It’s early fall, a balmy Sunday afternoon, and East Shore Park in New Haven is packed with little leaguers, their seasons coming to a close. High-pitched pings from aluminum bats connecting with fastballs ring across the park’s six baseball diamonds. Passionate parents shout and pump their fists from their foldable camping chairs lined behind the […]
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Solid Oak
Albert Greenwood and Craig Hotchkiss, co-owners of the recently opened Oak Haven Table and Bar, a “farm-to-table,” oakwood-furnished, American-style gastropub in East Rock, could claim their friendship is a matter of fate. Their mothers, friends who grew up together in West Haven, later lived across the street from one another as adults. So it was […]
Under the ’Hood
Westville Village has its share of mainstays. House of Chao and New West Cafe have called it home for over thirty years. Delaney’s Taproom and The Frame Shop & Westville Gallery have stuck around for over a decade. But few businesses have demonstrated the staying power of the humble, hard-working Aquila Motors, which, in 2014, […]
Points of View
Staring at stuff can be restorative. For most of us, a few walls and a short walk or drive are all that separate us from a feast for the eyes: hills and lakes, rivers and forests, the ocean. There are prime people-watching spots in nearly every neighborhood and some elevated views downtown affording dramatic panoramas […]
Big Bang
The Space—the rare all-ages concert stage that can attract national acts, and even rarer for being in the middle of Connecticut—just sort of happened. The venue, which serves food and non-alcoholic beverages, occupies the center of an industrial lot off Treadwell Avenue in Hamden. The much-glitzier The Outer Space and Spaceland Ballroom (pictured above during […]
Moveable East
The Shore Line East commuter rail wasn’t supposed to stick around. The line was established in 1990 along the tracks of the Northeast Corridor to alleviate traffic created by construction on I-95. At that time, the line ran from Union Station in New Haven to Old Saybrook, with stops at Branford, Guilford, Madison, Clinton and […]
Rolling with the Brunches
Lena’s Cafe and Confections sits right in the center of Westville, where Central Avenue meets Whalley, so it’s a good place for getting together. Especially on sunny Sundays (more…)
Route Canal
Ah, the poor Farmington Canal—it never stood a chance. Construction on the waterway began in 1825 in an effort to improve transport throughout central Connecticut and into Massachusetts. The canal’s financiers hoped that the route, which officially opened in 1835 and stretched from New Haven to Northampton, Massachusetts, might be as prosperous as the bustling […]
Cart Blanche
Watching the lunch carts of Cedar Street roll in late-morning on a weekday is like attending a seminar on advanced teamwork. Vans pull up curbside with dented, well-worn carts in tow, which are dispatched mostly in teams of two. Some carts require gas tanks; some run off generators. Drivers and passengers work with the hurried […]
Look Out
It’s amazing how quickly you can go from grinding your teeth and breathing exhaust fumes on Whalley Avenue to hiking rugged trails through hemlock forest, spotting raptors at scenic vistas along the way. East Rock and West Rock can (more…)
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