by | Nov 3, 2017 1:41 pm | Comments (5)
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Officer Natalie Crosby was sitting in her parked cruiser at 3:45 a.m. writing a report on an arrest when a call came over the radio: Thieves had just stolen a black 2001 Mercedes Benz ML 430 and a 2016 Nissan Altima from a home on Russell Street.
by | Oct 25, 2017 8:04 am | Comments (6)
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Paca, Ganong show up.
At a mayoral “debate” Tuesday night where no active mayoral candidates debated each other, two policy proposals did surface: creating a hybrid elected-appointed Board of Police Commissioners and expanding public financing for city elections.
by | Oct 6, 2017 12:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Feray Gokcek, with statue of his hero, Ataturk.
A Turkish dissident who fled his homeland in 1991 is now fighting a political battle in New Haven’s Quinnipiac Meadows neighborhood: to name a streetcorner after an icon of secularism.
by | Sep 11, 2017 12:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Lee: Time for visible leadership.
Haywood: Ready to do some good.
One candidate is a former alder of the ward with a big personality and strong opinions about what he calls a lack of leadership. The other candidate is a soft-spoken first timer who says she is ready to take the reins.
Continue reading ‘Newcomer, Ex-Alder Vie In Heights Primary’
by | Aug 22, 2017 1:49 pm | Comments (3)
392 Quinnipiac, built by Lorenzo Button around 1850, in its final days earlier this year.
One of the last surviving working buildings of the city’s great 19th century oystering era is no more, the victim of what one city officials called “demolition by neglect.”
Continue reading ‘“Demolition By Neglect” Claims Historic Oysterman’s House’
by | Aug 8, 2017 3:12 am | Comments (5)
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Colby Court, one of three Pike-managed properties due for lead-paint abatement, under the terms of an EPA settlement.
One of New Haven’s largest landlords has agreed to a $121,000 settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over alleged violations of lead-safety rules — the EPA’s latest enforcement action in what environmentalists worry will be a dwindling federal caseload as the Trump administration limits oversight of toxic chemicals.
by | Jul 20, 2017 8:18 am | Comments (0)
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Workers march outside the Fair Haven Heights factory a week before voting on a new contract.
Unionized textile workers lost guarantees against outsourcing in their latest contract, but the factory owners assured employees they wouldn’t need the protections.
Continue reading ‘Trelleborg Factory Workers Approve Contract, Make Concessions’
by | Jul 17, 2017 12:10 pm | Comments (41)
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78 Lancraft St., target of one of 158 foreclosure suits filed in the city over 12 months.
The sewer authority attached a foreclosure sign to the chain-link fence outside Destiny Roldan’s white, two-story house in Fair Haven Heights. In block letters, it announced an upcoming auction to sell the $150,100 home to recoup her unpaid bills — which totaled just $3,436.
The scheduled foreclosure sale was part of the sewer utility’s latest wave of threatened property grabs, in an attempt to recoup debts that are worth a fraction of the homes’ value.
by | Jun 21, 2017 7:25 pm | Comments (23)
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Union VP Luis Rodriguez, at center, on Wednesday’s picket line.
Factory workers in Fair Haven Heights saved their pensions. Now they’re fighting for their jobs.
by | Apr 10, 2017 5:10 pm | Comments (3)
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Kids from the All Nations Christian Academy on Lenox Street accompanied the senator.
The “ghost house” of Fair Haven Heights, a long empty 1830s potential Greek Revival gem, is on track to becoming a host house, a restored historic structure that will shelter a young, working New Haven family through the labors of love and finance of Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven.
Yet others like it may well meet the wrecking ball if Community Development Block Grants (DCBG) and similar federal funds that support Habitat are eliminated, as currently called for in the President Trump’s proposed budget.
by | Mar 29, 2017 10:48 am | Comments (1)
These swings have been off limits to kids for safety reasons.
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Nathman: Kids need to play
An old school could soon have a new parking lot and playground. And that’s good news to an award-winning principal who has struggled to find her students a place to get their needed 20 minutes of daily exercise.
by | Mar 9, 2017 3:44 pm | Comments (12)
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392 Quinnipiac, built by Lorenzo Button around 1850.
Learned: “You have disrespected this commission.”
The owner described crumbling foundations, collapsed chimney, widespread termite infestation eating all the extant beams, a structure ready to fall down with the next strong wind gust.
Neighbors urged commissioners to save the rare 19th century Greek Revival survivor to preserve the Quinnipiac River Historic District’s character.
by | Feb 16, 2017 5:07 pm | Comments (2)
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Looking north on Russell Street at Clifton.
The engineering experts said the intersection did not meet national criteria — not enough traffic volume, nor reported crashes of the right kind were documented.
Continue reading ‘Data Weighed, Overriden On New Stop Signs’
by | Feb 16, 2017 9:13 am | Comments (0)
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Damion Henderson at Quinnipiac.
Members of Hillhouse High’s championship men’s football team scored again Thursday, this time taking the field at Quinnipiac Stem Magnet School.
by | Feb 1, 2017 9:04 am | Comments (5)
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Jan. 6 crash scene.
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Mannings with son Marcellus.
Nearly 200 neighbors have signed a petition demanding changes at a problem intersection after speeding drivers twice crashed into the same property in four months.
by | Jan 26, 2017 3:04 pm | Comments (10)
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Homemade traffic-calming gesture at 874 Q.
Developer Bekhrad, Alder Rose Santana and State Rep. Al Paollilo at Wednesday meeting.
They saw fewer houses lit with Christmas lights this year — and more blighted buildings.They see trucks and broken cars parked on sidewalks by a tow shop. They see forbidden barbed wire appearing atop commercial fences.
Along with upticks in speeding and graffiti, that jolted neighbors to resurrect the Quinnipiac River Community Group (QRCG).
by | Jan 11, 2017 2:31 pm | Comments (0)
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Tatyana Ramirez was struggling with the “tower of power” two-minute challenge — how to build the highest, most stable structure in the room with only candied fruit and toothpicks — when she had an algebraic revelation: Use a triangular base.
by | Nov 19, 2016 6:44 pm | Comments (1)
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The B3, Thursday, 5:35 p.m.: late as usual (by 20 minutes), overcrowded.
From about 5 p.m. on I was waiting at the New Haven Walmart for the bus to come. A bunch of us waiting were from Bella Vista. The driver was nearly 20 minutes late, and it was getting cold.
by | Jul 1, 2016 8:05 am | Comments (0)
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The Quinnipiac River at sunset.
The mummichog.
It lives in a river with a history of abuse and pollution. It swims in waters filled with hard-to-filter chemicals.
Despite that discouraging environment, an expert told a riverine gathering, the male mummichog is in OK shape, for the time being.
by | Jun 15, 2016 10:26 am | Comments (0)
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Grace Nathman has bought mattresses and sheets for students in need, part of an effort to keep them coming to school every day.
by | Apr 5, 2016 4:05 pm | Comments (8)
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Lanzot pounds the streets of Fair Haven Heights.
Making his way up a steep set of stone steps on Lexington Avenue, Eleazar Lanzot took stock of a big white house, then landed six raps on the front door.
“Hello!” Lanzot said, smiling. “I’m Eleazar, from the Bernie Sanders Campaign. Do you know that the Connecticut primary is April 26?”
by | Mar 22, 2016 3:17 am | Comments (3)
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Michael and Michelle with mom Marrero: Safe, and grateful.
Jason Shuttleworth.
Four was a lucky number for rookie Firefighter Jason Shuttleworth — and for a little boy named Michael who lives a block from the East Grand Avenue fire station.
by | Feb 14, 2016 2:22 pm | Comments (0)
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Substituting dolls for babies, Yale-New Haven Hospital pediatric residents showed Jepson Magnet School students how they care for newborns in the hospital.
by | Jan 25, 2016 8:22 am | Comments (13)
The owner of a future drive-thru Popeye’s chicken outlet promised to bring 100 jobs to the Quinnipiac East neighborhood — and make sure pedestrians don’t get run over.
by | Jan 7, 2016 5:37 pm | Comments (1)
As an off-duty firefighter happened to be looking on, a 37-year-old motorist driving north on Foxon Boulevard crashed into a 26-year-old Milford woman named Meghan Perry at 10 p.m. Wednesday as she crossed the street.