by | Sep 26, 2019 2:33 pm | Comments (11)
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Aïcha Woods, Arlevia Samuel, Jonathan Hopkins at WNHH FM.
“C’mon already. Let’s fix this.”
New Haven has basically said that about the need for a long-overdue change in zoning rules — so that neighborhood commercial districts can come alive again and regain their former bustle.
Continue reading ‘Quest Continues To Revive “Gateway Corridors”’
by | Sep 19, 2019 8:03 am | Comments (31)
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Skeptics testify: Ming-Yee Lin, Jayuan Carter, LTania Wiles (top row); Alexander Kolokotronis, Lillie Chambers, Patricia Kane (middle row); Mona Berman, Melissa Singleton, Johnny Shively.
Nearly two dozen critics of gentrification, market-rate housing, Yale expansion, and city-led planning initiatives stalled a rezoning project designed to rekindle commercial development along portions of Dixwell Avenue, Whalley Avenue, and Grand Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Gentrification Fears Stall Rezoning Quest’
by | Aug 29, 2019 5:24 pm | Comments (0)
A woman was found dead Thursday afternoon on an embankment off upper Whalley Avenue.
by | Aug 27, 2019 3:11 pm | Comments (3)
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A sign unveiling Tuesday revealed a sight not seen in the city in 15 years: A “New Haven” bank, in name, and in concept.
by | Aug 2, 2019 1:23 pm | Comments (5)
A 28-year-old New Haven man was shot in the leg on Valley Street late Friday morning.
And, in a separate incident, police arrested a 21-year-old Hamden man for an alleged hit-and-run on Whalley Avenue that took place just after midnight.
Continue reading ‘Shooting In West Rock; Hit & Run On Whalley’
by | Jul 29, 2019 3:28 pm | Comments (34)
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LCI Executive Director Serena Neal-Sanjurjo and City Plan Director Aicha Woods.
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Grand Avenue as it points towards downtown.
City officials promised to examine the potential impact that a rezoning project might have on low-income black and brown communities as they move forward with longstanding retail revitalization plans for Dixwell, Whalley, and Grand Avenues.
by | Jul 17, 2019 12:47 pm | Comments (6)
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The candidate with Beaver Pond preservationist Nan Bartow.
Mayoral hopeful Seth Poole got his start in politics chairing the WEB (Whalley, Edgewood, Beaver Hill) community management team. He and his neighbors fought successfully to relocate the police firing range from Sherman Parkway — close to his beloved grandmother’s house — to its new location, well out of residential earshot.
by | Jul 10, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (0)
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After spending more than a year out of work to relocate their Jamaican style food restaurant, owner, Norma Parks and family celebrated the grand reopening of Whalley Avenue’s Caribbean Connection on Tuesday.
by | Jun 28, 2019 1:12 pm | Comments (1)
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The Family Dollar at 1168-1186 Whalley Ave.
A Windsor-based development company sold the Family Dollar site on Upper Whalley Avenue to a group of California investors for $1.8 million, in one of the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Jun 25, 2019 7:44 am | Comments (19)
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A legal aid poster calling for more affordable housing. Below: A packed room at Wednesday night’s meeting.
Deputy Zoning Director Jenna Montesano, City Planner Stacey Davis, and City Plan Director Aïcha Woods.
The city’s planned zoning overhaul for Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell Avenues hit a gentrification speed bump from activists concerned about protections for low-income residents.
by | Jun 20, 2019 4:20 pm | Comments (2)
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Marty Wright had company when he made his thrice-weekly stop Thursday at Island Spice Caribbean on Winthrop Avenue off Whaley: the mayor and an entourage showed up to officially celebrate the restaurant’s city-aided expansion
by | Jun 6, 2019 1:33 pm | Comments (42)
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City Plan Director Aïcha Woods (at left) presents draft.
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Grand Avenue as it points towards downtown.
The City Plan department has drafted a zoning overhaul for Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell Avenues with the hopes of creating denser, more pedestrian-friendly “commercial gateway districts” between downtown and the city’s neighborhoods.
by | May 28, 2019 7:20 am | Comments (0)
(Updated: 11:22 a.m.) The weapon was a vehicle, and it landed a 28-year-old man in the hospital clinging for life.
by | Apr 22, 2019 2:54 pm | Comments (20)
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Stop & Shop worker Leyda McKay (with husband Mike): “Ecstatic.”
Empty shelves in the newly reopened Stop & Shop.
A just-ended strike cost Stop & Shop up to $50 million as well as possible customers — which may cost its union as well.
So warns a retail analyst who monitored the dramatic 11-day walkout.
by | Apr 15, 2019 4:42 pm | Comments (6)
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In one hand he had his cell phone, with mom on the line for shopping advice. In the other hand was a handout with a Westville rabbi’s admonition against crossing a picket line to buy food for the Feast of Freedom. His basket was empty.
There David stood amid walls of macaroons, white fish, and grape juice in Aisle 13 of the Amity Stop & Shop, pondering the fifth question added to this year’s traditional Passover four questions: To buy? Or not to buy?
Continue reading ‘Let My Matzah Go: Stop & Shop Purchases Deemed Not Kosher For Passover’
by | Apr 13, 2019 4:00 pm | Comments (6)
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Helen Powell and John Carlos outside Stop & Shop on Saturday.
Veronica Cue, Cynthia Hogan, and Allison Bryant on the picket line.
John Carlos walked to the Whalley Avenue Stop & Shop to pick up a few steaks.
He left without food in hand, but with a new appreciation for the pension, healthcare, and salary needs of the store’s striking employees.
by | Apr 12, 2019 4:25 pm | Comments (12)
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Mayor Harp to striker Helen Powell: “I’m here to help.”
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Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz joins the picket line.
Top elected officials headed to Stop & Shop Friday — not to buy groceries, but to support workers who succeeded in closing supermarket business in the second day of a strike.
by | Apr 9, 2019 5:38 am | Comments (11)
Lee Cruz looking for some road safety on Grand Avenue.
LCI’s Arlevia Samuel and Paul Hudson talk Dixwell Avenue.
Bike- and pedestrian-friendly commercial corridors. Reimagined alleys and public space. And maybe even more density. But none of that at the expense of affordability.
City planners heard that vision from 40 people at a two-hour session on how to bring zoning into the modern era on Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell avenues.
by | Apr 1, 2019 7:42 am | Comments (5)
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Mayor Toni Harp joined a group of more than 30 students from all over the city for a “chew and chill” to check in with constituents who she said will one day run New Haven.
by | Mar 15, 2019 12:11 pm | Comments (4)
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Install good lighting inside and around your store.
Have a high-quality camera security system.
And clear out all of the clutter from storefront windows so you can see out and the police can see in.
Top cops brought suggestions like those to Whalley Avenue business owners looking to thwart burglars and robbers.
Continue reading ‘Whalley Biz Owners Schooled In Target Hardening 101’
by | Feb 5, 2019 6:19 pm | Comments (33)
“Dave’s Double” served Tuesday at new Whalley Wendy’s.
Happy customers: Naila Smalls and Wenona Hollby.
Above: tax solution for NYC investor.
A new restaurant has opened on Whalley Avenue. No officials cut a ribbon. No jubilant developer hired a p.r. firm to celebrate a multimillion-dollar private investment, the creation of dozens of jobs, and the boost to the tax rolls.
by | Feb 4, 2019 8:37 am | Comments (4)
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Brendan Towers off Whalley near Boulevard.
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Justin Goldberg: “We made a positive impact.”
A Fairfield County developer sold a 60-unit Whalley Avenue apartment complex for $2.2 million more than he paid for it before fixing it up, in one of the latest land transactions in town.
by | Jan 18, 2019 1:17 pm | Comments (0)
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A Sharper Edge barber at work in the restored shop.
Two years after a fire destroyed their shop, the barbers and braiders of Sharper Edge are back on their block.
by | Jan 11, 2019 8:48 am | Comments (0)
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Mendel Deitsch (right) and Shimon Deitsch.
A growing ultra-Orthodox congregation will add a daycare center to a two-block educational campus in Beaver Hills.
Continue reading ‘Growing Chasidic Community Adding Daycare To School Campus’
by | Nov 2, 2018 1:36 pm | Comments (2)
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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy kicks off his GOTV blitz at the Courtyard by Marriott on Whalley Ave. …
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy had two goals during a trip to New Haven on the Friday before Election Day: meet business owners and encourage people to get out and vote.