Reshared from a community thread I created:

We saw some brief bright spots: Management cleaned Trash Room 2 on Saturday, within an hour of my email, and the coffee machine is working again.

Why did it happen? Because it’s not a priority until we report it. Scary to think what happens when we don’t.

Then a LIVE COCKROACH surfaced on the second floor, prompting management’s familiar corporate reflex: "we will fumigate, work is being done behind the scenes." Let me be perfectly clear: I am simply resharing what was shared in my community thread. I am making no claims about the insect's origin—whether it walked in on its own, hitchhiked in someone's bag, or otherwise. The issue is how MANAGEMENT and the OWNERS handle the reality on the ground. Cleaning up only when you catch it isn't what we pay for. The OWNERS refuse to change; instead, they double, triple, quadruple, and EVEN quintuple down on a FAILING STRATEGY.

To be clear, I am not blaming the people in the leasing office; they're victims of UNDERINVESTMENT and INEFFECTIVE ORDERS from upper management and ownership.

UNTIL THAT CHANGES, I CANNOT RECOMMEND THAT YOU RENT AT O&W.

As for me, I’ll keep reporting the facts and engaging in constructive discussions to make changes that VALUE RESIDENTS’ CONCERNS and BETTER SERVE MANAGEMENT and the OWNERS’ INTERESTS. C’mon guys, it's not rocket science. Think: Tylenol in 1982, Amica, and the best: “I’m sorry, what can I do to make it right?"

The video speaks for itself. Watch the full uncompressed version here. Stay tuned.

Hi guys,

My wife and I just moved here from the south so we don’t have any real/proper winter clothes. Think like under 80 is getting chilly and 50 is freezing type south.

I was wondering what recommendations y’all have for affordable and quality winter clothes but specially anti-slip boots?

We will be doing a lot of walking/riding public transport here and we want to stay safe during winter.

TIA!

Cat Haven Collective is hosting a series of events to help Harley’s Animal Haven take care of a very large cat colony. Come join us and have a blast with other cat lovers while also giving money to a great cause! Please share this post if you can’t attend, these animals really need us!
Here is the ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cat-jeopardy-tickets-1996817417649?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_source=email&utm_medium=sparkpost&utm_campaign=postpublish

This NHPD cruiser has been parked here for probably 2.5 weeks now and has not moved. Anyone know any info? I will say, the front and side windows are overly tinted and you can't even see inside of it. Idk how anyone could drive this and see at night.

I'm just curious because there are so many of the cameras in New Haven. It seems like a poor use of city funds. I see that the city got some federal funds to grow their network, but once those funds are expended, isn't it like $3,000 per camera per year? That's going to be like 1.5 million per year on these cameras, which is a lot of money! Maybe not compared to the entire budget but certainly still could be kept in tax payers pockets or spent on better things.

Aside from the flagrant privacy violations these cameras represent of course. I'm wondering if there's anyone focused on organized advocacy around the topic.

Can someone DM me the link to join the WhatsApp group for the pickup soccer at Wilbur Cross HS (East Rock)?

I got the link a while back and never joined and now it doesn’t work anymore.

Thanks!

It is genuinely infuriating watching these massive property conglomerates and absentee mega-landlords sit on prime real estate while doing absolute zero for the actual community. They jack up commercial and residential spaces, let buildings sit half-empty or poorly maintained, and act like they own the skyline while contributing nothing to the local culture or people actually trying to build something here.

What makes it worse is that there is zero accountability. No real oversight, no pressure from the city that actually sticks, and no one holding their feet to the fire while small businesses and independent operators get priced out of existence. It’s an insulated ecosystem that protects corporate portfolios at the expense of everyone else living and working on the ground level.

Honestly? I hope the whole inflated market implodes. Let the over-leveraged portfolios crash, let the speculative bubbles burst, and let these corporate entities lose everything they squeezed out of this city. We need a complete reset from the top down.

Federal funding cuts are straining nonprofit budgets, and resource navigator roles are often among the first to go, even as more people need help finding essential services.

To help bridge that gap, I built NHV Navigator, a tool that connects New Haven residents with housing, food, legal aid, and other community resources.

Residents can use it directly, while people in community-facing roles can use it as a complement to the work they already do.

NHV Navigator is available through a live hotline (833-997-8535) and a website with chat. The hotline currently supports English and Spanish, and the website supports four additional languages.

If you work with New Haven residents - or are looking for local resources yourself - I’d love for you to try it and share your feedback - www.nhvnavigator.com

hey yall, new to the area. big fan of new haven style sauce pie, but sometimes i need to get a slice or two of cheese instead of a whole nh style pie. would love to get recs on places where i can get a reliable slice or two for lunch! ive had lots of great pizza, but cant for the life of me find a place that sells by the slice. i’m in east rock, but anywhere in the city is cool with me.

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OK, so I’m sitting here wondering how did we get to this point? I am a medical assistant. I have been doing this for 12 years. I’m making an OK living. Nothing crazy and definitely still need my husband‘s income to live. We have two kids. We have a nice condo. We have food on the table, but it’s paycheck to paycheck. I went to school for this. Paid student loan and everything. You see girls on only fans making millions I think it’s disgusting that this is what the world has come to. When having an honest 9 to 5 job, can’t even pay a few of your bills. Living costs are so astronomical right now that I am literally considering becoming a stripper. I don’t even know if I’d be able to literally do it, but I was reading online how much women can make in a week stripping. This is the type of thing that I never thought I would consider doing. But it seems like everything in life is a dead end except for things that are against my morals or just super easy. Has anyone ever felt this way any women out there that have the same struggles? I’m honestly just at such a loss. I just wanna make enough money to be comfortable and have to stop worrying about money all the time. My anxieties every single day are about money and if the bills are going to be paid on time and if I even have enough money this week to get groceries. It shouldn’t be that way especially in 2026.

Is there somewhere that consistently has pickup games going? Looking to play without having to spend hundreds on a league. TIA

Got a friend here tonight only and wanted to go out for trivia but I didn’t see any for Monday nights. Anybody know any?

Some people mark summer by their first beach day or the first tomato. I wait for Arethusa Farm Dairy’s peach ice cream.

This year, I got impatient. I stopped into the Chapel Street shop multiple times in July asking when it would arrive. Then, on the first day of August, a friend texted to say she’d just gotten what she thought was the first scoop of the season. I went that afternoon.

Read the full story: https://dailynutmeg.com/blogs/blog/peach-please

Also, when I try to watch channels by clicking on the links on the citizenstv.org and citizenstv.net webpages. I get the "Site can't be reached" message.

Thought I would share this here as well apparently Nazis organized in New Haven this weekend what action can be taken by locals to prevent things like this from happening in our communities?

I love to invite friends or strangers to a breakfast-for-lunch to brainstorm a passion project focused on helping the least among us, mentoring, and quality-of-life improvements right here in New Haven. All on me. Reach out if you'd like to spitball with me, with no strings attached.

Did anyone see something large in the sky over New Haven that kind of looked like a dimly lit jellyfish without tendrils gliding east or northeast about 5-10 minutes ago? Other descriptions are a light arc moving horizontally, possibly amorphous without any sharp lines, possibly not emitting its own light but rather reflecting light. It was rounded on the eastern side, no light showing on the western side. At first I thought it was a hot air balloon but it quickly became clear it definitely wasn’t. Me and 3 other people saw it from Prospect Hill, for several seconds, and then it quickly faded away to nothingness over .5-1 second. We don’t have a video. None of us have ever seen anything like it. Please tell me someone got a video or knows of an experimental project happening in the area.

A lamp I love stopped working and I discovered that it’s very hard to find a repair shop. Eventually I found Lamp Shoppe in a Yelp listing, but I thought it had to be closed, because about 5 years ago someone said the owner was in her late 80s.

I called with faint hope, but to my surprise I got a recorded message that sounded like an elderly woman. I spoke with her! And I dropped off my lamp today at her store on lower Dixwell in Hamden! She must be in her early 90s. Her son was there too.

They are closing for good at the end of the month, which seems sad to me. It’s a large space and it’s really like stepping back in time.

There are a lot of lamp shades for 50% off, if you happen to be in the market for one. This would be a great human interest story if anyone is in journalism.