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Third-generation tailor Enzo Valentino with son Antonio at Thursday's ribbon-cutting for family's new shop.
History came full circle on Grand Avenue Wednesday with the help of city government aid aimed at rebuilding a traditional small-business corridor.
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by | Sep 20, 2022 7:32 pm | Comments (2)
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Elm City bred and thriving: Teirra, Ebony and Chaance Moore at Tuesday's event.
The Moore family — who found opportunities for better lives in public housing — served as the human face of a celebration of New Haven winning recognition as one of 10 “All-America” cities.
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by | Jun 3, 2022 9:06 am | Comments (1)
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180 Center leaders join in prayer at dedication of new building.
Over 50 people gathered to celebrate the opening and dedication of a new building for The 180 Center, a Christian nonprofit that provides services for addiction and homelessness in New Haven.
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by | Jun 2, 2022 5:57 pm | Comments (16)
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The derelict former clock factory building at 133 Hamilton St.
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Redeveloper Scott Reed at 2018 alder hearing. His company allegedly owes city $137K in back taxes.
Has the clock stopped on a long-delayed effort to convert a derelict former Hamilton Street factory into 130 affordable apartments?
The property’s Oregon-based developer says the project is still moving forward. Three years of unpaid property taxes, a recent default in a tax foreclosure court case, and a spate of city anti-blight and building safety citations suggest a different story.
by | May 31, 2022 4:43 pm | Comments (6)
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Brenda Harris celebrates results of a decade-long process.
Tuesday's Mill River Phase 2 ribbon-cutting.
Brenda Harris fought for safer, higher-quality homes throughout her 50 years living in the once-dilapidated housing complex known as Farnam Courts. On Tuesday, she helped unveil the results of her advocacy: about 200 gleaming new townhouse-style apartments and community spaces in the second phase of a complex reborn as “Mill River Crossing.”
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The pulsating orb-like structure in the Liberty Science Center appears to float, impossibly, high above the heads of people walking below, as if it’s lighter than air, or underwater. The fact that it isn’t just a sculpture, but in fact a playground for children, only adds to its improbable whimsy. Liberty Science Center is in Jersey City, N.J., but the shop that designed and built the orb, Luckey Climbers, is right in New Haven, on East Street. Its chief architect, Spencer Luckey, has been around the playground design business all his life. He took over the company from his father, and has made dozens of climbers for clients all over the world. But he also has a vision for the Elm City.
by | May 23, 2022 8:38 am | Comments (7)
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Two concrete emblems of the delivery economy are taking shape atop a site of New Haven’s manufacturing past.
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by | May 9, 2022 4:41 pm | Comments (4)
Italian-American Historical Society's Laura Parisi at Monday's "Walk New Haven" event in Lenzi Park.
“Anybody have a guess?” Laura Parisi asked, brandishing a a metal artifiact of the old Grand Avenue.
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by | Mar 9, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (5)
Eli Westerman, Darlene Casella protest before planned zoning vote.
Planet Venus won’t be landing by Jocelyn Square any time soon.
by | Mar 7, 2022 9:02 pm | Comments (9)
Nesta Allen: "Who are we, nothing?"
Residents gathered in Jocelyn Square Park and then walked surrounding blocks on the eve of a zoning vote to demonstrate that they live in a neighborhood — not in “Las Vegas” or an “industrial wasteland” befitting a midnight-to-dawn BYOB strip club.
by | Feb 28, 2022 1:52 pm | Comments (10)
Gov. Ned Lamont bit into a lab-grown mini-chicken shawarma in Israel — and tasted future jobs back home in Connecticut.
by | Feb 9, 2022 2:52 pm | Comments (6)
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Coming soon to Wallace Street?
An adult “Las Vegas-style” “cabaret” with exotic dancers and late-night night drinking will bring economic revival and safety to a forlorn industrial zone.
So said the people looking to open said strip joint.
To which neighbors responded: In case you haven’t noticed, people live here. People from New Haven, not Las Vegas.
by | Jan 28, 2022 9:45 am | Comments (11)
Coming to Mill River?
Mill River residents are weighing how to thwart a “Vegas”-style strip club — without demeaning the sex workers whom the club would employ.
by | Nov 19, 2021 9:11 am | Comments (21)
Lamont at DISTRICT presser: “I like winning.”
Connecticut is “beginning to win” by attracting large, innovative, good-paying employers, Gov. Ned Lamont rejoiced in New Haven Thursday.
Lamont’s team’s Example A: The global tobacco giant Philip Morris International.
by | Oct 26, 2021 8:04 am | Comments (12)
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Dishing at DISTRICT: CEOs Bailey, Swanston, Zamani, Londa.
Fiber.
Family.
Football?
by | Sep 3, 2021 7:55 am | Comments (2)
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Durden gets ready to record Jefferson and Thabisa’s conversation.
District on James Street was the scene Thursday night of the official launch of Space Studios, the brainchild of videographer and entrepreneur Donnell Durden. Durden is hoping to provide the physical space and equipment — as well as the spark and support — for creatives to make their mark in the world of music, photography, videos, and more.
by | Jul 26, 2021 9:36 am | Comments (10)
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Underneath the Humphrey Street Bridge.
The city plans to “scour-proof” the Humphrey Street Bridge after a recent routine inspection revealed significant erosion of the riverbed that supports the Mill River-crossing infrastructure.
by | Jul 20, 2021 9:52 am | Comments (2)
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Marshall cleaning up a scene on A&E’s “Dirty Rotten Cleaners.”
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Marshall gets ready for action.
Sadie Marshall’s team packed up her gear to answer a call to clean up two decomposing bodies, after answering a separate call from the A&E Network to broadcast her “Dirty Rotten” work to the nation.
by | Jul 16, 2021 1:44 pm | Comments (16)
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Design with planned new building at bottom right.
Four under-utilized and individually unusable parcels of land across from the Corsair apartment complex on the old industrial patch of upper State Street are slated to become the site of 75 market-rate units. Look for solar arrays on the roof and interior design features to appeal to people who have gotten used to working from home during the pandemic, among other amenities.
by | Jul 15, 2021 9:32 am | Comments (6)
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Tom Pescatore: Bringing the public onto the water.
Here is some of what you see while gliding through lily pads on a kayak trip down the Mill River: Turtles dipping their heads out of the water. Deer wandering the shores. A roaring waterfall by Goose Dam.
by | Jun 21, 2021 11:57 am | Comments (16)
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424 Chapel: Future home of Health Dept. and public works garage?
The Board of Alders unanimously signed off on the city purchasing a state-owned warehouse, garage and office building on the eastern edge of Wooster Square — where the city plans to move the Health Department and snow plow and streetsweeper maintenance operations.
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by | May 12, 2021 1:46 pm | Comments (25)
Not allowed on Wallace Street … for now.
A plan to convert a Wallace Street warehouse into a “Las Vegas-style” entertainment complex hit a roadblock when a state judge upheld a city law that prohibits two strip clubs from being located less than 1,500 feet apart.
by | Apr 12, 2021 4:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Al Proto: Grand was the Avenue of the Americas.
A vaudeville theater becomes a church. A church becomes a parole office. An integrated boys’ swim club becomes a swim-focused nonprofit.
A group of dedicated ethnic historians sketched out these transformations and more neighborhood lore in what will eventually become an official Grand Avenue tour.
by | Feb 4, 2021 9:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Operators of a newly opened Reentry Welcome Center in Wooster Square are calling on the community to join them in the quest to help formerly incarcerated New Haveners get back on their feet.
by | Feb 4, 2021 10:59 am | Comments (4)
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Fifty demonstrators organized by Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA) protested outside Unique Auto Sales at 392 East St. demanding repayment for a couple they claim were scammed out of $4,000 on a downpayment for a 2011 Dodge Ram.
Continue reading ‘ULA Protests Car Dealership Over Alleged Fleecing Of Immigrants’