Tangential comment, but my parents often complain that I will have no community because my generation doesn’t go to church every Sunday. A place you regularly see people, even if you don’t talk to them, you recognize them at the grocery store and say hi. I just can’t get down with the Catholic church / most religions, but I kind of agree with them.

Common Grounds is great tho! They already opened in blue States old Wall St spot, and are planning to open in their old York St spot soon!

i cant tell if this is sarcasm but in the event it isn’t, blue state coffee is no more.

https://www.ctinsider.com/business/article/Blue-State-Coffee-permanently-closes-cafes-17594963.php

Musical Intervention good for musicians. Never Ending Books or Book Trader for book lovers. Gather for hipsters. +1 to Elm City Games. Owl Shop if you smoke. Stella Blues for music, a pool table, and a sofa (except they often have a small cover fee and it could be loud).

I'd suggest church, but I've never been.

This is what I was going to recommend anyway.

Blue state coffee is great as well

Yeah gather is the spot! Also I love East Rock Brewing company. There’s no comfy couches but it’s such a laid back place.

I’m from Asheville NC and moved here and I like it. Kinda gives me similar vibes to
home but less gentrified. Trips to NYC are super easy.

The walkability is dope, I can ride my bike for my work commute which would have been impossible back home.

The place you are looking for is Gather in East Rock. It's exactly what you describe.

Shoot your shot, king.

You could be right, but the wind direction would have to be correct as well. Check the article—channel 3 updates it w/NOAA meteorologists who say it’s from the dust storm

The derailment happened 2 weeks ago- lighting it on fire was Monday or Tuesday of this week.

I feel like a shill so forgive me*, but I talk about third place theory a lot and it’s the driving force behind Elm City Games. Community vibes, BYO, and games are inherently social; I think we do a pretty good job of it.

(*I’m only even responding myself cause I’m such a nerd I got excited to talk about third place theory…)

Fwiw, Connecticut DEEP says it’s not from Ohio, as the winds are coming up from the southwest. This article says it could be dust from Oklahoma maybe?

https://www.wfsb.com/2023/02/17/questions-raised-over-mysterious-soot-like-residue-that-accumulated-vehicles/

Edit: The article also posits that the derailment happened a few weeks ago, so the atmospheric pollution should have dissipated by now

Models and like I said, not pinpointed yet, but the weather radar in any weather app today shows the clouds overhead rt now came from there, and that is confirmed.

Woah I saw white stuff on my road yesterday & thought it was odd that there was salt on the roads. Never considered it could be from the Ohio rail disaster. I actually had my windows open for several hours yesterday because it was so warm. Yikes!!

Round trip tickets from NHV to GCT are between roughly $35 and $45 (depending on off peak or on peak), not $80. Still too expensive but nowhere near that bad. Express trains are at shortest 1 hr 40, many more local trains take 1 hr 55, and local trains back usually take a little over 2 hrs. Just as an FYI for anyone looking.

well, that shit is clearly headed right for us

Buy an antenna for your tv. You'll get 100+ channels, mostly weird stuff, but it's free. It also includes the major networks and any games they air. They're like $50 and work anywhere - mostly - in the US

NOAA models show Ohio poison clouds arriving here. People all over New England are reporting the same thing and spots all over their cars

https://www.ready.noaa.gov/hypubout/22397_cloop.gif

https://www.ready.noaa.gov/hypub-bin/hyresults.pl

These are models and the result of inputs. I’m on my phone and unable to pinpoint more about the data at the moment

Some areas around YNHH are very sketchy. It varies block by block. If you want to move to that area specifically, you should ask future co-workers which streets/blocks are good and which ones to avoid. Or just move to East Rock which is on the other side of town but is a very nice place to live!

Same thing has happened in Providence, too.

The New Haven green is privately owned, so the city can’t do much about it.

Super easy to get to the city—hourly Metro North train service to and from New Haven Union Station & Grand Central. Round trip tix cost about 80$ and each leg takes about 1 hr 45 mins. So day trips are very easy. Or you can drive if you are willing to figure out parking in the city!

One thing to be aware of when moving from south to north is that winters suck in New England! Even this winter, which is weirdly warm, is still very dark and gray and dismal. It gets completely dark out by 4 pm in late December-mid January. And spring takes a LONG time—e.g. daffodils don’t bloom until April, and most other spring flowers don’t start until May. Not a reason not to move up here for most people, but it is something that I for one am still not used to after 15 years.

> The squeaky wheel gets the grease in election years.

Fixed that for you.