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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Jun 22, 2021 6:53 pm
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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.
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.
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Apr 5, 2021 4:22 pm
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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.
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.
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Feb 26, 2021 2:52 pm
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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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Feb 19, 2021 5:58 pm
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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.
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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Dec 17, 2020 3:15 pm
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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.
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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Dec 3, 2020 1:28 pm
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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.
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Nov 19, 2020 4:59 pm
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
