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.
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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.
by | Jun 24, 2021 8:15 pm | Comments (29)
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DuBois-Walton at presser: Mayor’s job is to find way to do what’s right.
If something appears wrong — like city government OK’ing, with almost no questions asked, $900,000 in state tax breaks for companies accused of fraud and controlled by an imprisoned sex predator — what should a mayor do?
Mayoral candidate Karen DuBois-Walton offered an answer Thursday that differed from the one offered by her opponent: Find a legal way to do what’s right.
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by | Jun 22, 2021 6:53 pm | Comments (0)
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The intersection of Farren Avenue and Fulton Street, where a driver slammed into two pedestrians on May 8.
An early-morning brawl outside of an Annex restaurant led to a pickup truck slamming into two pedestrians — leaving both hospitalized with critical injuries, and the hit-and-run driver now arrested for assault with a motor vehicle.
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by | Jun 18, 2021 1:13 pm | Comments (12)
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Co-owners Danny and Luann Scarpellino in action.
The Tony Soprano.
In August 1981, Danny Scarpellino sold his 1974 Cutlass Supreme for $800 to buy a new stove for the first Scarpellino’s Sub Shop on 140 Park St.
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by | Jun 3, 2021 2:44 pm | Comments (29)
26-acre estate, in Townshend hands since 1797.
History is for sale for $2.25 million on the East Shore — along with a whole lot of room for overnight guests of multiple species.
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by | Apr 16, 2021 2:51 pm | Comments (5)
The State Bond Commission voted Friday to fund a $5 million study and design to deepen New Haven Harbor’s navigation channel.
by | Apr 8, 2021 4:24 pm | Comments (10)
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Frank D’Amore documents construction piles on Pardee Street.
City inspectors conducting New Haven’s latest “clean and safe neighborhood sweep” Thursday came across the Annex’s potential next illegal junkyards — and took steps to prevent them.
by | Apr 8, 2021 9:21 am | Comments (6)
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“I’ve got a summer now”: Lucas Bosch flashes his vaccination card at Salperto Park pop-up.
Danielle Desanti was eager to land a vaccination appointment — so when an opportunity arose Wednesday, she raced to grab it.
by | Apr 5, 2021 4:22 pm | Comments (2)
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Players at the opening day of the new indoor batting facility.
As an aspiring catcher and first baseman, preferably for the New York Yankees, Jayden Velez, 9, could barely contain his excitement.
It was 15 minutes before Saturday’s grand opening of an indoor baseball facility in a warehouse on 31 Fulton St. The space, which includes four batting cages, is the brainchild of Angel Ramos, founder of the City Angels Baseball Academy (CABA) youth baseball league.
by | Mar 18, 2021 4:55 pm | Comments (14)
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Safety-Kleen tank farm, plus two tanks (pictured in yellow below.)
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A used-oil company won city permission to build two new storage tanks — and therefore more than double the amount of used oil it can hold on site — at a riverfront tank farm it owns in the Annex.
The approval came after a discussion of the environmental impact of having 115 oil tanks, and counting, located in New Haven.
by | Mar 15, 2021 8:08 am | Comments (12)
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East Shore Senior Center.
East Shore neighbors pressed Mayor Justin Elicker at an online community meeting not to proceed with a threatened closing of their senior center.
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by | Mar 11, 2021 3:53 pm | Comments (4)
Landlord Candelaria, Judge Baio at Tuesday’s online hearing.
Elizabeth Candelaria had reached her limit.
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by | Feb 26, 2021 2:52 pm | Comments (1)
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Fireside Restaurant.
An Annex restaurant’s bid to survive the pandemic survived another day in housing court, after a judge recognized the restaurant owner’s recent hospitalization as a valid excuse for presenting a tardy defense against a pending eviction.
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by | Feb 22, 2021 12:02 pm | Comments (2)
Fireside, the popular Annex restaurant and bar, is struggling to stay alive during the Covid-19 pandemic — and to remain in its Woodward Avenue digs.
by | Feb 19, 2021 5:58 pm | Comments (0)
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At the Friday roundtable discussion.
Chris Murphy, newly empowered in the U.S. Senate, got a message Friday to bring back to D.C.: The Coast Guard needs updated boats, buildings, and communication systems to continue as frontline security in New Haven.
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by | Jan 14, 2021 8:36 pm | Comments (35)
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Clockwise from top left at Thursday’s presser: Laura Cahn, Mayor Elicker, Sen. Looney, Chris Ozyck.
Irving Rodriguez engages in favorite pastime: fishing on the Quinnipiac.
Standing by the Quinnipiac River — across the water from the highway, oil tanks, and a recycling plant — officials joined neighbors and environmentalists in celebrating a victory over a plan to bring more industry to the business-crowded waterfront.
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by | Dec 17, 2020 3:15 pm | Comments (2)
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One of the entrances to 19 Wheeler St. in the Annex.
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Wednesday night’s City Plan Commission virtual meeting.
Wet trash from the suburbs will hurt local children with asthma, “frail” Fair Haven seniors, and Quinnipiac River oysters struggling to survive.
A host of city health officials, alders, environmentalists, Fair Haven neighbors, and local business owners offered those warnings during the latest virtual public hearing about the controversial planned expansion of an Annex waste transfer station.
Continue reading ‘Trash Co. Opponents To City Plan Commission: Protect Kids, Seniors, Oysters’
by | Dec 16, 2020 10:47 am | Comments (21)
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Christel Manning, center, protests plant’s expansion Tuesday.
A trash company accused New Haven of NIMBYism — and the city responded by accusing the company of environmental injustice for seeking to process more suburban garbage in the polluted Annex neighborhood.
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by | Dec 3, 2020 1:28 pm | Comments (2)
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Speaking out at hearing: supporters Lauryn Kearney and Frank Warrecke (top and bottom left), opponent Crystal Ayala (right).
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Crystal Ayala looked out from her Fairmont Avenue home and warned of odors, rodents, and plummeting property values if the city allows an Annex transfer station to collect suburban wet trash.
Lauryn Kearney looked at that same plant — and described it as one of the city’s “cleanest facilities,” a dedicated employer that deserves to expand.
by | Nov 19, 2020 4:59 pm | Comments (2)
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Ra Hashim and crew plant on Fairmont.
Seven green-thumbed colleagues from across the city — and the state, country, and world, for that matter — gathered in the Annex on a frigid fall morning with one shared goal: To beautify a concrete stretch of Fairmont Avenue with seven newly planted trees.
by | Nov 19, 2020 2:12 pm | Comments (6)
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Murphy’s Wheeler St. site: ready to expand?
A years-long fight over proposed expansion of an Annex waste-transfer station sparked a three-hour land-use debate — pitting a defense of jobs and corporate responsibility against warnings of malodors, vermin, a polluted river, and plummeting property values.
by | Nov 5, 2020 11:37 am | Comments (6)
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The state has tentatively sided with an Annex waste-processing facility owner’s expansion quest.
Mayor Justin Elicker weighed in on the side of neighbors who oppose it out of fears that the air would get even dirtier in what is already one of the state’s most intensive asthma clusters.
Continue reading ‘Trash-Processing Plant Plan Wins Temporary State Approval; Elicker Vows Fight’
by | Oct 16, 2020 11:38 am | Comments (5)
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381 Shelton, 345 Forbes: 2 party venues. 2 potential zoning fates.
Blake: Plans baby showers, poetry reading, theater.
Open the doors and cue the lights in Newhallville. In the Annex? Not so fast.
That’s the upshot of two unanimous zoning decisions, green-lighting one new gathering space on Shelton Avenue while pausing an illegally existing party venue on Forbes.
by | Sep 6, 2020 11:04 am | Comments (40)
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It felt like the whole world was vibrating Saturday on Stiles Street, as the deafening roar of multiple Harley Davidsons ricocheted off the I‑95 overpass for hours while well over 1,000 people looked on — until police shut it down.
Continue reading ‘Bikers Swarm Annex For Annual Street Bash’