The Climate Mural on the East-facing wall of the Goffe Street Armory is ready to be enjoyed by all! Check it out! This is a Yale Planetary Solutions project, led by Climate Fellow Daniel Pizarro and ace muralist Mike DeAngelo. Big thanks to Nadine Horton and the Armory Community Garden!
From Coal Bed to Bulkhead: English Station and the Making of Ball Island
Colin Chudyk’s horizontal collage narrative of coal, from Appalachia, down the Hudson, to New Haven Bay.
Claudia Carle’s historical, visual, and textual palimpsest of the Cedar Hill Rail Yards, once among the largest railroad infrastructures in the Northeast.
Connecticut has a rich industrial heritage. In this map, Abby Reed shows the number of mills (represented by size of circle); mill type (Orange = Brass/Metals; Green = Manufacturing; Yellow = Textiles); as well as the Rivers, Railroads, and Highways that make up the State’s basic transportation and power-delivery infrastructure.
Rukshan Vathupola’s website explores the local, regional, and global networks connected to the New Haven Clock Company and its factory buildings on Hamilton Street.
A 24-page Zine about the New Haven Clock Factory, created by Dante Furioso and Luis Sala Porras. Includes quotes from interviews, archival imagery, and narrative.
The demolition of a structure, especially in an urban area, can be a violent and destructive act for a neighborhood that collectively associates memories with a space as the removal constitutes an erasure of a landmark in a collective community map. This project attempts to study a building’s end of life, and to develop a curation of decay in order to ritualize the lifecycle of a structure and enshrine th4e memories associated with a community’s past and present. Urban change is inevitable as cities are organisms that regenerate at much faster rates; but can there be a way to
Off The Rails: Exploring the Legacy of the Streetcar in New Hven
Orli Hakanoglu
