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Suburban Planning

Suburban Planning

Beaver Hills is on a hill, though you won’t find any actual beavers. This New Haven neighborhood of wide, tree-lined streets and roomy houses with charm is a relative newcomer...

Suburban Planning

Beaver Hills is on a hill, though you won’t find any actual beavers. This New Haven neighborhood of wide, tree-lined streets and roomy houses with charm is a relative newcomer...

Play Rooms

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...

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...

Book of Revelation

Book of Revelation

Maybe you’ve noticed them. Maybe you haven’t. Their facades often seem intended to blend with their ivied surroundings. You can pass by many times before you realize something odd: most...

Book of Revelation

Maybe you’ve noticed them. Maybe you haven’t. Their facades often seem intended to blend with their ivied surroundings. You can pass by many times before you realize something odd: most...

Founding Father

Founding Father

Michael McGivney spent only seven years of his short life in New Haven, but he left an indelible stamp on it—and, indeed, the world. The parish priest served St. Mary’s...

Founding Father

Michael McGivney spent only seven years of his short life in New Haven, but he left an indelible stamp on it—and, indeed, the world. The parish priest served St. Mary’s...

Cold-Pressed

Cold-Pressed

Fresh snow is pretty and pure. Trodden snow is plain and polluted. Right? Yesterday’s prints, piles and puddles protest. Written and photographed by Dan Mims.

Cold-Pressed

Fresh snow is pretty and pure. Trodden snow is plain and polluted. Right? Yesterday’s prints, piles and puddles protest. Written and photographed by Dan Mims.

Making a Name

Making a Name

There are other New Havens in the world, and at least one of them is even less new than ours. In his seminal history Three Centuries of New Haven (1953),...

Making a Name

There are other New Havens in the world, and at least one of them is even less new than ours. In his seminal history Three Centuries of New Haven (1953),...