by | Apr 23, 2018 8:39 am | Comments (3)
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Attendees try their waists at hula hooping …
… while St. Luke’s Steel Band keeps the crowd on it’s feet.
The cherry blossom trees hadn’t quite popped, but it seemed that spring had — finally, maybe — Sunday just in time for the 45th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Wooster Square.
Continue reading ‘Mother Nature Smiles On Cherry Blossom Festival’
by | Apr 19, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (2)
Rifle platoon of Second Company Governor’s Foot Guard in the 2018 St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Allan Appel Photo
Proprietors David Newton and Anne Calabresi surround Carol Ross, at center, of the Greater New Haven Garden Club.
The next gunfire you hear on the Green — if you’re lucky enough to be there — will be intended to illuminate history, mark the beginning of spring, and trigger loads of fun.
Continue reading ‘Powder House Day To Awaken Spring On The Green With A Bang’
by | Mar 30, 2018 7:59 am | Comments (1)
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William MacMullen with grandfather’s WWI helmet.
The only monument ever allowed to be constructed on the Green is the flagpole moument listing the names of the 261 New Haveners who died in battles called Meuse-Argonne, Somme, and Chateau-Thierry.
Each one of their names will be read later this year as New Haven marks the centennial of World War One and American and New Haven participation in it through a rededication of the flagpole monument.
by | Mar 21, 2018 1:47 pm | Comments (38)
Portrait of America
Exhibit coming to the Green.
Michelle Liu Photo
Exhibit culled from the current Green.
Sam Sigg dumped the contents of a bag onto a table, revealing a year’s worth of used pipes, syringes and other drug paraphernalia that he’d collected around the Trinity Church on the Green.
This, he told a room full of neighbors filling a City Hall conference room, was a visual presentation of the New Haven Green.
by | Feb 7, 2018 3:03 pm | Comments (4)
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The current skate park.
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BMX biker Justin Kearney points out favorite features of the new design.
Parks Director Becky Bombero asked the dozen skaters, skateboarders and bikers assembled before her what day of the week they would be available to come to help pull weeds as their sweat equity contribution to a new skate park.
by | Nov 9, 2017 12:00 pm | Comments (5)
Contributed photos
After 50 years, two plaques have been restored to a statue in Edgewood Park. Neighbors gathered at the statue next to the ranger station Sunday for an unveiling. Stephanie FitzGerald of Friends of Edgewood Park contributed the following write-up about how it happened and these photos from the event.
by | Oct 5, 2017 12:37 pm | Comments (9)
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Lauren Brown with newly installed piano in Russo Park.
Musical chords resonated throughout the south end of Wooster Square, as a jazz musician struck out notes on a piano. A crowd took seats on city benches to listen; a mother danced with her baby.
That was the lively scene for one of the many impromptu recitals the past few days plunked out at the newly installed Wooster Piano, New Haven’s first outdoor piano.
by | Oct 2, 2017 8:00 am | Comments (1)
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Marisol Orihuela and her dog Rigoberta at Edgewood Park on Sunday.
Feeling depressed after the election of Donald Trump, Yale Law School associate professor Marisol Orihuela decided this January to get a dog: a chihuaha mix that she planned to bring to local protests.
by | Sep 22, 2017 2:29 pm | Comments (23)
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(Opinion) Peter Webster, former chair of the Downtown Wooster Square Management Team, submitted the following opinion article about an issue that he spent much time dealing with:
by | Sep 7, 2017 4:26 pm | Comments (7)
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BMX rider Justin Kearney, and skateboarders Anthony Papagoda and Brian Clark debate snakes and volcano transitions.
Skateboarders gathered at their longtime park Wednesday night not to do tricks on the concrete, but to help a new city-hired spraypaint-wielding builder map the “clam shells” and “tombstones” that will flow into a new stat-of-the-art venue.
by | Aug 20, 2017 1:50 pm | Comments (5)
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Mavi Sanchez-Skakle of New HYTEs working with children on their stances.
Could the next tennis phenom be growing up in Newhallville or Dixwell? Maybe, if the neighborhoods had tennis courts.
by | Jul 26, 2017 2:57 pm | Comments (0)
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Bee balm flowers in the oasis.
In Beaver Pond Park, behind the practice fields for the Hillhouse High football team, something beautiful is growing.
by | Jul 20, 2017 12:51 pm | Comments (8)
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WiFi on the Green part of the city’s strategy for digital inclusion.
The next time you’re downtown on the Green and need to send a quick email, an Instagram snap from a concert or simply find out when the next bus is coming you can do it without a cell phone data plan — though you will need a smartphone, tablet or laptop.
That’s because the Green has been WiFi’d.
by | Jul 20, 2017 7:50 am | Comments (3)
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Chubb Rock, a rapper popular for the 1991 smash hit “Treat ‘Em Right,” gave New Haven a soulful performance Wednesday evening in Goffe Street Park to launch this summer’s Cool Breeze in the Park Series.
Continue reading ‘Chubb Rock Brings “Old School” Vibes To Goffe Street’
by | Jul 7, 2017 11:53 am | Comments (2)
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William McLaurin worried he wouldn’t have time to work on his freestyle stroke during the summer. Thanks to Conte West’s second summer as a public pool, now he will.
by | Jun 26, 2017 12:04 pm | Comments (3)
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Caroline Scanlon.
The next time you’re driving to Union Station, a spray of knock out roses and catmint in the median might get you to slow down — and that’s by design.
Continue reading ‘State Street Median Becomes “Innovation Park”’
by | Jun 23, 2017 1:05 pm | Comments (6)
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Kinga Obartuch, at right in photo, explains her proposal to City Plan commissioners.
New Haven may soon dig up remnants of the original Long Wharf buried in the harbor thanks to the work of one enterprising intern.
by | Jun 19, 2017 2:29 pm | Comments (4)
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The stage at Goffe Street Park.
Parks can be places where people make new friends. On Saturday, it was a park itself that made new friends as community leaders, officials, and city wide residents gathered to inaugurate and celebrate the launch of Friends of Goffe Street Park, the newest among 15 park advocacy and stewardship groups across the city.
by | Jun 19, 2017 12:26 pm | Comments (2)
Lucy Gellman Photo
Pasticiotti di ricotta, or little cakes with ricotta in the center.
Pressing his face close to a glass case, Fordham student David Cappetta zeroed in on his first subject: trays of cannoli and pasticiotti di ricotta, covered with powdered sugar. He took a deep breath in and steadied his camera. Click.
Jasmine Nicole Photo
At the top of East Rock.
Just a mile away in East Rock Park, Corey Hudson pointed out how light hit the branches early in the day. In Wooster Square, Chris Randall was documenting the stillness that comes each Saturday before a 9 a.m. farmer’s market. A few hours later, he would be marching down Congress Avenue, trailed by the smell of collard greens and macaroni and cheese.
by | Jun 15, 2017 12:08 pm | Comments (2)
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Land Trust intern Shelby Mauchline; and neighbors Chris and Olivia Peralta bring soil to fill planters Wednesday at the new garden.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and eggplant will soon spring from planters at a garden outside the Goffe Street Armory, a sign of new life at a largely abandoned neighborhood anchor.
by | Jun 14, 2017 3:17 pm | Comments (8)
This year’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas is getting an upgrade — a brand new stage, owned permanently by the city.
by | Jun 12, 2017 8:03 am | Comments (0)
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Children on the new playground slide at Saturday’s park opening.
When Connie Vereen first arrived on Cherry Ann Street 21 years ago, the neighborhood was dominated by Southern Connecticut State University students. As the university slowly shifted its campus, more and more young families filled the street’s apartment buildings. But the city line that runs in the middle of Cherry Ann Street fragmented the community — children on the Hamden side rarely crossed over to play with the kids in New Haven and vice versa.
by | Jun 7, 2017 7:34 am | Comments (1)
Recognize this New Haven scene?
by | Jun 4, 2017 9:44 am | Comments (2)
Christopher Peak Photo
Three teams line up for the championship round.
A 40-foot-long “Dragon Boat” oared by venture capitalists sped toward the shore, neck and neck with another vessel powered by bicyclists. The result? Almost too close to call.
Continue reading ‘Cyclists Vs. Capitalists In A Photo Finish’
by | May 30, 2017 7:27 am | Comments (6)
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Harp, Paca last week at their first campaign events.
Mayor Toni Harp said she is opting out of New Haven’s public-financing system for her reelection campaign, while opponent Marcus Paca is exploring jumping in.