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  • Five places in New Haven: Hillhouse Avenue

    Five places in New Haven, day three: Hillhouse Avenue was once New Haven’s most fashionable residential street, a pioneering example of the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 25 2018 10:05am

  • Five places in New Haven: East Rock

    Five places in New Haven, day two: towering over the Mill River, the traprock cliffs of East Rock afford a remarkable view of New Haven, the harbor... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 24 2018 11:16am

  • Five places in New Haven: the Green

    Three hundred years ago this September, Yale held its first commencement in New Haven, as its new home at College and Chapel Streets was dedicated.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 23 2018 09:46pm

  • Occupy Chapel Street

    A group called GoNewHavenGo took over two parking spaces on Chapel Street yesterday to promote car-free living in New Haven. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 12 2018 09:37am

  • Summer breeze

    Another sight of summer: Wall Street Pizza (formerly Naples) has a sustainable passive air-conditioning system. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 27 2018 10:15am

  • Building Broadway

    Nearing completion on Elm Street: an L. L. Bean store at street level, housing for grad students above. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 19 2018 09:33am

  • Big move

    It was 300 years ago this fall that the Collegiate School (not yet known as Yale) brought its books from its old home in Saybrook to its new one in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 15 2018 10:21am

  • Look out below

    It’s a perfect day for lunch al fresco next door to the Center for British Art. The subterranean restaurant space is now home to Harvest Wine... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2018 02:08pm

  • Arrivals

    From now through August, portraits of New Haven–area immigrants are on display on the Green—some in freestanding frames, others in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 24 2018 10:38am

  • Just don’t ask for ketchup

    New Haven’s culinary offerings have become more varied in recent years, but people still line up for the burgers at Louis’ Lunch. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 23 2018 08:55am

  • Take a walk

    Yale has submitted a plan to the city of New Haven to convert three blocks of streets into pedestrian walkways, much like Rose Walk in front of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 27 2018 08:40am

  • Dam good

    What’s this stone carving on the side of Benjamin Franklin College all about? The fact that it faces the Farmington Canal Greenway is a clue:... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 5 2018 09:02am

  • Musical queue

    Besides accommodating Yale’s largest indoor concerts, lectures, and ceremonies, Woolsey Hall is also the longtime home of the New Haven... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 3 2018 10:25am

  • An opening on Broadway

    A piece of New Haven’s Broadway is on the market. 21 Broadway, one of the few remaining retail properties on the street that is not owned by... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 19 2018 10:55am

  • May Day remembered

    Students, alumni, and New Haven residents gathered in the JE Art Gallery Thursday for a talk on the 1970 May Day protests. Sam Chauncey ’57... Read on
    Jack Taperell ’18 | February 23 2018 02:45pm

  • Beat it

    The record warm weather yesterday (64 degrees) meant that this street drummer, who goes by the name Dizz Sticks, had plenty of passersby to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 22 2018 10:03am

  • How we roll

    Now there’s one more way to get around the Elm City. Bike New Haven, a bicycle-rental program in which riders use a smartphone app to unlock... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 20 2018 09:34am

  • Île de France

    The island in the middle of Broadway just got a lot more delicious with the opening today of a stand selling crêpes made to order.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 17 2018 02:11pm

  • Check-out time

    Chapel Street’s Hotel Duncan closed in December for renovations; it will emerge in 2019 as a boutique hotel under a new name and ownership.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 9 2018 03:29pm