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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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.
Abdussabur, Lee, and a table full of campaign-annotated petition pages.
Mayoral challenger Shafiq Abdussabur doubled down on his critique of the registrar of voters office for “gross inconsistencies” in its review, and subsequent rejection, of hundreds of his campaign’s Democratic primary petition signatures — even as he said he won’t appeal a state judge’s dismissal of his ballot-access lawsuit.
Valerie Morrison, pasta salad ingredients in tow, signs Brennan's mayoral petition.
The high costs of housing — as close as downtown and as far as Austin, Tex. — were at the top of mind for Stop & Shoppers, as mayoral challenger and pro-development-zoning-reformer Liam Brennan brought his primary ballot petition to the Whalley Avenue grocery store.
Harp (right) signs Abdussabur's mayoral primary petition.
Former Mayor Toni Harp was the first to sign mayoral hopeful Shafiq Abdussabur’s petition to get on the Democratic primary ballot, the day after the city’s Democratic Party officially endorsed the now-incumbent who ended her tenure in the city’s top elected office nearly four years ago.
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At Friday's Community Action Agency job fair.
Milani Glass and her family once turned to the Community Action Agency of New Haven (CAANH) for help making ends meet. She’s now the Whalley Avenue social service hub’s health literacy and outreach coordinator.
On Friday, Glass sought to help recruit future colleagues-to-be at a job fair focused on available work at her former lifeline-turned-current employer.
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City climate czar Steve Winter: e-bikes are a "big step to fill gaps in our transit system"
Eco-minded New Haveners looking to get out of their cars and onto two battery-assisted wheels will soon be able to apply for up to $1,500 in state-subsidized vouchers to help cover the costs of purchasing a new electric bicycle.
Mercedes Jackson parked her Nissan Altima Coupe in the going-out-of-business Whalley EbLens parking lot Tuesday to enjoy a “7.2” breakfast and catch a few private minutes before “hitting my first client.
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Rick Woods contributing to city coffers outside Affinity.
City government picked up extra cash for cleaner streets and other state-allowed public service programs as local sales rack up for legal pot and mini-liquor-bottle “nips.”
A box of fig bars in the snack aisle of Edge of the Woods caught Hamita Sachar’s eye.
Sachar, vice-chair of gastroenterology at Yale Medical School, wasn’t looking for a nosh. She was looking at the words on the box.
She popped by the Whalley Avenue natural foods grocery Tuesday along with Connecticut U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal to make the case for passage of the first updating of food package labeling requirements in over three decades.
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A rendering of the rehab clinic that could be at 215 Whalley...
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...vs. what's there now: An abandoned CVS.
The planned conversion of a former CVS pharmacy on Whalley Avenue into an abstinence-focused drug rehab clinic moved ahead, as the project’s backers seek approval to keep using an adjacent fenced-off asphalt lot for surface parking.
WASSD board members hear out Carol Martin at annual meeting.
Still vacant after all these years: the Whalley-Winthrop lot.
Build on prime property that has stubbornly remained fenced-in dirt for 20 years? Not so simple.
Get rid of panhandlers, double-parkers, burglars, not to mention smoke shops? Not so simple.
Revive struggling Whalley Avenue, New Haven’s main west-to-downtown commercial corridor? That was the overall question. The answer was … not so simple, but worth the effort of pulling together, piece by piece, lot by lot.
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Rendering of planned apartment complex situated next to St. Luke's.
St. Luke's — and Papa John's — hanging out together on Friday morning.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church received a final OK to demolish Papa John’s pizza to bring 55 new affordable apartments to the holy gateway of Whalley Avenue.
Security footage of burglar seeking to open cash drawer.
Police said they have a suspect in a string of commercial burglaries and are buttressing patrols to help business owners like Benny Lieblich avoid needing to pay to replace any more broken windows.
Alexander McWilliams: "Fentanyl is killing everybody."
Alexander McWilliams gave his friend Perry Flowers a ride in his 2014 Honda Civic to the state pre-trial jailhouse and juvenile court Monday morning so Flowers could show up for his nephew.
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CAANH's Prez Amos Smith (center): “It’s still cold, it’s gonna be cold for a while.”
Symone Wilson was taking a walk along Whalley Avenue last fall when she found a way to stay warm come winter, in the form of one-time emergency utility assistance and an energy matching payment plan.
The 28-year-old New Havener connected with those programs to keep her heat pumping and lights shining thanks to the Community Action Agency of New Haven (CAANH).
That’s the 419 Whalley Ave. social services organization where Wilson now works — and where local leaders gathered to help get the word out about how a growing number of those in need can find a way to lower their energy costs and consumption as prices soar.
Jack Deyo (above) drills hole for Wingstop sign (below, with colleagues Evan Curtin and TJ Telesco).
Six-foot-wide aluminum incarnations of the words “WING” and “STOP” rested on the Sherman Avenue sidewalk as three seasoned sign-installers scoped out the scene.
Boubacar Diallo momentarily locked up his furniture store Tuesday morning to run across the street to make a deposit at New Haven Bank. He’d be right back to try to keep commerce flowing on Whalley Avenue.
