by | Dec 12, 2012 3:37 pm | Comments (6)
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A 3-family house burns on George Street.
Freshman Torrai Darden looked out of the window at Career High School Wednesday afternoon and saw smoke. He never guessed the flames would be tearing through his house.
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by | Nov 16, 2012 3:07 pm | Comments (6)
Gabrielle Lee.
A cyclist rode westbound behind the car that had just killed 11-year-old Gabrielle Lee. Four years later, police want help finding that cyclist.
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by | Jul 24, 2012 4:44 pm | Comments (2)
The public did what cops always urge them to do — and thereby helped police arrest an alleged killer within hours of a crime.
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‘Public Thanked For Help
In Swift Murder Arrest’
by | Jul 23, 2012 11:14 pm | Comments (14)
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10:11 p.m. SWAT team marches across Whalley to hideout house.
(Updated) With two fleeing eyewitnesses to a murder holed up in a house on Orchard Street, and cops stationed outside with guns at the ready, SWAT negotiator Officer Dave Hartman grabbed a bullhorn and turned it on.
“Come out through the front door,” he ordered. “Do it now.”
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by | May 21, 2012 12:02 pm | Comments (1)
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The disputed parking lot.
While a dispute with a neighboring property owner remained unresolved, the City Plan Commission Wednesday night approved the expansion of the Edge of the Woods natural foods store.
by | May 17, 2012 8:22 am | Comments (7)
Attorney Gallo speaks for the check-cashers.
Faced with an outpouring of objections from nearby businesses and neighborhood organizations, the City Plan Commission put the kibosh on a plan to convert a Whalley Avenue utility closet into a check-cashing outlet.
by | May 15, 2012 3:33 pm | Comments (6)
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Will truck deliveries clog this lot?
As grocer Peter Dodge gears up to expand his natural foods store, he’s run into an obstacle: The property owner with whom he shares a parking lot.
by | Apr 30, 2012 1:05 pm | Comments (0)
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Diane Brown gets her award from bank Senior VP Lynn Smith.
The Hillhouse High marching band led a parade down Sherman Avenue. But first there were three women to honor.
by | Apr 19, 2012 11:39 am | Comments (4)
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New doors are en route to the boarded-up former Chuck’s Luncheonette, whose owner says he plans to reopen a diner five years after a debilitating fire. And the eight-year-old scaffolding on the house next to the little Hooker School may come down … before winter.
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by | Mar 22, 2012 1:49 pm | Comments (2)
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Ugur Citlak at his family’s restaurant.
More Than Pizza on Whalley Avenue learned a lesson about serving more than just pizza after a city inspector showed up.
by | Mar 22, 2012 10:58 am | Comments (0)
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CAA’s Amos Smith.
The Community Action Agency of New Haven is making a move — seven-tenths of a mile up the street.
by | Mar 19, 2012 12:29 pm | Comments (1)
Looking south to the corner of Whalley and Harrison.
One of the few surviving residential pockets along Whalley Avenue is about to receive its first commercial sign.
by | Mar 1, 2012 9:14 am | Comments (8)
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Gabriel Da Silva scopes plans for a safer Westville Village.
With help from a bill put forward by their state legislators, neighbors and visitors would no longer have to risk life and limb to cross Whalley Avenue to see a play at Lyric Hall or get their hair done at the Soho salon.
by | Feb 8, 2012 9:18 am | Comments (0)
It appeared to be the bottom of the ninth with two outs and two strikes of community opposition against 7‑Eleven in its bid to open a 24-hour convenience store at the long vacant corner of Whalley and Ramsdell. Then the corporation hit a home run. Now you’ll be able to buy a fresh banana, get Advil or baby formula, or even a Greyhound bus ticket at three in the morning — but not rolling papers.
by | Jan 17, 2012 1:15 pm | Comments (3)
Ever wondered what “Amazing Grace” sounds like uptempo — with steel drums and strings mixed together?
by | Jan 13, 2012 11:02 am | Comments (54)
Langan Engineering.
A new discount gas station in a long-vacant lot on Elm Street could be the key to holding down the Stop & Shop grocery store — so that it doesn’t pull up stakes the way Shaw’s did.
by | Dec 14, 2011 12:38 pm | Comments (16)
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At a now-vacant Whalley Avenue storefront, people once stopped in for toner and ballpoint pens. They might soon be dropping by for torque wrenchs and ball pein hammers.
by | Nov 24, 2011 6:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Patrick Perkins outside the Headz Up barbershop on Whalley, a free winter-coat distribution headquarters on Thanksgiving Day.
As winter’s first blast nears, teen activist Ronald Huggins teamed up with top downtown cop Lt. Rebecca Sweeney and local businesses like the Headz Up barbershop on Whalley Avenue to make sure people who need a coat this winter will have one: warm, free, and clear.
by | Nov 18, 2011 1:03 pm | Comments (12)
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Walk-to-work employees Henry & Gooding.
While city lawmakers debate government should make a point of hiring firefighters and cops who live in town, managers at the new Stop & Shop on Whalley don’t need to wrestle with a similar question. Cashier Shaquana Henry, bagger Ozzie Gooding, Jr. and nearly all their coworkers already call New Haven home — often living close enough to walk to work.
by | Nov 10, 2011 1:12 pm | Comments (49)
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Taylor Wiggins eyed the door of the Whalley Avenue Burger King as three familiar teenage girls from her high school entered, laughing. As the girls waited in a long line, their heavy perfume met the stale smell of grease and fries.
Taylor turned to her coworker. “I’m going in the back” she whispered. “Can you take my spot for a few minutes?”
He rolled his eyes; he had heard the request before.
by | Apr 28, 2011 11:10 am | Comments (0)
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Hillhouse’s marching band is getting new instruments — and other high-school kids are getting new bank accounts along with a financial “education” — courtesy of New Haven’s new community bank.
by | Mar 15, 2011 2:31 pm | Comments (9)
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The ever-busy register at Minore’s.
A woman wielding fake ten-dollar bills tried spending them at Minore’s Meats on Whalley Avenue. Three times.
by | Feb 1, 2011 3:29 pm | Comments (38)
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Jesse Hameen II shopped at the old Shaw’s; now there’s a new option.
Central New Haven will have a supermarket again, now that Stop & Shop has agreed to take over the old Shaw’s on Whalley Avenue.
by | Jan 25, 2011 2:39 pm | Comments (9)
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(From left:) NHS’s Jim Paley, State Rep. Pat Dillon, & Board chief Corey Stone with bank President William Placke.
Jim Paley needed to hustle. And, it turned out, he needed a local banker.
by | Dec 7, 2010 12:46 pm | Comments (2)
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Sam Andoh and Colin Benn review plans for a new block around St. Luke’s.
St. Luke’s Steel Band would love to be able to perform on a landscaped terrace in front of a permanent home on Whalley Avenue. It just may happen if an ambitious plan to transform property adjacent and behind the church into a mixed use residential and senior housing comes to pass.