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.
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Paul Bass, Thomas Breen, Allan Appel and Maya McFadden |
Mar 12, 2020 12:38 pm
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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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Feb 26, 2020 2:25 pm
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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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Jan 13, 2020 9:04 am
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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.
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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Nov 15, 2019 8:46 am
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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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Oct 22, 2019 11:08 am
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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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Oct 8, 2019 2:15 pm
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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.
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.
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Sep 20, 2019 7:37 am
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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.
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Jul 28, 2019 8:37 pm
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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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May 22, 2019 11:51 am
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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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Feb 20, 2019 1:20 pm
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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.
