When leave work at ~7am it always looks like something is on fire near State St. Someone said it was the starting sequence for the diesel locomotive.

Fog! Hubby just called me about 20 minutes ago. He said it was so thick, he thought it was smoke. (Long Wharf area!)

There’s patchy fog here in Milford too.

Noticed a ton of smoke yesterday morning off State, close to the State Street train station, in the area of the NH Fire HQ. Smelled like diesel. Between the fire dept testing their generator regularly, and trains stopping at State St and belching diesel smoke, I feel for the people who live around there.

Someone said it was fog buts its crazy billowy. I drive around trying to see where it was coming from

Super weird. Like like there's a fire but didn't see any

Weird

That’s fog

Thanks for the clarification.

I just want to make sure you realize that from that thread from 5 yr ago that you cite, that before we were were talking about 2 different tunnel structures entirely. Posts about Pitkin Tunnel now in 2022 are entirely accurate. However, the old post you cited, the “Elm St entrance” was referring to Pitkin Tunnel, but they did not realize we were talking about the tunnel loop structure under Chapel Square, entirely separate.

Only open swim in New Haven during the winter is at Hillhouse HS (back of school is entrance, ~76 Crescent St is closest address).

Wednesdays 5-8 PM, Saturdays 10-2. There’s a dedicated lap lane when there’s lap swimmers in the water.

I teach the LG classes with NH, so I’m there and/around all the time. Stop in and say hi! Feel free to PM if you have any other questions

Also, worth the drive to go see Bryant Setzler at The Edge in South Windsor. He’s incredible

Rich at keys on kites can and does typography regularly

Yes, Darrius Cappelli and Rich Hadley https://www.instagram.com/keysonkitestattoo/ def stop by!

I still see him walking around the neighborhood sometimes! He should be.

Do you know if Darius still there? My artist used to work there and I liked when I was getting something done and Darius was just hanging with us. Cool dude.

Yeah, like most neighborhoods in New Haven, Beaver Hills borders higher crime areas. All of the highly recommended neighborhoods border high crime areas, so there’s bound to be a little spillover.

Black Hatchet is great! Can’t speak to traditional, per se, but a well run shop with good people.

Sleepy Hollow Tattoo 249 Naugatuck Ave Milford 203-876-5085

some do live on the other side of dwight and it is fine but that's a very small number.

agreed

alderman are one of our biggest problems, holding this city back approval of projects in this city makes developers run away

other major problems is the union control of the city and massive city giveaways for low income housing. This city has everything it needs to succeed but it's not.

I know someone that lives a couple blocks beyond Dwight and it’s been fine for him. Definitely still room for improvement though.

The biggest problem the city has with progress is the local alderman and general bureaucracy that makes for slow approval on development.

*ninth square is really just downtown

I agree that downtown has gentrified ( again, not really as noone was displaced as they added housing to a commercial district) yes, the neighborhoods you mentioned have gotten better and their "safe" boundaries expanded a bit, but the city is made up of far more neighborhoods and they have not gentrified. Back to the dwight neighborhood, it's exactly what would be gentrified but everyone is still advised not to cross dwight st.

Downtown gentrified 100%. Ninth Square is another example. Parts of East Rock weren’t nice like they are now. Like Goatville. Parts of Westville too. City Point used to be bad, now it’s quite nice. The area around Science Park was very bad, now it’s improving.

it's no doubt safer as most crime has fallen around the county. But if the west side is the only one that's sketchy now in your experience it shows that the thier neighborhood have gentrified in thr last few decades

outside of small pockets of yale development around WinchesterAve, I really can't think of any neighborhood gentrifing in New Haven. can you? yes they got better but gentrified?