by
Karen Ponzio |
Apr 6, 2020 9:17 am
|
Comments
(0)
Chris Randall Photos
Jessica Lynn.
Jessica Lynn — founder, owner and instructor at Polefly Aerial Fitness — has a travel pole that has made its way over the past six years through a variety of New Haven locations, from a talent show at the Yale Forestry School to a burlesque show at Elm City Social and many places in between. Currently, however, it resides at Lynn’s house as she and her staff seek out ways to share the same talent and training typically available at Polefly’s Wooster Street studio with their beloved community during the Covid-19 pandemic.
by
Thomas Breen |
Mar 24, 2020 3:48 pm
|
Comments
(5)
Lucy Gellman / Thomas Breen photos
Local funeral home directors Bill Iovanne, Howard K. Hill, and Eddie Gist: Preparing for the pandemic.
Local funeral homes are scaling back memorial services, stepping up cleaning routines, closely counting protective equipment supplies, and seeking out increased refrigeration capacity as they brace for a potential increase in business because of a potential wave of coronavirus-related mortalities.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy brings carrots and onions to New Haven’s Loaves and Fishes food pantry.
Inside a box of groceries at the food pantry.
Free us from our paperwork, and we can feed people more safely in this crisis.
This was the message from New Haven’s Loaves and Fishes to U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy on Thursday. Murphy stopped at the food pantry on Olive Street to ask New Haven food distributors for the needy how the federal government can help them during the coronavirus pandemic.
by
Allan Appel |
Mar 13, 2020 12:54 pm
|
Comments
(3)
Sally Fleming Photo
Homeless patrons gather outside Sunrise for meals to go.
Within 24 hours, a crucial meal-provider for the homeless found a way to keep free breakfasts flowing while helping stem the spread of COVID-19 — even if that means sacrificing some of a sense of community in the short run.
by
Allan Appel |
Mar 11, 2020 2:10 pm
|
Comments
(1)
Project rendering.
Builder Andrew Consiglio got his final approvals Tuesday night to finally get start on building a house in historic — and architecturally protected —Wooster Square.
For the next three months, New Haveners can buy leggings and sports bras in Wooster Square created by a Quinnipiac student –- and help reuse plastic waste in the process.
by
Brian Slattery |
Feb 27, 2020 3:26 pm
|
Comments
(4)
Courtesy New Haven Museum
Guitar found in the former clock factory on Hamilton Street.
Clocks. The Sex Ball. A punk club, then an R&B club. An indoor skate park. The state’s largest LGBTQ club.
All of these are part of the past of the old New Haven Clock Company building on Hamilton Street.
In the present day, that factory complex is being cleaned up in preparation for development into housing, some of which is to include housing for artists. The reason for that concept — and the deeper history of artistic life in New Haven — is brought to sparkling, fascinating life in “Factory,” an exhibit that celebrated its opening on Friday and will run at the New Haven Museum on Whitney Avenue until Aug. 29.
by
Thomas Breen |
Feb 26, 2020 2:25 pm
|
Comments
(0)
Thomas Breen photo
The current dirt pile at 87 Union St.: Soon to transform into nearly 300 apartments (below).
NILES BOLTON ASSOCIATES
The New York City-based developers of a planned new 299-unit, mixed-use Wooster Square apartment complex recently closed on a $50 million construction loan that should allow them to resume work at the site later this week.
Paul Denz’s proposed new Mid Block Chapel Street development.
Breen Photo
Farwell: Units worth more than cash.
Alders unanimously recommended moving ahead with two land deals that would bring in over $1.2 million to city coffers and produce nearly 200 new market-rate apartments.
The deals would also see nearly $120,000 set aside into a new city affordable housing fund — and let private developers off the hook from building affordable apartments themselves.
by
Maya McFadden |
Feb 24, 2020 4:06 pm
|
Comments
(1)
Maya McFadden Photo
Chris Pacheco of Seacoast Mushrooms sells a bunch of blue oyster.
The flavors of seven sweet and savory food business ventures were sampled on the edge of Wooster Square Saturday at a Food Business Accelerator Farmers’ Market Showcase.
A local developer is looking to turn a former law office building and parking lot in Wooster Square into — you guessed it — more apartments, as part of a project that would put the first dollars into a new citywide affordable housing fund.
by
Thomas Breen |
Feb 18, 2020 12:43 pm
|
Comments
(3)
Thomas Breen photo
The former factory building at 433 Chapel St.
Peter Chapman received a one-year extension to begin work converting a long-vacant former factory building into 25 apartments, several weeks after the city launched three new lawsuits against him seeking to foreclose on the property because of over $44,000 in unpaid taxes.
by
Christopher Peak |
Feb 14, 2020 1:17 pm
|
Comments
(12)
Christopher Peak Photo
Rendering for long-stalled home at 109 Olive.
Allan Appel Photo
Consiglio.
Wooster Square native Andrew Consiglio won permission from previously skeptical historic-zone gatekeepers to build a new brick house on a Wooster Square parking lot — emerging as not only “appropriate” but a model in their estimation.
by
Thomas Breen |
Feb 11, 2020 1:04 pm
|
Comments
(1)
City assessor database photo
The Hemingway Center condo complex on Eastern Street.
Two investors spent over $1.1 million buying 19 different condos on the far east side of town, one year after the same investors spent nearly $1 million buying 18 condos on the city’s far west side.
Henry Fernandez of LEAP contributed the following:
LEAP is opening a free Saturday Code Club for all children and teens ages 11 to 15. (Kids do not have to already be in LEAP.) Young technology enthusiasts and beginners alike can join to learn more about coding, robotics, virtual reality, app design and more. Short workshops led by instructors and volunteers are followed by opportunities to further explore the topic on their own, with one-on-one help from program staff. Participants will have the opportunity to create projects based on their own interests, collaborating with peers and supported by program staff.
by
Thomas Breen |
Feb 3, 2020 1:03 pm
|
Comments
(1)
Thomas Breen photo
Carina Gormley on Grand: “My favorite walk.”
The four-block stretch of Grand Avenue between Olive Street and Wallace Street is scattered with empty lots, storefront churches, social service nonprofits, and Italian eateries, all overshadowed by a towering highway overpass and a rich working-class history.
It’s Carina Gormley’s favorite walk in New Haven. She sees the city’s past and present in each step.
by
Thomas Breen |
Jan 28, 2020 4:33 pm
|
Comments
(3)
Thomas Breen photo
Youth Continuum CEO Paul Kosowsky and Director of Community Services Kathy Grega. Below: Youth Continuum’s HQ on Grand.
Her face peeking out from a gray hoodie, a 22-year-old woman answered each question about her past homelessness and present temporary housing with a nod, a soft-spoken “No,” or a gentle request for more information.
Yes, she was homeless for two years after her mom fell sick and her family was evicted from their Munson Street apartment.
No, she’s never traded sex for a place to stay.
Does she drink alcohol? “I only drink if I don’t got weed.”
Crew razing the old Webster Bank at 80 Elm to make way for new hotel.
New Haven’s economy is set to expand by thousands of apartments, hundreds of hotel rooms, and a nearly $1 billion new neuroscience center in the coming years — if projects in the pipeline proceed as planned in 2020.
by
Allan Appel |
Dec 15, 2019 9:19 pm
|
Comments
(1)
Laurentano Sign Group
Rendering for the sign.
The housing authority’s old Farnam Courts at Grand Avenue and Franklin Street — now the unfolding new Mill River Crossing development —is about to get a spiffy new sign.
The four-part grouped column, standing about ten feet high with a design of a meandering blue sash running through it — think Mill River — will not only let people know where the 13 buildings of the complex are when complete. It will also help to brand the new enclave and the neighborhood.
He said the city “stonewalled” and “obstructed” his planned factory conversion — and now seeks to “extract” $350,000 before he can proceed.
City officials swung back, accusing Chapman of leaving his property derelict for years, then of negotiating in public after reneging on a sweetheart deal.
by
Thomas Breen |
Dec 11, 2019 5:28 pm
|
Comments
(6)
Thomas Breen photos
Grand Avenue looking east from Olive Street: No longer part of the plan.
Rezoning skeptics at Tuesday night’s hearing.
Grand Avenue and affordability mandates were both dropped from a long-in-the-works rezoning initiative that now advances to the full Board of Alders with only Whalley Avenue slated to be affected.
