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Bomb Shell

Rumor has it that if you pull open a certain heating grill in Yale’s Sterling Chemistry Lab, you’ll find a staircase leading to the remains of an abandoned laboratory where,...

Bomb Shell

Rumor has it that if you pull open a certain heating grill in Yale’s Sterling Chemistry Lab, you’ll find a staircase leading to the remains of an abandoned laboratory where,...

Liggett’s May 1970 New Haven by Tom Strong

This Week in New Haven (April 20 - 26)

Big annual happenings in the coming days prompt us to tune up our bikes, pull together favorite outfits, work up strong appetites and keep our camera batteries charged. It’s an...

This Week in New Haven (April 20 - 26)

Big annual happenings in the coming days prompt us to tune up our bikes, pull together favorite outfits, work up strong appetites and keep our camera batteries charged. It’s an...

Rodney Moore and Pepe Vega

Straight Shooters

Pepe Vega and Hugh “HG” Gallman grew up in “The Tribe,” a housing project that once stood in the Dixwell neighborhood. Eventually torn down, Dixwell’s projects were notorious for disrepair...

Straight Shooters

Pepe Vega and Hugh “HG” Gallman grew up in “The Tribe,” a housing project that once stood in the Dixwell neighborhood. Eventually torn down, Dixwell’s projects were notorious for disrepair...

Baseball players at Yale Field

Field Days

It would’ve been fitting if, instead of April 5, opening day of the 2015 pro baseball season had fallen on April Fools’. Plenty of us have made fools of ourselves...

Field Days

It would’ve been fitting if, instead of April 5, opening day of the 2015 pro baseball season had fallen on April Fools’. Plenty of us have made fools of ourselves...

I91-I95 confluence

High Roads

Sometimes the high road is best viewed from below. Along Water Street, where the raised snaking ramps of I-91’s southern end meet I-95’s long elevated curve into the Q Bridge,...

High Roads

Sometimes the high road is best viewed from below. Along Water Street, where the raised snaking ramps of I-91’s southern end meet I-95’s long elevated curve into the Q Bridge,...

Cody’s DIner interior

Day and Night

One spring night in April 1994, the windows of Hi-Way Diner blew out. What glass was left, the fire toasted brown. “Jukebox coin machines, napkin holders and sugar dispensers at...

Day and Night

One spring night in April 1994, the windows of Hi-Way Diner blew out. What glass was left, the fire toasted brown. “Jukebox coin machines, napkin holders and sugar dispensers at...