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Time for state to step in for tenants: State Reps.-Elect Laurie Sweet and Steve Winter at WNHH FM.
Laurie Sweet is headed back to the state Capitol to push a tenants’ rights bill — this time to help pass the law rather than push someone else to.
by | Dec 18, 2024 11:35 am | Comments (8)
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235 Winchester: Fined for blight, foreclosure in January?
A long-vacant Winchester Avenue property that a developer and the city have fought over for two decades is the subject of $6,300 in new anti-blight fines — and a new “final” foreclosure date set for next month.
by | Dec 17, 2024 7:14 pm | Comments (41)
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Mayor Elicker (center) at Monday's ribbon cutting for the Coliseum redevelopment: "On the housing front, we've made a ton of progress."
Mayor Justin Elicker quietly kicked off the 2025 race for mayor on Tuesday — by officially filing to run for a fourth two-year term in office.
by | Dec 17, 2024 11:37 am | Comments (7)
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Health Director Bond: RFP error corrected.
More than 20 representatives from nonprofits that help people living with HIV/AIDS sent a letter to the mayor criticizing the city for changing how it handles a federal grant program — and warning the Elicker administration against “dismantling” a system of care they say works just fine.
The Health Department has responded by correcting an error regarding who is eligible to apply for these funds, and by arguing that centralizing oversight with city government is necessary to bring this program into compliance with federal requirements.
Continue reading ‘HIV/AIDS Program Mistake, Change Spark Pushback’
by | Dec 17, 2024 9:37 am | Comments (4)
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Mrs. G in class: "All group members' voices should be contributing."
A brick house with a raised foundation and a hardwood front porch emerged from the minds of Augusta Lewis Troup School science students — as they learned about designing resilient housing that can withstand strong storms.
Continue reading ‘Mrs. G's Students Get Ready For The Storm’
by | Dec 16, 2024 2:17 pm | Comments (29)
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Mayor Elicker and Spinnaker VP Frank Caico (center) ...
... celebrate new apartments at the "Anthem at Square 10" ...
... as property manager Alves (right) shows off common area "plant wall."
Brian Alves reached back in time to his teenage years attending concerts by Aerosmith and Huey Lewis and the News at the Coliseum — as he gave reporters a tour of the shiny new mixed-use building that has risen from the ex-venue’s ashes, complete with 200 apartments, ground-floor retail space, a pool, a gym, and a common room buttressed by a “real life plant wall.”
Continue reading ‘At Long Last, Ex-Coliseum Apartments Open’
by | Dec 16, 2024 11:14 am | Comments (6)
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At last call at Soul De Cuba, with Frank Brady and Tea Montgomery.
After more than 20 years of serving Cuban cuisine and culture on the corner of High and Crown Streets, Soul de Cuba will be offering only catering and take out services for the next few days before going dark on Dec. 22.
by | Dec 16, 2024 10:05 am | Comments (10)
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LCI's Brennan: Looking for tools to assess mold's impact.
Daniella Herget has lived in New Haven her entire adult life and loves the city, but now she’s seriously considering leaving for good.
Every apartment she’s lived in, she said, has had the same issues: poor conditions that exacerbate her asthma, and landlords who refuse to repair them.
by | Dec 13, 2024 6:07 pm | Comments (18)
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School board nominee Daniel Juárez: "I believe that as a parent, I would be able to advocate for students and families."
Mayor Justin Elicker has selected a Yale fundraising coordinator and father of two New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students to be the next member of the Board of Education.
According to Friday’s publication of the agenda for Monday’s next Board of Alders meeting, Elicker has picked Daniel Juárez to replace Yesenia Rivera on the school board.
Continue reading ‘Mayor Taps Yale Fundraiser, NHPS Parent For School Board’
by | Dec 13, 2024 1:12 pm | Comments (26)
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Ex-El Amigo Felix on Whalley: Still the pits.
A 14-block rezoning that was intended to promote dense, mixed-use development on Whalley Avenue has yielded no new places to live in the nearly five years since it was approved by the Board of Alders.
by | Dec 13, 2024 11:42 am | Comments (2)
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DETROIT — A crowd in suits and gowns (pictured above) mingled below arched windows, 27,000-pound cast-iron chandeliers, and a 54-foot-high Guastavino tile-vaulted ceiling, atop “original Tennessee rose-colored marble” floors, to celebrate the rescue of an architectural marvel — and a new day for their city.
by | Dec 13, 2024 9:26 am | Comments (3)
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Little kiddos coming soon.
A nonprofit cafe and job training program for immigrant and refugee women has won city permission to open a worker-owned childcare center in the basement of a downtown church.
by | Dec 12, 2024 2:22 pm | Comments (17)
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Jasanea Hernandez (left): A fair contract will "send a powerful message to our children about the value of hard work and dedication."
Local 217 in the house: "You want order, we want to eat!"
Amid contract negotiations, dozens of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) cafeteria staffers called on the school district to pay them livable wages so they can keep their own stomachs full as they work to feed students.
by | Dec 12, 2024 1:06 pm | Comments (4)
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Morand with New Haven's original charter: "History is everywhere."
From “Dr. Ann E. Garrett Robinson Way” to the Blue Moon Chapel mural to the Q House centennial’s many celebrations, New Haven history is everywhere — and should be accessible to everyone.
For the past eight months, Mike Morand has been working to make that public history ideal a reality – in his official-but-unpaid role as city historian.
by | Dec 11, 2024 3:48 pm | Comments (27)
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That's trash, behind row of vacant Ocean homes.
LCI attorney Williams and hearing officer Bernblum: You're fined.
(Updated) A Livable City Initiative (LCI) hearing officer approved more than $130,000 in anti-blight fines for six vacant Ocean Management properties that look like, well, trash.