APT's Long Wharf Build-Up Inches Forward
| Nov 26, 2024 1:14 pm |Although a long journey still lies ahead, a new Long Wharf home for APT Foundation’s substance-use treatment program is slowly moving ahead.
Although a long journey still lies ahead, a new Long Wharf home for APT Foundation’s substance-use treatment program is slowly moving ahead.
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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| Nov 13, 2024 4:21 pm |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.
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| Nov 11, 2024 7:44 pm |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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, and | Nov 5, 2024 10:47 pm |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.
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| Nov 4, 2024 9:32 am |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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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.
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.
City police are investigating a suspicious death after a 23-year-old Manchester resident fell from a downtown parking garage.
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| Aug 1, 2024 8:31 am |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.”
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.
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| Jul 18, 2024 9:19 am |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.
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| Jul 15, 2024 10:40 am |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.
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| Jul 10, 2024 11:45 am |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.
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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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.
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| Jun 24, 2024 4:11 pm |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.
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| Jun 17, 2024 3:37 pm |“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.
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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.
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| May 13, 2024 2:03 pm |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.
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| Apr 4, 2024 4:18 pm |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.
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.
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| Feb 20, 2024 11:09 am |Long Wharf Theatre’s current production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge — running now through March 10 — marks not only a return to the “old neighborhood,” but also a return to a classic American play by a master of realist drama.
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| Feb 2, 2024 11:58 am |Love and gratitude filled a waterfront restaurant Thursday night as colleagues and co-conspirators in community-building turned out to wish Rafael Ramos well on his retirement from city government.
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| Dec 5, 2023 11:46 am |“Se lever,” Metropolitan Business Academy French teacher Dylan Senderoff instructed his students while motioning his hands for them to get up from their seats.
It was almost the end of class, and time to play “Jacques a dit” — a Francophone riff on “Simon Says” that would help students identify their tête, nez, ventre, and cou, all while building their vocab through immersive play.
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