by | Jan 13, 2025 5:11 pm | Comments (4)
State police issued misdemeanor summons to four people on Sunday, after a fleet of cars participating in a pro-Palestine car demonstration moved from Long Wharf Drive to I‑95.
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by | Jan 9, 2025 10:07 am | Comments (11)
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Signs of community life beneath the Front Street I-91 underpass.
It’s official: the city has received $2 million to stitch up the neighborhoods sliced apart by highways.
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by | Jan 3, 2025 12:11 pm | Comments (6)
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Former owner Salas-Romer (center) at 2016 ribbon cutting: Village Suites sold, apartments to come.
A Brooklyn-based landlord has purchased a 112-room extended-stay hotel on Long Wharf for $15 million — and plans to convert the property into apartments.
by | Nov 26, 2024 1:14 pm | Comments (19)
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APT's Lynn Madden: Working thru MOU.
Although a long journey still lies ahead, a new Long Wharf home for APT Foundation’s substance-use treatment program is slowly moving ahead.
by | Nov 19, 2024 1:30 pm | Comments (13)
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New Haven's industrial port: Watch out, enviro scofflaws.
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AG Tong: “Gulf Oil ran a defective operation and falsified records to cover its tracks."
An oil tank operator in New Haven’s industrial port has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a state lawsuit that accused the company of falsifying inspection reports and undertaking construction and demolition without pulling the proper permits.
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by | Nov 13, 2024 4:21 pm | Comments (9)
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Kacey Daley: "There's so much diversity with algae."
Mayor Elicker (center right) and UNH Prez Jens Frederiksen join students and city officials to cut the ribbon on Wednesday.
University of New Haven (UNH) senior Kacey Daly peered through a microscope at some red algae from the Long Island Sound — in a second-floor lab at a city-owned waterfront building that is newly occupied by marine biology students like her.
by | Nov 11, 2024 7:44 pm | Comments (7)
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Conley Monk: “We want to give back to the living vets who never received a parade.”
The aging West Haven VA Medical Center is going to be seriously renovated and more and more affordable veterans’ housing is going to be popping up in the Elm City in the coming months and years.
Those were some of the new promises made to vets in moving ceremonies Monday on a sunny afternoon of Veterans Day by the Vietnam Memorial on Long Wharf.
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by , and | Nov 5, 2024 10:47 pm | Comments (1)
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Debby Sauls and Rae Dehal, with Sauls's dog Jules: Nervous about the election, glad to be in community.
MSNBC election updates blared across TV screens at queer space and pan-Asian restaurant Blue Orchid, while upbeat music played throughout the bar at around 8:50 p.m.
A couple dozen people sat at the counter and around the restaurant eating and drinking, some with a blue shot that they could get for free if they showed an “I VOTED” sticker.
by | Nov 4, 2024 9:32 am | Comments (1)
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Lifetime achievement awardee Jesse Hameen II ...
... C.R. & Co. dancers open the show.
Artists and arts supporters from New Haven and beyond gathered Saturday night at the Canal Dock Boathouse for the 44th Annual Arts Awards presented by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. This year’s theme was “Coming Together,” and those who received awards epitomized that statement with achievements that focused on fostering community and offering uplifting and diverse opportunities and spaces for the arts.
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by | Oct 21, 2024 4:58 pm | Comments (32)
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555 Long Wharf, less than half filled, now under new ownership.
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Buyer Landino: Office space can still work on Long Wharf despite national trends.
Fusco has sold a financially distressed 15-story office tower and adjacent parking garage on Long Wharf for less than a quarter of their city-appraised values — but still plans on building new waterfront apartments on a separate parcel next door.
by | Oct 1, 2024 2:45 pm | Comments (10)
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450 Sargent: Appraisal dropped from $33M to $29M.
Furniture retail giant IKEA has secured a $4 million discount on their Sargent Drive property’s “fair market value” — and a resulting $186,000 cut to their next local tax bill — after waging a yearslong legal battle over the property’s worth.
by | Sep 30, 2024 1:31 pm | Comments (11)
City police are investigating a suspicious death after a 23-year-old Manchester resident fell from a downtown parking garage.
by | Aug 1, 2024 8:31 am | Comments (3)
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Newly minted Wilbur Cross grad Isaila Mendez, with supportive family.
At Wednesday's summer school commencement.
After completing a month’s worth of summer high school credit recovery courses, 34 more New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students — including Wilbur Cross’s Isaila Mendez — officially joined the graduating Class of 2024.
“I’m glad I didn’t give up,” she said with pride, diploma in hand and surrounded by family. “And I’m glad my mom didn’t let me give up, because I wanted to.”
by | Jul 22, 2024 4:59 pm | Comments (14)
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DEEP's Katie Dykes announces $450 million EPA grant.
Union Station will be “the greenest train station in the United States of America” thanks to “heat pumps, heat pumps, heat pumps,” made possible by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new climate pollution reduction grant program.
So promised officials as they gathered at the train station to announce grants allocated to Connecticut under the program — including $9.5 million worth for New Haven.
by | Jul 18, 2024 9:19 am | Comments (6)
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Watch out, George Baldwin, that's a sand shark!
Students test for salinity, temperature, and "conductivity."
The traffic from the Q Bridge rumbled overhead, oblivious to the scene below at the mouth of the Quinnipiac and Mill rivers, as two students on a small Sound School boat lowered a piece of scientific equipment into the water, at surface and at depth.
The reason: to continue a years-long project of gathering data about the Mill River and, in turn, foster a better relationship with it.
by | Jul 15, 2024 10:40 am | Comments (4)
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Incoming HSC freshman Kayden Gill: Meeting new friends, learning school layout.
Before 14-year-old Ansonia resident Kayden Gill starts his freshman year at High School in the Community, he wants to first learn more about New Haven, get to know some of his new classmates, and hear from current high schoolers.
All of those boxes were checked off for Gill thanks to the school district’s summer bridge programming for incoming ninth graders at all nine high schools this year.
by | Jul 10, 2024 11:45 am | Comments (7)
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Don't do this on Water St.
Highway drivers won’t get to enjoy / be distracted by another electronic billboard by the Q Bridge, now that the zoning board has turned down an Ohio-based firm’s outdoor advertising application.
by | Jul 3, 2024 9:26 am | Comments (23)
Existing billboard north of the Q Bridge. Should another one be allowed south of the highway on Long Wharf?
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The "Spectacular Sign" overlay district when it was first adopted, and how it looks with the expanded highway today.
An Ohio-based advertising firm seeking to erect another billboard by the Q Bridge has run into a “spectacular” roadblock, in the form of an expanded highway and a decades-old zoning map.
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by | Jul 1, 2024 11:27 am | Comments (12)
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Wetland next to Long Wharf Drive: Not to be disturbed by roadway work.
The city’s Engineering Department won permission to move ahead with a “substantial narrowing” of Long Wharf Drive and the construction of roughly 1,000 linear feet of sidewalk on the western side of the road — with promises to be mindful of a small, isolated nearby wetland.
by | Jun 24, 2024 4:11 pm | Comments (5)
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Retreat's 1 Long Wharf clinic: Now closed, too.
A drug rehab facility that abruptly closed its in-patient center on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard last weekend has now shuttered its outpatient clinic on Long Wharf as of Monday.
by | Jun 17, 2024 3:37 pm | Comments (9)
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INSA CEO Peter Gallagher: Cannabis seller and consumer. Don't tell mom.
“It’s a very, very capital-intensive business that’s not without risk,” New Haven’s newest legal pot dealer, INSA CEO Peter Gallagher, said about his 500-employee company’s line of work.
There’s the challenge of finding lenders and lawyers and accountants willing to hire out their services in such a hazy market. There’s the prohibition on ferrying legal product across state lines. There’s the ban on billboard and TV advertising. There’s the reliance on cash and debit cards for retail transactions because of credit card companies’ continued aversion to the sector.
And then there’s Section 280E of the federal tax code.
Continue reading ‘Canna-biz CEO: It's Not Easy Selling Green’
by | May 30, 2024 11:21 am | Comments (38)
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Weed-focused labor organizers & customers Jose Anaya and Jake Serafini: Canna-biz is "like the new gold rush."
Long Wharf Theatre, now itinerant. INSA Cannabis, now on Sargent.
Jake Serafini and Jose Anaya showed up to the ex-Long Wharf Theatre site on Sargent Drive Thursday morning — not to catch a play by Samuel Beckett or Anna Deavere Smith, but instead to buy an eighth of Scout Breath and some weed gummies on opening day of the city’s newest cannabis dispensary.
by | May 13, 2024 2:03 pm | Comments (0)
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New House Garganelli at Hotel Marcel.
Legend has it that garganelli originated with a Bolognese housewife who was making tortellini for her guests when she realized her cat had devoured all the filling. So she took the squares of pasta she had already cut for the tortellini, and then rolled them around a stick and over a loom comb for ridges.
“She made it happen,” said Megan Gill, the 28-year-old executive chef at BLDG, a 70-seat, three-meal restaurant inside the iconic Hotel Marcel on Sargent Drive, as she added the pasta into boiling, salted water on a recent afternoon.
by | Apr 4, 2024 4:18 pm | Comments (9)
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Lunch is self-served.
After a single bite, I realized I had ordered the wrong entree at IKEA. The “veggie balls” were a blank slate: a mush of chickpeas, carrots, peppers, and other veggies I usually enjoy, mashed and blended until they amounted to something almost as thoroughly bland as the cauliflower rice I got on the side.
by | Apr 4, 2024 2:55 pm | Comments (15)
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Cracks in the Boathouse's concrete "topping slab."
Three years of legal battles over cracked concrete outside of the Canal Dock Boathouse has ended with the city taking in $600,000 from contractors — after shelling out $288,000 to lawyers.
Continue reading ‘City, Contractors Settle Cracked-Concrete Lawsuit’