Main Street, Danbury, Connecticut

I've been seeing these orange plastic bags of phone books around town since last week. They certainly do appear to be unwanted, and they...

Ever since I went digital, I've been taking the shotgun approach to events like this. There are nearly 300 photos in this set (once I fi...

Director Rocco DeVilliers's film "The Flyboys" was shown to a very happy, very excited, and very full house last night at the ...

William Webb Sunderland was a prominent local builder who, along with his son Philip, constructed Mark Twain's home "Stormfield...

Today's News-Times online edition has good news for everyone who commutes between Danbury and Waterbury. Three buses during peak commuti...

The Main Street post office opened for business on September 2, 1916. The city's four wards met at a point in the middle of the street d...

In 1852, when the Danbury & Norwalk Railroad started operation, a one-way trip on the 23.6 mile line took 75 minutes using two Hinkley S...

In an article for the March 2008 issue of The Atlantic Monthly provocatively titled "The Next Slum?", Christopher B. Leinberger as...

Think you're seeing a lot of these now? You'll be seeing even more of them this year. On Wednesday night the Danbury Common Council ...

No Impact Man and his family just completed a year-long experiment in minimizing their impact on the environment. They shut off the electric...

Union Savings Bank moved into this building, designed by the New York City firm of Berg & Clark, on Tuesday, March 29, 1887, after the f...

"There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from re-ordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take pr...

It's still intersession at school, and instead of all the web programming projects I had lined up, I've been learning the ins and ou...

I remember how exciting it was to get my driver's license and my first car. I was 21 and had just moved to Connecticut after graduating ...

When I came to Danbury, this was the "five-and-ten-cent store"—Woolworth's, to be exact. You can still see the evidence inlaid...

This building was starting to show some signs of neglect even back in 1985, when it was still Sears, Roebuck & Co. Then the mall came an...

I never meant for this blog to be political--I have other outlets for that--but I just received the 5-year revaluation for my house. It'...

Lots of activity going on here at the former home of a furniture consignment shop, in the shadow of the Kimberly Place high-rise next door. ...

My little camera cannot do justice to this magnificent building, which houses the Rectory and Offices for St. Peter Roman Catholic Church ac...

Home of the Greenery Cafe and Shop 111, this is another of those "lonely" buildings that must surely have had similar three-story ...

The Casa Nova Churrascaria. Churrascaria is a style of Brazilian cooking and serving meat that has been grilled on a skewer. Low-carb heaven...

Tom Condon writes about West Hartford Center, Blue Back Square, and the value of walkability in the September 30th Hartford Courant. We need...

I noticed this for the first time a couple of weeks ago, but it wasn't until today that I had a chance to stop and take a closer look. T...

The Ives Concert Park is another one of Danbury's best kept secrets. Why it hasn't yet become the Tanglewood of northern Fairfield C...

The previous post on Elmwood Park drew the attention of Dennis Elpern , the Director of Danbury's Planning and Zoning Department. Mr. El...

Welcome to all of you who found me from ctblogger's kind mention in Hat City Blog . If you're concerned about local politics, land u...

Home-Front Ecology: What Our Grandparents Can Teach Us About Saving the World "The World War II home front was the most important and b...

Gee, it seems as if no one knows quite how it happened, and no one knows what we can do about it. We build, we widen, and still there's ...

The Summertime Festival on the Green opened last night with a pops concert from our own Danbury Symphony Orchestra, thanks in large part to ...

This is without a doubt one of the most attractive buildings on Main Street. Look at the cornice and the detail over each window. It has an ...

I'm taking a class on Digital Libraries this semester, and I discovered this extraordinary video library today. htp://www.ted.com/ In pa...