City’s Green Spaces Grow
by | Aug 3, 2015 2:59 pm | Comments (4)
Finnegan Schick Photo
Two buses pulled away from the steps of City Hall, carrying over 100 volunteers, gardeners, and scientists.
Wooster Square
Dogwood Tree Finds Home On Lyon
by | Jul 31, 2015 8:58 am | Comments (0)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
Uma Bhandaram directed a volunteer to pour a “mulch donut” around a newly planted dogwood tree on a Lyon Street sidewalk’s patch of earth.
“T.O.D.” Smarts Sought
by | Jul 27, 2015 12:16 pm | Comments (0)
Wanted: proposals from consultants interested in planning Wooster Square neighborhood’s transit-oriented development.
Neighbors Seek Action On Panhandling
by | Jul 24, 2015 2:02 pm | Comments (10)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
“B” soliciting for change at Chapel and Temple: “I can understand why they feel the need” to rein in panhandlers.
Following people into restaurants. Going table-to-table asking for money. Pressuring people for spare change at parking meters. Tag-teaming high-traffic intersections.
Panhandlers are using those high-pressure tactics, according to downtown and Wooster Square neighbors. They’ve appealed for help.
Christmas Comes Early In Wooster Square
by | Jul 20, 2015 1:05 pm | Comments (0)
Christmas came early for Lucy Sasso on Sunday, when she was invited to help reveal a new statue for the Santa Maria Maddalena Society (SSMM).
State Approves $200K For Clock Factory Study
by | Jul 16, 2015 1:12 pm | Comments (8)
Neena Satija FIle Photo
New Haven still believes it can do better than having a strip club at a sprawling complex where more than 1,500 workers once turned out more than three million clocks a year. The state has agreed to help that quest.
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Citizen Crews Catch The Clean-Up Bug
by | Jul 10, 2015 12:06 pm | Comments (18)
Paul Bass Photo
Mom Vega and daughter Kaira swing into action.
Litter-weary Grand Avenue neighbors took to the street — with rakes and brooms.
St. Andrew’s Spirit Lives On At 115th Festa
by | Jun 26, 2015 4:21 pm | Comments (1)
Freesia DeNaples Photo
Curtains were pulled aside, and the image of a saint emerged.
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Uncertainty Laces HSC Seniors’ Farewell
by | Jun 22, 2015 4:19 pm | Comments (1)
Erik Good teared up at the end of his speech to the graduating class of 2015 — which he delivered days after the district suddenly removed him and two other administrators from their positions at High School in the Community.
Vote For Me — Or At Least Please Vote
by | Jun 3, 2015 10:12 am | Comments (0)
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Sullivan (left), a candidate in the first Board of Ed student election.
At a campaign event replete with free doughnuts and dancing to the Cupid Shuffle, a candidate for New Haven’s school board wanted voters to know her plans for reforming secondary education — and, just as importantly, that an election is taking place at all.
She Wore A Fuchsia Boa
by | May 26, 2015 12:14 pm | Comments (2)
Charlotte Murphy Photo
The Queen of Wooster Square is gone.
Fuel On The Move
by | May 25, 2015 2:46 pm | Comments (20)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
By the end of the summer Fuel Coffee Shop plans to say goodbye to the corner of Chapel and Chestnut streets.
Blue Door Opens New Artistic Worlds
by | May 19, 2015 3:34 pm | Comments (0)
Victor Agran
Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s winding and cavernous Carceri, reimagined and rendered in bright watercolor for the year 2015. The late New Haven Coliseum, captured gracefully in stages of its demolition. Floating, torso-less anuses blooming into dahlias. A fantasy plane of strings and one blown-up, unattached molar, suspended in a universe that is not quite of this world or the next.
No Homes In 1st-Floor Storefront, Zoners Rule
by | May 18, 2015 11:44 am | Comments (5)
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Squillacote and Almodovar make their case.
Wooster Square neighbors will have to wait for the right development project to come to their stretch of Grand Avenue.
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Finish Line In Mind, Principal Gets Creative
by | May 6, 2015 8:10 am | Comments (6)
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Larry Conaway is counting down until graduation. Wednesday marks 9 days until final exams and 25 until his students graduate — and at his alternative school, all 16 of his seniors need an extra hand to get there.
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Planting Begins For Harvey’s Walk
by | May 4, 2015 8:14 am | Comments (0)
Contributed Photos
Wooster Square activist Peter Webster sent in this write-up and these photos. Click here and here for previous articles about this project.
The shabby, neglected dumping-ground called Russo Park, on the tiny connecting street between Chapel Street and Wooster Street, site of the Saturday Wooster Square City Seed Farmers Market, is being recast in splendor: Harvey’s Walk.
Welcome To The Roast, Population: Andy
by | May 4, 2015 8:00 am | Comments (1)
C.A. Nolte Photo
Before he was roasted, Andy Sharpe stepped out of Joker’s Wild Comedy Club on Wooster Street for a cigarette. The interior of the club was dim, amber light filling the space everywhere except for the stage, where the spot light rested on an empty podium. Two rows of armless chairs lined the stage to the left, where the roasters would sit. A wicker chair with cushioned footstool, looking like a castoff from the set of Golden Girls, was positioned between the stage and the roasters’ bleachers. A few people milled about, ordering drinks.
Cherry Blossom Festival Draws Thousands To Wooster Square Park
by | Apr 27, 2015 8:51 am | Comments (14)
Lucy Gellman Photo
Over1,000 people filled Wooster Square Park to dance, nibble, and simply celebrate an annual rite of spring.
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Antique Clocks Bloom At Cherry Blossom Festival
by | Apr 24, 2015 2:08 pm | Comments (2)
Allan Appel Photo
A 1930s pocketwatch, costing two to three dollars at the time.
Not all the flowers may be out in time for Sunday’s Cherry Blossom Festival in Wooster Square, but 50 clocks will be.
The still-working antique time pieces from the 1880s to the 1950s, all manufactured by the New Haven Clock Company, will be ticking away in a first-time pop-up exhibition to highlight local collectors of home-grown timepieces.
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Would A Narrower Olive Street Slow Cars?
by | Apr 24, 2015 1:17 pm | Comments (29)
Paul Bass Photo
Coming to this corner: A beacon.
Doug Hausladen and Giovanni Zinn brought speeding-weary Wooster Street neighbors promises of a “beacon” of hope for a fatal road. Some wanted stop signs instead — but not necessarily bike lanes.
Greenberg Springs Into Reelection Campaign
by | Apr 20, 2015 11:00 am | Comments (5)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
Dozens of Wooster Square neighbors gathered in Lenzi Park Sunday afternoon — drawn in by a chilly spring breeze, and an announcement.
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Booker T Plans Longer Wooster Square Stay
by | Mar 30, 2015 4:24 pm | Comments (4)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
Neighbors Chapman & Koizim meeting with BTWA.
A new charter school’s relationship with wary neighbors has improved — and the school is looking to stick around longer than originally planned.
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St. Paul & St. James Does Second Line, New Haven Style
by | Mar 30, 2015 7:44 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photo
“I ordered up some spring weather,” said the Rev. Alex Dyer, on the morning of Palm Sunday, from the steps of St. Paul and St. James on the corner of Olive and Chapel. “There must have been some miscommunication.”
His congregation was on the steps and sidewalk all around him, everyone smiling in the cold.
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Come On In—The Water’s Great!
by | Mar 18, 2015 8:00 am | Comments (3)
LEAP, the youth academics and recreation agency, is preparing to start another season of swimming lessons. Following is a write-up it sent in:
Olive St. Victim’s Family Questions Police Probe
by | Mar 18, 2015 7:55 am | Comments (27)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
Dolores Mariconde Dogolo.
Family members of an 81-year-old pedestrian struck and killed by a car blasted police for clearing the driver.
At a meeting at City Hall Tuesday night, Lisa Dogolo (at left in top photo), daughter of victim Dolores Mariconde Dogolo, joined Wooster Square neighbors in questioning why police concluded the driver of the car was not at fault in the collision that cost her mother her life.
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