For our vacation this week, we’re traveling back to some favorite recent stories, including this exploration of a rare and strange place. …
Tag Archives: Newhallville
Play Rooms
Hearing about 91 Shelton Avenue, a.k.a. the New Haven Business Center, is an early rite of passage among the city’s independent musicians. For years the hulking ex-factory has quietly offered local bands something they can’t find anywhere else: an affordable, …
Splash Drive
Stomping, shrieking and spraying are all approved activities at one of New Haven’s summer staples: the splash pad. …
Green Light
“I believe in learning by doing,” Doreen Abubakar says. The self-described urban environmentalist is standing on a city lot in Newhallville, work gloves in hand, where…
Splash Drive
Stomping, shrieking and spraying are all approved activities at one of New Haven’s summer staples: the splash pad. …
Open Books
Looking for your next good read? Some New Haven residents want you to find that book so badly that they’ve taken matters—and tools and wood and hardware—into their own hands. …
Unsecret Ingredients
In a backyard in Newhallville, Tammy Chapman grows herbs in raised beds. Sage, mint and rosemary do particularly well in our climate, she says. …
Stars Aligned
Dan Beck works in Newhallville, out of an apartment on Winchester Avenue. Built in the early 1900s, the building is a lovely brick structure that, as recently as 2013, was vacant and derelict. Rediscovered, rescued from rot and reopened to …
Secret Garden
A photo essay.
Editor’s Note: The exact address of this story’s subject has been withheld for privacy reasons.…
Slab Work
On the face of it, like most any other stone, a geode looks humdrum—chipped, stained and otherwise roughed up by the elements. But crack a geode open and there’s a jamboree of crystals, a dazzling miniature cave …
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