Edgewood

Labor Crushes Co-Chair

by | Mar 7, 2018 8:54 am | Comments (14)

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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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Displaced Tenants Must Find New Homes

by | Feb 26, 2018 11:21 pm | Comments (8)

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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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Displaced Tenants’ Next Move Uncertain

by | Feb 23, 2018 6:15 pm | Comments (13)

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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.

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80 Relocated After Apartments Condemned

by | Feb 23, 2018 12:02 am | Comments (12)

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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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New Skate Park Plan Ready To Go

by | Feb 7, 2018 3:03 pm | Comments (4)

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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.

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“Don’t Tase Me, Yo!”

by | Dec 22, 2017 1:52 pm | Comments (58)

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Confrontation begins inside Whalley Market.

(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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The Last Survivors Say Kaddish

by | Sep 25, 2017 7:58 am | Comments (16)

Juda leads the kaddish at Sunday’s ceremony.

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Detail of the memorial.

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.

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Sounds Like Liberation

by | Sep 7, 2017 3:51 pm | Comments (0)

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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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Pike Enters $121K Lead Paint Settlement

by | Aug 8, 2017 3:12 am | Comments (5)

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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.

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