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joel schiavone |
Oct 26, 2020 1:14 pm
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Current plan for the former Coliseum site.
(Opinion) When I first came back to New Haven in 1971 I was told by everyone to focus on the problems of the poor and the disadvantaged. Forty years later I see the mood of the City seems not to have changed. Affordable housing is critically important but there are several much larger issues which need to be the focus of our discussions, all of which conclude making the project financially successful for all income classes.
The current controversy over the Coliseum site is focused strictly on affordable housing, a subject which, by itself, is a nonstarter.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 7, 2020 1:22 pm
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Lead plaintiff Personna Noble, at right, at announcement of lawsuit.
The proposed $18.75 million settlement of a years-in-the-works Church Street South class action lawsuit lurched ahead with a new, streamlined structure — and a local civil rights attorney’s hopes that a state court system largely shuttered by the pandemic will resume grinding its gears to allow for hundreds of tenants displaced from the mold-infested former apartment complex to finally get paid.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 6, 2020 3:47 pm
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Mendy Paris with attorney Ben Trachten. Below: 540-580 Grasso lot.
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Two New Haven landlords picked up a 10-acre office complex in the Hill for $6.85 million — with the hope that a sea of surface parking will attract business tenants, even during a pandemic.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Sep 24, 2020 4:34 pm
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Jose Paez and Darin Latimore.
Jose Paez has been a child psychiatry fellow at the Yale School of Medicine for only three months, and he’s already been singled out as a person of color.
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Allan Appel |
Sep 17, 2020 10:28 am
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Lisa Deane speaks this month at overdose awareness event at state Capitol.
A woman who lost her 23-year-old son to a fentanyl overdose in 2018 has launched a campaign to provide scholarships for trade school education as an alternative for kids who might otherwise migrate into the deadly drug life.
She intends to offer the $1,000 scholarships dedicated to a kid in each of New Haven’s neighborhoods, beginning with Hill South.
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Emily Hays |
Sep 16, 2020 11:46 am
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The youngest remote learners at the Boys & Girls Club hum to themselves as they seek to concentrate on their Chromebooks.
The 6‑year-olds were singing, older students were on their phones and fifth-graders were tossing a mini basketball. Amid all that, Da’quay Jeffries was able to concentrate —better than at home.
Mayor Elicker and state transit chief Giulietti sign “letter of intent.”
Union Station will begin its second century with a bus hub in the works, new stores replacing planned new parking spaces, and the city in control of operations for 55 years.
State and local leaders — whose governments had been fighting over control and design of the station for decades — announced a proposed agreement to that effect Thursday afternoon at an event marking the historic train station’s 100th anniversary.
Alders unanimously granted Stamford developer Randy Salvatore a 17-year tax break for his planned conversion of the derelict former Welch Annex School in the Hill into 30 affordable apartments.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 8, 2020 3:24 pm
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Orange St. construction site today … and next year (below).
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City planner Donna Hall looked west towards a dug-up intersection, rumbling construction vehicles, a surface parking lot, and a mini-highway separating the Hill and Downtown — and described a new pedestrian-safe connector that is now less than a year away from completion.
The city police department is investigating the June death of a 33-year-old West Haven woman on Arthur Street as a homicide, after the state Officer of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that she had died due to strangulation.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 1, 2020 4:30 pm
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Career High School student Joshuwa Papalotzi picks up a laptop from Ron Atkinson.
Joshuwa Papalotzi picked up a laptop, a charger, and words of encouragement from staff at Career High School, as the city and the public school system hustle to ensure that every student is well equipped for an all-online start to the school year.
(Updated)—A 52-year-old Hamden man named Eric Joseph Pechalonis was struck and killed Monday night at the intersection of Ella T. Grasso Boulevard and Orange Avenue.
Police have arrested the 39-year-old driver and charged him with driving under the influence, with more charges set to come.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 31, 2020 9:56 pm
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Mayor Elicker presents Williams with a key to the city.
Local boxing champ Tramaine “The Mighty Midget” Williams took home an honorary key to the city, in recognition of the 27-year-old Hill resident’s nationally-renowned athletic achievements.
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Courtney Luciana |
Aug 23, 2020 2:16 pm
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Pastor Esau Greene leads the peace rally on Saturday.
Pastor Esau Greene of New Antioch Church of God and Reverend Wayne McCrae of Upright Ministries Outreach organized a peace rally on the corner of Rosette and Hurlburt streets, the same street where Dayshon Smith was shot and killed and five others were injured a week earlier. Fifteen city officials and officers gathered to speak out for peace and prayer.
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Courtney Luciana |
Aug 21, 2020 2:33 pm
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Xavier Harris and Tommy Carter Jr. (below) at Thursday’s candlelight vigil.
Fifty friends, family, neighbors and local boxers joined city officials outside of the Ring One boxing gym in the Hill for a candlelight vigil commemorating the life of Dayshon Smith.
What started as a personal remembrance of a unique and remarkable individual quickly turned into a community discussion about how to stop gun violence in the city, and how to build a stronger and safer community.
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Courtney Luciana |
Aug 20, 2020 12:30 pm
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Dayshon Smith, as photographed at Ring One boxing gym.
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Memorial planned for Thursday at 6.
Dayshon Smith was more than just a boxing “Superfreak.” He was also more than just a victim of gun violence in the Hill.
To his friends and family and the community that surrounded him, the late 28-year-old champion amateur boxer was as legendary outside the ring as he was inside.
