by | Sep 15, 2020 10:45 am | Comments (1)
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The bridge (above) now looks like a ship to Hercules Sessions (below).
So long predatory arachnids, hello … watercraft?
The Grand Avenue Bridge finally has its complete coat of mint green paint — and the new color has inspired some pedestrians to see poetry in their surroundings.
by | Mar 5, 2020 1:25 pm | Comments (2)
Allan Appel Photo
A demolition crew Thursday afternoon took down a long-vacant white stucco building right on the Quinnipiac River at the northwestern approach to the Grand Avenue Bridge.
Officials say it was in danger of collapsing and falling into the river immediately below.
by | Dec 6, 2019 1:05 pm | Comments (1)
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Guns Down/Books Up’s Ray Wallace, center, with Young Knights Elizer Diaz, left, and T.J. Yuio
Enhance the municipal canoe launch at Clifton Street. Fund a school-based anti-bullying program that culminates in a musical production. Beautify storm drains near local schools with images of fish. Paint a mural of an oyster near the Q River. Deploy pavement marking and bright textured paint to narrow the avenue and slow the traffic.
Continue reading ‘Quinnipiac East Weighs Oyster Murals Vs. Traffic Calming’
by | Dec 5, 2019 3:41 pm | Comments (1)
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Tortora with a bottle of nero d’avolo, which he sold to a reporter during the course of an interview.
The original plan was for the Grand Avenue Bridge to close as early as this fall to begin 18 months of renovations..
That would have killed a big part of the holiday business for Ben Tortora, Fair Haven’s only wine merchant, who runs Grand Vin right by the bridge.
Now the start of construction has been pushed back past Christmas — and Tortora is driving back and forth across the bridge to make the personal deliveries at the heart of his business’s success.
Continue reading ‘Wine Merchant Toasts Bridge-Closing Delay’
by | Jul 15, 2019 12:27 pm | Comments (3)
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The Turnbridge condo complex viewed from Grand Avenue Bridge looking south.
“I was an alder. I appreciate the job you do.”
Continue reading ‘History Stands In Way Of 14 Overhead Doors’
by | Feb 20, 2019 8:29 am | Comments (5)
Tortora, on right, with customer Kerby Long.
Ben Tortora’s Grand Vin wine shop lost 15 – 18 percent of its business when the sidewalk all around the store was dug up during the two-year-long Quinnipiac Avenue redo beginning back in 2011.
Now the 73-year-old merchant fears losing 25 percent of his business when Grand Avenue Bridge closes for a year and more of major renovations.
by | Feb 18, 2019 3:24 pm | Comments (2)
Patriquin Architects
The new design.
It’s not every day that neighbors dispatch their lawyer before a city commission for the sole purpose of expressing joy at an outcome.
Continue reading ‘Oyster Farm Expansion, Redesigned, Wins Support’
by | Jun 8, 2018 8:04 am | Comments (29)
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An early rendering of the proposed New Heights development.
The builder of a proposed new mini-village on the banks of the Quinnipiac River agreed to delay asking for zoning help from the city until neighbors get more of a chance to vet the plans.
Continue reading ‘Neighbor Concerns Delay Riverfront Project’s Zoning Quest’
by | May 31, 2018 12:00 pm | Comments (3)
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Patricia Kane didn’t need modern technology to organize her neighbors: She planted a sign advertising a neighborhood cleanup to restore the Quinnipiac River’s weed-ridden waterfront, and they showed up ready to work.
Continue reading ‘“Quinnipiac Riviera” Neighbors Restore Gathering Spot’
by | May 31, 2018 7:43 am | Comments (5)
Courtesy NHFD
Firefighter checks scene of crash
A 38-year-old Massachusetts man led police on a foot chase Wednesday after crashing into a house on Quinnipiac Avenue.
by | Feb 9, 2018 5:08 pm | Comments (25)
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Rendered view of new plan from Q bridge.
Allan Appel Photo
Petra and Salas-Romer.
A city developer plans to create a mini-neighborhood of middle-income apartments and local stores done in the architectural style of the historical oystering village along the East Grand Avenue side of the Quinnipiac River — an idea a previous builder tried and failed to carry out.
by | Jan 22, 2018 5:56 pm | Comments (16)
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Det. Daniel Conklin leaves federal court after a Sept. 2017 case.
A controversial New Haven cop is not only back on the force, but about to head back to court — sued this time for allegedly driving recklessly and crashing his police cruiser into a dirt bike.
by | Aug 22, 2017 1:49 pm | Comments (3)
392 Quinnipiac, built by Lorenzo Button around 1850, in its final days earlier this year.
One of the last surviving working buildings of the city’s great 19th century oystering era is no more, the victim of what one city officials called “demolition by neglect.”
Continue reading ‘“Demolition By Neglect” Claims Historic Oysterman’s House’
by | Jan 26, 2017 3:04 pm | Comments (10)
Allan Appel Photos
Homemade traffic-calming gesture at 874 Q.
Developer Bekhrad, Alder Rose Santana and State Rep. Al Paollilo at Wednesday meeting.
They saw fewer houses lit with Christmas lights this year — and more blighted buildings.They see trucks and broken cars parked on sidewalks by a tow shop. They see forbidden barbed wire appearing atop commercial fences.
Along with upticks in speeding and graffiti, that jolted neighbors to resurrect the Quinnipiac River Community Group (QRCG).
by | Aug 3, 2015 3:02 pm | Comments (4)
More bats will be hanging around Fair Haven Heights, and that’s a good thing for bats and humans alike — not so much for the mosquitoes.
by | Jul 9, 2015 12:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Wooly Grapers Crystal Manning, Tracy Peters, Marlana Rugg, and Patty Shea toasting and knitting.
During the grueling,endless winter, Fair Havener Tambira Armmand, a knitter, sewer, and all-round creative textile person, came down with a bad case of cabin fever. Suddenly she looked out her window, and spotted the solution.
Continue reading ‘Wooly Grape Weaves Fair Haveners Together’
by | Mar 10, 2015 3:01 pm | Comments (3)
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Winter’s waning weeks have brought have an unfamiliar flock to the Quinnipiac River: rowers.
by | May 8, 2014 12:06 pm | Comments (10)
Allan Appel Photo
Harris lands a big dunk for the Greens.
Number 15 of the Blues and number 15 of the Greens could have run afoul of the cops — if they had been hanging around the streets instead of the basketball court.
Continue reading ‘In B-Ball Tourney, Community Policing Scores’
by | Oct 9, 2013 1:20 pm | Comments (6)
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A coach bus arrives at Westville’s Stone Hearth Restaurant to begin the tour.
A sparkling white coach bus from New Haven Land Trust’s “Habitat, Harvest, and Happy Hour Benefit Bus Tour” ambled down Newhallville streets. At the head of the bus, Stacy Spell, a former New Haven homicide detective with microphone in hand, described how some of the streets and corners were once breeding grounds for crime, consumed in drugs and violence.
Continue reading ‘Bus Tour “Reveals” Flourishing Community Gardens’
by | May 21, 2013 4:00 pm | Comments (4)
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Morrison home-schools her three sons in the 1800s home at the southern edge of the project property.
Erika Morrison’s sons Gabe, Seth, and Jude will reluctantly give up some nifty forts they have built over the years at secret locations in the narrow strip of woods between Q Avenue and the Q River.
Continue reading ‘New State Policy Boosts Q River Building Project’
by | Feb 4, 2013 2:25 pm | Comments (21)
Allan Appel Photo
A gap-toothed smile along Quinnipiac Avenue may one day be complete, as the city eyes a plan to fill this long-vacant lot with 15 new homes.
by | Aug 31, 2011 2:03 pm | Comments (4)
Laurel Leff Photo
When Christopher Randall, executive director of the New Haven Land Trust, arrived Sunday afternoon at the organization’s nature preserve flush against the Long Island Sound, he expected to find raging waters and roiled vegetation.
He didn’t expect to find a 28-foot sloop tossed over 1,500 feet inland, a stone’s throw from Long Wharf Drive.
by | Jan 19, 2010 2:12 pm | Comments (4)
Melinda Tuhus Photo
State Rep. Mary Mushinsky loves the Quinnipiac River. She’s worried that a law she wrote to protect it is getting watered down before it even takes effect.
by | Jun 17, 2009 11:28 am | Comments (45)
A school bus driver may be headed for discipline, after a neighbor caught a yellow bus on video barreling through Fair Haven Heights.
by | Mar 24, 2009 11:12 am | Comments (28)
The shoddy state of Quinnipiac Avenue is taking a toll on condo developer Fereshteh Bekhrad. Her potential tenants are walking away, telling her, “Your units are beautiful, but the street stinks.”