by | May 23, 2013 11:20 am | Comments (8)
Allan Appel Photo
The cut-through, with black rat trap at base of the infamous wall.
A downtown bus stop, outdoor art gallery and pocket park may no longer serve as a public urination spot as well.
by | May 1, 2013 12:11 pm | Comments (1)
Craig Gilbert Photos
Steve “Wildman” Brill pointed to a patch of wild violets.
“It tastes a bit like lettuce,” he proclaimed.
The sold-out posse of diners foraging with him glanced around the woods of East Rock Park. Will everything, we wondered, taste like lettuce?
by | Apr 30, 2013 10:02 am | Comments (23)
The fire that lit up Coogan Pavilion last fall may yet have a good outcome: Edgewood Park could soon be lit up by a glowing, glass-fronted, solar-powered community center.
by | Apr 30, 2013 7:30 am | Comments (5)
Nearly 150 years after it was shot out of a cannon at the Battle of Gettysburg, and after spending over a century entombed underneath the New Haven Green, an ancient cannonball returned to the light of day on Monday.
by | Apr 29, 2013 8:03 am | Comments (0)
High-school students Alicea Velez & Isabel Rowe filed the following report and sent in these photos from Saturday’s New Haven 375th birthday party on the Green:
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by | Apr 28, 2013 9:24 am | Comments (4)
Allan Appel Photo
April 10, 1909 issue of the Reg referring to what the Admiral Foote Post 17 of the Grand Army of the Republic put in the time capsule.
A 6‑year-old guessed the containers hold a butterfly. A Parks Department worker saw a star shape in the x‑ray and guessed a badge.
They joined people on the Green at New Haven’s 375th birthday celebration Saturday guessing what might be inside two time capsules just discovered from the old Lincoln Oak tree that topped during Super Storm Sandy.
One expert didn’t need to guess completely. She had evidence of a general nature about the secret contents.
The expert, New Haven City Archivist Judith Schiff, came to the event armed with the literary evidence of what is likely contained in the two time capsules unearthed when the Lincoln Oak on the upper Green was toppled during last fall’s storm.
A photocopy of a New Haven Register (pictured) article dated April 10, 1909, itemized what Schiff called “typical items of the day” that were put in what the article calls the “copper box.”
by | Apr 24, 2013 7:43 am | Comments (14)
One day before neighbors are to meet on the future of Bowen Field, a Hillhouse student shared the results of her relevant research: An astroturf field at the high school’s new gridiron would likely send rubber pellets leaching into Beaver Pond.
by | Apr 23, 2013 11:33 am | Comments (2)
Melissa Bailey Photo
Peter Piscatelli took a peek on Friday: Not quite there. So he returned Monday to see Wooster Square’s iconic canopy of cherry blossoms open in full glory.
by | Apr 22, 2013 8:27 am | Comments (0)
Chris Schweitzer Photos
Riders line up for the 20-mile ride.
Pedal power brought over 1,100 people from East Rock to West Rock and in some cases Sleeping Giant on two wheels Saturday for the annual “Rock to Rock” group charity ride. The event generated not just unmeasurable amounts of exercise and fun, but also more than $140,000 for 23 local not-for-profit groups doing environmental work.
by | Apr 15, 2013 8:02 am | Comments (7)
With the help of the police bomb squad’s X‑ray team, Rob Greenberg found new evidence of a long-held theory — that tangled beneath the roots, skulls, and bones below the Green, a century-old secret message has waited to be discovered.
by | Mar 20, 2013 8:19 am | Comments (8)
Melissa Bailey File Photo
Levine (left) fills a package for the refurbished Angel of Peace.
After 14 years in charge of city parks, Bob Levine is packing his bags and leaving for Georgia.
by | Feb 10, 2013 8:46 am | Comments (6)
Zsofia Jilling Photos
Fresh powder doesn’t come often and it doesn’t last long. When it fell in abundance Saturday, we grabbed our cross-country skis.
by | Jan 7, 2013 3:40 pm | Comments (5)
Paul Bass Photos
New Haven doesn’t have mile-long abandoned elevated railway tracks to transform into a stunning art-filled public park. We do have a forbidding walking route from the train station that could become a light- and art-filled pedestrian gallery. We have an abandoned “Vision Trail” that could connect bikers and hikers from downtown to Long Wharf via the underbelly of a highway bridge.
by | Jan 2, 2013 8:40 am | Comments (1)
William Kurtz Photos
For the 13th straight New Year’s Day, some 50 New Haveners were not wimps. By any stretch of the imagination.
by | Dec 19, 2012 3:53 pm | Comments (3)
Bill Kurtz Photo
The Polar Plunge is back on after all, in a, errr, stripped-down version.
by | Dec 12, 2012 5:18 pm | Comments (0)
Bill Kurtz Photo
Last year’s plunge.
This coming New Year’s Day, shivering swimmers are getting a break — or losing a chance to have fun, depending on your view.
by | Nov 23, 2012 1:55 pm | Comments (1)
Contributed Photo
Carlos Gonzalez and Xavier Aviles at work.
After Superstorm Sandy’s winds and brackish surge felled ten trees in Quinnipiac River Park, new arrivals have taken their place and should fare better in the next flood.
by | Nov 5, 2012 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
Don Vincent and his 10-year-old son made a discovery walking in Quinnipiac River Park Saturday. Vincent sent in these photos and the following write-up:
by | Oct 29, 2012 4:19 pm | Comments (5)
Melissa Bailey Photo
Parks workers extricate the Lighthouse organ and roll it to safety.
As the high tide surged at Lighthouse Point Park, Gary Dickinson refused to let Hurricane Sandy swallow the electric heart of the city’s iconic merry-go-round.
by | Oct 22, 2012 2:23 pm | Comments (1)
Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez Photo
As they set out on a canoeing expedition, three little girls were blown away from the shore by the wind.
“Paddle like you want to survive, Shivany!” a young neighbor yelled jokingly from the shore, as the girls tried to get their boat back to land.
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‘"Once You Get In
Touch With Nature,
Brother, It Changes You"’
by | Oct 19, 2012 4:56 pm | Comments (0)
Thomas MacMillan Photo
After a fire tore through an Edgewood Park pavilion, a city building official determined that the bulk of it is salvageable — but part of it will have come down.
by | Oct 19, 2012 12:08 am | Comments (2)
Thomas MacMillan Photos
Firefighters Thursday night doused a fire that caused heavy damage to a 40-year-old building in Edgewood Park.
by | Oct 3, 2012 2:22 pm | Comments (2)
Thomas MacMillan Photo
By next summer, basketballs will be bouncing at the corner of Chapel and Day streets.
by | Sep 24, 2012 1:32 pm | Comments (0)
Paul Bass Photo
In the end, only one tag remained on the pyramid where skateboarders soar to glory. “SCSU Helping Hands,” it read. And handprints surrounded it.
by | Aug 15, 2012 4:05 pm | Comments (4)
Someone at the top of East Rock is walking around with a cross-bow, someone told Police Officer Lars Vallin.