Tag Archives: Westville

This Week in New Haven (October 11 – 17)

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Step outside, inside, up and around, and not just while learning a few new moves. Monday, October 11 At 1 p.m., an Indigenous Peoples’ Day event celebrates “indigenous peoples from Turtle Island and beyond” outside City Hall (165 Church St, New Haven). Tuesday, October 12 The Yale Latino Networking Group closes out Hispanic Heritage Month […]

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This Week in New Haven (September 6 – 12)

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The big race is today, but things really speed up over the weekend. (more…)

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Bringing It Back

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In the front room at Lyric Hall Antiques and Conservation, a 400-year-old mirror is undergoing surgery. Whole passages of its gilt frame—florid segments that cross the mirror like vines—are missing and have to be carefully recreated, then gilded to match. John Cavaliere, the owner and principal of Lyric Hall, takes up a micron-thin square of […]

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Sound Effect

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A photo essay. To view higher-quality images, check out the email version. A little after 7 p.m. last Friday, the winds of change swept through (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (May 3 – 9)

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Things begin with a pop or two, and that’s before Artwalk makes its triumphant return. (more…)

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Delicacy, and Delicacies

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Tucked into little bird’s nest pastries and featured in authentic Damascan-style ice cream, pistachios are a key ingredient at the new Pistachio Café in Westville. (more…)

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On the Edge

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

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Neighboring

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Home to a historic village, a public library, old factory buildings, art studios and galleries, Edgewood Park, Hopkins School, the Yale Bowl, the Yale Golf Course and (more…)

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Old West

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The small business district of Westville Village, which came of age in the second half of the 19th century, is special in part because its long history as a center of industry and commerce is still visible today—a fact that earned it a designation from the National Register of Historic Places back in 2003. “… […]

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Household Name

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Experience a different kind of cabin fever with this story from 2017. (more…)

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