![]() "It's a piece of my family history that I take a lot of pride in," said LaPrade.May 2023: Woodbury CT: A multi-media gallery show “We Are Here Now Hidden in Plain Sight 1978-2023” is coming to the Studio Hill Gallery, Woodbury CT.Ĭurated and hosted by filmmaker Nancy August, this show celebrates one of the most important districts in the history of American arts and culture: the East Village of Manhattan.Įmblematic of the counterculture, radical political and social constructs and boundary traversing free thought, New York City’s hallowed East Village built its unique aura as an eclectic hub of creativity which affected a global reach that continues to reverberate.Ī veritable valley in the Manhattan skyline, the neighborhood (east of the Bowery and 3rd Avenue, between 14th Street on the north and Houston Street on the south) which was once home to icons of artistic innovation spanning Allen Ginsburg, Lou Reed, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Norman Mailer, Keith Haring, and Sonny Rollins to cite a very, very select few have changed dramatically in the 21st Century. ![]() LaPrade's family has moved on, but they have honored the past with the name of the family business Banton Construction Company. Foundations and fences are all that remain in what eventually became Quinnipiac River State Park. "When the floodwaters came up to high, it was flooding into their homes," said LaPrade.īy the 1970s, the state bought out all of the residents and removed the buildings. With upstream development, the flooding became exponentially worse, according to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. "The history of Banton Street is extremely unique," said Holly LaPrade, whose father and grandparents grew up on Banton Street until they and their neighbors were told that they had to leave.īanton Street, which was constructed in the 1920s along the banks of the Quinnipiac River, was prone to flooding. Three dozen homes lined what used to be Banton Street in an area tucked away in the woods behind a rest stop on the Wilbur Cross Parkway. Hidden in Plain Sight Roads to Nowhere: I-84 InterchangeĪ neighborhood in North Haven that was thriving decades ago is no longer in existence. "It's a visual reminder of that history," DeLuca said. Decades later, only the ramps leading to and from Route 9 are carrying cars. Potential environmental impacts and the projected cost kept the plans from fully coming to fruition. "Public opinion in Connecticut sort of took a stand," said DeLuca. The planned highway was to run through portions of MDC Reservoir lands in West Hartford. DeLuca said the unused ramps over Interstate 84 were supposed to be for the I-291 Beltway, which was planned to run around the city of Hartford. "There's something that they were going to do that they didn't do," said Richard DeLuca, a former civil engineer who is now an author and transportation historian. Many of the ramps have never used by vehicles. Much of it is now off-limits, overgrown and tagged with graffiti. ![]() ![]() However, the project was never completed. The multi-stack highway interchange that towers over Interstate 84 in Farmington was part of transportation project that dates back to the 1960s. ![]()
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