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Allan Appel |
Jun 6, 2019 12:27 pm
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The southwest corner of Quinnipiac and Grand Avenue is so overgrown with bushes and shrubs, that already dangerously poor traffic sight lines are growing worse. Can the city get overgrowth cut — and save drivers, cyclists and pedestrians from harm?
The McDonald’s at 225 Foxon Blvd. on Route 80 — a state road that is also the busiest in the city — has two other distinctions:
• It has become the staging area for late-night drag racing that every summer perennially plagues the Quinnipiac Meadows area of the city,
• It was the scene of an astounding 100 accidents last year alone.
That’s why changes might be in that location’s future. Changes like stationing an extra-duty late night cop stationed at the eatery and installation of a divider to prevent eastbound hamburger-hunters from from cutting off I‑91 Exit 8 mergers onto the road.
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Allan Appel |
May 17, 2019 5:36 pm
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Sumeyya Sahim, only in the U.S. six months from her native Istanbul, Turkey, arrived early at the Diyanet Mosque Friday. Five days after someone started a fire there, the congregation was ready to gather again in communal prayer.
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Christopher Peak |
May 17, 2019 2:25 pm
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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal Friday leaped ahead of investigators and called a suspected arson at New Haven’s Diyanet Mosque “an act of terrorism,” then walked the statement back.
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Thomas Breen |
May 16, 2019 10:21 pm
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With Turkish and American flags waving side by side, hundreds gathered outside the Diyanet Mosque on Middletown Avenue Thursday evening for a prayer vigil and collective demonstration of interfaith solidarity four days after someone intentionally set the Islamic place of worship on fire.
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Thomas Breen |
May 16, 2019 7:58 am
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Ercan Uzun and Ersoy Mus stood outside the Diyanet Mosque on Wednesday, reflecting on the emotional roller-coaster that the mosque’s 300 members have gone through in the few days since Sunday’s fire at the 531 Middletown Ave. place of worship.
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Christopher Peak |
May 14, 2019 4:48 pm
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Haydar Elevulu stared at the charred exterior of the Middletown Avenue mosque his community had hoped to have rebuilt by September. He felt “hurt” that someone might have such hatred against Muslims, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, to have set fire to it.
But Elevulu barely had a moment to dwell on that thought— as New Haveners of all faiths rallied around the congregation with offers of help and (at last count) more than $69,000 in donations to rebuild.
With only a little more than a month left before the May 9 deadline for submission, only two of the 12 community management teams have sent in to the mayor their nominations for the city’s new police Civilian Review Board.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 28, 2019 2:47 pm
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A Westville-based landlord spent nearly $300,000 buying half a dozen condos on a quiet block in Quinnipiac Meadows, in some the city’s latest property transactions.
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Lt. Jason Rentkowitz |
Feb 20, 2019 1:20 pm
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East Shore cops conducted 58 motor vehicle stops in a week — and caught an erratic moped driver and a woman who allegedly fled the scene of a Valentine’s Day crash.
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Christopher Peak |
Feb 7, 2019 1:17 pm
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Moms and dads, alders, social-service providers and neighborhood fixtures will be walking through eight schools over the coming months, giving school principals and teachers a lesson on how to make them feel welcome.
Will police-controlled drones be the city’s answer to solving the chronic and sometimes terrifying dirt bike problem?
And why is the city not incorporating into the budget-in-progress a Financial Review and Audit Commission (FRAC) recommendation for a $25,00- to-$50,000 study for an “operational audit” of the police and fire departments?
Wouldn’t that shed needed light on just how the police and fire departments can function well even in lean times, with maybe reduced manpower and maybe not sending fire engines to heart attacks?
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Christopher Peak |
Feb 4, 2019 8:34 am
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Have you ever had to do something scary?
Two sisters who work in the city’s high schools asked that question to a class of Ross-Woodward’s fourth-graders on World Read Aloud Day, which took place across the city’s elementary schools on Friday morning.
A three-family East Rock house sold for over double what it cost 30 years ago, and a major local property management company picked up four new units in two adjoining Fair Haven Heights homes, in some of the latest recorded land transactions in town.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 7, 2018 1:11 pm
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Alders decided not to dip their toes into one well of international controversy on Monday night when they formally turned down a bid to rename a Middletown Avenue streetcorner after modern Turkey’s founding president.
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Carly Wanna |
Jun 8, 2018 12:34 pm
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Feray Gokcek has enough signatures to legally ask the government to name the corner of Scarboro Street and Middletown Avenue “Ataturk Corner” in honor of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the father of modern-day Turkey. But he is missing one key piece — a letter of support from an alder in favor of the change.
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Isis Davis-Marks |
Jun 8, 2018 8:04 am
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The builder of a proposed new mini-village on the banks of the Quinnipiac River agreed to delay asking for zoning help from the city until neighbors get more of a chance to vet the plans.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 14, 2018 5:03 pm
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The city is taking a Quinnipiac Meadows homeowner to court for consistently failing to clean his yard of the heaps of used cars he likes to fix up and race.