PROFILE
O Christmas Tree

[ydn-legacy-photo-inline el_id=”23980″ ] [ydn-legacy-photo-inline id=”235″ ] My freshman year of college, a friend of mine installed a real Christmas tree in his dorm. He and […]

A Storyteller’s Tale

Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez ’07 is editing an account of his first kiss as if stripping a jawbreaker down to its white core. The Yale alumnus sits […]

New Kid Behind the Desk

How does one get to arguably the second most important job in New York City? In the case of Cyrus R. Vance Jr. ’77, the […]

Picturing the Dead

Eleven years ago, a man committed suicide in the Duncan Hotel on Chapel Street. He began by trying to kill himself in his bathtub, and, […]

Profile – Man, Myth, or Legend?

This past summer, Hollywood descended on New Haven. For a week, Harrison Ford alternately lectured on archaeology in WLH and zipped on his motorcycle through […]

Profile – The Pickle Guy

On a humid Saturday morning at the Brooklyn Greenmarket, Rick Field straddles a stool behind pyramids of jars. As his sign reveals, these are Rick’s […]

Profile – The Unelected Alderman

Four years ago, Frank Douglass Jr. stood on the front porch of his newly purchased Elm Street home, the first piece of land he has […]

Profile – The Singing Woodsman

The carpenters were careful to hide their seams in this room: the brick insides are covered by a curtain of paint, the floorboards are free […]

Profile – It’s Not About the Money

Joe Luciano is seated in the back room of the Giordano Construction Company’s New Haven field office at 198 College Street. Although he works as […]