by | Oct 30, 2019 7:57 am | Comments (31)
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Westville Alder Adam Marchand and challenger Dennis Serfilippi.
Are the Yale’s unions a force for political engagement or obfuscation? Economic uplift or conflicts of interest?
Does the social media app NextDoor promote civic debate and neighborly communication? Or racism and paranoid fear-mongering?
by | Oct 28, 2019 11:55 am | Comments (1)
As Halloween approaches, some of the spirit has vanished from Moore Drive.
Continue reading ‘6 Scarecrows, 5 Skeletons & 1 Tombstone Stolen’
by | Oct 25, 2019 5:02 pm | Comments (30)
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Marianne Williamson Friday afternoon at Balanced Yoga. Below: Campaign sign taped to supporter’s car’s bumper.
Sitting barefoot in a Westville yoga studio, Democratic presidential candidate and best-selling New Age author Marianne Williamson offered a guide for cleansing the soul of America’s corrupted body politic: through paying hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans.
by | Oct 22, 2019 8:18 am | Comments (10)
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CMT Co-Chair Iva Johnson, who proposed beautifying Hilltop Park.
A welcome sign for West Hills? A fund for homeowners to purchase security cameras?
How about renovating a playground currently strewn with bottles and needles? Or adding strings of those cute bulbs to illuminate trees along Whalley Avenue?
Westvillians and West Rockers are having a hard time choosing on which of those to spend $20,000.
by | Oct 17, 2019 7:55 am | Comments (37)
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Digital rendering of the future Westville Music Bowl.
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Dennis Serfilippi: Even Nextdoor users love the idea.
New Haven’s vacant tennis stadium is on track to become an outdoor music and comedy venue now that the team behind the College Street Music Hall has won approval — from both the City Plan Commission and, in a twist on history, Westville neighbors.
by | Oct 16, 2019 11:44 am | Comments (2)
An argument over loud music turned violent on Fowler Street, as did a pit bull that escaped from a room at the New Haven Inn.
Continue reading ‘Alleged “Wife-Beater” Allegedly Socks Accuser’
by | Oct 7, 2019 2:28 pm | Comments (0)
One of two men robbing a Fairfield Street man was wearing a mask depicting the marvel Comics character Venom. In a separate incident, someone slipped a Joker card under a rear store door —the night before someone tried to break in.
by | Oct 7, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (0)
The following was contributed by King Robinson Inter-district Magnet School kindergarten teacher Mallorie Madden.
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The staff at King/Robinson Inter-district Magnet: An IB STEM School added a twist to their back to school night this year.
by | Oct 3, 2019 3:02 pm | Comments (21)
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Ward 26 alder candidates Darryl Brackeen Jr., Joshua Van Hoesen.
Joshua Van Hoesen got a preview of what he’d hear on the Upper Westville campaign trail when he moved into his new house — and saw all the lead paint on the porch and the sump pump at work in the basement.
Darryl Brackeen has heard a lot about sinking houses and water-caused damage in the six years he has represented the neighborhood.
by | Oct 3, 2019 11:51 am | Comments (20)
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The building at Whalley and Fitch, soon to be demolished.
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It’s a deal: Buyer Mendy Paris (right, center) with partner Sim Levenharz and attorney Ben Trachten; seller Edward Roubeni (left front) and attorney Ken Rozich.
A local developer plans to knock down a blighted Westville commercial building and build in its stead 200-plus luxury apartments, now that he and his partner have purchased the property for $3.1 million.
by | Oct 1, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (1)
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It was 8 a.m. on Saturday in Edgewood Park. No one was playing at the tennis courts, or the basketball courts. No one was using the skate park. But about a dozen people from the New Haven Bird Club congregated in the parking lot with a common mission: to spot and count birds, and along the way, unveil Edgewood Park as a spot of wilderness in the middle of the city.
by | Sep 29, 2019 4:12 pm | Comments (5)
Police don’t know whether an argument over canine bathroom habits led to a fire erupting in a tree on Valley Street.
They do know that someone made off with $5,000 worth of copper fittings, and someone else climbed a fence at the Connecticut Tennis Center and carted away powered landscaping equipment. And they discovered that a phony Craiglist ad apparently separated a Missouri woman of $1,750 that she thought was securing her an apartment on Central Avenue.
by | Sep 27, 2019 8:01 am | Comments (0)
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Darcel Reddick on his home turf in Edgewood Park …
… and in uniform at the YMCA.
Darcel Reddick showed up to Edgewood Park to play basketball, just as he’s been doing for the past 22 years.
What he didn’t know was that this time he’d get a chance to test his shooting, dribbling, and rebounding skills against city police officers and neighbors alike as part of an annual tournament designed to blur the boundaries between cops and the community.
by | Sep 26, 2019 11:53 am | Comments (0)
Kraig Binkowski
Evening Light.
The image may be in black and white, but it feels like dusk even without looking at the title of the piece. It’s there in the angle of the shadows thrown across the buildings in a nameless American city. It’s there in the texture of the walls, the texture of the glass. And for all the built environment, there’s just one person in the image, perched in a window, hunched over a little as if taking a break from work just to watch the sun go down.
by | Sep 23, 2019 3:30 pm | Comments (3)
Really, officer, I just happened to find these bags of shrimp in the Stop & Shop bathroom …
by | Sep 23, 2019 7:45 am | Comments (0)
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The Parson’s Second Wife.
The first impression of Brian Flinn’s work may be of humor. Some of his figures have the out-of-proportion features of cartoons, the odd poses, the uneven faces. But there’s detail within the comedy, layers of images on the skins of his subjects. There’s an eye that’s startlingly human. The other eye, upon closer inspection, isn’t an eye at all. The layering makes the skin seem translucent. Or maybe the body is in flux. Take another step back, and the image seems more like a flickering film. Maybe if you turned away and looked back again, it would be a different image entirely.
Continue reading ‘Artists Cover The Changes At Kehler Liddell’
by | Sep 19, 2019 2:13 pm | Comments (13)
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Local attorney Ben Trachten and engineer John Gable.
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To be a restaurant…in February!
Plans to convert a former Westville bank building into a restaurant serving tacos, ceviche, and mixed drinks won a key city sign-off, pushing the project that much closer to its planned completion date next February.
Continue reading ‘Bank-To-Restaurant Conversation Gets Sign-Off’
by | Sep 18, 2019 8:05 am | Comments (10)
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Illustration with proposed sign. Current facade (inset).
And New Haven’s zoning board proclaimed: Let there be light!
Let there be signage!
Let there even be halo-lit, illuminated signage.
Only let it not be 65 square feet. That is forbidden.
by | Sep 17, 2019 8:16 pm | Comments (8)
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Builder Mendy Paris with attorney Ben Trachten.
Local builders purchased a Mill River office building for $4.65 million and plan to hold off converting it to market-rate apartments until they’re convinced the neighborhood warrants the investment.
Among other land transactions, a sale has been completed of the Lesley Roy studio in Westville Village, where an agency aimed at foster children plans to take over.
Continue reading ‘Mill River Office Building Sold For $4.65M’
by | Sep 16, 2019 3:21 pm | Comments (0)
A Westville cop caught a man who swiped a purse out of the back seat of a car involved in a crash. A carpet-cleaning company employee swindled a customer out of an $8,000 rug, while another scammer (“Andrew Williams”) used the internet to bilk a Westville woman out of $500.
by | Sep 10, 2019 3:42 pm | Comments (1)
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Hayfaa Alabdullah and Imad Shaboo piiled into Jane Kinity’s Subaru Tuesday so they could exercise a right they said they couldn’t back in Iraq — voting for their elected officials.
by | Sep 10, 2019 2:52 pm | Comments (0)
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A west side ward that went heavily for Toni Harp the last time she faced Justin Elicker in a mayoral election appeared to be tightening, at least in the first six hours of voting.
by | Sep 10, 2019 2:02 pm | Comments (6)
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Toni Harp and Justin Elicker both had volunteers working outside two polling places Tuesday morning where their opponents need to run up the score big to win.
by | Sep 9, 2019 2:26 pm | Comments (0)
“Over the last few weeks, we have seen a decrease in car break-ins. This has been achieved by a partnership between the police and the community to address this uptick. The police have increased patrols, and arrested car thieves while residents have provided me with video footage (used to ID perps and help pinpoint areas to deploy resources) and remembered to lock their vehicles. Let’s keep it up!”
by | Aug 29, 2019 5:24 pm | Comments (0)
A woman was found dead Thursday afternoon on an embankment off upper Whalley Avenue.