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414 Chapel St. today.
Paris and Trachten.
Plans to convert a 68,000 square-foot office building on the edge of Wooster Square into 87 new market-rate apartments won a key city sign-off in the latest entry in New Haven’s ongoing apartment construction boom.
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by | Jun 20, 2019 8:23 am | Comments (41)
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924 Grand Ave. before and after the proposed Y2Y buildout. Below: Y2Y supporters at Wednesday’s meeting.
A temporary housing facility for homeless youth won approval — and dodged a potentially contentious future public hearing — in its bid to build a 12 to 20-bed rooming house atop a single-story social services building on Grand Avenue.
The operative phrase is “rooming house.” Not “shelter.”
by | Jun 14, 2019 2:46 pm | Comments (20)
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School board and staff at Adriana’s Restaurant.
Members of the Board of Education broke arancini rice balls — but no laws — at an informal dinner party.
by | May 20, 2019 12:12 pm | Comments (15)
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Joseph Villano addresses City Plan commissioners.
The owner of a local sign-making company does not want a proposed “Las Vegas-style” strip club to become his neighbor. And he stopped by the City Plan Commission to say so.
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by | May 16, 2019 1:28 pm | Comments (2)
A family thought it was the cops bursting into their apartment late at night. It turns out cops weren’t at the door; bail enforcement agents were.
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by | May 15, 2019 8:06 am | Comments (13)
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Peter Forchetti pitching plan Tuesday night: Planet Venus will bring a little Las Vegas to the Elm City. Below: Vegas strip club.
The owner of a soon-to-close Mill River strip club is looking to open a “Las Vegas-style” entertainment complex just around the corner that will include a restaurant, a speakeasy-themed bar, and a live performance venue for comedians, magicians, and dancing topless women.
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by | May 13, 2019 8:35 pm | Comments (8)
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Scores owner Peter Forchetti and lawyer Anthony DiCrosta with Clock Shop Lofts developer Josh Blevins and lawyer Jay Lawlor.
A Mill River strip club owner has reached a deal with a Portland-based developer to pay up to $40,000 in back rent, end its eviction appeal, and vacate its derelict former clock factory digs by May 20 in order to allow for the building’s conversion into 130 affordable apartments and artist lofts.
by | May 7, 2019 12:40 pm | Comments (0)
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Scores owner Peter Forchetti and attorney Anthony DiCrosta in court.
A housing court judge has given a Mill River strip club eight days to post $1.2 million in cash or collateral to avoid immediate eviction from its dilapidated clock factory home.
by | Apr 25, 2019 4:04 pm | Comments (2)
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Resident leader Brenda Harris at the groundbreaking for the first phase of the Farnam Courts redo.
A longtime public-housing tenant leader is looking to bring her talents downtown to City Hall, at least for a while.
by | Apr 25, 2019 10:56 am | Comments (3)
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Scores owner Peter Forchetti, lawyer Anthony DiCrosta in court.
A state appeals court has sided with Scores strip club’s argument that the latter should not be on the hook for $2.45 million. Even if its refusal to budge from a dilapidated clock factory torpedoes an estimated $38 million new housing development.
by | Apr 23, 2019 7:18 am | Comments (0)
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Luckey (in orange earrings).
The mothers around the table at Briah Luckey’s art studio on East Street weren’t wasting any time. There were greetings and updates before they quickly got to the task at hand, grabbing large rectangles of paper and paintbrushes for that morning’s project: “mark making” with black ink, accented by brightly colored, water-soluble crayons. There was a palpable enthusiasm in the room, perhaps born of the knowledge that this time was their own.
by | Apr 2, 2019 7:34 am | Comments (1)
A federal judge fined two property-owning brothers $9,500 each and sentenced each to one year of probation and 50 hours of community service for illegal and dangerous removal of asbestos from a Mill River warehouse.
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by | Mar 27, 2019 5:05 pm | Comments (9)
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Scores’ Forchetti and DiCrosta.
A Mill River strip club’s owners have until Monday to put together $2.45 million in cash or collateral, or else the owners of a dilapidated former clock factory may proceed with an eviction to make way for 130 new affordable apartments and artist lofts, thanks to a judge’s ruling released Wednesday.
by | Mar 21, 2019 8:37 pm | Comments (10)
Club owner Peter Forchetti, lawyer Anthony DiCrosta in court Thursday.
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Scores on Saint John Street.
The developer of the Clock Shop Lofts told a judge his $38 million-plus renovation of an historic Mill River factory has a 50 – 50 chance of falling apart if a strip club doesn’t move out within a year.
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by | Mar 18, 2019 3:23 pm | Comments (6)
Contested beachfront: Cirino’s property at left; Palmieri’s, right.
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Palmieri in a past interview about the family food biz.
The city has moved to foreclose on a Mill River spaghetti sauce manufacturing plant due to unpaid taxes.
Meanwhile, the plant’s third-generation owner owes over $430,000 to a Morris Cove neighbor whom he took to court six times over 15 years over who owns the beach abutting their properties.
by | Mar 14, 2019 4:24 pm | Comments (1)
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The Quinnipiac River: Soon to be a state wildlife refuge?
Local waterfowl can breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now, that a bill that would designate both the Quinnipiac River and the Mill River as wildlife refuges has won a key sign-off from a state legislative committee.
by | Mar 12, 2019 12:26 pm | Comments (7)
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The 1920s-era Grand Ave building that will soon come down.
United Illuminating finally met with neighbors of its polluted former power plant — and offered a mix of news and no-news about its ongoing clean-up.
by | Mar 12, 2019 7:58 am | Comments (17)
Scene of discovery beneath clock factory floorboards.
The developers of the new Clock Shop Lofts apartments recently stumbled upon a half-dozen high-power firearms buried beneath the floorboards of the former Hamilton Street factory complex.
by | Feb 25, 2019 8:43 am | Comments (10)
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Miguel Almodovar, lawyer for both projects, pitching zoners.
Twenty-five apartments in a rehabbed historic carriage factory. A “Planet Venus” strip club with liquor service in a 1960s-era concrete warehouse.
Both are planned for within a half-mile of one another on the same post-industrial stretch of Wooster Square.
Welcome to the new Wallace Street?
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by | Jan 31, 2019 8:54 am | Comments (3)
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Officer Daophet Sangxayarath looks for people out in the deep freeze.
As temperatures dropped into the single digits on Wednesday night, beat cops fanned out across the city searching for anyone who might be at risk of freezing to death.
by | Dec 14, 2018 8:41 am | Comments (0)
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Scores strip club on St. John Street.
Scores lawyer Anthony DiCrosta and Clock Shop lawyer Jay Lawlor in court on Thursday.
A Mill River strip club filed for bankruptcy the afternoon before its eviction hearing, buying itself time before having to leave in order to make way for a new complex of 130 low-income apartments and artist lofts.
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by | Dec 6, 2018 10:09 pm | Comments (3)
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Welch and Malloy affix memorial wreath at Thursday’s dedication.
Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, 19-year-old Electrician’s Mate Floyd Welch was pulling together the microphone and other equipment for church services on his ship, the U.S.S. Maryland, anchored, with a sister ship, two by two, along one of the inlets at Pearl Harbor.
Within a half hour of noise, confusion, and alarms, he and his 1,000 shipmates were at battle stations. Where he stood through the smoke on the forecastle, he saw a battleship lying on her side.
by | Nov 23, 2018 12:57 pm | Comments (7)
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Spencer Luckey inside his bigger new plant.
Inside a Mill River factory where workers once made parts for jet engines, a new crew is designing and building bean-stalk and leaf-petal-designed children’s climbing sculptures to ship to California and the Middle East.
by | Nov 22, 2018 10:55 am | Comments (3)
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Stack-starters Sobocinski and McDonald.
Tech hub’s smokestack, which inspired new restaurant’s name.
Pair a Navy vet-restaurateur with Kansas City barbecue roots with a brewery owner who also runs restaurants with a sense of whimsy and a flair for fun — and you get a match made in brew-hog heaven.
by | Oct 31, 2018 4:20 pm | Comments (21)
Scores, looking down Saint John Street.
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Attorneys DiCrosta and Lawlor in housing court.
New owners of a former clock factory on the industrial “Mill River” side of Wooster Square have moved to evict a nearly two-decade-old strip club as they prepare to convert the complex into 130 low-income housing units and artist lofts.