by | Sep 13, 2024 11:02 am | Comments (18)
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Kent Mawhinney and Alexis Kang: Give pinot noir a chance.
Hundreds of new residents will soon be allowed to move into on-the-rise apartments at the ex-Coliseum property — but they won’t be allowed to walk downstairs to buy alcohol at a “high-end” liquor store on site.
by | Sep 13, 2024 9:20 am | Comments (10)
At Lawrence Street Plaza Thursday night.
In the city’s latest experiment in closing a road to vehicle traffic to better boost community, Lawrence Street Plaza shone on Thursday night — with music, pizza, bean bags, picnic tables, and car-free safety.
by | Sep 12, 2024 4:14 pm | Comments (38)
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LCI Director Liam Brennan (center), with deputies Mark Stroud and Frank D'Amore: Time to "streamline all these processes, so that they conform more to what we think public expectations are."
Landlord fines for housing code violations are on track to jump from $250 apiece to up to $2,000 a day — thanks to a state-enabled local law newly endorsed by an aldermanic committee.
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by | Sep 12, 2024 2:41 pm | Comments (5)
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Ranisa Sweat teaching English class at Troup.
Troup seventh grader Lizmarie Hernandez eyed the word “consume” in her English workbook.
Instead of looking it up on her phone, she flipped to the book’s glossary to learn its definition — and then wrote that down by hand to help herself remember.
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by | Sep 12, 2024 12:15 pm | Comments (22)
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Harvest Mart advertises its wares, with the help of a novelty-sized blunt.
Hassan Alsufyani wanted to open up a convenience store at the entrance to Westville Village.
But local zoning law prohibits such a use at that spot — so he now sells strictly tobacco, bongs, e‑cigarettes, and vaping products instead.
by and | Sep 12, 2024 7:59 am | Comments (32)
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Strike! At the Omni on Temple St.
Over 120 housekeepers, front desk agents, cooks, and other employees at the Omni Hotel went on strike early Thursday morning, amid an ongoing contract fight over better pay, healthcare, and pensions.
by | Sep 11, 2024 2:00 pm | Comments (21)
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Thomasine Shaw, next to BZA member Gemini Rorie: The proposed poultry market would have been too close to people, "endangering their health."
The Board of Zoning Appeals denied a proposed poultry market with on-site, on-demand chicken slaughtering on Tuesday night, following a stream of contentious public testimony that invoked concerns about Islamophobia, bird flu, and the wellbeing of the neighborhood.
by | Sep 11, 2024 9:49 am | Comments (12)
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English Station: Oh the potential, oh the decay.
A derelict power plant. A neighborhood school. A vibrant community history of hardship and resilience. And the ticking clock of climate change.
All these elements came together in the first of a series of walking tours — a collaboration among several public and nonprofit entities put together by Anstress Farwell, president of the New Haven Urban Design League — focusing on the decommissioned and toxic English Station power plant and the Mill River District in Fair Haven.
Continue reading ‘English Station Looms Over Fair Haven Walk’
by | Sep 10, 2024 3:40 pm | Comments (17)
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Keisha Redd-Hannans: In some cases, NHPS surpasses pre-pandemic growth numbers.
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New Haven students are steadily making their way back to pre-pandemic proficiency rates, as newly received state assessment results for the 2023 – 24 school year show improved math, science, and English skills.
by | Sep 10, 2024 12:08 pm | Comments (29)
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Joel Nieves, staying at Rosette for now: "I'm not alone anymore."
With the help of an extension cord providing power to his CPAP machine, Joel Nieves is still living in a tiny shelter on a Rosette Street backyard — two months after the city ordered the power turned off for him and his unhoused neighbors.
In that same time, the Elicker administration has also offered Nieves a new, more permanent place to stay, along with security deposit help.
The problem for Nieves — which has led him to turn down that housing help — is that the replacement apartment is two towns away, in Branford.
Continue reading ‘Tiny Shelter Resident Rejects Branford Move’
by | Sep 9, 2024 5:27 pm | Comments (13)
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Soryorelis Henry, with husband Darcus: "I felt so alone."
Yale has reached a settlement with 93 fertility clinic patients who received saline instead of fentanyl during excruciating and often traumatizing procedures.
One of those patients, Soryorelis Henry, found herself “screaming and crying” in agony during an egg retrieval that was supposed to be pain-free — and heard the cries of other patients undergoing the same procedure from the waiting room.
by | Sep 9, 2024 2:29 pm | Comments (18)
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Frustrated bus riders Natalie Averill and Abdullah Livingston: "It's an inconvenience."
New signs, new reopen date: Sept. 23.
“Closed” signs have been replaced with those reading “We’re Back & Better Than Ever!”
But the bus pass kiosk on the Green is still not open, four months after the state first shuttered the small sales outlet and info center for repairs.
by | Sep 9, 2024 2:01 pm | Comments (73)
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Lieblich: "I had enough."
Benny Lieblich’s 8‑year-old daughter had just gotten out of the back seat of the family’s 2017 Honda Pilot when joy-riding teens hopped out of a stolen car and hopped in.
They drove away, with Benny Lieblich in hot pursuit.
by | Sep 9, 2024 11:56 am | Comments (3)
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Time A Tell's Josh McCown in action with Moroccan-born American rapper French Montana at Oakdale Theatre.
Jayce Greene, 10, and his mother pushed through the door of Time A Tell, the clothing store and smoke shop at 1700 Dixwell Ave. He was looking for a Time A Tell hoodie.
“All the kids on my team are wearing them,” said Jayce, a student at Worthington-Hooker School and member of the Elm City Elite basketball team, as owner Joshua McCown brought out a selection of sizes and colors in the high-ceilinged, warmly-lit space. “They’re all over New Haven,” his mother added.
That’s an index of the quantum leap that McCown, 20, has taken in the two years since opening his shop with a mission to leverage his eye for fashion into being his own boss and realizing financial freedom.
by | Sep 9, 2024 8:48 am | Comments (5)
A New Haven Pride rendition of “Pink Pony Club.”
It was 3 p.m. on Saturday, and it had been raining for at least an hour. The New Haven Pride celebration, however, was in full swing.