Tag Archives: David Zukowski

On the Edge

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Cycling south from the top of Yale Avenue takes advantage of one of the better designated bike routes in New Haven. You’ve got (more…)

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All Lined Up

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A ride on the railroad is typically about where you go from there. (more…)

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Checking It Out

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When I woke up at the Hotel Marcel and pressed the Morning button on the bedside console, the blackout shade rolled steadily up to reveal the (more…)

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Checking In

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The building that is now the Hotel Marcel has been a monumental vision to New Haven passersby since it was erected in 1969. (more…)

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Carried Over

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A carriage once drawn by four horses now stands in the carriage shed at the New Haven Museum’s Pardee-Morris House, a symbol of New Haven’s industrial past nestled within a symbol of its colonial history. (more…)

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Another Elm City

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While he was the president of Yale College in the early 1800s, the theologian, writer and horticulturist Timothy Dwight did a lot of traveling, wherever horse and cart might take him. One of his favorite destinations (more…)

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Specifically General

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Just a few short months after deciding that Westville could really use a general store, Alex Dakoulas opened one (more…)

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Piecing Together

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Two mosaic peacocks perch on a table at Mediterranean restaurant Rawa. The image is exquisite in the manner of peacocks, but particularly in the manner of mosaics. Each detail, each transition of color, in the life-sized tail feathers is rendered with a piece of stone no larger than a thumbnail, shaped and positioned by hand. […]

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Family Meals

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El Salvadoreño occupies the first floor of a multi-family house on Campbell Avenue in West Haven, its frontage transformed by a commercial brick buildout. The surrounding stretch of state road is dominated by convenience stores, repair shops, institutional campuses and a general determination on the part of southbound commuters, freshly addled by cascading merges, to […]

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Sway’s Way

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Guitarmaker Tim Sway fashioned his first bass guitar out of a water ski. (more…)

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