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Green smoke from the flash bang officers used in the capture of the shooter Saturday.
A 51-year-old New Haven man is in custody and being treated for his injuries after shooting and critically injuring his wife and shooting two police officers Saturday.
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Antillean Manor residents Rupert Muriel, Gideon Alikor, Jaclyn Hanson and Cola Harrington at coop board meeting.
A developer’s plans to raze and rebuild the rent-subsidized Antillean Manor complex will take place a year later than originally planned and no longer include market-rate units.
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Isaac Kinity at his home, which he could lose.
Isaac Newton Kinity has learned firsthand what happens when big banks decide to force homeowners to buy expensive extra insurance — and dig them into deeper and deeper holes that may lead them to lose their houses.
by | Aug 28, 2017 7:28 am | Comments (5)
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Pacavisiting Immanuel Baptist.
Sunday morning Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church‘s Associate Pastor Ron Smith — a former city clerk and 2015 mayoral aspirant — preached an impassioned sermon with the theme “Nothing is impossible.”
Those words had particular resonance for one visiting worshipper, Marcus Paca, whose campaign to unseat incumbent Mayor Toni Harp constitutes taking on the New Haven’s Democratic establishment.
by | Aug 21, 2017 12:43 pm | Comments (4)
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The fish run thickest often near the piers of bridges. That’s why several fishermen recently were casting their lines from above the newly finished seawall on the newly repaired promenade at Brewery Square in Fair Haven.
As part of that nearly $1 million state-funded project, there’s a broad new pedestrian walkway and even a crescent of concrete where anglers can set up a circle of chairs to bide the time until there’s a bite.
Continue reading ‘Brewery Square Seawall Repaired; Fishermen Rejoice’
by | Aug 1, 2017 8:35 am | Comments (2)
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Dinah Sellers, one of Antillean Manor’s original residents, at Monday night’s meeting.
Residents of Antillean Manor, a subsidized housing complex, voted to reconstitute their long-defunct co-op board — checking off the first requirement in the complicated and controversial process of selling off the property to a developer eager to raze and rebuild it.
by | Jul 17, 2017 12:13 pm | Comments (60)
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Proposed redesigned Winthrop-Edgewood intersection.
City traffic commissioners held off on clearing the way for the proposed west side two-way bike track along Edgewood from Forest Road to Park Street until they hear that the neighborhood’s alders are on board.
by | Jul 15, 2017 12:13 pm | Comments (0)
A hazmat scare at the Saint Raphael Campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital on Chapel Street has been cleared and turned over to both local and state police for investigation.
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Hamilton, Douglass and Walker at the announcement.
They’ve worked together to fight blight and slumlords and to plan for development on Route 34. Now the three alders — dubbed “Three the Hard Way” and the “Three Musketeers” — representing Dwight, Edgewood and West River are seeking another term to focus in on jobs for their constituents.
Continue reading ‘“3 Musketeers” Run Jointly For Reelection’
by | Jun 23, 2017 1:19 pm | Comments (23)
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Tyisha Walker and Amy Marx with residents Thursday evening.
A developer managing the Antillean Manor subsidized housing cooperative failed Thursday to secure the votes it needs to reconstitute the facility’s board — the first step to buying out residents, tearing down the hopelessly deteriorated complex and constructing new mixed-income apartments there.
Continue reading ‘Not So Fast, Antillean Tells Eager Builder’
by | Jun 22, 2017 4:36 pm | Comments (28)
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Proposed redesigned Winthrop-Edgewood intersection.
Wharton: Can you help sell GOP curmudgeons?
After nearly three years spent convincing Westville, Edgewood and Dwight neighbors of the benefits of a two-way cycle track stretching from Forest Road to Park Street, city planners found one group left to convince: Republicans.
by | Jun 16, 2017 7:33 am | Comments (0)
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Patrick Madden and Jake Ryan Lozano act in Isaac Ocampo’s “The Wishing Shark.”
What are a shark’s most existential questions, and how can a particularly emotional lion help answer them?
In what universe can a quarter-dissolved marshmallow and a tutu-boasting hippo become problem-solving buddies and crusaders for environmental justice?
If a gummy bear and lamp-bound genie meet on a tropical island, will either of them get their wishes?
by | May 16, 2017 7:35 am | Comments (3)
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96-598 George St. as it stands today.
The city’s anti-blight agency has received the go-ahead to pursue the rehabilitation of a historic West River brownstone that was once pegged for demolition.
by | May 11, 2017 8:03 am | Comments (5)
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O’Connor and D’Aquila go to town.
Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) announced it is following up on a promise to provide better outpatient care in New Haven — this time with same-day joint procedures, and a therapy regimen most people can do from home.
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Blight in Wooster Square.
Be a good neighbor and not a nuisance, or the city’s Redevelopment Agency might look for a developer to take your property — at fair market value — and tell you to kick rocks.
Or at least that’s what its chairman would like to do.
by | Apr 29, 2017 9:47 pm | Comments (14)
An 18-year-old bicyclist is in the hospital Saturday night fighting for his life after crashing into a motorcycle.
by | Apr 27, 2017 3:21 pm | Comments (13)
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596-598 George St. as it stands today.
LCI Deputy Director Cathy Schroeter, Executive Director Neal-Sanjurjo at hearing.
The city plans to restore a historic West River brownstone that was once pegged for demolition into affordable homes for two working-class families and their future tenants.
by | Apr 21, 2017 3:01 pm | Comments (10)
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Joel Schiavone in his Chapel Street pad.
1255 Chapel, in the shadow of the Novella.
The man who figured out that thousands of people would love to live in the center of New Haven — then made it possible — is now battling to remain a part of it.
by | Apr 20, 2017 1:45 pm | Comments (6)
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Wies, Alpha Phi International’s Valerie Eisenhardt at BZA.
The house at 33 Edgewood Ave.
Neighbors in the Dwight Historic District said they don’t want another raucous sorority in their neighborhood. That’s fine by the members of a sorority that is looking to move in: They don’t plan to be raucous.
by | Apr 20, 2017 12:06 pm | Comments (0)
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Carl Neubert and Scott Hines work on the bioswale.
In a quest to clean up the West River and green the city’s response to rainfall, four new bioswales are coming to the Dwight neighborhood.
by | Apr 6, 2017 12:31 pm | Comments (7)
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Townsend Maier: HUD shouldn’t reward “poverty pimps.”
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Polinsky Tuesday night with model of planned new complex.
Managers of a crumbling government-subsidized housing complex in the Dwight neighborhood are looking for community support to demolish the complex and build 42 new affordable apartments there.
by | Feb 21, 2017 9:00 am | Comments (0)
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Gardner, Streets, and Hughes in back row with kid choristers.
Slavery still exists in the prison-industrial complex. Voting rights have been reversed. But we can prevail against systemic evils — because we have done it before right here in New Haven.
That history lesson with contemporary resonance highlighted a sermon that kicked off a three-year celebration of the historic Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ as it moves towards its 200th anniversary in 2020.
by | Jan 30, 2017 8:17 am | Comments (0)
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Chocolate sweet potato cake.
Walking up to a large round table, Thomas Edwards took a tiny plastic cup into his hands, sniffed its contents, and lifted it to his mouth, dumping a chip-studded triangle of cookie into its yawning hole. He chewed. He licked his lips. His eyes grew slightly larger.
Yep, he proclaimed. This — the Choco-Fabulous Cookie from an area chef — was the clear winner of the afternoon.
by | Jan 13, 2017 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
José Vazquez and Juan Perez kept their balance steady, and put a circular touch on a budding upgrade of the Dwight neighborhood.