Zrelak: "What you flush down the toilet, dump down the drain, this is where it ends up."
Yuck: "Raggy material," like wipes and tampons, that ends up in the dumpster.
Gary Zrelak, director of operations for the Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority, wielded a several-foot-long plastic pipe with a valve at the end, which he nicknamed the “sludge judge.”
He was on a catwalk over the water draining out of the last of three enormous tanks at the East Shore Water Pollution Abatement Facility, taking a core sample of the 14-foot-deep pool.
As he expected, below the surface, the water was still brown, tinted with matter that was settling slowly to the bottom of the pool. But the top three feet of water were clear — almost ready to be released into the New Haven Harbor on a cold winter day.
The tank — and the two preceding it, and the entire facility that runs them — “is connected to everyone, every household and commercial building” in a substantial part of the greater New Haven area, Zrelak said. “They have a toilet, they’re coming here.”
McClune and Schwan: $300 more is too much; Chen: That's the market.
Is Mandy Management raising the rent to align with market rates, or does the megalandlord practically set the market rates?
That question was asked at a Fair Rent Commission hearing on Tuesday evening, at which Lenox Street tenants Douglas Schwan and Natalie McClune succeeded in getting a monthly rent increase knocked down from $300 to $100.
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The electric crane, at New Haven's electrifying port.
DeLauro: These types of investments are "the gift that keeps on giving."
None of the three federal legislators standing on a pier in New Haven Harbor Friday afternoon mentioned the presidential and congressional elections that are days away.
But, in their remarks celebrating $34 million newly set to wash ashore on the city’s industrial port, they all made an argument that is central to the political legacies of Biden-era Democrats.
As truck after truck barreled through New Haven’s industrial port district Monday afternoon, the asthma-inducing particulate matter in the air at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and Alabama Street reached 29.5 micrograms per cubic meter (μg/m³).
That compared to 16.4 outside Mitchell Library and 28 outside Tweed Airport and 21 by the Hill South police substation at the exact same time.
City government is now collecting and making public that data through 11 recently installed air quality sensors, which shine a light on just how much hazardous haze New Haveners take in with every breath.
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Aug 21, 2024 9:50 am
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On the trail again ...
A walk by the New Haven Bioregional Group followed part of the route through Morris Cove of the proposed Shoreline Greenway Trail, which will connect the Farmington Canal Trail to the shore. In the process, it revealed a complex history of land use, and the ways that the push and pull of industrial use versus green spaces have shaped — and continue to shape — the neighborhood.
The Townshend Mansion: New road, new houses en route?
Eleven new single-family homes are one step closer to coming to the historic Townshend mansion property in the East Shore — now that the City Plan Commission has approved a plan to build a private road to those residences to-be.
Port Authority's Sally Kruse: Planning for harbor growth.
Ghost ships ahoy? A foggy look at the port district on Wednesday from the Tomlinson Bridge.
Steel rods on Stiles Street.
Need a spot to store lots of steel rods or planks of wood?
Then you’re in luck, because the New Haven Port Authority has now bought more than three acres of previously state-owned land in the city’s industrial waterfront district — and is looking to lease to companies needing a place to put their shipped-in goods.
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LCI documentation of violations at Annex Ocean Management property — including faulty gutter likely contributing to in-home water damage.
The Fair Rent Commission ordered an invisible landlord to charge invisible rent until they reconcile 12-year-old complaints lodged by a long-term tenant.
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Bryan Ramirez-Guttierez's reserved seat at the Hillhouse High graduation he never got to attend.
Police have made arrests in a pair of hit-and-runs that caused the deaths of two New Haveners, including 17-year-old Bryan Ramirez-Guttierez last February.
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Nov 9, 2023 9:15 am
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Local officials and Douglas W. Rae (third from right) at Founder's Day event.
The following writeup was submitted by Ellen Doon and Mike Galbicsek of the New Haven Youth Soccer league.
On Saturday, Nov. 4, over a hundred people gathered at East Shore Park to celebrate 40 years of youth soccer in New Haven. Members of New Haven Youth Soccer, along with several city and state officials, came together for the league’s first “Founder’s Day” event. The event honors Dr. Douglas W. Rae, Professor Emeritus in the Yale School of Management, who founded New Haven Youth Soccer in the early 1980s.
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Bones and more.
Are you in the market for a pair of snake bone earrings or maybe even a lizard wet specimen? Or maybe you’re more into resin earrings or keychains of your favorite pop culture icons, but you still want to check out some taxidermy creatures and gravestone rubbings as well? All that and way more were waiting for you and purveyors of the odd, the weird, and the wonderfully obscure at the third annual New England Antiques and Oddities Exhibition, held this past Sunday afternoon at the Annex YMA Lounge and Hall on Woodward Avenue.
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Officers Tyler Camp and Justin Julianelle: Suspected drive-by shooters fled. With the right conditions on the road, they pursued.
Nine shots had just been fired on a Wednesday afternoon in Fair Haven, and neighbors who called 911 identified the suspects as two men in masks on a three-wheeled motorcycle.
Which is exactly what and who Officer Justin Julianelle saw as he rushed to Blatchley Avenue and Lombard Street in his cruiser.
As the three-wheeler suspected shooters fled from Fair Haven to Wooster Square to Fair Haven again to the Annex, Julianelle followed — but he didn’t “chase.” That’s an important distinction in New Haven these days.
Camille Ansley and Alder Sal Punzo, ready for Ward 17 Democratic primary.
A first-term Annex alder and retired longtime local educator is seeking another two years in office to focus on cleaner parks, slower traffic, and better schools — while his Democratic primary challenger wants to “give a voice to the Annex” after her years of advocacy for her former home neighborhood of Cedar Hill.
Fairmount Theater owner Gilberto Gonzalez, Jr.: "I don't know how we're surviving, because we're not making any money."
Could this become New Haven's last remaining movie theater?
Gilberto Gonzalez, Jr. wants to sell the porno movie theater he owns in the Annex — but he can’t find any buyers.
He wants to spruce up the decaying commercial building into an adult cinema to be proud of — but he can’t find any lenders.
He wants to retire and move on from screening sexually explicit films he doesn’t particularly enjoy watching — but he’s still catching up on bills from the theater’s Covid-era closure.
So for now, as he’s done for the past 13 years, Gonzalez shows up to work at the Fairmount Theater on a near daily basis to keep one of New Haven’s last remaining movie houses chugging along. Until whatever happens next.
Elicker, Abdussabur offer different takeaways at Jepsen mayoral forum.
Days after a rainstorm flooded Tweed airport and left passengers temporarily stranded, mayoral candidates conveyed varying takes on the airport’s economic value and environmental impact to its neighbors.
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Jun 26, 2023 12:14 pm
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Annemarie Rivera-Berrios stands by the playscape with her rake and shovel
Chris Ozyck and Mike Simons add new mulch to the playground
It took just under half an hour for AnneMarie Rivera-Berrios and a small group of friends to level the mound of mulch that had been sitting by the swing sets at Peat Meadow Park for three months — to make sure that kids have a softer ground to land on the next time they come out to enjoy the Annex public playground.
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Fajardo (center) after winning out at Saturday's 30-round auction.
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With his trusty Scag lawnmower sitting quietly behind his truck, an East Haven landscaper won the opportunity to cut the high grass of an abandoned East Shore home — which he’ll soon own after prevailing at a foreclosure sale.
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Ship ahoy in the Annex. More to come, with a to-be-deepened port?
A Massachusetts-based company has purchased a handful of waterfront storage properties in the Annex for over $17 million — in anticipation of a federally subsidized harbor-deepening project that promises to boost business in New Haven’s already bustling industrial port.
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.
A memorial for Juan Carlos Colon outside 270 Forbes.
A work dispute at a Forbes Avenue car repair shop escalated into a physical fight between two business partners — and ended with one colleague shooting and killing the other, then confessing to the police.
Who's playing identity politics? Squaring off in Wooster Square Park over the Columbus statue removal, in 2020.
Mayoral candidate Shafiq Abdussabur made a play for East Shore voters by calling for tax cuts for airport neighbors and questioning the removal of Wooster Square Park’s Christopher Columbus statue.
In the process, he and incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker ended up accusing each other of playing “identity politics.” Neither meant it as a compliment. Or as having the same meaning.
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Townshend mansion: To host special events, to be surrounded by new houses?
Estate co-owner Chuck Mascola.
The owners of the 26-acre former Townshend family home and its surrounding properties are hoping to write a new chapter of accessible preservation into East Shore history by building roughly 50 homes behind the property’s 18th-century mansion — and by drafting a fresh set of zoning regulations to govern that development.
Chuck and Marcella Mascola, two of the three individuals who purchased that historic estate at 701, 709, 725, and 745 Townsend Ave. a year and a half ago, shared their plan to convert some of the Townsend Avenue property’s open space into housing as they pitched a broader idea to introduce “special heritage mixed use zoning districts” into the city’s zoning code.
