Their aim: To make sure the Whalley Avenue supermarket, an anchor for the community, would not be on the list.
The advocacy paid off, and on Friday morning, GDDC Assistant Director Mikhila Pingili and Deputy Economic Development Administrator Carlos Eyzaguirre were on hand along with Stop & Shop brass — not just to celebrate that the 150 Whalley Ave. store remained open, but also to cut the ribbon on an extensive renovation.
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Ex-El Amigo Felix on Whalley: Still the pits.
A 14-block rezoning that was intended to promote dense, mixed-use development on Whalley Avenue has yielded no new places to live in the nearly five years since it was approved by the Board of Alders.
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Arthur Delot-Vilain |
Dec 5, 2024 4:39 pm
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Alder Hogan (second from left) with Beaver Hills neighbors at latest crime-focused meetup.
Whalley-Edgewood-Beaver Hills neighbors should expect to see more police officers in their part of town next spring — thanks to what the police chief anticipates will be a surge in hiring due to a newly inked union contract.
The St. Luke's proposed $32M development ... before it lost its sixth floor.
A long-delayed Whalley Avenue redevelopment lost a floor — and saved $2 million, because of how much more expensive it is to build with steel and concrete instead of just wood.
The long-awaited ordinance-in-progress will treat smoke shops similarly to liquor stores with requirements like they not be located near schools and churches or too close to each other.
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Oct 2, 2024 10:30 am
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A former corrections officer at the New Haven Correctional Center on Whalley Avenue was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to selling drugs to inmates — a crime that his lawyer says was brought on by his own addiction.
... and 50 senior dwellings approved for 34 Level.
The City Plan Commission signed off on 162 new mostly affordable apartments to be built in Newhallville, West Rock, and Whalley — as part of three more new-construction projects involving the housing authority’s nonprofit development affiliate, the Glendower Group.
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Jul 19, 2024 10:18 am
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David Council: "Making sure everything runs good" at Russell Speeder's.
David Council gives a heart sign, a wave, or a double thumbs-up to every car that drives through New Haven’s newest car wash — the local outpost of a private equity-owned chain he helps manage on Whalley Avenue.
The suds might look familiar to customers of traditional mom-and-pop cleansers. The financing behind the wheel? A new business model for the car-wash highway.
Yusuf Gürsey at a pro-Palestinian rally in April, before his death.
At a memorial service for 70-year-old local peace activist Yusuf Gürsey, friends and colleagues joined in person and over Zoom from all over the world — California, Puerto Rico, Turkey — to share stories and poems for the hit-and-run victim.
All knew him as a lover of languages, a beach fanatic, and a seemingly shy but loyal friend who had a fierce commitment to the liberation of all oppressed people.
City development official Carlos Eyzaguirre, Whalley leader Allen McCollum, Eddie Eckhaus, Rabbi Andre Malek, Mayor Justin Elicker at Monday's ribbon-cutting.
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Eckhaus's trademark super-stuffed felafel.
It’s a miracle how many toppings Eddie Eckhaus can stuff into a felafel sandwich. But he needed more than a miracle to make his felafel storefront succeed: He needed a maschgiach.
I.e. a rabbi who certifies that a restaurant serves kosher food.
Like Elijah the Prophet on the first night of Passover, that rabbi appeared at Eckhaus’s Lea’s Felafelhaus to-go storefront Monday for a ribbon-cutting bringing hopes for a business resurrection.
Yusuf Gürsey, who lived on Whalley Avenue and did not have a car.
Seventy-year-old scholar and city peace commission member Yusuf Gürsey died Sunday night after a car fatally struck him — and then fled the scene — while he was walking near his home on Whalley Avenue.
A student gifts a book to the Little Free Library.
“Sometimes when you talk, the universe listens.”
That’s what Chris Walker, manager of the new LaundroMax on Whalley Avenue, said to me as we watched 25 kids sit still between rows of gleaming washing machines and a cacophony of dryers tumbling and buzzers going off — and prepare to hear a story read aloud at New Haven’s most innovative new branch library.
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Jan 22, 2024 12:15 pm
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LaundroMax GM Chris Walker (center) with officials at ribbon-cutting.
By the time officials arrived to cut the ribbon on the west side’s newest laundromat, customers were already inside using the state-of-the-art washing machines. The air was fragrant with the smell of fabric softener and dryer sheets, and the speakers pumped in classic Mary J. Blige and Erykah Badu.
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Jan 8, 2024 11:26 am
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Hallie "Rock" Bolden, Jr. with Hallie "Bizzy" Bolden III.
The bell above the door sounded at DA’W.O.R.L.D., the Whalley Avenue mecca for men’s urban clothing.
“Coming in for some love,” the customer said, dapping up DA’W.O.R.L.D. manager Hallie “Bizzy” Bolden III, wardrobe consultant Tariq “Riq” Bolden and owner Hallie “Rock” Bolden, Jr. behind the counter. “Have a good one.”
55 planned new apartments on Whalley, now boosted by state $.
A long-delayed, church-led affordable housing development on Whalley Avenue took a big step towards breaking ground — alongside a suite of traffic calming measures on the perilously car-heavy corridor near Stop & Shop — thanks to a $7 million infusion from the state.
A 23-year-old University of New Haven graduate student named Priyanshu Agwal died from injuries he sustained in a hit-and-run crash on Whalley Avenue and Amity Road.
Mayor Elicker: "We cannot wait another 20 years to have a government that runs effectively and efficiently."
Confident in a victory at the polls in November’s contested mayoral election, Democrats from across the city and state turned their attention to a more uncertain proposition: a charter revision ballot question that, if approved, would increase mayoral and aldermanic terms from two to four years each.
Fatou braids a client's hair, hopes for more landlord accountability.
A new layer of city regulation is coming to local hair, piercing, tattoo, and nail salons — sparking a debate over the burden of annual inspection fees, and prompting one African hair braider to hope that more leverage against neglectful commercial landlords is on the horizon.
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Oct 11, 2023 3:43 pm
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Police have put out a $25K reward for information that leads to the arrest of whoever killed Nico Saraceni (pictured).
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A poetry collage memorial put together by Nico's sister for his funeral.
One year after somebody fatally stabbed Nico Saraceni outside of his Whalley Avenue apartment, city police and the family of the late 29-year-old Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) student are still looking for answers.
About who committed such a tragic act of apparently random violence. About why a young artist who loved the poetry of William Ernest Henley and the films of David Lynch and the pizza of Frank Pepe’s was taken from them so soon and so senselessly.
A new batch of $47 million in state money headed to New Haven will improve the lot of train riders as well as pedestrians and cyclists on car-crazy Whalley Avenue, among others in town.
Mandy Management CEO Yudi Gurevitch, at 399 Whalley main office: "We want our tenants, our residents to be happy, to feel safe, to have a good home. ... [W]e want them to feel that we're responsive, that we're there. Because we are."
At the warehouse, with a handful of plumbing supplies.
Inside a Wallace Street warehouse filled with refrigerators and stoves and plywood and snow blowers and water heaters and closet doors and toilets and sheetrock, Yudi Gurevitch engaged in the latest step of retooling, and rebuilding the reputation of, one of New Haven’s largest landlord empires. He wedged himself in between two shelves overflowing with plumbing supplies and lifted up one of dozens of plastic-wrapped SharkBite fittings.
“The goal is to have everything you could ever need for a property management company in stock,” he said. That way, when a Mandy Management property needs repairs — big or small, day or night — his company has the right parts ready to go.
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Sep 11, 2023 8:50 am
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Mayor Justin Elicker (center) surrounded by top Connecticut elected officials at Saturday's rally.
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Liam Brennan at the doors on Sunday with West Rock Ave resident Tim Dagradi.
Elected officials from across Connecticut descended on Whalley Avenue to rally behind Mayor Justin Elicker, while Liam Brennan hit the doors in Westville to get out the vote for his mayoral challenger campaign — in a rush of political organizing in the final weekend before Tuesday’s Democratic primary elections.
