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Yale Planner James Elmasry with rendering of Economics building proposed for 87 Trumbull (top).
Yale plans to move an historic two-story Trumbull Street building a few hundred feet down the block — and then build in its stead a new four-story building for the university’s Economics Department.
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Reporter Anthony Contreras in the foreground listening to his answer.
The city should have a community conversation about potentially renaming Christopher Columbus Family Academy on Grand Avenue in Fair Haven.
Mayor-Elect Justin Elicker offered that idea Thursday afternoon in response to the first surprise question he fielded since Tuesday’s election by a local reporter — who also happens to be a third-grader at East Rock Community School.
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Challenger Eric Mastroianni, incumbent Alder Anna Festa.
Incumbent East Rock Alder Anna Festa faces a Republican challenge this year from a Cedar Hill native and U.S. Navy veteran in her bid for a fourth two-year term on the Board of Alders.
by | Oct 22, 2019 1:08 pm | Comments (13)
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Vacant lot and garage at 386 Crown, bought by Pike.
The local real estate giant Pike International purchased two Crown Street lots and an adjacent two-family home for $2.9 million, and another large local landlord, Mandy Management, spent $2.475 million on a 24-unit Beaver Hills apartment complex, in the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Sep 27, 2019 10:54 am | Comments (6)
Occupants fired bullets at each other along a ride that took them from Grand Avenue up Orange Street.
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Three incumbent New Haven alders defeated challengers in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries, while a party convention-endorsed candidate also prevailed against a petitioning challenger.
Continue reading ‘Incumbent Alders Beat Back Primary Challenges’
by | Sep 9, 2019 11:11 am | Comments (3)
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Candidates Eddie Gist, Steve Winter, Troy Streater, Anais Nunez.
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The three neighborhood-spanning Ward 21.
A four-way alder race in the jigsaw-shaped Ward 21 pits a first-term incumbent focused on challenges ranging from street light improvements to affordable housing to climate change against a slate of challengers calling for more opportunities for neighborhood youth.
by | Sep 9, 2019 7:38 am | Comments (1)
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Amythyst Kiah.
The CT Folk Festival and Green Expo hit all the marks of a good festival on Saturday: great music, lots of things to do beyond the music, and a celebration of space and community built not just around the music, but the people and nature that make a special day possible.
by | Aug 28, 2019 7:24 am | Comments (0)
Jim Allyn plays with a right hand confident and sure. His singing voice is strong yet plaintive. “Tonight she lifts her flame, and history’s taking names,” he sings. “The mother of exiles prays her child will be found.”
Continue reading ‘CT Folk Fest Makes Changes On Solid Ground’
by | Aug 23, 2019 12:14 pm | Comments (1)
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Saul Fussiner.
“I wanted to be Billy Bragg,” said Saul Fussiner: storyteller, playwright, screenwriter, teacher, and music fan. “The reason why I’m a live storyteller, I think really, is because of music. But I can’t play guitar and I can’t sing really well, so I needed a different way of doing storytelling.”
Had Fussiner ever played guitar? He laughed. He had a story about that.
by | Aug 19, 2019 7:27 am | Comments (0)
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Christopher Seiler, Kaia Monroe, Terra Chaney.
A twin named Dromio is yelling at his twin brother, also named Dromio. The Dromio outside wants to be let in the house. The Dromio inside the house doesn’t want to let him in. They don’t believe each other’s stories. As hatches in the door fly open and closed, the entire misunderstanding could be cleared up, if they ever made eye contact, got a good look at each other. But fate and some tight choreography prevent that from happening. The misunderstandings grow — and get funnier.
by | Aug 12, 2019 1:53 pm | Comments (3)
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206 Wallace St.
Mandy Management purchased a Mill River warehouse to store boilers, washing machines, refrigerators, and other household appliances needed for its local property management empire.
Meanwhile, four homes sold on Livingston Street home, totaling almost $3.7 million, in the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Jul 17, 2019 8:00 am | Comments (4)
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A total of 20 Ward 21 committee members voted.
The Ward 21 Democratic committee voted in favor of mayoral candidate Justin Elicker Tuesday night along with incumbent Alder Steven Winter, Board of Education incumbent Darnell Goldson, and City Clerk Michael Smart.
by | Jul 8, 2019 8:13 am | Comments (11)
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Elicker at Ann Boyd’s Hill (left) and Jack Hitt’s East Rock homes.
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Elicker and the Sampedro family outside Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker speaks of New Haven as a “tale of two cities.” He saw that firsthand when he brought one message to supporters’ homes in the Hill and East Rock neighborhoods and to Fair Haven churches — and heard back different sets of concerns.
by | Jul 5, 2019 8:54 am | Comments (0)
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Two new friends connected over a board game, and others reflected about the meaning of the holiday, as hundreds gathered at Wilbur Cross High School’s athletic field Thursday night for a view of the Fourth of July fireworks display at East Rock Park.
by | Jun 26, 2019 2:13 pm | Comments (7)
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Quinn presents to the East Rock CMT.
Amid the usual updates about government and crime, neighbors heard a different kind of presentation at the latest East Rock Community Management Team meeting: a sales pitch, for fiber-optic internet service.
by | Jun 25, 2019 1:25 pm | Comments (27)
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Joe Jadach in his tent under I-91. Below: A city notice ordering the homeless to vacate their encampments under the highway overpass.
Joe Jadach has lived in a tent under the I‑91 overpass behind the Ralph Walker Skating Rink for the past seven months.
Now that the city has ordered the clearing out of his and a handful of other Goatville homeless encampments, Jadach is packing up his belongings and getting ready to move … where? He’s not sure. But he has survived outdoors this long, and figures he can last a bit longer until he lands a stable job and apartment.
by | Jun 15, 2019 10:03 pm | Comments (2)
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Sahara Buonome-Scott: “Nothing gonna stop me now.”
As Sahara Buonome-Scott walked across the stage to accept her Wilbur Cross High School diploma, she kept in mind her older brother, Jericho, who never got the chance to do the same.
by | Jun 11, 2019 10:29 pm | Comments (5)
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Paw Haven’s Kevin Rocco and John McFadyen (right) with local attorney Caleb Hamel.
Doggy daycare is coming to State Street in the form of a new pet boarding facility to be located on the East Rock-Fair Haven-Cedar Hill border.
by | Jun 11, 2019 3:17 pm | Comments (17)
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123 Ogden.
The sale price of a Prospect Hill mansion dropped nearly $95,000 in a decade a half, in one of the city’s recent property transactions.
by | Jun 4, 2019 8:03 am | Comments (0)
Sunday night saw another double billing at mActivity’s East Rock Concert series, a near-perpetual lineup of acoustic music gems curated by Fernando Pinto. Rounding the corner to stroll up to the venue, I came across musician Randy Burns holding a cigarette and sitting on the steps of the venue, looking like he’d always sat there, with the ease of a performer who has been enjoying the preshow nicotine for decades. This was, after all, a homecoming show.
by | May 31, 2019 7:34 am | Comments (0)
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5th grade students spread native wildflower seeds along the hillside.
Second through fifth-grade students from East Rock Community and Cultural Studies Magnet School got their hands dirty Thursday while expanding the school’s garden into something bigger with Common Ground’s CT Schoolyards Program.
by | May 24, 2019 7:47 am | Comments (0)
Siul Hughes stands in the woods in East Rock Park. The green around him is as lush as can be. He’s a shadow by contrast, his sunglasses and teeth flashing from beneath a baseball cap. “What’s a man supposed to say when man can’t escape the manmade emotion, hate?” he raps. “I’m saying I’m a young man, I don’t want to grow too up. I’m a grown man, I don’t want to grow.” The scene cuts, and there’s a title on the screen: “Take your chances,” it reads, “or watch someone take them from you.”
by | May 22, 2019 10:14 pm | Comments (10)
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Burnt-out wreckage of 150 West St. illegal rooming house. Top photo: Candidates at Wednesday night’s forum.
Out-of-town slumlords didn’t win any votes at the latest Democratic mayoral candidate forum.
But they did inspire campaign pitches from candidates looking to leverage policy expertise, ethical leadership, and boundary-pushing ideas to both protect renters and seize (or maintain) control of City Hall.
by | May 13, 2019 1:54 pm | Comments (2)
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Oak Haven Chef Kevin Wolcott inside the new mobile kitchen.
The farm-to-table dining experience Oak Haven Table & Bar brought to Upper State Street six years ago will be pulling up to farms, festivals, and fairs this summer.