COMMUNITY LIFE
KELLY KONG
Claire’s Corner Copia marks 50th anniversary with community celebration

New Haven community members, city officials and Yale representatives gathered on Wednesday to celebrate the vegetarian restaurant, which opened in 1975.

September 18, 2025

MICHELLE SO
Local organizations promote community gardens across New Haven

New Haven’s community gardens feed families and provide community gathering spaces.

September 17, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
New Haven looks to set Guinness World Record for largest pizza party

Local organizers hoping to set a world record are planning for up to 5,000 attendees to gather on the New Haven Green for a pizza party on Friday.

September 11, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Officials, developers celebrate apartment complex being built in Wooster Square

Mayor Justin Elicker, Alder Carmen Rodriguez and local real estate developers launched Twenty Fair, a 168-unit complex coming to Wooster Square.

September 8, 2025

SABRINA THALER
Amid increasing ICE activity, city lawyers and organizers hone strategy

Federal immigration authorities detained an 18-year-old junior at Wilbur Cross High School and at least two other New Haveners this summer.

September 8, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Newest New Haven tenants union joins with Detroit counterpart for negotiations

Capital Realty Group agreed to a follow-up meeting with New Haven’s Park Ridge Tenant Union and a Detroit tenants union, Connecticut organizers said.

August 29, 2025

KINNIA CHEUK
New to New Haven? Here are the best parks and trails to explore

New Haven Parks Director Max Webster ENV ’17 shares his favorite places to watch the seasons change.

August 27, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
City’s newest tenants union to bargain with national corporate landlord

The president of Capital Realty Group will meet with tenants from both New Haven’s Park Ridge Apartments and an apartment complex in Detroit over Zoom Wednesday morning.

August 27, 2025

SOPHIA STONE
Park Ridge apartments become home to New Haven’s ninth tenants union

At a press conference Wednesday, union organizers criticized maintenance issues at the apartment complex, which houses elderly and disabled residents.

August 8, 2025

JAKE ROBBINS
Locals protest ICE’s detainment of high school student

A rising junior at Wilbur Cross High School was detained by ICE at his workplace on July 21 and has since been shipped to a detention center in Louisiana, rally organizers stated.

July 31, 2025

KADE GAJDUSEK & KIVA BANK
Thousands gather on New Haven Green for ‘No Kings’ demonstration

Joining millions of others across the United States, around 3,000 marched through downtown New Haven to protest President Donald Trump.

June 15, 2025