Union League Cafe celebrates 25th year on Chapel

From engagement dinners to job interviews to parents’ weekend splurges, New Haven Union League Cafe has been serving up the city’s special occasions for a quarter-century.   As my husband says, it’s got the best room: deep green walls, white-clothed tables, scuffed wooden floorboards, coffered ceiling, massive fireplace and hushed, bow-tied service.   “To say […]

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Wisdom’s Designs Become Kahnversation Pieces

Designer Neville Wisdom has finally funked up the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA). And if a series of tightly knitted grey-and-black contrasts, black swags on red silk, and sweeping fleece staircases are any indication, he’s just getting started.   Close to 200 people attended the event, which included a mini, pre-show fashion show from […]

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Cruisin’ Connecticut – The Shops at Yale

56 Broadway, New Haven, CT 06511, USA – Ryan Kristafer takes you on a “back-to-school” shopping adventure at The Shops at Yale in downtown New Haven, Shop, dine, and explore unique boutiques, retailers, eateries, and more in the heart of downtown New Haven.   You can experience the new L.L. Bean story, Patagonia, Fat Face, J […]

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The new store on the block draws a long line of people before doors open

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – There were high fives as the line got moving when the doors opened for the newest L.L. Bean retail store in Connecticut. This one is at The Shops at Yale.   Company spokesperson Eric Smith said, “They started lining up I think at 5:00 a.m. so it’s an exciting morning here.”   The first 200 people […]

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L.L. Bean celebrates grand opening in New Haven

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – The opening of a new store is creating quite a buzz in downtown New Haven on Friday.   Hundreds of people were lining up for the grand opening of the L.L. Bean store in the Broadway Shopping District of the elm city.   Click here for the full article.

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Neville Wilson Moves Back Downtown

Neville Wisdom, a New Haven-based fashion designer born and raised in Jamaica, is back downtown. With Mayor Toni Harp and Yale University’s Properties team in attendance, Wisdom held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday afternoon in front of his new shop at 1090 Chapel S.   Wisdom had a store downtown in the historic Ninth Square on […]

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Neville Wisdom Fashions opens at Shops at Yale in New Haven

NEW HAVEN — A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Tuesday at 1090 Chapel St. “to welcome Neville Wisdom Fashions to The Shops at Yale in the Chapel Street Historic District,” according to a release by Yale University Properties. Neville Wisdom, owner of the store and a city resident, was raised in Windsor Castle, an area of Saint […]

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New Haven’s Top Model Search

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Are you or someone you know interested in becoming a model?   New Haven’s Top Model Search is coming back to town with New York City agencies.  Agencies featured include, Fenton Model Management, Industry Model Management, John Casablancas of CT, Society and Surface Agency. Joining us today Tina Kiniry, President of John […]

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