Apple store new haven1/8/2024 ![]() Before he came to Yale, Alexander negotiated with cities throughout America to build malls for the Rouse Company. The article doesn’t say when Alexander had this stroll along York Street and slouched toward Broadway, but Alexander has been Yale’s downtown property man since the late 1990s. New Haven is a mall and Yale kids are its customers.” Barbershops will not be allowed to ruin the mall. People of color will not be allowed to ruin the mall. “Poor people will not be allowed to ruin the mall. The choice of headline, articles, and layout reflects what is a truism about Connecticut’s cities in general: they are not built for the people that live in them, especially in the era of late capitalism. When was Broadway damaged or destroyed so as to be rebuilt? Why would the Sunday print edition of the paper need to imply that it was? The headline and the article itself was quite obviously geared toward the parents of Yale students in town for the weekend, looking for a souvenir of the day. ![]() Since Yalies went through the area on their way to the Yale Co-op, he thought it needed an upgrade.”Īn upgrade. “Alexander said he was walking on York Street near Broadway and noticing litter and storefronts such as barbershops and liquor stores. Yale’s Vice President for New Haven Affairs Bruce Alexander, of whom the article is essentially a profile, gives us yet a third word for the act Yale has performed upon Broadway. “Remake” means “make something again, or differently.” Rebuild means “build (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed.” So which act has Yale performed upon Broadway? “Yale the star of rebuilding Broadway,” read the print version, while the web version of the story reads “Yale University and New Haven team up to remake Broadway for retail, restaurants.” Already there are some interesting differences between the version of the story meant for single day consumption, and the version archived to the internet. The headline in the print edition gave us two words for the act Yale has performed upon Broadway. One of the stories, by Yale beat reporter Ed Stannard, ran just over 3,000 words. The headline cleverly merges the city and the region as if the divided politics of the two in real life isn’t one of the big problems about urban policy in Connecticut. The stories hung under the massive blue headline IVY + ELM, a photo of the Sterling Memorial Library and the text: Yale pumps more than $2B a year into city, region. You could read in the paper what the cops and the secret service were telling you in the street through barricades and wags of the finger. Sunday’s edition of the New Haven Register featured a front page with two stories both running several thousand words in length about what a great place Yale is, and what the school has done for New Haven. Ethnic and economic cleansing was the desire as well as the result. ![]() An article in Sunday’s paper, however, laid bare the racism at the heart of Yale’s machinations. This was at the very least the result, if not the outright goal, of the University’s buying up of most of the property on the block. It’s been a pastime of many in New Haven to complain that Yale’s recent restructuring of the Broadway strip has been to effectively keep the non-White and poorer populations of the predominantly Black Dixwell neighborhood away from Yale. I was on the corner of York Street and Broadway when Biden’s motorcade happened to pass. The interchange of I-91 and I-95 was completely closed for a full half hour to allow for the escape of Joe Biden, who had addressed the graduating class. The day was marked by the full closure of several blocks of downtown, massive police presence, and sun dresses. The day is more properly called commencement, and refers to the time when Yale graduates commence the part of their lives when they don’t live in New Haven. Sunday May 17 was graduation day for Yale University.
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