A mysterious tube — carrying something out of a Clifton Street house’s sewage-flooding basement, through the backyard, over a neighbor’s fence, and out beside the Quinnipiac River, and installed without permits or permission from the riverbank property’s owner — led the Fair Rent Commission to drop two tenants’ monthly rents to $1 apiece.
It also put a convicted mortgage fraudster who is still involved in New Haven rental real estate back in the spotlight.
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Sep 20, 2023 9:13 am
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92 Lexington Ave., recently sold for $2.25M.
A Waterbury-based holding company has purchased a 50-bed nursing home and residential care facility on Lexington Avenue for $2.25 million — and a Stamford-based contractor has bought a Westville ex-convent and 10-unit apartment-complex-to-be for $865,000 — in some of the city’s latest property deals.
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Sep 15, 2023 12:03 pm
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Surprised non-Democrat Anthony Carter, with Bella Vista moderator Patricia Solomon.
“I’ve been a Democrat all my life,” said May, an 81-year-old Newhallville resident who said she’s voted at Lincoln-Bassett School every election since she bought her home in 1985.
Except she wasn’t a Democrat on Tuesday. She found out from a moderator that she had been re-registered as an “unaffiliated” voter, ineligible to vote in the primary.
May was one of at least dozens of people across the city to find out on Tuesday that they couldn’t vote because they weren’t Democrats. To many, including May, that news came as an inexplicable surprise.
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Aug 21, 2023 1:37 pm
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Friends Center teacher Karina Rojas, with fellow teacher Paris Pierce: “I have a goal to one day own my own home — and for my son to have his own room.”
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73 Howard, under construction last spring.
Early childcare provider Paris Pierce arrives to work on time and with a clear headspace — because her employer ensures the single mom has a safe home with two bathrooms, storage space, and a washing machine to care for herself and her three kids at no cost.
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Allan Appel |
Aug 21, 2023 12:17 pm
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Aaron Goode, Jean Webb, Marty Lendroth take on the jungle in the Heights.
It’s technically Ailanthus Altissima, or colloquially Tree of Heaven, but in Fair Haven Heights’ Fairmont Park it’s more often called, with a grrrrrrrr, as gardeners labor to uproot it, the Tree of Hell. Or from Hell.
But there’s now a lot less of this quick rising (thus toward heaven?) invasive Chinese species, and that’s thanks to decades of effort by Sylvia Dorsey and her stalwart crew of Friends of Fairmont Park.
Elicker, Abdussabur offer different takeaways at Jepsen mayoral forum.
Days after a rainstorm flooded Tweed airport and left passengers temporarily stranded, mayoral candidates conveyed varying takes on the airport’s economic value and environmental impact to its neighbors.
Ronisha Baskin and her four-year-old, crashing with grandma in Waterbury.
Ronisha Baskin didn’t know how to tell her 14-year-old daughter that the Housing Authority of New Haven had evicted them. “I didn’t even know what to say.” She could not find the words to explain that a lack of housing options would force them to split up across different cities.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 20, 2023 1:09 pm
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Jayden Alexander at batting practice at Dom Aitro Field Saturday.
Batter up!
That was the word (or two) on a half cloudy-half sunny Saturday afternoon as Jayden Alexander stepped in for travel team batting practice at Dom Aitro Field in Fair Haven Heights.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 14, 2023 11:14 am
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2019 model New England Golf Cars cart: Gas for now, electric soon?
Seventy-five gas guzzling golf carts are rolling towards another three-year deal for New Haven’s municipal green links — with green energy plans in the works to go electric when the course’s clubhouse renovations are complete.
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May 3, 2023 11:56 am
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The Trelleborg plant at 30 Lenox St.
A fabric-coating chemical manufacturer on Lenox Street has been fined over $305,000 for allegedly violating a federal air-pollution law — and must now clean up its act, or shut down entirely, by this summer.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 13, 2023 4:10 pm
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Judge Spader: If tenant's out by May, eviction case will disappear.
A state judge granted a Newhallville tenant an eviction reprieve after a Fair Haven Heights landlord testified that the renter could move into an apartment he owns on Lenox Street, thus sparing her from getting kicked out of her current home.
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Feb 24, 2023 10:42 am
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The Mandy-controlled two-story house at 698 Dixwell.
An affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management is looking to add one more apartment to a two-story Newhallville house — rather than build six new rental units or bring in a commercial tenant.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 2, 2023 8:59 am
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Friends Center ED Allyx Schiavone: Building housing for teachers.
4 new houses (solid-line rectangles) planned for around 53 Howard.
A local affordable childcare nonprofit is looking to take on the role of housing developer — as it moves forward with plans to expand its current rent-free-shelter options for teachers, by building four new houses in Fair Haven Heights.
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Allan Appel |
Dec 15, 2022 3:24 pm
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Sean Reeves at Wednesday's vigil at St. James Episcopal Church.
Dozens of advocates against gun violence gathered in Fair Haven Heights to mourn the 26 young people murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School — as well as the hundreds of fellow Connecticut residents shot to death each year — in a solemn ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of a preventable tragedy.
Marie takes the stairs up from Building D's garage.
A Bella Vista elevator is once again out of commission, leaving residents of the Fair Haven Heights elderly apartment complex’s Building D to test cardiovascular conditions and mobility challenges while walking up and down the stairs from the ground floor lobby to access their cars.
A foreclosed house on a Fair Haven Heights block of pastel-painted single-family homes eluded the hands of investors — landing instead in the hands of a soon-to-be-first-time homeowner, who hopes to live there with his family.
Friends Center for Children sent in this article and these photos about a recent event it organized.
What do we want? To fix child care! – and have some fun along the way.
Last Saturday marked the 10th New Haven Family Stroll and Festival, an annual event to raise awareness and much-needed funds for high-quality early care and education. After a two-year Covid-induced hiatus, this year’s event grew by over 300 people and had over 1,220 children, parents, educators and advocates converge at the Quinnipiac River Park for a day of awareness, fundraising and family fun
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May 6, 2022 12:37 pm
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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?
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Allan Appel |
Apr 27, 2022 2:26 pm
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With four hours of sometimes passionate debate, Fair Haven Heights environmental activists succeeded in putting off renewal of the permit for the solid waste transfer station at 19 Wheeler St. on the Quinnipiac River.
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Mar 29, 2022 9:20 am
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Goode leads urban explorers into wilderness, clears invasive species.
Environmental advocate Aaron Goode, loppers in hand, smiled as he looked over the hikers who had just waded through ankle-deep mud to get around a fence built across Hemingway Creek, behind the Bella Vista apartment complex.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 9, 2022 5:17 pm
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A state judge gave a 74-year-old tenant until the end of the month to move her belongings out of her Fair Haven Heights apartment, while her daughter seeks to relocate her mom from the hospital and into a nursing home.
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Maya McFadden |
Jan 18, 2022 2:38 pm
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Ozyck and Curran cross the reopened bridge on Day One.
After waiting nearly two years, neighbors Rosie Ozyck and Donna Curran got to walk across the Grand Avenue bridge Tuesday — and meet up more efficiently for their daily stroll.
