holy fucking shit.

thank you!! what a damn night.

edit: definitely saw i think a few (but at least one) people getting hauled off on stretchers in the wake of the second one. one girl was sitting in the street, crying & screaming (i think probably pretty reasonably), but i don't think she was physically hurt. broken glass everywhere with all the busted windows. it was pretty rough business!

solid theory

The other fire was on Bishop Street around 7:30 & required a full blockade of State. this one was around 9:30 on State (edit: above diesel) &…required a full blockade of State. area bartenders were kind of losing it.

hehehe thank you. i'm excited.

i mean... answer kind of depends on what you mean by "fun". there's a lacto-fermentation class at the remedy's cultured cafe tonight - sounds fun as hell to me, but your mileage may vary, haha.

https://www.cultured.cafe/culture

never experienced a problem here myself; never heard of anybody i know having a problem either.

even the bike rack here is fairly secure, which, in new haven, is wild

what about union league? that's almost right across the street from the yale art gallery. some accuse it of being a little stodgy but i've never had anything but a truly lovely meal there. doesn't hit the trendy notes, but it's definitely posh as hell (though, you know, the prices can be too).

basically any outdoor area you yourself can access as a non-yale affiliate is fair game for dog walking. a bunch of the live-in residential college deans have dogs of their own. a lot of students love to say hi to passing dogs, too.

hong kong market forever <3

hong kong market on whitney carries them routinely. check the first fridge in the aisle furthest to the right when you walk in.

and a very, very good idea it is. just not one to approach lightly.

what?

if it’s Norton, is this just yet another PR rebrand of Edgewood Village? i’m curious.

this would be great advice in a vacuum but this approach is plenty risky as well. check out the case the Hamden fair rent commission is handling with Serramonte if you want to see this in action.

edit: certainly not advising against forming a union here, just advising against renting from scumbags assuming a union’s formation will fix the problems. these assholes have vast resources & zero regard for human decency, & they will do everything in their considerable scummy power to slice whatever organizational tendons they can. just something to bear closely in mind.

even this is part of their business model. because of their locations & price points these companies are largely trying to target tenants who are very young and/or very under-resourced - thus people who either don’t know the law, can’t afford a lawyer, or are transient students who will give up on any standing conflicts in disgust when it’s time for them to leave the area. they figure for any successful tenant lawsuit, there’ll be twelve more tenants successfully fleeced. unfortunately they’re right.

New Haven housing code enforcement, meanwhile, has been defanged to a comedic degree that seems like it almost has to be deliberate, and they don’t or won’t do shit about it. evidently every time they do try to crack down on these companies, they just threaten to pull out of the city entirely, which at this point would be a logistical disaster, & the authorities basically slink off with their tail between their legs & look the other way for another decade. it’s a pathetic mess.

do everything you possibly can to avoid interacting in any way with these scumbags.

and farnam. they're basically all the same crew.

might be, but anecdotally - i know for a fact that luis is a very very good guy & a SUPER hard worker, & bun is sometimes kind of a flake. can't say i know for sure what happened here, but i personally would tend to believe luis out of hand.

perfectly good restaurant; nothing remotely similar.

it IS quite nice

i'm probably gonna get downvoted, but man, please try to take public transportation, it's more easily available here than in much of the rest of the country & it's a hell of a lot more sustainable.

ohhh, hmm. yeah, i just took a look at the routes - closest you could really get on the 238 would be the stop downtown at the green, where you could technically grab a 228/229 headed up to hamden, but what a pain.

not a TERRIBLE walk on a nice day, i used to walk downtown pretty often when i lived in east rock, but not super duper convenient. that would get you VERY close to makehaven, though, which i saw someone else mention on this post!

cool! no prob! also for what it's worth, the 228c & 229 buses run down whitney ave through hamden and new haven. if you get off at the stop in front of the peabody museum, cross at the crosswalk to the business school, and use the little walkway along the side of the building that leads to pearl street, you can take that street in a straight shot down to state street, where V2 will be on your left. it's a very straightforward & pretty short walk. good luck & welcome to hamden!

volume 2 at neverending books on state street in east rock holds an arts meetup every other sunday or so. it's a nice group! all kinds of crafters & artists are welcome, & it's obviously free to join. the whole calendar of events is here - https://neverendingbooks.net/calendar