by | Dec 4, 2020 3:53 pm | Comments (3)
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Volunteers clearing the Mill River Trail.
It’s easier to clean up rivers in rural and suburban settings than in a busy city, given obstacles like accessibility and private property interests.
Meanwhile, urban waterways like our Mill River have received less clean-up funding than they need and deserve.
Continue reading ‘$100K On Horizon For Mill River Clean-Up Projects’
by | Dec 3, 2020 6:27 pm | Comments (1)
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Amid growing demand, Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) moved its Covid-19 testing operation Thursday to 293 East St., a .6‑mile walk from the former testing site on Grand Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Walk-Up Covid Testing Moves To Expanded Site’
by | Nov 18, 2020 1:10 pm | Comments (4)
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A new grocer is poised to reopen inside soon-to-close Ferraro’s Market, with the “Meat King” intact, according to the current owner.
by | Nov 16, 2020 5:49 pm | Comments (69)
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Victoria Ferraro with staffer Aniello Furino outside the market Monday.
Yelissa Martinez (left): Crosses street daily to shop.
The Ferraro family is moving the market it started in New Haven in 1952 to the suburbs — leaving public-housing tenants like Yelissa Martinez and Gladys Lugo with no walkable place to buy groceries.
by | Oct 26, 2020 1:07 pm | Comments (1)
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What the warehouses would look like from South Wallace Street.
A plan to fill in the long-vacant block bounded by Chapel Street, Ives Place,and East and Wallace streets with two large warehouses has received unanimous approval from the City Plan Commission.
by | Oct 21, 2020 1:54 pm | Comments (1)
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What the warehouses would look like from South Wallace Street.
The now-empty site of a factory by the Mill River that sent products to Home Depot could host warehouses for the delivery side of Home Depot, or another delivery-focused company like Amazon, by the summer of 2021.
by | Sep 28, 2020 12:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Stefanie Clark Harris and the Feverfew
Friday was a night of firsts for the New Haven music scene. It was the live debut of Stefanie Clark Harris and the Feverfew, the EP release party for the band’s first record “Black Diamond’, and it all happened at the inaugural show of The Stack Sessions, a District Arts and Entertainment presentation being held in the amphitheater on the back lawn of The Stack and Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ, in the District Complex on James Street.
Continue reading ‘Stack Sessions Serve Up Live Music And BBQ’
by | Sep 17, 2020 5:26 pm | Comments (10)
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Newly completed stretch of phase 2.
J.R. Logan: Six years of community action, and counting.
Continue reading ‘Second Phase Of Mill River Trail Completed’
by | Aug 21, 2020 11:05 am | Comments (1)
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A rendering of the proposed townhouses.
City plans to sell a vacant Jocelyn Square lot to a developer interested in building six new two-family houses advanced — even as city staff cautioned that the proposed development will likely require zoning relief.
Continue reading ‘Affordable Mill River Townhomes Deal Advances’
by | Jul 25, 2020 10:00 pm | Comments (20)
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Plan calls for six new townhomes like these at corner of Mill River and Humphrey Street.
Why can’t all six of planned new Humphrey Street townhomes be affordable?
Mill River neighbor Joan Cavanagh asked this question on Friday evening of the developer hoping to build 12 apartments housed within six townhomes at 156 – 158 Humphrey St.
Continue reading ‘Mill River Plan’s Affordability Fleshed Out’
by | Jul 21, 2020 2:14 pm | Comments (13)
Pastor Rafael Sotomayor preaching on July 14.
A New Haven church has temporarily closed its doors and transitioned back to virtual services after at least 10 congregants tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, amid a feared citywide uptick.
The outbreak occurred among members of Iglesia Jesus Rey De Gloria on Grand Avenue.
by | Jul 10, 2020 10:38 am | Comments (21)
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Dead fish floating down the Mill River in East Rock.
The water at Lighthouse Point is safe to swim in again, and the acute crisis of Monday’s two million-gallon sewage spill appears to be mostly over — even if dead fish can still be found floating along the Mill River.
But, local environmentalists cautioned, the threat of more sewage flowing into fresh water remains, thanks to the region’s old and decaying infrastructure and its combined sewers that mix storm runoff and sewage.
Continue reading ‘After Spill, Concerns Turn To Infrastructure’
by | Jun 29, 2020 10:53 am | Comments (2)
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Vanesha Warden with her daughter, Boom.
Adrion Russell, founder of Action Fitness, and Carla O’Brien, co-owner of District Athletic Club (DAC) on James Street, have a weighty message to share with their community: “Fitness is for everyone.”
Adrion Russell and Carla O’Brien.
The two businesses teamed up on Saturday to offer a free, donation-based and socially distanced outdoor workout designed for all fitness levels.
by | Jun 18, 2020 1:46 pm | Comments (1)
District, the bustling James Street tech and innovation center, has a new executive director, whose responsibilities include overseeing the Holberton digital-job-training school.
by | Jun 17, 2020 6:12 pm | Comments (6)
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Townhouse-style apartments planned for the corner of Mill River and Humphrey Streets.
Twelve new homes may sprout near the Mill River where an empty brick garage now stands.
Developer Eric O’Brien of Urbane NewHaven presented his plan for 156 – 158 Humphrey St. to the Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team on Tuesday to praise from neighbors. Four of the 12 homes would be deed-restricted to be affordable.
by | Jun 11, 2020 10:28 am | Comments (1)
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50 Ives Pl.
A North Haven-based real estate firm has purchased a vacant, industrial 4.4‑acre site near the Mill River in a transaction heralded by the city as paving the way for new development and jobs to come.
Continue reading ‘H.B. Ives Lot Changes Hands, Eyed For Jobs’
by | Apr 27, 2020 3:09 pm | Comments (10)
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“What’s the big deal about wearing a mask?” Tonya Harris reflected while waiting outside of Ferraro’s Market on Grand Avenue with a face covering she had made.
She and others interviewed at local stores seemed to be all on board with a gubernatorial executive order requiring shoppers to bring along face masks when inside retail establishments during the Covid-19 epidemic.
by | Apr 22, 2020 1:43 pm | Comments (8)
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Battelle’s VP Jeff Rose with U.S. Sens. Blumenthal and Murphy.
A medical grade N95 mask.
Twenty workers at a Wooster Square factory have started cleaning N95 masks so that three dozen hospitals, and counting, from throughout the region can reuse the critical protective equipment as they treat patients with Covid-19.
by | Apr 13, 2020 3:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Line of customers outside Ferraro’s last week.
One of the main east side outposts for groceries amid the Covid-19 pandemic will close its doors to in-store shopping until Saturday white it undergoes a deep clean.
Continue reading ‘Ferraro’s Switches To Delivery, Curbside For 5 Days’
by | Feb 27, 2020 3:26 pm | Comments (4)
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Guitar found in the former clock factory on Hamilton Street.
Clocks. The Sex Ball. A punk club, then an R&B club. An indoor skate park. The state’s largest LGBTQ club.
All of these are part of the past of the old New Haven Clock Company building on Hamilton Street.
In the present day, that factory complex is being cleaned up in preparation for development into housing, some of which is to include housing for artists. The reason for that concept — and the deeper history of artistic life in New Haven — is brought to sparkling, fascinating life in “Factory,” an exhibit that celebrated its opening on Friday and will run at the New Haven Museum on Whitney Avenue until Aug. 29.
by | Feb 25, 2020 1:03 pm | Comments (32)
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“Crown” Auto’s new HQ.
Grand-Crown employee boots BMW.
With state law enforcement on their case, the proprietors of “Crown Auto Center” were at risk of losing a lucrative monopoly they’ve held for a decade: a “booting” and towing contract from city government.
Then City Hall itself spent months helping them hold on.
by | Feb 21, 2020 3:07 pm | Comments (20)
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Tenant Lourdes Ortiz displays all the broken buzzers next to the unlocked front door at her apartment building.
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Luxury apartments at 205 Church; lower-rent 72 Mill River.
Lourdes Ortiz argued that $875 is too much to pay in monthly rent for a two-bedroom apartment in a rodent-infested, trash-strewn building.
Stephen Slade argued that $3,240 is too much to pay in monthly rent for a two-bedroom apartment in a luxury building that looks out on the Green and has limited on-site parking.
They went to City Hall seeking redress.
by | Feb 18, 2020 12:43 pm | Comments (3)
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The former factory building at 433 Chapel St.
Peter Chapman received a one-year extension to begin work converting a long-vacant former factory building into 25 apartments, several weeks after the city launched three new lawsuits against him seeking to foreclose on the property because of over $44,000 in unpaid taxes.
by | Feb 11, 2020 11:51 pm | Comments (18)
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Future home of recycling facility. Below: Jeffrey Laydon explains plan.
A local road construction company plans to build a recycling facility near the Mill River to convert torn-up and discarded pavement into roadway patching material — while creating no new waste in the process.
by | Feb 3, 2020 1:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Carina Gormley on Grand: “My favorite walk.”
The four-block stretch of Grand Avenue between Olive Street and Wallace Street is scattered with empty lots, storefront churches, social service nonprofits, and Italian eateries, all overshadowed by a towering highway overpass and a rich working-class history.
It’s Carina Gormley’s favorite walk in New Haven. She sees the city’s past and present in each step.