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Shneor Edelkopf flips, clockwise from top left: 106 Bassett, 47 Hillside, 232 West Hazel, 268 Exchange.
Real estate investor Shneor Edelkopf has kicked his rental-property-flipping business into high gear this summer — as his companies have bought and promptly sold four apartment buildings in five weeks, at a combined markup of $364,000.
by | Jul 21, 2022 3:43 pm | Comments (2)
Five years after oil seeped into the New Haven Harbor by way of a leaky pipe, New Haven Terminal has agreed to pay the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) a $44,400 fine.
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Avangrid sent in this write up and these photos.
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Firefighters at scene of crash.
A 22-year-old New Havener named Wilmer Lopez drove a Toyota Highlander into Scarpellino’s Restaurant on Forbes Avenue, then died from his injuries at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
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by | May 26, 2022 2:06 pm | Comments (3)
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Entrance to Wheeler Street waste-transfer site.
A controversial Annex waste transfer station won permission to keep its doors open for another two years — so long as it takes extra steps to cut down on rodents, bad smells, speeding and idling trucks, and inadmissible wet trash.
Continue reading ‘Waste Plant Gets 2 Years, With 23 Conditions’
by | May 6, 2022 12:37 pm | Comments (9)
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Entrance to Wheeler Street waste-transfer site.
Do seagulls on the site of an Annex waste transfer station mean that the place is filthy, smelly, and in violation of city zoning rules?
Or does that web-footed, salt-water-drinking avian presence reflect nothing more than the facility’s riverfront location — and the fact that there are lots of seagulls up and down the coast?
Continue reading ‘Transfer Station Debate Goes To The Gulls’
by | Mar 4, 2022 1:03 pm | Comments (5)
A substitute teacher has been placed on leave pending the outcome of a sexual misconduct investigation.
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by | Jan 28, 2022 12:06 pm | Comments (5)
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Industrial warehouse property now under new ownership.
Criterion Group's Shibber Khan: One year, $27M+ spent on New Haven real estate.
A Queens-based real estate investment group spent over $21 million buying three industrial waterfront properties in the Annex, in some of the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Jan 21, 2022 11:29 am | Comments (2)
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Then-Lt. Gov. candidate Susan Bysiewicz with American GreenFuels staff at a campaign stop in 2018.
The industrial New Haven Terminal, with American GreenLeaf's rented property outlined in green in the bottom right.
An Annex plant that turns vegetable oil into biodiesel fuel won permission to expand its industrial waterfront operations — with a plea from City Plan Commissioners to do its best to swap out asphalt with concrete when possible to minimize its impact on a warming planet.
Continue reading ‘Biodiesel Expansion OK'd Amid Asphalt Concern’
by | Oct 27, 2021 8:34 am | Comments (19)
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Ward 17 alder candidates Punzo (vaxed), Rivera-Berrios (not saying).
Good schools, clean parks, safe streets — and, now that you mention it, a responsible neighborhood airport — top the priority lists of two local educators who are running to fill an open Board of Alders seat in the Annex.
Continue reading ‘Kids, Not Planes, Anchor Annex Alder Race’
by | Oct 20, 2021 3:05 pm | Comments (10)
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Sean Scanlon and Andrea Corazzini down Tweed-bound brew.
Sean Scanlon tried his first-ever cup of coffee Wednesday — after toasting a deal to bring an outpost of New Haven’s popular G Cafe to the growing airport he oversees.
by | Oct 8, 2021 8:35 am | Comments (13)
26-acre estate, in Townshend hands since 1797
A lifelong East Shore resident and former alder has succeeded in his quest to save the Raynham Estate — after closing on the 26.25-acre former Townshend family home and its surrounding properties for $2.6 million.
by | Oct 4, 2021 3:32 pm | Comments (34)
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Participants in EastCoastin’ 2021.
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Chief Dominguez looks on as cops arrest Gabe Canestri, Jr.
The city plans to send a bill for more than $100,000 in police and public works overtime to the organizer of an unpermitted, 5,000-person motorcycle rally that tore through the Annex.
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The following photos were taken at the EastCoastin 2021 motorcycle gathering, which drew 5,000 people Saturday to the Annex. Click here for a full story about the event.
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Participants scale fence to evade police, take over Waterfront St.
Cops arrest organizer Canestri; Chief Dominguez stands to his right.
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Burnout riders take over Waterfront St.
EastCoastin 2021 mass gathering city claimed it had “canceled.”
The city’s industrial waterfront disappeared in a cloud of exhaust smoke and the sounds of revving engines and police sirens Saturday as thousands of motorcyclists from across the Northeast descended upon the Annex to participate in a controversial “canceled” event.
By the time the sun had set, police had arrested the event’s organizer on charges of inciting a riot, and officers cleared the streets.
by | Sep 22, 2021 11:50 am | Comments (64)
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EastCoastin organizers Sal Fusco and Gabe Canestri Jr. (left): This event is going ahead. Mayor Justin Elicker and Chief Dominguez (right): Prepare for arrests.
EastCoastin’s Forbes Avenue meeting place.
Dueling press conferences in the Annex Wednesday painted an upcoming motorcycle event as a potential scene of disruptive and illegal “chaos” — or one of safe and controlled “joy.”
Both sides seemed to agree on at least one point: Like it or not, thousands of motorcyclists will be descending on Forbes Avenue Saturday. So get ready, New Haven.
by | Sep 20, 2021 1:33 pm | Comments (51)
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The city’s version of this Saturday’s event; the organizers’ response.
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Top cop Dominguez: Event’s off. Daredevil Canestri: Sure about that?
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“Controlled chaos” at 2020 (above) and 2017 (below) versions of event.
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New Haven declared a motorcycle event planned for this coming Saturday “canceled.”
Someone forgot to tell the thousands of hog riders and fans still expected to converge on the city, or the hotels that have run out of available rooms.
Continue reading ‘Motorcyclists Rev Up For “Canceled” Event’
by | Sep 8, 2021 11:28 am | Comments (4)
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Salvatore Punzo, at July’s Democratic Town Convention.
Alders unanimously endorsed renaming an East Shore Park-adjacent street corner after retired former New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) principal — and longtime Annex Little League president — Salvatore Punzo, whom admirer after admirer described as “one of the best human beings you’re ever gonna find.”
Continue reading ‘Alders Advance Principal Punzo Corner Renaming’
by | Sep 7, 2021 7:52 am | Comments (19)
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Players at season finale of Guns Down, Books Up Unity Basketball League.
For the first time in their lives, Tyran Mason, Maasa Bethea, D’aire Barnett, Davon Hargrove, Allen Hennah, and Travis James didn’t have to worry about unexpected shootings happening around them while they played on a basketball court.
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Zaire Luciano.
Zaire Luciano was shot to death on Chamberlain Street before dawn on Sunday.
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Tweed New Haven Airport Authority
Renovation, parking plans for New Haven side of airport property.
After a debate that concluded that climate change was not on the agenda, Tweed New Haven got the final sign-off Wednesday night to spend $5 million preparing its airport for new nonstop Florida flights.
by | Jul 29, 2021 3:33 pm | Comments (7)
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Endorsed alder candidate Sal Punzo at Tuesday’s convention.
Retired former New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) principal and teacher Salvatore Punzo has a new public service job on the horizon: Annex alder.
by | Jul 12, 2021 9:44 am | Comments (2)
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Hernan Muralles, at right, seized chance for a convenient shot — then brought back his buddy David Briley.
New Haven’s vaccination ground game — finding ways to lure Covid-19 vaccination hold-outs to get shots, one by one — found 19 takers at the gas pump.
by | Jul 9, 2021 1:10 pm | Comments (26)
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The scene at Tweed Friday, when the terminal was flooded with a foot of water from Tropical Storm Elsa.
Two words rang out during a Thursday evening Zoom call: eminent domain.
Continue reading ‘Eminent Domain Concern Rises At Stormy Tweed Confab’
by | Jun 28, 2021 9:57 am | Comments (29)
Brackeen and Elicker at joint campaign event Sunday in Westville.
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DuBois-Walton, at right, at Saturday’s house party.
Should mayors get two years or four years before having to run for reelection?
That question echoed in Westville over the weekend as two campaigners for the position — the incumbent and his top challenger — fished for votes.