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Two children in this apartment are poisoned with lead.
A mom whose 3‑year-old son is sick with lead-poisoning called the New Haven Health Department more than 20 times, begging for someone to enforce the laws and clean up the cracked and flaking paint at her Edgewood apartment.
After a month of messages, an inspector finally came out and confirmed the walls were coated with lead. But for the next five months, the property remained largely unabated. During that time, her 11-month-old son was poisoned too.
The daredevil dirt bike season began with a vroom as renegade riders surrounded a driver’s car, then surrounded a cop car, before zooming away through a park.
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Mar 9, 2018 1:30 pm
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Elsa Bradley (right), Esther Roberts at New Haven Inn Friday.
Two weeks after the city condemned a decaying 41-unit apartment complex at 66 Norton St., 19 relocated households remain in rundown motels, 12 have moved into new apartments, and two are staying with family members as they continue to look for new places to live.
New Ward 24 Democratic Party co-chairs Randall Furlow (left) and Art Perlo outside Ellsworth Avenue voting location Tuesday.
Arthur Perlo and Randall Furlow handily defeated incumbent Arthur Gary Stewart in Tuesday’s local Democratic Party Ward Co-Chair primary in the Edgewood neighborhood.
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Mar 5, 2018 8:51 am
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Candidates Gary Stewart, Randall Furlow, Art Perlo.
The one local Democratic Party ward chair primary taking place in the city on Tuesday will pit a four-term “independent” incumbent up against a challenger associated with Yale’s UNITE-HERE unions.
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Feb 26, 2018 11:21 pm
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Firefighter leads family into 66 Norton to retrieve belongings.
Elsa and Emily reunited (and it feels so good).
Elsa Bradley got to return “home” for a few minutes Monday, in the company of a firefighter — and left reunited with Emily, the beloved parakeet she left behind in a building feared ready to collapse.
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Shelly Sutherland, Elsa Bradley at the Three Judges Friday.
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An eroded support beam in the basement of 66 Norton. The beam has a large hole caused by rot and decay.
A day after having suddenly to gather their belongings within 45 minutes to flee their structurally unsafe apartment building, Shelly Sutherland and Dwain Perkins and their three children were holed up in a dingy motel room with no way to cook food or heat their baby’s bottle — and no idea where they’re headed next.
Tenant “Q” and her two kids prepare to retrieve belongings.
Hillhouse high sophomore Angel Fletcher, leaves 66 Norton after packing his bags.
Eighty New Haveners had 45 minutes to pack up their belongings and flee their homes Thursday night when officials temporarily condemned a 41-unit apartment complex on Norton Street because of unsafe conditions.
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Feb 7, 2018 3:03 pm
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The current skate park.
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BMX biker Justin Kearney points out favorite features of the new design.
Parks Director Becky Bombero asked the dozen skaters, skateboarders and bikers assembled before her what day of the week they would be available to come to help pull weeds as their sweat equity contribution to a new skate park.
(Caution: Above video contains footage that might disturb some viewers.)
“What did I do?” an unarmed man with his hands in the air — and believed to be high on PCP — asked police officers as they repeatedly fired taser shots at him inside a Whalley Avenue convenience store, in a scene captured by one of the police department’s new body cameras.
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Dec 21, 2017 8:50 am
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Team Zinn-Hausladen presents plan to neighbors.
For years, residents of Beaver Hills have been complaining about speeds at Crescent and Munson Streets. Now officials have put together a plan for a traffic-calming roundabout — if the city can find the money to pay for it.
Police brass has ordered retraining for three officers who tased a criminal suspect four times in a store and then pepper-sprayed him — and the department has opened an internal investigation into the handling of body camera footage of the event.
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Boulevard neighbors make their case against the multi-unit plan.
A developer’s last-minute changes to plans to rehab an historic home on the Boulevard stalled before the Board of Zoning Appeals just as his time to close a financing deal with the bank is running out.
After 50 years, two plaques have been restored to a statue in Edgewood Park. Neighbors gathered at the statue next to the ranger station Sunday for an unveiling. Stephanie FitzGerald of Friends of Edgewood Park contributed the following write-up about how it happened and these photos from the event.
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Oct 18, 2017 12:29 pm
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Horton and Tuozzoli Tuesday night.
Whalley, Edgewood and Beaver Hills neighbors have a new top cop, who promised to address neighborhood crime with increased cross-district communication and policing.
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Oct 2, 2017 8:00 am
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Marisol Orihuela and her dog Rigoberta at Edgewood Park on Sunday.
Feeling depressed after the election of Donald Trump, Yale Law School associate professor Marisol Orihuela decided this January to get a dog: a chihuaha mix that she planned to bring to local protests.
Isidor Juda was on a train bound for Nazi death camps when miraculously it slowed down. He leapt off and escaped. Three uncles, three aunts and two cousins weren’t as lucky. Sunday, decades later, he said the prayer for the dead for them at a memorial gravesite in New Haven.
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.
WEB Chair Nadine Horton questions District Manager Steve Torquati.
Beaver Hill neighbors pressed their new top cop for quicker action on a recent spate of gun shots — while the top cop pleaded for patience as he gets to know a new neighborhood.
Unique Jones interviews Catherine Moore, whose senior group is at Bethel AME.
In a white-walled room at the New Haven Correctional Center (NHCC), Daniel Watts was preparing a month early for his first City-Wide Open Studios. In one hand, he held a small microphone to his mouth, checking his p’s to make sure that they weren’t popping too hard. Seated inches away, artist Maria Gaspar clutched a recorder.
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Colby Court, one of three Pike-managed properties due for lead-paint abatement, under the terms of an EPA settlement.
One of New Haven’s largest landlords has agreed to a $121,000 settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over alleged violations of lead-safety rules — the EPA’s latest enforcement action in what environmentalists worry will be a dwindling federal caseload as the Trump administration limits oversight of toxic chemicals.
