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Glass Smashed At College Street Music Hall

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Some of the damage at the College Street Music Hall.

Someone smashed the glass on the doors and windows to the College Street Music Hall.

The vandalism occurred during the Monday-into-Tuesday overnight.

Top downtown cop Lt. Sean Maher said it appears someone broke the glass with a hammer. He said no one made it past the secondary doors into the theater, which has been closed during the pandemic.

It didn’t appear to be a burglary,” but rather a case of criminal mischief, Maher said.

Police are looking at video footage for clues to who perpetrated the act. So far they haven’t made a positive ID of any suspects.

There’s never been any vandalism before in five years of being open and the year of the pandemic,” said Keith Mahler of nonprofit New Haven Center for Performing Arts Inc., which runs CSMH, the renovated former Palace (and before that Roger Sherman) Theater.

The vandalism occurred less than 24 hours after unionized stagehands began picketing outside the Music Hall seeking a new contract.

The union had nothing to do with the vandalism, said Gardner Friscia, president of International Alliance of Theatrical Stagehands Local 74.

It’s unfortunate that it happened. We put out a note on our Facebook page that we don’t condone it. That’s all you can do,” Friscia said Wednesday.

Main entrance to the theater.

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