by | Sep 26, 2024 3:45 pm | Comments (8)
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Union Station, get ready for some new neighbors ...
... at the TOD coming soon-ish to the east parking lot?
Four developers are in the running to build up a state-owned surface parking lot adjacent to Union Station — as part of a transit-oriented development that is likely still several years away from breaking ground.
by | Sep 26, 2024 12:59 pm | Comments (12)
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Michael Carter: CAO Act II looming?
Four days before his public school district operations consultant contract is set to expire, Mike Carter is still “undecided” as to whether or not to stay in the post — or, potentially, return to his former top City Hall job.
by | Sep 25, 2024 5:30 pm | Comments (22)
High Times makes Pastore a national decriminalization hero within months of his becoming chief.
Former New Haven Police Chief Nicholas Pastore, a product of the pre-Urban Renewal Hill neighborhood who implemented groundbreaking reforms decades before America embraced them as conventional wisdom, died Tuesday at the age of 87.
by | Sep 25, 2024 3:42 pm | Comments (18)
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Community Resilience Director Tirzah Kemp: COMPASS provides an "empathetic, compassionate, humane, and trauma-informed approach to care."
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COMPASS calls, by the #s, as presented in August report.
The city’s non-cop crisis response team will now be on call until 3 a.m. each day — with double the staffers working during the peak hours of 7 to midnight — as the Elicker administration again expands its effort to send social workers and not police to certain 911 calls about homelessness, mental health, and substance abuse.
by | Sep 25, 2024 12:47 pm | Comments (42)
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Conley, as pictured after shooting at police during fatal confrontation on Sept. 19.
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Conley's fifth-grade perfect attendance certificate, as included as exhibit in defense sentencing memo in 2016 federal drug case.
The fatal confrontation last week between police and 36-year-old New Havener Jebrell Conley stemmed from a July 3 robbery in Hamden during which Conley and others allegedly hit, pistol-whipped, and shot a man as they stole his drugs and money.
That in turn stemmed from Conley’s years-long involvement in the illegal drug trade and New Haven gang life — which grew out of a troubled upbringing in the Hill in the 1990s and the shooting death of a brother whom he looked up to as a father.
Those details and many more are included in federal court documents about criminal cases involving Conley, who appeared to fire first at — and then was shot and killed by — city and state police as they sought to serve him with a robbery-shooting warrant late in the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 19, at a car wash just over the New Haven-West Haven town border.
Continue reading ‘"Brell" File Reveals Violent Robbery, Childhood’
by | Sep 25, 2024 10:00 am | Comments (40)
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Cross staffers speak out (clockwise from top left): Brian Grindrod, Eric Teichman, Kathryn Dadio, Dario Sulzman, Mia Comulada Breuler, and Mark CoFrancesco.
Nearly 20 Wilbur Cross educators, parents, and students showed up to the latest Board of Education meeting to give the city’s public school district a failing grade for unsafe, unhealthy, and unsightly building conditions at New Haven’s largest high school.
by | Sep 24, 2024 12:06 pm | Comments (14)
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Yvonne Watts (right), with neighbor Lourdes Oritz, at a Mandy Management building that has failed two recent LCI inspections: "If they fix anything else, they're going to go up on rent."
Yvonne Watts said she doesn’t want Mandy Management to repair her bathroom mirror or replace her kitchen countertops — because she’s afraid that will raise the rent too high.
Continue reading ‘Tenant To Mandy: Please Don't Fix My Apartment’
by | Sep 23, 2024 5:25 pm | Comments (39)
State Police Sgt. Richter's body cam footage. Warning: This video contains graphic violence.
(Updated) Jebrell Conley appeared to fire first as cops boxed him in and tried to arrest him on robbery-shooting charges at a car wash just over the New Haven-West Haven border.
Three of those officers — including two city cops — responded by shooting and killing Conley.
Those details are included in a preliminary report released by the state Office of the Inspector General on Monday afternoon.
Continue reading ‘Report, Videos Detail Fatal Police Shooting’
by | Sep 23, 2024 4:18 pm | Comments (7)
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Harold Jones, in the "flow" scooping early fall leaves in Upper Westville.
“You can’t work with a cluttered mind,” said Harold Jones as he de-cluttered the Ijeh family’s front yard — on a job outing where stories of incarceration and reentry, witnessed and experienced from different angles, had a chance to intersect.
by | Sep 23, 2024 3:26 pm | Comments (9)
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U.S. Attorney Vanessa Avery and DEA Special Agent David Lanzoni: This was the "largest seizure of fake pills we've seen in New England."
A garage-turned-“lab” equipped with 2,000-pound pill-pressing machines churned out two million synthetic opioid pills containing ingredients more potent than even fentanyl — and now sits at the center of Connecticut’s largest ever clandestine drug manufacturing bust.
Continue reading ‘7 Arrested After Counterfeit Pill "Lab" Bust’
by | Sep 23, 2024 11:46 am | Comments (16)
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63 new apartments approved for 201 Hazel ...
... and 50 senior dwellings approved for 34 Level.
The City Plan Commission signed off on 162 new mostly affordable apartments to be built in Newhallville, West Rock, and Whalley — as part of three more new-construction projects involving the housing authority’s nonprofit development affiliate, the Glendower Group.
by | Sep 20, 2024 3:51 pm | Comments (71)
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Myra Smith: "I feel powerless when it comes to this population."
Myra Smith walked into the Wilson Library Branch with her mind made up about supervised substance use centers: “It is NOT coming to the Hill. It’s not.”
She left with more openness to the concept as a way to address the opioid crisis that has overwhelmed her neighborhood. “I’m not saying I’m totally against it. This sounds wonderful,” she said — as long as it’s implemented with care for the surrounding community.
by | Sep 20, 2024 3:27 pm | Comments (10)
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Owen Agba, Grace Sherman, and Nathaly Ynoa Martinez: No phones, no problems.
When Barnard School eighth-graders Grace Sherman and Nathaly Ynoa Martinez and Owen Agba arrived at school Friday morning, they put their smartphones in magnetically sealed pouches — which they likely wouldn’t unlock until the end of the day.
After participating in a year-long experiment in phone-free classrooms, they looked forward to another day of in-person learning and socializing with friends, unmired by the distractions of TikTok and Instagram. Meanwhile, their governor and one of their U.S. senators popped into their school to learn about how that’s all going.
by and | Sep 20, 2024 10:53 am | Comments (59)
Jebrell Conley (pictured) died after Thursday's police shooting.
(Updated) Jebrell Conley was at a car wash Thursday when police shot and killed him during a confrontation while serving a warrant, according to people familiar with the incident.
by | Sep 19, 2024 3:21 pm | Comments (14)
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At Thursday's homeless rights courthouse protest.
Roosevelt Watkins came out to the Elm Street courthouse steps Thursday morning to help make protest signs reading “Collecting Cans Is Not A Crime” — before heading inside to support a 22-year-old homeless man who has been locked up for the past three weeks for a can-throwing bomb scare.
Continue reading ‘Can Collector-Bomb Suspect Case Continued’