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Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1) What record store used to occupy part of the former York Square Cinemas building that Yale just bought at 57 – 9 Broadway?
A) Cutler’s Records & Tapes
B) Vinyl-torium
C) Group W Bench
D) Rhymes Records
E) Elm City Sounds
2) Yale paid $7 million for the two commercial properties at 51 and 57 – 9 Broadway. How much does the Elicker administration say the properties are worth when it taxes them?
A) $4.55 million
B) $5.31 million
C) $6.66 million
D) $7 million
E) $7.31 million
3) Which following business in the Broadway-York district does not have Yale as a landlord?
A) Demery’s
B) Toad’s Place
C) Ashley’s Ice Cream
D) Pedals Smoothie & Juice Bar
E) Mory’s
F) Newman Architects
G) Yankee Doodle
4) Who said the following this week, where?: “We are dreaming this together.”
A) Fair Haven Alder Sarah Miller at a press conference describing new development plans for Grand Avenue
B) Researcher Dr. Charlene Gamaldo at a panel at Yale Sleep Medicine center on connections between aging and snoring, apnea, and other nocturnal disruptions
C) FiFac, aka Jeff Dragan, introducing the latest edition of a monthly music series held at Never Ending Books on State Street
D) Elon Musk on plans to launch a Mars channel of his Twitter X social-media platform
E) Housing authority ED Karen DuBois-Walton at the first in a series of public meetings about how to rebuild Church Street South
5) Who bailed out Albertus Magnus College by buying student apartments and agreeing to lease them back?
A) The FDIC
B) The Elicker Administration
C) Mandy Management
D) The Archdiocese of Hartford
E) Never Ending Books on State Street
F) Yale
6) Which of the following is not among the plans to rejuvenate Fair Haven’s main commercial corridor?
A) An upgrade to the historic former Vaudeville theater space inside Fair Haven School
B) Converting the former Strong School into 58 affordable, LGBTQ+ friendly apartments
C) Repaving, traffic-calming Grand Avenue
D) A roundabout at the Ferry-Grand intersection
E) A new zocalo at Poplar Street
7) A leading social justice advocate in New Haven since the 1980s retired this week. Who was it?
A) The Rev. Karl Hilgert
B) The Rev. Bonita Grubbs
C) Fred Harris
D) John Wilhelm
E) Lucille Dickess
F) Robert Jelenic
8) A new 87-page Community Foundation for Greater New Haven report identifies and details a key challenge facing the local economy. What is that challenge?
A) The need to deepen the harbor to allow in bigger container ships
B) The impact of climate change-created higher temperatures on the electrical grid
C) Potholes popping up around town at twice the rate the government can fill them
D) A mismatch between existing job training efforts and available jobs
E) The inability of neighborhood convenience stores and bodegas to purchase healthful produce at wholesale prices available to large supermarkets
9) How many people showed up in the Crown Street nightclub district for a recent bar crawl?
A) 200
B) 2,000
C) 4,000
D) 6,000
E) 8,000
10) What did neighbors and city officials at a community management team meeting suggest doing about rowdy bar crawls in the Crown Street nightclub district?
A) Ban new liquor stores or bars from opening within walking distance of any existing such establishments
B) Sell all remaining downtown property to Yale
C) Double the number of health and building code inspections per month
D) Require event organizers to run plans by police in advance
E) Dispatch inspectors on weekend nights to monitor noise levels and issue citations for violations
F) Hire the Party Bus to shuttle all participants from spot to spot
G) Place the faces and home addresses of rowdy participants on Next Door
H) Start taxing commercial properties based on their true market value
11) Alder-Elect Kiana Flores, who currently attends Yale, cited one of her political science professors as an inspiration and role model. Whom did she cite?
A) Douglas Rae
B) Beverly Gage
C) John DeStefano
D) Gerald D. Jaynes
D) Evren Savci
F) Jacob Hacker
G) Julian Assange
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12) What is pictured above?
A) Artifacts from the Qin Dynasty (circa 215 bce) about to be returned to China after three decades in the Peabody Museum collection
B) “ShellShocked,” work by New Haven sculptor Susan Clinard commissioned by the Corsair Apartments on Upper State Street
C) “Feral Seeds,” work by New Haven sculptor Gar Waterman on display in holiday show currently at Kehler Liddell Gallery
D) “Smooth,” one piece in a retrospective show of student work over the past 40 years at Creative Arts Workshop on Audubon Street
E) Lobby art rescued from the former York Square Cinemas on Broadway
F) Detritus from the most recent bar crawl in the Crown Street nightclub district
Answers to the puzzle, along with links to the relevant news stories, appear after the following podcast of a“Headlines and Basslines” segment (music and more headline talk) of WNHH FM’s“Dateline New Haven” program. (Click here to subscribe or here to listen to other episodes of Dateline New Haven.)
Answers
1) D
Yale Expands on Broadway With $7M Buys
2) A
3) B
4) E
Church Street South Futures Floated
5) C
Mandy Buys Albertus Student Housing For $7.4M
6) A
Grander Grand Greeted With Joy
7) B
Anti-Poverty Champion Bonita Grubbs Retires
8) D
86,000 Job Matches Await
9) E
Happy Holidays! = Bar Crawls, Valet Crunch
10) D
11) C
New Team-Minded Alders Ready To Roll
12) C
Artists Explore The Meaning Of Home