A blog about New Haven
I spent a month living in Bushwick, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. It was an experiment. I’ve lived in Connecticut my whole life. A feeling of stagnation was growing inside of me. I craved change in my life. New beginnings. New locations? But before I upended my entire life, and dealt with all of … Read more
Three years ago, I made a fateful decision to move into the strangest apartment building in New Haven, which also happens to be the old Chapel Square Mall: Now. It looks like this: Yep, that’s right. I live in an old mall. And it is weird. In a month or so, I shall be leaving this … Read more
I have a confession to make: for my first two articles I was merely masquerading as a New Havenite. The shame. My beard? My thick-rimmed hipster glasses? A fraud. A fashionable ruse. The shame. I have brought dishonor upon my family for generations to come. To be fair, I lived in West Haven, which was … Read more
Psst. Hey, buddy. You need an apartment? How about something downtown? Perhaps something “luxurious”? Great. Cause we have thousands of ’em. Or rather, we’re about to. Welcome to The Great New Haven Apartment Boom! Oh, I’m sorry, were you looking for something affordable that isn’t a neighborhood that looks like where Eminem grew up in … Read more
