Crash Kills Pedestrian
by | Aug 9, 2019 7:47 am | Comments (1)
A crash Thursday evening in Fair Haven left a pedestrian dead and a motorcyclist struggling for life.
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Teen Entrepreneurs Grow Grand Ideas
by | Aug 8, 2019 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Homegrown lip glosser Zuiryliz Osorio at Grand Acres.
Zuiryliz Osorio put on some lip gloss for a crowd Wednesday night in a Fair Haven greenhouse— lip gloss she grew herself on the premises.
Mill River Trail Lands $30K Grant
by | Aug 1, 2019 2:30 pm | Comments (2)
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The Connecticut Fund for the Environment/Save the Sound has landed a $30,000 grant to help build out a new segment of the Mill River Trail connecting Grand Avenue and Criscuolo Park.
Cops Bear Gifts, Suss Out Tips In Fair Haven
by | Aug 1, 2019 7:55 am | Comments (8)
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Reyes and Fumiatti speak with concerned Clay Street resident Awilda Lozano
On Clay Street in Fair Haven, interim Police Chief Otoniel Reyes handed a gift pack and a free ice cream certificate to a surprised and delighted little girl.
Just a block away on Lloyd Street, incoming Fair Haven top cop Sgt. Michael Fumiatti, Jr. leaned in as a woman explained how drug-dealing and prostitution on her block are the worst she’s seen in 25 years.
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Schools Settle Discrimination Suit For $390K
by | Jul 31, 2019 2:02 pm | Comments (35)
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Paula Langlois.
An argument over which parking spot and entryway an elementary-school teacher in a wheelchair is allowed to use has cost the school district hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Convicted Fair Haven Arsonist: I Was Framed
by | Jul 30, 2019 12:24 pm | Comments (8)
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Angelo Reyes, a former Fair Haven developer, at right, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for arranging two arsons.
A Fair Haven developer — who restored worn-down buildings on Grand Avenue before being jailed for torching the neighborhood — will make the case that cops arrested the wrong guy as he seeks to win a new trial next month.
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Teens Organize Rally In Fair Haven For “Climate Emergency” Declaration
by | Jul 26, 2019 7:47 am | Comments (12)
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A new youth coalition rallied on Thursday in Fair Haven at the corner of Grand Avenue and Ferry Street to call on Mayor Toni Harp and the Board of Alders to call a “climate emergency” in New Haven.
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Station B Starts Disappearing
by | Jul 24, 2019 8:00 am | Comments (12)
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A piece of New Haven’s power history is coming down.
Elicker Taps The “Two New Havens”
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.
City Zeroes In On Bridge Conditions
by | Jul 5, 2019 1:26 pm | Comments (4)
Peeling paint underneath Grand Ave Bridge. Below: Shapiro and Zinn, with new report, on Humphrey St. bridge.
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The Grand Avenue bridge over the Quinnipiac River has rusty joints. Located in the seams between the segments of the bridge, the rust has begun to expand. This is the source of a widely-known bump on that bridge — one that City Engineer Giovanni Zinn intends to fix.
After 15 Years, Still Missing, Still Missed
by | Jun 28, 2019 1:13 pm | Comments (1)
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SWAN members Sally and John at a rally in December.
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Evelyn Frisco.
As a New Canaan woman’s disappearance continues to dominate statewide public attention, a New Haven sex worker advocate is quietly working to revive the search for a Fair Haven woman who first went missing 15 years ago Saturday.
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History Found At Lost In New Haven
by | Jun 28, 2019 7:32 am | Comments (17)
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Greenberg, center of group, points to a display.
Billed as “an adventure into the Elm City’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” around 35 tourgoers braved rainy conditions to attend a second, sold-out visit to New Haven’s newest depot of historic artifacts and memorabilia. “But don’t call it a museum,” said Robert Greenberg, tour guide, owner and curator of the thousands of objects on display.
“It’s really a sculpture,” he said.
10% Afforable Housing Mandate Debated
by | Jun 25, 2019 7:44 am | Comments (19)
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A legal aid poster calling for more affordable housing. Below: A packed room at Wednesday night’s meeting.
Deputy Zoning Director Jenna Montesano, City Planner Stacey Davis, and City Plan Director Aïcha Woods.
The city’s planned zoning overhaul for Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell Avenues hit a gentrification speed bump from activists concerned about protections for low-income residents.
DISTRICT’s Coding School Ribbon Cut; Data Academy Coming Next
by | Jun 25, 2019 7:41 am | Comments (0)
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Holberton School New Haven Director Nadine Krause.
A local outpost of a Silicon Valley-founded coding school celebrated its official ribbon-cutting in Fair Haven, and is already two cohorts in to its tuition-free training of the state’s next generation of computer scientists.
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“Welcome Home”
by | Jun 24, 2019 7:23 am | Comments (1)
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United Way volunteers and partners came together Friday to make “welcome home baskets” filled with bed sheets, cleaning supplies, and handwritten cards in a day of action to help end youth homelessness.
Artists Are In Their Elements
by | Jun 20, 2019 7:49 am | Comments (0)
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Moon Pie.
The image is easy enough to read. It’s a plane with exhaust trails streaking past the moon. But under Hayward Gatling’s gaze the two objects in the sky are not as dissimilar as they first appear. The moon’s and the plane’s hues are the same. Both, under closer scrutiny, seem almost as luminous and ephemeral as the exhaust trails, which will soon dissipate in the wind. Gatling’s treatment of all the elements of the photograph as simply objects in the sky, like clouds, brings them together.
Cops Promise Seniors Some TLC
by | Jun 17, 2019 8:05 am | Comments (1)
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Officer Derek Werner with River Run tenants at “Coffee with a Cop.”
Upon returning home to the River Run apartment complex on a recent evening, WWII veteran Raphael “Ray’” Yockelson discovered a “muscular six-foot-five man’ sleeping on the lobby floor.
Smokehouse Gets Brewing
by | Jun 14, 2019 2:04 pm | Comments (0)
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Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ in New Haven has partnered with the four brewing masterminds of Black Hog Brewing Co. to open a new riverfront brew-pub in town along with five new in-house brews.
Woof! Paw Haven Planned For State Street
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.
New Commercial Gateway Zone Pitched
by | Jun 6, 2019 1:33 pm | Comments (42)
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City Plan Director Aïcha Woods (at left) presents draft.
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Grand Avenue as it points towards downtown.
The City Plan department has drafted a zoning overhaul for Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell Avenues with the hopes of creating denser, more pedestrian-friendly “commercial gateway districts” between downtown and the city’s neighborhoods.
300+ Students Honored For Hard Work
by | May 16, 2019 12:25 pm | Comments (1)
Ma’Den NIlkerson, an honoree at the annual Florence Caldwell Title I awards.
The straight‑A students, who usually take home most of the academic honors, don’t get an invite to this year-end award ceremony.
Landlord Tops 340 Units
by | May 15, 2019 12:32 pm | Comments (6)
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Brodie Fair Haven holdings: 52 Maltby, 127 Clay 143 Fillmore, 154 Fillmore., 114 Lloyd, 161 Clay, 176 Wolcott, 191 Wolcott, 176 Wolcott.
Note: This article has been substantively updated since its first publication, now with an interview with Brodie about his background and investment strategy.
A 33-year-old, Monsey, N.Y.-based landlord bumped his local apartment holdings up to 347 units with the recent purchase of eight two and three-family homes in Fair Haven, the Hill, West River, and Westville.
That’s 347 more than when he started out in real estate a decade ago, when he first learned about investment opportunities in New Haven through a chance encounter at a gym in upstate New York.
Class-Action Suit Slams City On Lead
by | May 8, 2019 4:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Rukara Rugereza and daughter Sara in their Wolcott Street apartment.
A legal aid attorney has filed a class action lawsuit against the city’s health department for allegedly bypassing the law and refusing to inspect homes of lead-poisoned children whom it now allegedly deems not poisoned enough to protect.
Pinwheels Along The Path
by | May 6, 2019 3:11 pm | Comments (2)
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A forest of pinwheels, spinning in the spring air, sprang up along the Quinnipiac River on Saturday morning to guide hundreds of children, families, and friends on a 1.5‑mile stroll around the Quinnipiac’s bridges.
With Mayor Toni Harp in the vanguard, the marchers were lending their support to high-quality early childhood education, as part of the ninth annual Fair Haven Family Stroll and Festival.
Harp: Probe English Station Deals
by | Apr 30, 2019 4:53 pm | Comments (4)
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English Station.
Mayor Toni Harp called for law enforcement to investigate a string of dicey deals that kept the shuttered English Station property dirty and undeveloped.