Isaac Yu
Staff Reporter
@isaacyu_ | isaac.yu@yale.edu
Isaac Yu was the News' managing editor. He covered transportation and faculty as a reporter and laid out the front page of the weekly print edition. He co-founded the News' Audience desk, which oversees social media and the newsletter. He was a leader of the News' Asian American and low-income affinity groups. Hailing from Garland, Texas, Isaac is a Berkeley College junior majoring in American Studies.
Author Archive
ISAAC YU
Safe Routes for All launches citywide walk and bike survey series

Over the next few weeks, advocates and officials will be hitting the streets to gain feedback from residents on how to make the Elm City […]

April 20, 2021

RAZEL SUANSING & ISAAC YU
Fair Haven CMT discusses strides in public safety and community health

At their monthly community management meeting, Fair Haven leaders discussed the progress of various social services in the area. On Thursday evening, members highlighted the […]

April 1, 2021

ISAAC YU
New Haven street sweeping season resumes in April

Coming soon to your neighborhood: Pelican and Tornado, a pair of street-sweeping machines that will keep New Haven’s roads clean. On Wednesday, officials kicked off […]

March 31, 2021

Pelican and Tornado, the street-sweeping machines that keep your streets clean.
ALVARO PERPULY & ISAAC YU
Free bus services coming to New Haven this summer

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced Tuesday that he will instruct CT Transit to provide free, statewide bus transportation on weekends over the summer. Free bus […]

March 30, 2021

RAZEL SUANSING & ISAAC YU
Pedestrian struck at Chapel and High Street intersection

At around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a 31-year-old woman was hit by a pickup truck at the intersection of Chapel and High Street in front […]

March 30, 2021

ISAAC YU & RAZEL SUANSING
ULA, Black and Brown United in Action hold rally, candlelight vigil on pandemic loss, hardship

Members of Unidad Latina en Acción gathered on Monday for a vigil, lighting 186 candles: one for each New Haven resident who has died of […]

March 26, 2021

ISAAC YU
‘Make Me a Man’: Hero Magnus ’23 Takes on Queer History in New EP Release

Just to know you and read you from across the field / I would burn it all down to do that just once Hero Magnus […]

March 25, 2021

ISAAC YU
City holds first public workshop for Safe Routes for All plan in bid to improve infrastructure

On Wednesday, city officials announced that safer streets are coming to the Elm City.  The “Safe Routes for All” plan is a blueprint of infrastructural […]

March 25, 2021

A map of New Haven showing intersections with a high number of pedestrian fatalities across the city.
ISAAC YU
Local advocacy group, professors endorse less parking

Yalies volunteering with a Connecticut housing advocacy group say that New Haven could use less parking. Officials from the New Haven Parking Authority and some […]

March 25, 2021

ISAAC YU
Safe Streets gears up for busy season of legislative advocacy

Traffic safety activists are ready to charge full steam ahead into the next few months with their advocacy for safer streets. In a monthly mobilization […]

March 18, 2021

Chapel Street in the daytime
ISAAC YU
Residents discuss Lighthouse Road walkability at public input session

Walkability is the name of the game for New Haven officials who are aiming to improve traffic safety along Lighthouse Road. The road is the […]

March 16, 2021