by | Nov 25, 2024 3:04 pm | Comments (19)
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Barnett Brodie (left): "It's impossible for me to match shingles from 50 years ago" or to force tenants to clean hallways.
The landlord didn’t contest that tenants kept a laundry basket in a common hallway. Or that he had old shingles on the house.
He did wonder why the city was pushing him to do something about it or potentially face a fine.
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(Updated) Uzziah Shell, the 16-year-old shot to death this past Friday, had been involved in recent disputes with youth crews in town, according to people familiar with the case.
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by | Nov 25, 2024 10:13 am | Comments (23)
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That's some mighty fine "beton brut.”
A pair of six-story concrete “gigantic megaliths” on Fountain Street have traded hands for $28 million — leaving 150-plus Westville apartments under new ownership for the first time in two decades.
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Sharmont "Influence" Little: "Humanity has never been given by a Greek god."
A symphony orchestra in a vast concert hall. Ballet dancers, barefoot. A spoken-word poet and a singer. A traditional African drummer.
These elements all came together in concert, as a collaboration among the New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO), New Haven poet laureate Sharmont “Influence” Little, and members of the New Haven-area Tia Russell Dance Studio added up to a past-honoring, forward-thinking presentation of Beethoven’s ballet The Creatures of Prometheus that was both an embodiment and celebration of creativity.
by | Nov 22, 2024 1:25 pm | Comments (27)
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Siri, get me rewrite ...
New Haven’s police chief has a new strategy to get cops out from behind the desk and into the city’s neighborhoods — police reports written by artificial intelligence.
by | Nov 22, 2024 12:29 pm | Comments (15)
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Rosales: "It feels like a family" at Hillhouse.
Jaqualine Rosales is no stranger to moving. After leaving her family in El Salvador, she lived for a time in Texas, and then in South Carolina. Now in New Haven, the 18-year-old Hillhouse High School student lives by herself. She doesn’t feel alone, though.
“I’ve been to a lot of schools and I’ve seen a lot of education [in] different ways,” Rosales said on Thursday at a press conference calling for deeper state investments to help young people who might otherwise fall through the cracks. “But New Haven has something special because this school feels like [a] second home to me…it feels like family.”
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by | Nov 22, 2024 8:06 am | Comments (11)
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Blair Daniels in the East Rock Breads kitchen.
As the sun prepared to set, John Torello worked with Joe DeLucia and Joe Neagle on the finishing touches on a soon-to-open neighborhood tavern. Down the block, Joseph Jenkins and Keiry Pena were taking Thanksgiving orders from loyal customers of their new Spanish grocery. Rory Ballachino poured Silk soymilk into an evolving matcha latte inside a new coffeehouse preparing for the fifth — sixth? — community event of its first week in business. Blair Daniels was in the kitchen scooping white flour to prepare the dough for a batch of country loaf to be baked the next morning in time for the steady stream of bread-buyers.
None of these businesses was operating a year ago. They are among six setting up shop this year on just three blocks of Upper State Street, maintaining the momentum of one of New Haven’s signature “new urbanist” neighborhoods.
by | Nov 21, 2024 3:59 pm | Comments (22)
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Hearing officer Megna, with LCI attorney Bedosky: "That's a big fine for a two-family home."
(Updated) A Queens-based landlord is on the hook for $25,500 in fines — after missing a City Hall hearing he said he didn’t know about, that concerned two LCI inspections he was surprised to learn he’d skipped.
by | Nov 21, 2024 9:55 am | Comments (12)
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Alders Smith and Hubbard examine Narcan nasal sprays.
Every New Haven police officer may soon carry overdose-reversing medication — in a donated pouch on their uniform’s vest.
by | Nov 21, 2024 8:35 am | Comments (4)
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No empty seats at the table, at Trans Day of Remembrance.
Simon: "I'm not inherently political."
There were no empty chairs around the New Haven Pride Center’s communal dinner table, though there were missing people.
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by | Nov 20, 2024 2:22 pm | Comments (20)
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Majority Leader Richard Furlow to Board of Ed: "Get it together."
The Board of Alders issued a lifeline — along with a warning — to the Board of Education, as they unanimously approved transferring $8.5 million from the city’s surplus for the school system’s use.
by | Nov 20, 2024 8:31 am | Comments (34)
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Alder — and now homeowner — Jose Crespo...
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... and his new James Street house.
One of Alder Jose Crespo’s constituents wants her security deposit back — from a landlord who happens to be Alder Crespo.
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by and | Nov 19, 2024 8:33 pm | Comments (9)
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Hogan (fifth from left) with supporters after Tuesday's win.
(Updated) Gary Hogan will be the next alder representing Beaver Hills’ Ward 28, after the neighborhood’s Democratic ward committee co-chair won Tuesday’s special election to fill the seat left vacant following Alder Tom Ficklin’s unexpected death in October.
by | Nov 19, 2024 2:55 pm | Comments (10)
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Whoa!
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Payton, Ellis, and Anaya with muralists Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn: “This is why we’re doing this.”
The challenge was steep. To scour the globe for a muralist to lend such pizzazz to a 240-foot blank warehouse wall that it would bring life to a faded stretch of town.
In the end, one factor sealed the deal: cartwheels.
by | Nov 19, 2024 1:30 pm | Comments (13)
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New Haven's industrial port: Watch out, enviro scofflaws.
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AG Tong: “Gulf Oil ran a defective operation and falsified records to cover its tracks."
An oil tank operator in New Haven’s industrial port has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a state lawsuit that accused the company of falsifying inspection reports and undertaking construction and demolition without pulling the proper permits.
Continue reading ‘Oil Tank Biz Settles Fake-Inspection Case For $2M’