B Bus Breakdown At Midnight
by | Jun 20, 2017 2:36 pm | Comments (0)
After the clock struck midnight, the B bus was cruising west down Whalley Avenue past the Boulevard when riders started noticing a foul smell.
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Eminent Domain Revival Pitched
by | May 1, 2017 7:30 am | Comments (30)
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Blight in Wooster Square.
Be a good neighbor and not a nuisance, or the city’s Redevelopment Agency might look for a developer to take your property — at fair market value — and tell you to kick rocks.
Or at least that’s what its chairman would like to do.
Little Free Library Comes To WEB Substation
by | Apr 7, 2017 1:22 pm | Comments (0)
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Silvestri, Wolcheski and Caplan near where the little library could be mounted.
Get one, give one.
A budding center of the Whalley Avenue-Edgewood-Beaver Hills community will have one more reason for neighbors, particularly the tiniest ones, to stop by — a Little Free Library
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A Surprise Awaited At Mickey D’s
by | Mar 17, 2017 1:58 pm | Comments (3)
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Accident reconstruction gumshoes DuPont and Dell.
In the post-midnight darkness, five cops walked side by side down Osborn Avenue hunting for a clue, any clue, that could help them find the driver who had killed a motorcyclist and then fled.
Chase Was On In Fatal Crash
by | Jan 3, 2017 9:39 am | Comments (27)
Contrary to initial reports, cops may have been chasing a stolen Toyota Highlander as it flew up an embankment and crashed into a synagogue, killing both of the vehicle’s occupants.
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Tay Brown lighting a memorial candle for his cousin at the crash scene.
Car-Jackers Crash Into Synagogue, Die
by | Jan 2, 2017 4:32 pm | Comments (12)
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Two men stole a man’s car, then fled from the cops — until fatally crashing at Beth El Keser Israel (BEKI) synagogue at the corner of Whalley Avenue and Harrison Street.
Substation Xanadu Revealed On Whalley
by | Dec 19, 2016 1:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Wolcheski with NHPD photo gallery at District 10 substation.
Standing alongside a dozen framed black-and-white photographs from the New Haven police department’s past and present, Sgt. John Wolcheski paused with a smile as he recalled the story behind each picture.
Cops Seek Killer Hit-&-Run Vehicle
by | Oct 10, 2016 5:14 pm | Comments (1)
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An example of Gulledge’s work.
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Police are seeking the public’s help in tracking down a vehicle involved in a fatal collision early Saturday.
Whalley Gets B*Wak-ked
by | Oct 7, 2016 8:27 am | Comments (5)
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Friends and fellow artists B*Wak Comfort, Jug Visconti, and Leslie and Troy Mozell wanted to give back to the community they’ve lived in all their lives, so they pooled their talents and started a business.
Zoners To Pawner: No Sale
by | Sep 14, 2016 8:19 am | Comments (3)
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Arganese pleads case.
A pawn shop will not be coming to upper Whalley Avenue in the Beverly Hills section of the city, where neighbors and other businesses feared what kind of customers would come in.
Fire Hits Whalley Garage
by | Jul 5, 2016 10:09 am | Comments (0)
As fireworks petered out for Independence Day celebrations Monday night, firefighters rushed to the scene of a fire in a two-car garage on Whalley Avenue.
Whalley Walgreens Takes Another Hit
by | Jun 28, 2016 8:27 am | Comments (3)
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That is not the drive-thru.
One could say that the Walgreens at Whalley and Ellsworth Avenue is having a spate of bad luck. At the end of May, a tree took out its sign. On Monday, almost a month later, a car stopped short of driving through its front doors.
New Top WEB Cop Comes Full Circle
by | Jun 13, 2016 8:00 am | Comments (3)
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Wolcheski on Whalley.
A neighbor called Sgt. John Wolcheski to let her new top neighborhood cop know that cars had been regularly blowing through the stop signs at the intersection. So Wolcheski parked his squad car just off the intersection of Percival and Carmel streets.
“Natural” Food Labels Targeted
by | Jun 1, 2016 7:35 am | Comments (2)
Blumenthal: Finding real “natural” food is like “playing Russian Roulette.”
Under current regulations, a cheese labelled “natural” could have cellulose in it extracted from ground-up wood, to make the substance stick together.
2 Shot, 1 “Gravely”
by | May 27, 2016 7:19 am | Comments (0)
Police are investigating why two people were shot early Friday at 12:38 a.m. Friday near the Whalley Stop & Shop between Dwight and Orchard Streets.
Scramble On To Iron Out Lock-Up Plan
by | May 26, 2016 7:41 am | Comments (4)
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The Whalley jail.
Segar: Union’s concerned.
In about 30 days, judicial marshals will stop staffing the lock-up at 1 Union Ave. But whether the lock-up will close and arrestees will go to the New Haven Correctional Center instead remains up in the air.
St. Luke’s Whalley Revival Cleared
by | May 11, 2016 12:04 pm | Comments (1)
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St. Luke’s on Whalley.
The zoning board approved 32 new apartments by St. Luke’s Development Corporation on Whalley Avenue and started the process for four more downtown, as New Haven’s housing boom continues.
Videos Capture Beverage Boss Arrests
by | May 11, 2016 7:57 am | Comments (23)
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Lt. Brown: Arrests legit.
(Updated) A week after protesters decried the arrests of two New Haveners outside a Whalley Avenue liquor store, an in-house police review has cleared the officers involved of any wrongdoing.
Today On WNHH
by | May 11, 2016 7:55 am | Comments (0)
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Miller.
Today’s programs on WNHH radio give a teary sendoff to one of New Haven’s top cops, pursue new solutions for old cities, and look at the newly conserved and reopened Yale Center for British Art.
Beverage Boss Brawl Sparks Cop Protest
by and | May 1, 2016 3:35 pm | Comments (30)
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Agnew Jr. tells his story to crowd outside 1 Union Ave.
A crowd picketed outside the police station Sunday the morning after cops pepper-sprayed a man outside a liquor store — and arrested and allegedly confiscated a phone from a friend who was video-recording the action.
Alleged Booze Boss Bricker Chased Down
by | Apr 8, 2016 5:11 pm | Comments (0)
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Officers arrest accused brick-thrower in Wells Fargo lot after a struggle.
When Ron Patel heard the glass smash Friday afternoon from a window at his Beverage Boss store on Whalley Avenue, he checked outside. There, he said, he found a man who’d tossed a brick.
Top WEB Cop Retires
by | Mar 31, 2016 4:03 pm | Comments (5)
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Miller shares laugh with his kids, Chief Esserman and mentor Spell.
Top Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills (aka “WEB”) district cop Lt. Makiem Miller has many sides. He’s the guy who mentors at-risk kids, but won’t let them beat him at paintball. He’s also the smiling face that both cops and the community look to in tense situations.
Murphy goesNewHavengoes To Edge Of The Woods
by | Sep 13, 2015 12:10 pm | Comments (9)
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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy got multimodal to test out goNewHavengo—the city’s new initiative to get people to walking, biking and busing around town instead of driving cars — and to talk about the fight for more federal dollars for mass transit and small businesses, and the fight for a $15 minimum wage.
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Westville Villagers Yarn-Bombed
by | Jul 19, 2015 5:38 pm | Comments (4)
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“Forbidden Fruit” is now dangling from the upper reaches of a mature honey locust tree in the center of Westville’s fashion and arts district. A large yellow serpent, complete with forked tongue and hypnotic eyes, is up there too.
Hit & Run Driver Sought
by | Jul 19, 2015 12:48 pm | Comments (1)
Police are on the hunt for the driver of an “older-model white Mitsubishi Eclipse with dark tinted windows and a rear spoiler” and “cracked front windshield” who critically struck a pedestrian.