23 pm | Comments (1)
Two long-separated neighborhoods may soon be rejoined by branching shadows, or a warm orange glow, or high-flying kites.