For years, New Haven’s firefighters waited. Not a single firefighter has been promoted to captain or lieutenant since the city threw out the results of its now-infamous 2003 promotion exam, on which no black firefighters did well enough to be considered for a promotion.
Some residents of the Newhallville neighborhood of New Haven say they have learned an age-old lesson: You can’t always get what you want.
Keeping Connecticut’s budget in the black means putting the New Haven’s Festival of Arts and Ideas into the red.
By 5 p.m. Tuesday, a fine but impervious layer of snow had covered the streets surrounding the Dixwell-Yale Community Learning Center. The white outline of the buiding began disappearing into the white streets, while the tires of a Honda Accord slid and turned out of the parking lot.
In 1987, it was a lot harder to get a cab in New Haven. That summer, only 14 taxis served the state’s second-largest city. Crime was high and New Haven, once a bustling industrial center, was economically in shambles. Even so, Bill Scalzi, then a manager at Yellow Cab in Hartford, saw an opportunity. The son and grandson of taxi owners and a former driver himself, he saw...
Two-year-old Alexandrea Overkamp was supposed to wait 10 seconds before pressing the button to light the New Haven Christmas tree. She lasted seven.
Though the national recession may put a damper on holiday spirit, it seems that the city’s 60-foot Norway spruce is safe from financial woes. For now.
When Superintendent of Schools Reginald Mayo spoke at the ribbon-cutting of the newly-renovated Augusta Lewis Troup School in September, he was brimming with enthusiasm for the city’s innovative school reconstruction efforts.
Forget visions of sugar plums — pistachio-cranberry icebox cookies are the new stuff of holiday dreams.
Freshmen and sophomores who have hitherto looked longingly inside Toad’s Place will soon get a chance to experience it.
Nestled on Audubon Street in the heart of New Haven’s Art District is an intimate bicycle shop that many a Yalie has walked past on the way to Yale Undergraduate Career Services. But soon, Devil’s Gear II will be closed for good.
