Chapel Street is New Haven’s longest single route, according to Doris B. Townshend’s The Streets of New Haven. But its western downtown end has a character all its own…
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Odd-Makers

The “Keep [city name] Weird” movement began in Austin, TX, to celebrate the city’s independent, one-of-a-kind businesses. From there it’s spread to cities and towns coast to coast, becoming a…
Peace, Love and Bench

Raffael DiLauro is showing off a photo taken in 1968. It shows several dozen people sitting outside a New Haven storefront. Some are flashing peace signs. Some are wearing fascinating headgear. One couple has literally…