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Marchela Corolla lives next to Lighthouse Point Park and loves the water.
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Wargo tracks wreckage on Day 3 of Tropical Storm Isaias clean-up.
“Make safe 2 to EOC. At Concord and Alden, tree has been cleared but still has power lines down and has a leaning pole.”
Fire Captain William Wargo leaned into his handheld radio as he reported back to the city’s emergency operations center.
“Pole 5814 is leaning and could come down if it’s windy enough. There is no power in the area. Houses are running generators.”
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Parent Francisco Pena (demonstrating sneeze gesture taught at Fair Haven School): Ready to teach his son at home.
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Mayor Elicker, announcing shutdown with Superintendent Tracey: “It’s at times like these that we define what kind of community we are.”
All New Haven public schools, senior centers, and libraries will close indefinitely beginning Friday as part of the city’s latest effort to stem the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
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by | Feb 26, 2020 2:25 pm | Comments (0)
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The current dirt pile at 87 Union St.: Soon to transform into nearly 300 apartments (below).
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The New York City-based developers of a planned new 299-unit, mixed-use Wooster Square apartment complex recently closed on a $50 million construction loan that should allow them to resume work at the site later this week.
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The city has started getting the word to neighbors about how to prepare for increased anticipating flooding in areas near the water.
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66 Norton St.
A Brooklyn-based landlord paid $1.46 million to buy the 40-unit apartment complex at 66 Norton St., which has been empty for the past two years after the city first declared the building structurally unsafe.
by | Dec 9, 2019 4:37 pm | Comments (2)
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With calls of “stop trashing New Haven” and “don’t dump on us,” a local activist rallied a management team to write a formal letter of opposition to a local recycler’s proposal to accept wet or putrescible garbage down in the port district.
Residents also agreed to up the ante of their protest by showing up an hour before a Dec. 18 City Plan Commission meeting and to make their point with paints and posters as well.
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Murphy Road Recycling no longer plans to double the size of its waste transfer station in the Annex — but it does still hope to expand that plant’s services to include household garbage trucked in from throughout the region.
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John Bastone looked at the small stack of vinyl records a vendor had just dragged in on a dolly.
by | Oct 22, 2019 11:08 am | Comments (6)
Safety-Kleen’s David Paquette and Richard Domschine with local attorney Hugh Manke.
A used oil-recycling company in the Annex won permission to build eight new storage tanks and two new rail spurs on its existing site — paving the way for more train transport, fewer truck trips, and the planned future storage of used anti-freeze.
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by | Oct 8, 2019 2:15 pm | Comments (6)
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The proposed discontinued stretch of Waterfront Street (in yellow).
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Safety-Kleen VP of Real Estate Bryan Girts, local attorney Hugh Manke, and local Safety-Kleen operating manager Richard Domschine.
A used-oil recycling company won a key aldermanic sign-off for its plans to purchase a city street for $100,000 and employ more trains, and fewer trucks, to transport its goods to Canada.
by | Sep 26, 2019 2:34 pm | Comments (11)
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Terrace Heights in the Annex.
A Westport-based investor purchased a 41-unit apartment complex in the Annex from a Waterbury-based investor for $3.95 million, in one of the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Sep 20, 2019 7:37 am | Comments (5)
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The SWAT team arrives on Chamberlain Street.
The police SWAT team took an alleged bank robber into custody Thursday afternoon after an hours-long standoff and hostage negotiation on Chamberlain Street in the Annex.
by | Jul 28, 2019 8:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Memorial to Christopher Franco on the Tomlinson bridge, where a hit-and-run driver killed him.
Nearly 100 people gathered in Common Ground High School’s cafeteria Sunday for a vigil for recent graduate Christopher Franco, who was killed in a weekend crash, the school’s second tragic loss in six years.
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Chris Ozyck brought a small, neat, white bag of his very own “putrescible MSW” (municipal solid waste), also known as garbage, into the aldermanic chamber Tuesday night.
Although he had curated the contents against odor, the Fair Haven activist insisted something rotten is happening down in the Port District.
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by | Mar 11, 2019 7:43 am | Comments (10)
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Esther Armmand speaks with Looney & Paolillo.
East Siders got a chance to talk politics with their state representatives Saturday and offer their own solutions.
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by | Feb 20, 2019 1:20 pm | Comments (0)
East Shore cops conducted 58 motor vehicle stops in a week — and caught an erratic moped driver and a woman who allegedly fled the scene of a Valentine’s Day crash.
by | Feb 13, 2019 3:03 pm | Comments (3)
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Long Wharf Nature Preserve and the adjacent Long Island Sound, soon to be home to two new “living shorelines.”
Okay, climate change — New Haven’s coast is going to be $8 million readier for you.
by | Feb 5, 2019 2:37 pm | Comments (0)
Not the same vehicle in question.
A Foxon Hill Road resident’s pickup truck was stolen from his driveway. The car was later located in Brooklyn, New York.
There was one small problem. The car was on fire.
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by | Jan 22, 2019 1:13 pm | Comments (2)
A Fair Haven Heights woman received more than nine pounds of marijuana at her doorstep — without asking for it.
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by | Jan 16, 2019 5:51 pm | Comments (5)
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Ready for repairs: Tenant Frank Cocza at Ruoppolo Manor.
Sign in the Fairmont Heights common room.
A leaky roof stains ceilings. People enter at all hours past lax security. Kitchens are cramped, an elevator often broken, bathrooms covered with mildew.
A top-to-bottom renovation is aimed at fixing those and other problems at two 1970s-vintage public-housing complexes for the elderly and disabled, aided by a new legal run around federal cuts.
by | Dec 21, 2018 1:12 pm | Comments (14)
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Recent Mandy purchases in Newhallville: 38 Townsend St., 247 County St., 591 Sherman Pkwy., and 100 Newhall St..
A single-family Colonial in Fair Haven. A two-story condo in the Annex. A three-family house in Newhallville. A 21-unit complex in Edgewood.
Those are four of 87 New Haven properties that the Netz/Mandy Management organization took over in 2018, a year that saw the operation acquire over 170 units and spend almost $13 million in expanding its local real estate empire of low-income rental apartments.
by | Dec 7, 2018 1:18 pm | Comments (2)
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New homeowners Anneisha Haye and Andres Concha-Brito; 335 W. Division and 436 Huntington.
Andres Concha-Brito spends his days installing carpets in Fairfield County mansions. Anneisha Haye spends her days overseeing housekeeping at a Whalley Avenue hotel.
Both can now return from a hard day’s work to homes of their own. They’re among the city’s latest property purchasers, thanks to a decades-old nonprofit that helps working class New Haveners become first-time homeowners.
by | Dec 5, 2018 3:15 pm | Comments (5)
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Questions pinned up at Tuesday night’s transfer station expansion meeting.
It smells. It doesn’t smell.
It will add pollution. It won’t add pollution.
Rumbling trucks will awaken slumbering residential streets. Nope, the rigs stay mainly on the highways.
The city gets new jobs and taxes. Or … a beleaguered, dense, and poor neighborhood gets dumped on once again.
by | Oct 31, 2018 12:56 pm | Comments (6)
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722 Orchard St.
A faith-based nonprofit developer sold a rehabbed Orchard Street home to a low-income buyer, marking its fifth gut rehab and affordable housing conversion completed on a single block between Charles Street and Henry Street.
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