by | Nov 13, 2024 2:49 pm | Comments (28)
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At Tuesday's BZA meeting, where commissioners heard plans ...
... for 8 rent-reduced apartments to rise at Lombard ex-laundromat site.
An empty Fair Haven lot that once sparked a high-profile arson trial could soon be the site of eight new affordable apartments.
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by | Nov 13, 2024 11:02 am | Comments (18)
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Candidates Gary Hogan and Claudette Robinson-Thorpe.
Former Alder Jill Marks: "I am a victim" of the Kia Boys.
Abe Vail stood up in the middle of an alder candidate forum to ask 50 of his Beaver Hills neighbors a question.
“Show of hands,” he said: How many people here have had cars stolen, allegedly by TikTok-inspired teenagers who call themselves “Kia Boys”?
Nearly a dozen hands shot up.
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by | Nov 12, 2024 6:20 pm | Comments (9)
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Is that NYPD Blue... in Wooster Square?
And who's the lady in white?
Ohh, it's a film shoot! For "The Monster."
In front of large computer screens and a focused film crew, a woman in a white dress walked up to a Wooster Square brownstone pretending to be New York City.
She reached the top of the entrance. Before she could open the door and walk inside, she stopped, turned, and walked back down the stairs — ready to repeat those moves again and again, as part of a new horror movie being filmed in part in New Haven.
by | Nov 12, 2024 2:32 pm | Comments (17)
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Shovels up, for the Monarch ...
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... the new Monarch apartments, that is ...
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... and not the former linen-cleaning company (pictured).
The “route men” are long gone from the former Monarch Cleaners in West River.
So are the pleas of “Uncle Sammy, you got a summer job for me?” that sisters Cathy Dziekan and Jan Lougal still remember their dad being asked by extended family in need of work.
But the history of their family’s long-time laundry business will live on — in the name and in the story behind 64 new affordable apartments now on the rise on Derby Avenue.
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by | Nov 12, 2024 10:59 am | Comments (18)
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Blumenthal (right) with tenants union members Asia Foley and Sinclair McCutcheon: "The reach of this legislation would be very broad in protecting tenants."
Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator stood side by side with members of the city’s first officially recognized tenants union to announce proposed legislation to make it easier nationwide for renters to organize and collectively bargain with their landlords.
by | Nov 12, 2024 9:40 am | Comments (3)
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De Leon and Holmes: 2 runners at different points in their careers.
Mid-distance runner Farah Santiago De Leon, 12, sat next to world-renowned Olympic athlete Alexis Holmes and looked into the future — imagining the athletic feats that she, too, might one day achieve.
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by | Nov 11, 2024 7:44 pm | Comments (7)
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Conley Monk: “We want to give back to the living vets who never received a parade.”
The aging West Haven VA Medical Center is going to be seriously renovated and more and more affordable veterans’ housing is going to be popping up in the Elm City in the coming months and years.
Those were some of the new promises made to vets in moving ceremonies Monday on a sunny afternoon of Veterans Day by the Vietnam Memorial on Long Wharf.
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by | Nov 11, 2024 1:21 pm | Comments (40)
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(Opinion) In recent years, Democrats have gained a reputation for being the party that champions social issues, focusing on everything from LGBTQ rights to racial justice. These are essential causes, but after this election cycle, it’s becoming more apparent that this approach alone isn’t resonating with voters as it once did.
The data shows that American voters are overwhelmingly concerned about their economic well-being — not just in terms of their wages but also their ability to afford housing, access healthcare, and support their families.
For Democrats to truly regain power and effectively challenge the conservative narratives that dominate today, they need to prioritize economic inequality as their central platform.
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by | Nov 11, 2024 9:06 am | Comments (5)
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Opuszynski (left): “I bought it from [Xu] after he didn’t want to deal with the headache.”
A Madison-based investor now owns two of three foreclosed former co-op properties on Henry Street — after buying the row home for $480,000 from Bethany-based landlord Jianchao Xu.
by | Nov 8, 2024 3:59 pm | Comments (18)
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Varick Church: So long, 242 Dixwell?
A historic Black church that has spent the past century-plus in the heart of Dixwell is considering relocating — amid a broader building up of the neighborhood’s commercial corridor.
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by | Nov 8, 2024 2:27 pm | Comments (10)
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Chief Jacobson: "This collaboration is what we need in law enforcement today."
Question: What do Woodbridge and Wallingford and Orange and Ansonia and Yale and Naugatuck and Hamden have in common?
Answer: Their police departments are all working together to combat car thefts that “know no [town] borders,” as part of a regional task force spearheaded by New Haven.
by | Nov 7, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (95)
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Geter-Pataky completes paperwork for a client inside New Haven's vital statistics office.
Wanda Geter-Pataky found a way to supplement her income while on paid leave from her Bridgeport city job and facing criminal charges for ballot fraud: Bring crews of out-of-state non-citizens to marry as many as 100-plus Americans a month at New Haven City Hall.
by | Nov 7, 2024 1:22 pm | Comments (16)
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LCI hearing officer Bob Megna: Fines approved.
It took an hour and a half for volunteer hearing officer Bob Megna to issue $1,000 fines to 27 local landlords — part of the city’s latest effort to revive a mandatory landlord licensing program after a lapse in enforcement.
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by | Nov 6, 2024 4:32 pm | Comments (31)
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James Lazarus: "They want to uproot me."
Parks Department carries away belongings-turned-"trash."
The city’s Parks Department has officially cleared the homeless encampment on the Upper Green — amid a debate over when unattended belongings become discardable “trash.”
by | Nov 6, 2024 1:37 pm | Comments (2)
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Church St. near Crown, hours after the Nov. 1 shooting.
Police officers who responded to a 2 a.m. shootout on Church Street last Friday found a “very chaotic” scene — with a young woman lying on the sidewalk bleeding from the head, a second gunshot victim standing alongside her, a gun in the middle of the road, car traffic still flowing, a third gunshot victim a block away, and video recordings showing one man firing into a crowd of people, prompting another to return shots with a weapon of his own.
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