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Mark Celentano and William Celentano Jr. at Celentano Funeral Home

Procession

For 90 years on Elm Street, the Celentano family and its funeral home have seen people come and go. They’ve seen the city change. Seen its factories emptied. Seen highways...

Procession

For 90 years on Elm Street, the Celentano family and its funeral home have seen people come and go. They’ve seen the city change. Seen its factories emptied. Seen highways...

Ups and Downs (pt. 2)

Ups and Downs (pt. 2)

“For millennia, civilization had been living in two dimensions: width and length,” Paul B. Farnsworth says. “With the advent of the safety elevator”—an innovation introduced in the early 1850s, which...

Ups and Downs (pt. 2)

“For millennia, civilization had been living in two dimensions: width and length,” Paul B. Farnsworth says. “With the advent of the safety elevator”—an innovation introduced in the early 1850s, which...

Ups and Downs (pt. 1)

Ups and Downs (pt. 1)

“I take up the duties and cares of this very honorable position with a good deal of diffidence, and some dread.” By the time he spoke those words, taking things...

Ups and Downs (pt. 1)

“I take up the duties and cares of this very honorable position with a good deal of diffidence, and some dread.” By the time he spoke those words, taking things...

Julia Bogardus, Knit New Haven

Social Fabric

Knitting: a quiet pursuit for lonely moments, if ever there were one. But in the city of New Haven, no one need stitch alone. Since its doors opened in 2009,...

Social Fabric

Knitting: a quiet pursuit for lonely moments, if ever there were one. But in the city of New Haven, no one need stitch alone. Since its doors opened in 2009,...

400 Blake Street in 2004.

Safe Houses

People have been moving houses—literally moving them–for hundreds of years, which may seem foundationally silly in today’s world. But sometimes it’s the smartest move, and that was especially likely to...

Safe Houses

People have been moving houses—literally moving them–for hundreds of years, which may seem foundationally silly in today’s world. But sometimes it’s the smartest move, and that was especially likely to...

Robert Smith on his dirt bike

Octane High

Every now and then, the streets of New Haven are swept by motorized monsoons. Packs of dirt bikes and ATVs zoom down the street, moving through traffic like murmurations of...

Octane High

Every now and then, the streets of New Haven are swept by motorized monsoons. Packs of dirt bikes and ATVs zoom down the street, moving through traffic like murmurations of...