by | Jul 6, 2021 3:14 pm | Comments (7)
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David Burgess at work.
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David Burgess in the park Tuesday with citation from the Connecticut General Assembly.
David Burgess has worked five days a week since the days of the first George Bush Administration to clean debris out of New Haven’s waterways, sweep up trash in Edgewood Park, and plant shrubs around the city — and people noticed.
by | Jun 29, 2021 8:44 am | Comments (0)
A motorcyclist names Jermarvin Brown, 33, died Sunday after his Can-Am bike crashed with a Dodge Stratus on Whalley Avenue between Hubinger Street and Whittlesey Saturday around 1:30 a.m., reported police spokesperson Officer Scott Shumway. The driver of the Dodge went to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police are investigating the crash to determine how and why it happened.
Continue reading ‘Roundup: Motorcyclist Crashes, Dies; 16-Year-Old Shot’
by | Jun 18, 2021 10:52 am | Comments (3)
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Thursday night’s committee forum.
The top contenders in this year’s mayoral race once again traded barbs Thursday night — while, between the lines, agreeing more than not about challenges facing the city.
Continue reading ‘Between Barbs, Candidates Find Agreement At Forum’
by | Jun 10, 2021 1:06 pm | Comments (13)
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Work crew rebuilds the back fire escape at 66 Norton.
City Deputy Fire Marshal Jen Forslund, a worker at 66 Norton., local realtor and landlord Mendy Paris.
Even though Norton Street’s city-shuttered “New Jack City” has been reborn as the upscale “Norton Pointe Apartments,” tenants find themselves yet again exiled to hotel bedrooms — waiting for the landlord to finish repairs, and for the city to sign off on the building’s safety.
by | Jun 6, 2021 4:51 pm | Comments (4)
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New DuBois-Walton mayoral headquarters at Whalley and Sherman.
Fifty supporters entered the door to Karen DuBois-Walton’s mayoral campaign headquarters Sunday — then were dispatched back out to knock on doors throughout the city.
Continue reading ‘DuBois-Walton Campaign HQ Opens With Call To Hit The Doors’
by | May 24, 2021 8:54 am | Comments (8)
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Elicker on the stoop: “New Haven is not Minneapolis.”
DuBois-Walton on Cleveland Road: Time for true leadership.
Two mayoral candidates won “leaning” voters one at a time through retail politics — making sales pitches with different leadership visions to small clusters of New Haveners a mile away from each other.
by | May 20, 2021 9:11 pm | Comments (18)
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Latasha Brown at homicide site vigil with photo of son Tashawn, 18.
“Mom!” Tashawn Brown called out.
Latasha Brown rushed over across the street, horrified at what she saw.
by | Apr 23, 2021 10:30 am | Comments (14)
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City Plan Chair Radcliffe, Vice-Chair Mattison, and Alder Marchand.
A lawyer for a sexual abuse victim of Rabbi Daniel Greer posed tough questions this week about how Greer’s nonprofits operate and use, or misuse, income meant to strengthen neighborhoods.
Another city agency, meanwhile, rubber-stamped another $900,000 for those same nonprofits without asking a single question.
Continue reading ‘City Plan OKs $900K For Sex Predator’s Companies’
by | Apr 19, 2021 12:44 pm | Comments (3)
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Israel Estrada, Linda Neaton, Juel Crawford, Jenni Butman, Sarah Moore gather in neighbor’s yard.
A backyard cleanup at a homebound elderly woman’s yard served as a good deed, a “vaccination celebration,” and a reminder of community for volunteers ready to emerge from pandemic isolation.
by | Apr 19, 2021 10:04 am | Comments (5)
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Cyclists stop at Orchard and Sylvan to discuss potential improvements.
A group of 16 cyclists were riding down Orchard Street Saturday when a driver of a car sped up and without signaling, cut in front of the leader.
That sent the cyclists to the sidewalk — and gave them a data point to note.
Continue reading ‘Cyclists, Pedestrians Track Trouble Spots’
by | Apr 15, 2021 4:51 pm | Comments (9)
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Imprisoned Rabbi Greer: Applying again for housing tax credits.
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Greer company-owned rental properties on Elm Street in Edgewood.
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Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen, Jr., who chairs the aldermanic committee that reviews NAA submissions: No comment on whether he will again green-light Greer’s tax credits.
Six nonprofits controlled by Rabbi Daniel Greer have applied yet again for up to $900,000 in government subsidies for declining Edgewood rental properties — while Greer’s sex assault victim accuses him of continued legal maneuvers to avoid paying him a $22 million penalty.
by | Apr 6, 2021 3:35 pm | Comments (2)
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Richard Watkins (at right) with fellow crew members Tuesday morning.
Two serviceberry trees went up Tuesday in Bill and Kate Washington’s front yard — marking the start of another season in New Haven of planting new life not only in the earth, but among people returning home from prison.
by | Mar 31, 2021 3:13 pm | Comments (2)
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Robert Harris: I can’t make just a little collard greens.
It was 30 years ago when Robert Harris finally got his mother’s collard greens recipe exactly right.
Now he doesn’t even have to taste the cooked greens to know that they are ready for the customers of his Whalley Avenue restaurant, Mama Mary’s Soul Food.
by | Mar 25, 2021 5:31 pm | Comments (13)
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What happened to New Jack City?
The 40-unit 66 Norton St. apartment complex is on the cusp of rebirth as “Norton Pointe Apartments” — three years after the city shuttered the building for sagging floors, rotting wood, and leaky ceilings.
The market-rate residential building’s new slogan? “Luxury Living at Affordable Prices.”
by | Feb 24, 2021 3:24 pm | Comments (6)
At virtual court hearing. clockwise from left: Judge Claudia Baio, plaintiff’s attorney Ori Spiegel, defendant’s attorney Shelley White.
“With reluctance,” a housing court judge gave a Pendleton Street tenant a temporary reprieve from eviction — after she weighed whether the tenant losing her home would pose a public health risk during the pandemic.
by | Jan 25, 2021 5:19 pm | Comments (9)
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Before and after: Plan for Winthrop-Edgewood stretch of cycletrack, with construction first promised to begin in 2017.
Could it be … that construction work may actually begin on the Edgewood Cycletrack and Farmington Canal extension?
After years of false starts and missed deadlines, officials claim that work will indeed start this spring on the two long-delayed upgrades to the city’s pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure.
by | Oct 26, 2020 4:42 pm | Comments (6)
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Schneska Murphy: “If you’re gonna help the people, then help them.”
Eight weeks after launching an $800,000 Covid-related rental-aid program, the city hasn’t distributed a cent — leaving renters like Schneska Murphy struggling to figure out how to qualify.
Continue reading ‘City Covid Rent Fund So Far Pays Out ... $0’
by | Sep 25, 2020 2:36 am | Comments (35)
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Protest dance party breaks out at Whalley and Sherman.
Marching on Chapel Street near Park Street.
Two dozen young Black women jumped and danced and sang in the middle of the intersection of Whalley Avenue and Sherman Avenue as several hundred fellow protesters sat in the street and blocked traffic on all sides.
“Black women matter!” the group cheered, a portrait of Breonna Taylor held aloft nearby. “Black women matter!”
by | Sep 14, 2020 3:09 pm | Comments (2)
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Some of the pond’s potentially grateful residents.
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“Look!” said Peter Davis as he pointed at a turtle (pictured at right) napping on a log. “That’s why we clean this.”
by | Sep 14, 2020 9:39 am | Comments (1)
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Coach William Thompson ran a 35-year- long race of volunteering as head coach of the New Haven Age Group Track Club before he passed away in 2014. His prodigies and family honored the star Sunday as the corner of Ella T Grasso Boulevard and Chapel Street was named after him.
by | Sep 10, 2020 5:34 pm | Comments (13)
Tenant Mebeline Berruecos: Maintenance going downhill.
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Greer company-owned rentals on Elm near Norton.
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Rabbi Daniel Greer.
New Haven and state officials have greenlighted up to $900,000 in tax breaks for businesses that donate to nonprofit organizations controlled by imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer — organizations Greer has been accused of using to funnel money to himself and to avoid paying over $20 million to a former student he sexually abused.
by | Sep 1, 2020 7:28 am | Comments (1)
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Nazareth Vyraven: I like to give students something of their own.
Nazareth Vyraven is on a mission: To give a new backpack and two new face masks to every student in the schools that surround her Dwight church.
Continue reading ‘Free Backpacks, Masks Ready For Dwight Schools’
by | Aug 24, 2020 6:31 pm | Comments (15)
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The current lot at 1471 Chapel.
A local landlord won city approval to convert the site of a former four-family house into a surface parking lot in … wait, what?
That wasn’t a typo. At a time when parking lots across the city are bursting into new housing, this lot has flipped that script, thanks to a restrictive underlying zoning code.
Continue reading ‘Parking Replaces Housing, Thanks To Zoning Rules’
by | Jul 17, 2020 2:08 pm | Comments (31)
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Four of Xu’s local rental properties: 113 Ivy St., 761 Winchester Ave., 126 Sheffield Ave., 50 Nash St.
Dr. Xu.
A prominent Bethany-based doctor has slowly rebuilt his poverty-landlord business four years after he dumped many of his rundown, code-defying local rental properties.
So far, he appears to be staying out of trouble this time with the city and his tenants.
by | Jul 17, 2020 11:08 am | Comments (3)
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Sidewalk stormwater art on Chapel Street. Design by fifth-grade artist Nick Ruiz.
Student artists Assata Johnson and Trinity Ford.
A half-dozen high school student artists brightened up a West River corner with painted sunflowers and swirling waves of water as part of an eco-friendly summer work project.
Continue reading ‘“Runoff Art” Flows Thru West River Corner’