Perlich, at 414 Chapel: "Somebody just has to do it."
Former mill building. Future apartments?
Jonathan Perlich walked down the vast, empty fourth floor of a 19th-century mill building — beneath wooden beams and beside exposed brick walls interrupted by window after window after window.
Outside the sun shone on the newly built warehouses and boarded-up factories that stand east of Wooster Square.
Despite a years-long delay, Perlich insisted, this industrial-turned-office-turned-vacant building near the Mill River will be converted into 87 new places to live.
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Feb 12, 2025 1:11 pm
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Applicant Villanueva: Spot is a "gold mine"
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Landlord Marty Halprin: Time to look for another potential tenant.
A new smoke shop won’t be able to open up next to a methadone clinic and a strip club — after city zoners stamped out the latest bid to convert a vacant storefront into a tobacco sales “gold mine.”
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Feb 3, 2025 5:08 pm
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West Haven Officer Robert Rappa's body-worn camera footage. Note: Videos show graphic violence.
5:30 a.m. at the Mill River Crossing housing complex. Police enter an apartment with a key. “My baby!” a woman cries out. Gunshots ring out. A 35-year-old man is killed, two cops injured.
That scene is depicted in videos and a “preliminary report” released Monday by the state Office of Inspector General.
Inspector General Robert J. Delvin released the documents regarding a Jan. 29 early-morning shoot-out that left 35-year-old Aaron Freeman dead and two West Haven police officers injured. An officer — it’s unclear yet which one — killed Freeman, after Freeman allegedly shot first.
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Jan 30, 2025 4:17 pm
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Mill River Crossing, where an early-morning police shoot-out left a suspect dead.
Free counseling from area therapists. A new police officer in residence. And (hopefully) fixing the broken intercom system.
Those were some of the solutions that leaders of New Haven’s housing authority offered to residents of Mill River Crossing at a resident-only meeting held on the property Wednesday evening — after a man died and two cops were injured during a shoot-out with police in the building early that morning.
Imagine an alameda — a long shady tree-lined walkway — running down the middle of Blatchley Avenue all the way from Grand Avenue to the Quinnipiac River.
And how about building up underused lots into lots more housing on East Street and on Wolcott?
Those were a few of the neighborhood-changing ideas that emerged Monday night at 162 James St., CitySeed’s new building, where city economic development officials convened a second public meeting for citizen input to envision a now-and-future identity for the Mill River District.
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Nov 26, 2024 1:49 pm
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Suzio truck rolls on out of the Chapel St. concrete plant.
Expect 4,000 fewer truck deliveries per year to an industrial riverfront stretch of Chapel Street — as a Meriden-based concrete company plans to build out capacity for train transport, instead.
Payton, Ellis, and Anaya with muralists Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn: “This is why we’re doing this.”
The challenge was steep. To scour the globe for a muralist to lend such pizzazz to a 240-foot blank warehouse wall that it would bring life to a faded stretch of town.
In the end, one factor sealed the deal: cartwheels.
“Beautiful!” a passing motorist called out while heading downtown Monday on Chapel Street.
“Thank you!” Jessie Unterhalter said for the tenth? 20th? time of the day.
Unterhalter didn’t want to be rude. People passing by the once-blank warehouse wall at Chapel and East Streets have brightened to see the swirling bright colors Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn have been painting there for the past three weeks. Unterhalter appreciated their appreciation.
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Franklyn Gallo: RV is "better than living on the street."
The clock company's latest tenant.
Inside the nearby shed.
Housing has finally come to the old Hamilton Street clock factory — in the form of a parked RV occupied by a homeless former construction worker.
Time is ticking, however, for the temporary residents of the dilapidated industrial complex, now that the city’s housing authority has finalized an agreement to buy the blighted property out of tax foreclosure.
Minsky, Eyzaguirre, Pickett, and McLeggon in the Art to Frames showroom ...
... as employees put together custom frame orders, as viewed on Development Commission tour of Mill River / River Street districts.
Machinery whirred as employees of Art To Frames on River Street fulfilled custom frame orders, during the final stop on a city Development Commission tour showcasing what a commercial-industrial district near the Mill River currently looks like — and what it some day might be.
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May 15, 2024 2:08 pm
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Christopher lines up for the 180 Center's final night as a warming center.
At 6:15 p.m. sharp on Tuesday, Christopher ambled over to the 180 Center on a crooked foot.
It was the last night that the last warming center in New Haven would offer shelter for the season, and Christopher didn’t know where he’d sleep on Wednesday.
A Hamilton Street parking lot will remain a Hamilton Street parking lot for the time being, now that a local landlord has withdrawn a housing application in the face of several neighbors’ car concerns.
Clockwise from top left: Up to 64 new apartments eyed for Hamilton St.; developer Yoon Lee; the 63 Hamilton parking lot; Lost in New Haven's Rob Greenberg.
A bid to provide lots more places for people to live on Hamilton Street has prompted pushback from some neighbors over where current and future residents and visitors will be able to put their cars.
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Feb 1, 2024 5:26 pm
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City Health Director Maritza Bond Thursday at her department's new HQ: Wellness the new "holistic approach."
City officials cut the ribbon on a “health and wellness” center — and hoped the fresh color scheme and branding strategy could sell STI tests, school physicals and flu vaccinations to the public as presents rather than punishments.
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Dec 6, 2023 11:17 am
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Testing forces inside Kara Bartunek's third-grade class.
Conte West Hills School third graders Olivia and Deon played tug-of-war in their classroom — not to see who was the strongest, but instead to conduct a science experiment to learn about forces.
Mike P. doesn’t remember exactly when he last voted. It was probably a decade ago, likely for President Barack Obama.
As he pushed a shopping cart full of bicycle wheels and mattress frames and long metal poles to a Chapel Street scrapyard, he reflected on what would convince him to return to the polls: a candidate committed to making “a very, very, very noticeable difference for the homeless community.”
Two Wooster Square residents running for alder convened for a debate — and sketched out diverging visions for policing, addiction treatment, and the legitimacy of the Republican Party.
Mandy Management CEO Yudi Gurevitch, at 399 Whalley main office: "We want our tenants, our residents to be happy, to feel safe, to have a good home. ... [W]e want them to feel that we're responsive, that we're there. Because we are."
At the warehouse, with a handful of plumbing supplies.
Inside a Wallace Street warehouse filled with refrigerators and stoves and plywood and snow blowers and water heaters and closet doors and toilets and sheetrock, Yudi Gurevitch engaged in the latest step of retooling, and rebuilding the reputation of, one of New Haven’s largest landlord empires. He wedged himself in between two shelves overflowing with plumbing supplies and lifted up one of dozens of plastic-wrapped SharkBite fittings.
“The goal is to have everything you could ever need for a property management company in stock,” he said. That way, when a Mandy Management property needs repairs — big or small, day or night — his company has the right parts ready to go.
133 Hamilton: From storied factory to affordable housing complex?
The city’s public housing authority plans to purchase the New Haven Clock Company building on Hamilton Street and convert it into 100 mixed-income, mostly-affordable apartments — but only after the abandoned factory’s current owners rid the property of all remaining toxins.
Ward 8 alder challenger Andrea Zola and incumbent Ellen Cupo.
A bridal business owner with local political history roots has filed to run against Wooster Square’s two-term, union-affiliated incumbent alder in a Democratic race that sheds light on a neighborhood in flux.
