Magrisso Forte

12/30/2020

Who's with ME?? Make Pizza Connecticut's State Food!!!
Sign my petition The Pizza Bill:
https://www.change.org/ThePizzaBill

Pizza Should Be Connecticut's State Food

05/24/2019

Some of these historic pizzerias go back almost 100 years with Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana being the 5th oldest continuously running pizzeria in the United States!

The Apizza 8 is settled.
Pepe's Pizza
Sally's Apizza
Modern Apizza
BAR - New Haven
Roseland Apizza
Zuppardi's Apizza
Ernie's Pizzeria
Mikes Apizza
Honorable mentions: Brick Oven Pizza Tolli's Apizza Next Door Big Green Truck Pizza DePalmas Apizza Yorkside Pizza Abate Apizza and then there’s the remaining 300 pizzerias in Greater New Haven! Nothing to complain about!

05/01/2019

Learn how and why only New Haven uses the word apizza on this Sunday's Pizza Lovers Tour with Taste of New Haven!!

Pizza lovers and beer buffs will love this history laden walking tour from the famous Wooster Street pizzerias to the buzz of Downtown and the quaint corners of East Rock. Get your walking shoes on and don’t bother eating breakfast for New Haven’s only pizza-only walking tour! On this 5-Hour Piz...

01/15/2016

Here's another piece of history about to be lost due to poor management aka demolition by neglect. The old National Pipe Bending Co., part of a National Historic District, was a functioning building until the City told its owner to leave the site so they could redevelop it. 10 years later the powers that be have secured its destruction! The top floor still has old molds and files from the old plant.

NEW HAVEN >> It’s been a dream for more than a decade, but the city is finally giving up on saving part of its industrial history along River Street.

12/15/2015

Sharing a fun ad from the New Haven Register for the first show at the old Westville Theatre, a sneak preview on November 19, 1940.

10/05/2015

Toad's Place offered "The Finest Continental Cuisine" in 1975!

08/17/2015

AKA demolition by neglect, and neglectful of preserving New Haven's historic legacy.

The upper facade of a downtown building fell to the ground around 10 p.m. Sunday night, as the city's building official condemned it and ordered it torn down. Building Official...

08/05/2015

Check out Daily Nutmeg's article written by Colin on New Haven's trolley history! It's a moving read.

F rom well into the 19th century to well into the 20th, trolleys were the method of choice for getting New Haveners where they needed to go. Although horse-drawn street trolleys had already emerged in Wales by 1807, New Haven’s first versions hit the road in 1860, operated by the Fair Haven and West…

03/16/2015

Right now crews are demolishing a New Haven landmark: the J Press Building at 262 York Street, built as a townhouse mansion in the Second Empire Victorian style for Cornelius Pierpont in 1860, Pierpont ran a grocery store on the corner of York of Broadway. Although J Press "determined the building is beyond repair," and the Building Department stated "It must come down," two crew members told me that there was nothing structurally unrepairable with the building. Here's an interior view of when the place was called the Jigger Shop, and even served pizza in the mid 1930s.

02/27/2015

The show must go on! We are planning future presentation of Colin's theater talk so stay tuned. Here's a great article that sums up some of the talk's best acts.

Colin Caplan stood behind a podium at the New Haven Free Public Library, showing us a series of photographs, briefly bringing back to life 78 movie theaters and assembly halls from the past 165 years in New Haven.

01/30/2015

Besides running his family business, The New Haven Clock Co., Walter Camp was adamant about modernizing American Football. In 1882 he began creating rules that were first practiced on the New Haven Green. The first game with modern rules followed at Hamilton Park on Whalley Avenue. As a testament to Yale's role in the game, the Yale Bowl was built in 1914 as the world's largest arena and it once was temporary home to the NY Jets and Giants during the 1960s. When you enjoy , think of this!

01/15/2015

New Haven made in 1882, The Gun the Won The West, found today in Nevada!

Usually you need to head into a museum to see what turned up in the backcountry of Great Basin National Park: A 132-year-old Wi******er rifle.

01/08/2015

The little building below with the "A" on it was built in 1884 as a house for factory workers at the Wi******er Repeating Arms Company, and its first tenant was listed as Robinson Miller, a blacksmith. In 1915, the building was enlarged with an apartment and a restaurant run by Damon Holmes. In 1929, Francesco Cappiello ran a grocery and meat market there and in 1936 he operated it as Pizzeria Roma until his death in 1939. It's been vacant for at least the last 20 years, and now it is poised to have a new lease on its life, as well as its neighboring buildings. So very exciting!

If developer Juan Salas-Romer has his way, people in the Dixwell neighborhood will have a cozy place to enjoy fresh baked bread and coffee just as people downtown do, amid...

01/05/2015

Docked in College Street, this iconic restaurant and bar was started in 1933 in the Woodmont section of Milford by William Godfrey and Morris Kampner. It has graced this spot since 1940 when the name was changed to the Anchor Spa, then run by Al Levett.Thornton Wilder and other celebrities frequented this place over the years. May it see a new light with its old charms very soon.

Yale closed the doors of one of downtown's storied businesses Sunday night, as the Anchor Restaurant served its last drink to the public.

12/31/2014

Happy New Year! May yours be happy, healthy and history worthy!

09/16/2014

Aw shucks! The last old New York oyster barge which was later moved to New Haven to become a speakeasy may have a new life.

Before Lisa Fitch sells her Fair Haven Marina she hopes to make another sale, for only one dollar: to preserve the historic oyster barge that has long been on the property.

08/08/2014

Here's a story that Colin wrote in today's Daily Nutmeg about Sally's Apizza that explains how one of the city's oldest restaurants began and lasted through generations of hungry New Haveners. Enjoy!

When Sally’s opened in the spring of 1938, families in this city were still reeling from the Great Depression. But the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 still managed to produce a booming restaurant and tavern industry, allowing places like Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria Napoletana and Tony’s Apizza Place (later called Modern Apizza) to flourish and expand. Frank Pepe’s nephews Sal and Tony Consiglio were kept busy at Pepe’s place; Sal made the pies while the younger Tony helped out.