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Greenberg at City Hall Wednesday night.
A medical marijuana dispensary could be coming to New Haven — specifically to Amity Road — if the state approves an application from a local businessman.
by | Apr 16, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (2)
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State Rep. Dillon inspects a crack in Cheryl Jackson’s house.
The State Bond Commission has approved Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s recommendation to release $1 million to provide grants to homeowners in Westville and Woodbridge to fix their sinking homes.
by | Dec 4, 2017 4:05 pm | Comments (2)
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Gloria Montero and Walter Guaman, the parents of a lead-poisoned child.
By a judge’s order, the Guamans, a five-member family whose youngest child is sick with lead poisoning, should relocate to an extended-stay hotel in Long Wharf Monday night until their litigation against the city concludes.
by | Dec 1, 2017 8:57 am | Comments (2)
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Jackson shows Dillon a growing crack in her house.
Cheryl Jackson has watched over the years as neighbors got help saving their sinking homes. Now she’s hoping her turn has finally arrived.
by | Nov 9, 2017 2:33 pm | Comments (11)
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Parents Walter Guaman and Gloria Montero outside court.
The city told a judge that a 5‑year-old’s lead poisoning is the landlord’s fault — not the city health department’s fault — and that it is seeking the landlord’s arrest.
by | Oct 31, 2017 4:11 pm | Comments (19)
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The Guaman family at their Whalley apartment.
More than two months after the Health Department was notified about a lead-poisoned child in an Amity apartment, chipped paint is still flaking outside the two-story building — an ongoing health hazard that has prompted legal aid lawyers to drag the city to court.
by | Aug 24, 2017 8:15 am | Comments (9)
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Jacob Guaman peeks in from second-floor landing.
Despite two city-ordered series of repairs, a child is still living at a west side apartment with lead-paint poisoning — the latest chapter in a decade-long saga that’s now the subject of a demand letter and an upcoming suit by legal aid lawyers questioning how effectively the city regulates hazards in renters’ homes.
by | Jul 11, 2017 5:35 pm | Comments (2)
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Hamoudehand his family cut the ribbon with Upper Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr. and Mayor Toni Harp.
First there was pizza. Now, there’s chicken. Crispy, crunchy chicken, with biscuits on the side.
And a few Moroccan pastries.
by | Sep 14, 2016 8:19 am | Comments (3)
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Arganese pleads case.
A pawn shop will not be coming to upper Whalley Avenue in the Beverly Hills section of the city, where neighbors and other businesses feared what kind of customers would come in.
by | Jul 9, 2015 5:14 pm | Comments (17)
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Neighbors at Wednesday’s management team meeting.
Fearful that a burglar was in her house, Marge Wiener called 911. The cops responded — 45 minutes later.
Forty-five minutes after Wiener’s call. But, it turns out, only four minutes after cops got the message.
by | May 8, 2015 1:02 pm | Comments (22)
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The next time you think of going around that school bus with the stop sign out … don’t.
by | Mar 13, 2015 8:16 am | Comments (6)
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Tom Talbot: Tom Talbot was right this time.
Neighbors made use of a little-known appeals process to try to overturn a zoning staffer’s decision — only to have the staffer write a subsequent opinion to uphold his own decision.
The episode brought to light a still-to-be-resolved question about how the city’s zoning board reviews public appeals.
by | Mar 10, 2015 2:00 pm | Comments (2)
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Gail Greenberg, left, jokes with a customer.
The following article was reported through a collaboration between the New Haven Independent and the Multimedia Journalism class at Southern Connecticut State University. The students are profiling small businesses around the New Haven area.
A year and a half ago, Gail Greenberg couldn’t see how she would continue operating The Write Approach, a small stationary shop on Amity Road.
Pearl-Ellen Shure, who owned the shop with Greenberg, had just died from cancer after running the business for more than 30 years.
But, Greenberg said, when Shure was falling ill last year, they made a promise to one another.
Continue reading ‘After Co-Owner’s Death, Write Approach Moves Forward’
by | Feb 23, 2015 9:07 am | Comments (10)
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Elizabeth Novicki worried that a 30-foot-high city tree was going to fall on her house. She had reason to.
When the tree fell, Novicki (pictured) was lucky to have escaped injury — and be able to say to the city government: I told you so.
Continue reading ‘Woman, 92, Begged City: Please Cut That Tree!’
by | Nov 25, 2014 9:02 am | Comments (8)
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Andrea Atkinson poked around & discovered a zoning error.
An uproar from neighbors over a controversial landlord’s construction of new apartments led to a public admission of error by a city official — and a new zoning battle on the west side of town.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Fight Mandy’s Apartment Conversion’