by | Feb 7, 2023 4:15 pm | Comments (15)
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The now-shuttered Andy Restaurant-Bar on Sargent Dr.
A 32-year-old tenant has until the end of the month to move himself, his pregnant wife, and their two children out of their rented single-family home — in his latest setback after closing his Long Wharf restaurant, falling behind on rent at his house, and preparing to file for bankruptcy.
by | Nov 23, 2022 9:55 am | Comments (0)
144 more apts., en route to Blake St.?
Local legislators cleared the zoning path for 256 new mostly market-rent apartments to be built in Westville and Long Wharf.
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by | Nov 18, 2022 12:28 pm | Comments (10)
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Thomasine Shaw, Ernest Pagan, and Alder Carmen Rodriguez at Thursday's meeting.
The public space at the new Coliseum site redevelopment will be a true “gateway to the city” that is open to all — and not a fenced-in private courtyard like what currently sits one block away in front of the Knights of Columbus tower.
City officials and a Norwalk-based redevelopment team made that promise during the latest community meeting about a mini-city’s worth of rebuilding now underway in New Haven’s “Tenth Square.”
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by | Oct 24, 2022 10:38 am | Comments (19)
144 more apts., coming soon to Blake?
Dixwell Alder Morrison: Do better, developers.
Two plans that promise to bring a total of 256 new apartments to Westville and Long Wharf moved ahead — as alders pressed for more affordable units and questioned whether the city’s recently adopted “inclusionary” housing law goes far enough.
by | Sep 23, 2022 11:50 am | Comments (6)
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Juan Salas-Romer (center) at 2016 ribbon cutting: Village Suites residential conversion endorsed by City Plan.
A local developer’s plans to convert a 112-room extended-stay hotel on Long Wharf into 112 new apartments moved ahead thanks to a favorable recommendation from the City Plan Commission.
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by | Sep 20, 2022 11:37 am | Comments (25)
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Sports Haven: Place your bets while you can before trucks take over.
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City Plan Director Brown: "Unfortunate" that moratorium won't cover truck project.
A one-year building moratorium on Long Wharf is now in effect — but will almost certainly not stand in the way of a new truck trailer parking facility proposed for the current Sports Haven off-track-betting site.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Pause OK'd; Truck Lot Squeaks In’
by | Sep 19, 2022 2:14 pm | Comments (10)
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Rendering of planned new drainage pipe (in blue).
City Engineer Zinn: This will help mitigate harms of the "absolutely existential crisis" of climate change.
Expect less flooding on the often-flooded Union Avenue in the years ahead, thanks to a $25 million federal grant that will help the city construct a roughly 3,000-foot drainage pipe and tunnel from West Water Street to the Harbor.
by | Aug 10, 2022 9:15 am | Comments (0)
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A woman holding bolts of fabric approached the checkout counter set up in the lobby of Long Wharf Theatre. She had plans, she said, to make clothes for her relatives.
“In my generation, everybody knitted or sewed,” she said.
Now, she continued, “when a shirt loses a button, they take it to the dry cleaners.”
Making clothes yourself is a “lost art,” a Long Wharf employee agreed. But with the help of Dock Deals — a series of sales of stock Long Wharf is holding as it clears out its space on Sargent Drive — the woman would find it again.
Continue reading ‘With Summer Stock Inventory Sale, Long Wharf Theatre Makes Deals’
by | Aug 3, 2022 3:03 pm | Comments (23)
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Rose-Wilen and Piscitelli on Tuesday: "Long Wharf is the city's neighborhood."
The city's vision for a denser, mixed-use, redeveloped Long Wharf.
A proposed one-year building moratorium on Long Wharf is now one vote away from adoption — after alders and city planners made clear that certain projects, like Fusco’s planned new 500 waterfront apartments, would not be affected by the land-use pause.
by | Aug 3, 2022 12:00 pm | Comments (4)
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Cracking concrete outside of the boathouse.
Alders signed off on paying outside attorneys $159,000 in total as legal bills keep mounting for an ongoing court battle centered on cracking concrete outside of the Canal Dock Boathouse.
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by | Aug 1, 2022 4:57 pm | Comments (6)
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Juan Salas-Romer (center) at 2016 ribbon cutting: Now looking to convert Village Suites hotel into apartments.
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The Village Suites hotel at 3 Long Wharf Dr.
The local owner of a 112-room extended-stay hotel on Long Wharf is looking for zoning permission to convert the property into 112 new apartments — by changing the legally permitted use of the hotel’s existing buildings and rooms, rather than by constructing anything new.
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by and | Jul 28, 2022 10:00 am | Comments (9)
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Audrey Tyson, Alder Sarah Miller, and Gov. Lamont talk education at Brazi's during one of the governor's New Haven stops Wednesday.
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Lamont in radio studio with hosts Jose Candelario and Norma Rodriguez-Reyes, and campaign Deputy Political Diretor Gabriela Koc.
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Lamont with Erik Clemons at ConnCORP: Talk to Looney.
Erik Clemons took advantage of a 20-minute audience with Gov. Ned Lamont to make a multimillion-dollar pitch — for bond money to help revive the commercial heart of New Haven’s Black community.
by | Jul 24, 2022 11:52 am | Comments (2)
The Wheel Good Paddlers, led by drummer Julia Wilson and captain John Pescatore, in the final race.
The Tuff Girls 1, led by drummer Livia Doran and captain Christa Doran.
It was the final race of the day, and the Tuff Girls were just a few strokes behind the Wheel Good Paddlers, who were back to defend their title, this year with the help of New Haven Public School (NHPS) students.
Continue reading ‘Tuff Girls Take On Wheel Good Paddlers As Dragon Boat Regatta Returns’
by | Jun 30, 2022 1:01 pm | Comments (9)
City rendering of a new vision for Long Wharf.
City Plan Commissioners unanimously advanced a proposed one-year building moratorium on Long Wharf, as one developer accelerated a truck maintenance facility application before the deadline.
by | Jun 29, 2022 4:42 pm | Comments (0)
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Percussionist Michael Mills and friends welcome home the Amistad with a beat.
New Haven welcomed the historic Amistad schooner home Wednesday — with a modern-day civil rights case on its mind.
Continue reading ‘With Cox Case In Mind, Amistad Welcomed Home To Long Wharf Pier’
by | Jun 22, 2022 4:46 pm | Comments (12)
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Cracking concrete outside of the boathouse.
The Elicker Administration is now looking to pay outside attorneys $159,000 in total in a bid to hold a city-hired contractor accountable for cracking concrete outside of the Canal Dock Boathouse.
Continue reading ‘Legal Bills Mount In Boathouse Concrete Suit’
by | Jun 17, 2022 3:03 pm | Comments (14)
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Shafiq Abdussabur and Gov. Lamont at Brazi's lunch: 2 takes on a crisis.
Who needs a home in New Haven? Who can afford a home in New Haven? And whom should the state prioritize supporting with its housing policies and subsidies — biotech transplants or working-class first-time buyers?
Two different takes on those housing-focused questions came to the fore during a conversation among the governor, a top state housing official, and a now-former Beaver Hills alder.
Continue reading ‘Housing Q Reveals Upstairs-Downstairs Lenses’
by | Jun 16, 2022 8:19 pm | Comments (8)
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Gov. Lamont (center) at Brazi's lunch with local clergy.
At reelection campaign stops with local faith leaders and elderly residents, Gov. Ned Lamont faced a flurry of questions about how best to keep New Haveners safe — from gun violence and reckless drivers alike.
by | Jun 14, 2022 9:34 am | Comments (1)
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On Monday night, the Big Tent Party, a gala fundraiser for Long Wharf Theatre, saw the regional theater institution begin its slow turn away from its Sargent Drive home and into a more nomadic future, as patrons gathered for an evening of food, drink, and entertainment that began and ended outside.
Continue reading ‘At Gala, Long Wharf Begins Long Goodbye ... And Hello’
by | Jun 13, 2022 3:31 pm | Comments (14)
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Cycletrack would begin on far side of this notoriously car-centric stretch.
Plans for the curbed bike lane: filling "an important gap."
If Giovanni Zinn’s vision comes to fruition, cyclists will no longer need to take their lives into their hands while riding along Water Street beside highway-bound cars.
by | Jun 8, 2022 3:21 pm | Comments (15)
Up next at Long Wharf Theatre (clockwise from top left)?: Model smoking INSA pre-rolled joint; theater's sign on Sargent Dr.; INSA cannabis chocolates; theater's current home in the Food Terminal.
Could the Long Wharf stage that hosted performances by Sam Waterston and Anna Deavere Smith become a spot to purchase “Mellow Bar” cannabis chocolates and “Infused Rocket” pre-rolled joints?
That possible future won a vote of support from an aldermanic committee that greenlit the legal sale of marijuana on Long Wharf — including on an industrial stretch of Sargent Drive where a Massachusetts-based cannabis dispensary hopes to move in to the longtime, soon-to-be-former home of Long Wharf Theatre.
by | Jun 7, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (14)
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City Plan Director Brown: One year needed to rezone Long Wharf.
The City Plan Department has proposed putting a one-year pause on new developments on Long Wharf — in a bid to attract more shops and apartments, and fewer gas stations and truck repair facilities, to the city’s industrial waterfront.
by | May 19, 2022 8:41 am | Comments (1)
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Srinivasan and Janssen.
Researchers Sanam Shah and Ariel Spiegel are presenting the findings of a project that may, once and for, stick it to the man. Their advisor is watching with eagerness as Spiegel turns on the fire, cutting straight to the chase about how they’ve uncovered evidence, real evidence, of corporate wrongdoing, creating active ecological harm. She’s flush with her commitment. That’s when Shah gets worried. Isn’t her presentation maybe a little too subjective? Her advisor disagrees; if anything, he suggests, Spiegel should lay it on thicker. After all, the passion is backed up by hard data. Isn’t it?
That’s when Shah suddenly looks worried. She’s found an anomaly. But she can fix it. She knows she can. In that moment, it’s hard to tell whether she’s reassuring them or herself.
Continue reading ‘Queen Makes For Fitting Farewell To LWT's Physical Space’
by | May 10, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (9)
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Bar manager Emanuela Stakaj (right) at the newly opened Il Gabbiano restaurant.
The owner of Adriana’s Restaurant has opened a new “Italian steakhouse” on Long Wharf in the former home of Lenny & Joe’s Fish Tale — on the future site of hundreds of planned new waterfront apartments.
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by | Mar 21, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (2)
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The three women in the room — two sisters and a TV host — are wearing safety glasses. It’s time to start demolishing the house the sisters grew up in. The TV host, all smiles, hands one of the sisters a sledgehammer, so she can do the honors of striking the first blow. Time stops, and there’s a fight. Time starts again, and the sister swings the hammer and puts a huge gash in the wall. That’s when something starts oozing out, like thick blood from a wound. Is that supposed to happen? No one knows.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Stages Gentrification Fantasia’