by | Jul 17, 2018 1:43 pm | Comments (0)
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City to tenant: don’t chew on the lead paint.
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Inspector Jomika Bogan.
The city’s Health Department has found lead paint hazards at three different city apartments, all of which currently house children with elevated blood lead levels.
by | Jul 11, 2018 7:44 am | Comments (4)
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Legal aid intern Alden Pinkham and Attorney Amy Marx, Attorney Ori Spiegel, City’s Counsel Roderick Williams in court Tuesday.
A second Superior Court judge ripped into the city’s handling of a child lead poisoning case, declaring that he is “appalled” at the city’s delays and deficiencies in completing an adequate abatement and inspection of the child’s apartment.
by | Jul 2, 2018 2:52 pm | Comments (2)
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75 Sherman Ave.
An independent lead inspector found 10 improperly abated lead hazards and over 20 dangerously high lead dust samples at a West River home that had been cleared as safe by the city’s Health Department over a month ago.
Continue reading ‘City-OK’d Lead Fixes Fail Independent Inspection’
by | Jun 27, 2018 3:17 pm | Comments (4)
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West River tenant Jennifer Williams and her 2-year-old son, Elijah Hall.
Legal aid’s Amy Marx, city’s John Rose, Jr. clash in court for 3 hours.
A Superior Court judge ordered the city to pay for the relocation of two West River tenants to an area hotel through late July in the court’s latest rebuke of the city Health Department’s handling of child lead poisoning cases.
by | Jun 26, 2018 1:06 pm | Comments (5)
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Back door to cellar at “The Haunted House” aka 136 Rosette St.
Fines have started piling up on three derelict Hill properties and a West River home at the center of a legal battle over child lead poisoning.
by | Jun 7, 2018 7:54 am | Comments (4)
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Jennifer Williams and her son Elijah Hall.
The upstairs tenants of a West River home at the center of an ongoing legal battle over city lead inspection protocol have filed a lawsuit against the city for failing to protect a child’s health with the timely investigation and enforcement of the abatement of lead paint hazards.
Continue reading ‘City Sued Over Handling Of Lead Poisonings’
by | May 29, 2018 7:17 am | Comments (17)
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Delroy May: “We just plant vegetables.”
The back lot of 74 Porter, subject of LCI order.
Come back next month, Delroy May and Sylvia Stephens promise, and you’ll see organic vegetables starting to grow.
Right now, a city inspector ruled, he sees a blighted mess and a potential safe haven for rodents — and has ordered it cleaned up.
by | May 24, 2018 7:20 pm | Comments (15)
Lead inspector Glenda Buenaventura on the stand Thursday.
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Amy Marx (right) introduces new evidence in support of her post-abatement concerns.
The city said a family could move a poisoned child back into a West River apartment.
A judge ruled otherwise — after hearing the city lead-paint inspector get grilled on the stand.
by | May 11, 2018 2:24 pm | Comments (5)
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Malik, who struggled after the murder of his best friend, displays gear from a weekend for admitted students.
After nearly dropping out of high school, Malik James-Gaskin knew it wouldn’t be easy to get into college.
by | May 11, 2018 7:53 am | Comments (1)
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A landlord of a West River home at the center of a child lead poisoning debate formally ended his attempts to evict his groundfloor tenants after the tenants’ lawyer discovered a legal technicality that tripped up the case.
by | May 8, 2018 4:08 pm | Comments (10)
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Jennifer Williams and her son Elijah, out grocery shopping.
A second child at a West River home has tested as having elevated blood lead levels just two weeks after his downstairs neighbors received a temporary stay on their eviction because of lead paint levels found throughout an apartment — a problem for which both sides ultimately blame the city’s health department.
by | Apr 27, 2018 1:58 pm | Comments (22)
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Tenants Muhammad (right), his wife Akhdar, and their four children.
A New Haven housing court judge ordered the landlord of a two-family house in the West River neighborhood to temporarily relocate the first-floor tenants he is trying to evict until he can prove that the high lead levels on the walls, doors, windows, and floors of his building are not unduly toxic for the young parents and their four young children.
by | Apr 20, 2018 7:48 am | Comments (3)
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596-598 George.
The city’s anti-blight agency now owns and has a plan in place to convert a vacant, historic duplex at the corner of Orchard Street and George Street into six units of new housing as part of a larger effort to bring new affordable housing to vacant lots.
by | Mar 9, 2018 1:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Elsa Bradley (right), Esther Roberts at New Haven Inn Friday.
Two weeks after the city condemned a decaying 41-unit apartment complex at 66 Norton St., 19 relocated households remain in rundown motels, 12 have moved into new apartments, and two are staying with family members as they continue to look for new places to live.
by | Feb 26, 2018 11:21 pm | Comments (8)
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Firefighter leads family into 66 Norton to retrieve belongings.
Elsa and Emily reunited (and it feels so good).
Elsa Bradley got to return “home” for a few minutes Monday, in the company of a firefighter — and left reunited with Emily, the beloved parakeet she left behind in a building feared ready to collapse.
by | Feb 23, 2018 6:15 pm | Comments (13)
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Shelly Sutherland, Elsa Bradley at the Three Judges Friday.
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An eroded support beam in the basement of 66 Norton. The beam has a large hole caused by rot and decay.
A day after having suddenly to gather their belongings within 45 minutes to flee their structurally unsafe apartment building, Shelly Sutherland and Dwain Perkins and their three children were holed up in a dingy motel room with no way to cook food or heat their baby’s bottle — and no idea where they’re headed next.
by | Feb 23, 2018 12:02 am | Comments (12)
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Tenant “Q” and her two kids prepare to retrieve belongings.
Hillhouse high sophomore Angel Fletcher, leaves 66 Norton after packing his bags.
Eighty New Haveners had 45 minutes to pack up their belongings and flee their homes Thursday night when officials temporarily condemned a 41-unit apartment complex on Norton Street because of unsafe conditions.
by | Feb 2, 2018 9:02 am | Comments (13)
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Newly christened “Barack Obama Environmental Bridge.”
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Officials and students at Thursday’s unveiling of plaque for the bridge.
Barack Obama’s environmental legacy will be preserved for history — above Ella Grasso Boulevard next to Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School.
by | Jan 24, 2018 3:07 pm | Comments (7)
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Taylor, Sparer, and Lagarde field neighbors’ questions.
Stacy Spell: Too far to walk.
Yale-New Haven Hospital’s planned new $15 million primary care center sounds great, West River neighbors said. But how will people without cars get there?
by | Jan 10, 2018 6:44 pm | Comments (26)
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Darryl Brackeen and Pat Dillon.
New Haven’s longest-serving state representative is facing a likely challenge from a fellow Democrat who claims he can help bring home more bacon from Hartford.
by | Oct 4, 2017 8:10 am | Comments (28)
Chair Florita Gillespie: Tonight we’re voting for this.
The city’s Redevelopment Agency won hard-earned community support on Tuesday night for its bid to use eminent domain to hold slumlords accountable in the Dwight neighborhood.
by | Aug 10, 2017 1:11 pm | Comments (5)
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Former Santa Fleet station; attorney Tim Yolen (inset).
If no one lives near a convenience store, can it truly be considered convenient?
New Haven planning boards are mulling over that Zen-like koan as they consider the merits of allowing a gas station and convenience store to open at 670 Ella T. Grasso Blvd., near the thoroughfare’s intersection with Boston Post Road.
by | Jun 28, 2017 2:28 pm | Comments (4)
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Hamilton, Douglass and Walker at the announcement.
They’ve worked together to fight blight and slumlords and to plan for development on Route 34. Now the three alders — dubbed “Three the Hard Way” and the “Three Musketeers” — representing Dwight, Edgewood and West River are seeking another term to focus in on jobs for their constituents.
Continue reading ‘“3 Musketeers” Run Jointly For Reelection’
by | Jun 12, 2017 2:56 pm | Comments (0)
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Statman trio bassist Jim Whitney performing at Sunday’s gala.
Renowned klezmer clarinetist and bluegrass mandolinist Andy Statman revived century-old Chasidic melodies Sunday afternoon inside one of New Haven’s best rooms to hear music — the lovingly restored sanctuary of an almost century-old synagogue.
by | May 17, 2017 10:42 am | Comments (2)
A 36-year-old Hamden man died after his motorcycle and SUV crashed at the corner of Judson Avenue and Mead Street in New Haven’s West River neighborhood.