Brian Ginsberg
Brian Ginsberg
Recent Stories
Police charge man with York Street mugging
Bike-riding suspect matches description of 4 other purse grabs
A man matching the description of the perpetrator of five purse-snatchings near the Yale campus was apprehended Wednesday by New Haven police. Axel Hernandez, 33, was arrested without incident on Church Street South and charged with third-degree...
The life and death of the city's drug court
Jim Chase was a hopeless alcoholic. Twenty-four years ago, Chase could not go a day without buying, stealing or mooching everything from beer to hard liquor. He says he never started drinking without winding up completely drunk by the end of the night...
No Toad's for a week following violations
Toad's Place, the York Street concert and party hot spot, was shut down for a week starting yesterday and must pay $25,000 in connection with an incident last year in which state Liquor Control Commission officials found several underage patrons hiding...
Yale members of 'Hartford 18' strike deal
The two Yale students involved in last October's Hartford protest that generated 18 arrests struck a deal to avoid criminal prosecution, an attorney and fellow demonstrators said. But other protesters are planning to continue their fight in court...
Beinecke thief to serve term of 15 months
A former employee at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library who pleaded guilty to looting over $2.5 million in historic artifacts and documents from the library's collection began serving his prison term this summer. Benjamin Johnson, 22, of...
Campus hit by wave of purse grabs
A rash of purse-snatchings in the last five days on the Yale campus might be the work of a single perpetrator. Tuesday night, shortly before 11 p.m., Stephanie Wei '05 was walking on York Street toward the medical school campus when a man on a...
Sans beer for now, Naples looks for new crowd
When it comes to getting Naples Pizza and Restaurant's liquor license back, owner Anthony Prifitera's pitcher of hope is by no means drained. But with the beer off tap for the foreseeable future, the restaurateur may turn to focus groups and the...
New Haven's crime rate remained stable in 2001
After years of decline, crime in Elm City has started to level off
After dropping 21 percent from 1999 to 2000, overall crime rates in New Haven remained stable in 2001, while reported crimes against persons increased almost 10 percent, according to recently released Uniform Crime Report data. The number of murders...
Town-gown boxing and a soccer ball
Like most prospective Yale students, Amy Kaplan came to Bulldog Days to get a glimpse of the University's academic and social scene. Thanks to a freshman and some locals, she also saw a boxing match. Kaplan said she saw Nathan Thorne '05 and two female...
NHPD assistant chief seeks top post at Providence dept.
If he gets his way, Assistant Police Chief and 30-year New Haven Police Department veteran Douglas P. MacDonald will soon be packing his bags for Providence, R.I., to become its police department's new chief. MacDonald, who is one of five candidates...