by | Oct 25, 2024 8:58 am | Comments (37)
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Property Manager Amanda Naranjo (center) helps cut the ribbon ...
... on "the Archive" on Chapel St.
Downtown renters looking for a shiny new two-bedroom apartment can now spend $3,399-plus per month — to live in a two-building, 166-unit complex that has risen from the ashes of a pair of long-vacant Chapel Street lots.
by | Oct 24, 2024 1:22 pm | Comments (73)
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Demetry Belfort (right), with Brielle Quarles: “If Trump wins, so be it. I’ve voted my principles."
Brielle Quarles and Demetry Belfort don’t believe the doomsday-for-democracy prophecies of a jack-booted Trump future.
They feel burned by an Obama presidency that failed to deliver systemic change on housing, policing, immigration, and American “imperialism.”
And they don’t approve of a current Democratic Party leader who flaunts ownership of a Glock pistol.
So, with a commitment to their principles, they voted for a third-party potential spoiler.
Continue reading ‘Disillusioned With Dems, Couple Votes Stein’
by | Oct 24, 2024 11:06 am | Comments (30)
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Homelessness, policing on the agenda for Hill CMT.
Hill South neighbors pressed the mayor, the police chief, and their district’s top cop to do more to build up the ranks of the city’s police department — and to work harder to address homelessness in the neighborhood.
by | Oct 23, 2024 5:32 pm | Comments (11)
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PSAP chief Joe Vitale (center): Frontier "equipment failure" potentially to blame.
By 11:50 a.m. on Tuesday, it was clear: the city’s 911 operators had a problem.
When they tried to make calls from the system’s landline phones — whether to check in on a civilian in trouble or connect with another department — they were met with a fast stream of discordant beeps.
by | Oct 23, 2024 2:23 pm | Comments (6)
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The Whalley Ave. jail, as viewed from Hudson St.
Correction officers, or C.O.s, are so stressed they divorce at a 70 percent rate, and their average life expectancy is an alarming 59 years, far less than the national average.
Those stats and “un-siloing” of the plight of C.O.s were at the heart of an unusual, sobering panel discussion at Albertus Magnus College — all about trying to find holistic reform of a broken prison system.
by | Oct 23, 2024 11:28 am | Comments (25)
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Mark Colville (right) and volunteers handing out food and supplies on the Green ...
... to campers like Strongbow Lone Eagle.
Though their tents are largely gone, unhoused campers have set up sleeping bags on the grassy patch behind United Church on the Green — where they continue to distribute and receive food and other aid, as an activist crew keeps up their protest of homeless encampment sweeps.
by | Oct 22, 2024 3:00 pm | Comments (23)
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Jianchao Xu's property manager, David Kone, at LCI hearing: "Obviously, there's been some miscommunication."
A Bethany-based landlord was hit with $18,200 in city fines — as part of a rejuvenated quasi-judicial process designed to give the Livable City Initiative (LCI) more teeth when confronting negligent rental property owners.
Continue reading ‘Landlord Fined $18K For Missed Inspections’
by | Oct 22, 2024 1:27 pm | Comments (32)
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LCI's Liam Brennan (center) and Javier Ortiz with Fire Inspector Steve Martin at an inspection on Nash St.
Watch out, derelict landlords: housing code violations can now come with a $2,000-a-day price tag levied directly by the city.
The Board of Alders instituted that maximum fine for landlords renting out units that are deemed to be unsafe on Monday evening, escalating the consequences from a previous $250-per-violation fine.
Continue reading ‘Alders Approve $2,000 Fines For Landlords’
by | Oct 22, 2024 11:24 am | Comments (16)
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At the Cold Spring-Livingston intersection Tuesday.
(Updated) A Wilbur Cross early childcare staffer and a young child “sustained fractures” after two adults and three kids were hit by a car while on a walk near the school — leading the center to temporarily stop its neighborhood walks.
Continue reading ‘Teacher, Children Struck At East Rock Intersection’
by | Oct 21, 2024 4:58 pm | Comments (32)
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555 Long Wharf, less than half filled, now under new ownership.
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Buyer Landino: Office space can still work on Long Wharf despite national trends.
Fusco has sold a financially distressed 15-story office tower and adjacent parking garage on Long Wharf for less than a quarter of their city-appraised values — but still plans on building new waterfront apartments on a separate parcel next door.
by and | Oct 21, 2024 2:07 pm | Comments (53)
Dozens wait to cast their ballots, at around 10 a.m.
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Kenneth Barnes: "I just want the world to be a better place."
Dozens of New Haveners lined up on the second floor of City Hall Monday morning to cast the city’s first early ballots in this year’s long-coming presidential election.
Continue reading ‘First Early Votes Cast In General Election’
by | Oct 21, 2024 9:43 am | Comments (1)
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Dr. Robinson, with Alder Streater: “We are part of a story. That story can be better and better.”
The sign is revealed.
A seemingly ordinary street corner morphed into a dance floor, a concert hall, and a classroom, in honor of a beloved neighbor and teacher who has made history by remembering it.
by | Oct 21, 2024 9:39 am | Comments (2)
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Hey, Erector Square! Who you calling "meat face?"
Erector Square was full of people and art, as the second year of the fully artist-run New Haven Open Studios packed the building complex — so much so that, in addition to the many artists who had flung open their studio doors to visitors, many more had set up displays in entryways, intersections, and hallways, giving the sense that everywhere one went, there was art on the walls, and conversation happening.
by | Oct 18, 2024 4:17 pm | Comments (8)
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Ann Moore: Eager to learn sign language alongside the babies in her new classroom.
Coming soon to a theater near you is a classroom of babies learning ASL alongside their ABCs.
That is, a former theater — the old Cine 4 movie theater at 25 Flint St., which on Monday will reopen as four infant-and-toddler classrooms as well as a new administrative hub for Friends Center for Children.
by | Oct 18, 2024 11:01 am | Comments (9)
Elsie Chapman in the air.
Elsie Chapman had thought about her 80th birthday celebration for so long that she could hardly believe it was here.
Her toes met the edge of the plane. She heard her guide count down: three… two… one…
And just like that, she was flying.