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Digital rendering of houses to be built at 745 Townsend.
A Wallingford-based developer has purchased a 2.5‑acre stretch of vacant land on the former Townshend estate property — and plans to build 11 single-family homes, to be sold for $879,900 and up, right next door to the historic mansion-turned-wedding venue.
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by | Mar 11, 2025 3:51 pm | Comments (31)
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Acting Assessor Pullen at Monday's Finance meeting.
More than 56 percent of real estate value throughout the city — or $10,132,855,885 in total — cannot be taxed this year.
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by | Mar 11, 2025 2:25 pm | Comments (23)
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Compostables to be diverted -- on trash day?
The Elicker administration might build out a food scrap collection program as part of the city’s regular weekly trash pickups — if New Haven is successful in its application for a $3.3 million state grant.
by | Mar 11, 2025 9:50 am | Comments (12)
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The city's newest tenants union members, on Goffe St. in February.
HARTFORD – A proposal to expand eviction protections for rent-paying tenants took a big step forward as state legislators voted to advance a “just cause” bill out of committee.
by | Mar 10, 2025 4:30 pm | Comments (26)
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Lady Liberty sheds a tear: Former director Chris George (second from right) with the crew at Nicoll Street HQ before the dawn of a new era.
(Opinion) IRIS’s former director reflects on the “small-scale Ellis Island” that was 235 Nicoll St., as the storied refugee resettlement agency plans to leave its longtime East Rock office amid federal funding cuts.
by | Mar 10, 2025 4:24 pm | Comments (8)
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Truman 7th graders Balal and Jovanni: Yondr is better than a lock box but not better than new sports teams.
As 5th-8th graders across New Haven locked away their cellphones for the official kickoff of phone-free schools Monday, many Truman School students did so knowing that it would help them in the long run — though some argued that the money could’ve been spent better, like on more school sports.
by | Mar 10, 2025 12:32 pm | Comments (33)
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Common Ground junior Kris Lebron Romero: "It was more than just a job."
The Trump administration abruptly nixed a $500,000 grant for Common Ground High School’s “Green Jobs Corps” program — throwing 71 teens out of work, and upending an employment-training effort that paid city high schoolers to plant trees and work at farmers markets.
The federal government’s stated justification for the cut was that the grant-funded program promoted “DEI” and “environmental justice,” which run counter to the new administration’s “merit-based” priorities.
by | Mar 10, 2025 12:15 pm | Comments (3)
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Chief organizer Jill Snyder at Trinity's columbarium.
On March 8, 1825, Lucy and Lois Tritton were paraded through the streets of New Haven, led by a drummer shouting “slaves for sale.”
The mother and daughter were then marched, likely with potential buyers following, the few blocks to the Green. There, by the old sign post near Chapel and Church streets, they were auctioned off for $10 — marking the last slave sale recorded in New Haven, and in the state of Connecticut.
That doleful and spirit-crushing 200th anniversary was marked Sunday afternoon at Trinity Church on the Green by a somber “service of lamentation and healing.”
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by | Mar 7, 2025 8:12 pm | Comments (18)
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Climate activists come to City Hall.
A dog, a baby, and several young climate activists went into City Hall. Their purpose was not to deliver a punchline, but rather a request for the city to take transportation seriously.
“DANGER TURN BACK TOXIC FUTURE” read a yellow road sign-esque poster. “DRIVE LIKE YOUR KIDS NEED TO SURVIVE HERE” read another.
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by | Mar 7, 2025 12:04 pm | Comments (3)
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Ana De Los Angeles and Miguel Trelles en route from Gateway to Manjares.
A new generation, an arts opening, and Latin-serenaded tapas.
by | Mar 7, 2025 10:23 am | Comments (1)
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Justices Nora Dannehy, Steven Ecker, Andrew McDonald, and Raheem Mullins.
How should a judge respond to racist tirades in court from a man purportedly experiencing psychosis?
The state Supreme Court weighed that question at a hearing held at Yale Law School as part of the court’s “On Circuit” initiative to bring oral arguments to educational institutions across the state.
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by | Mar 6, 2025 3:46 pm | Comments (17)
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Yair Netanyahu (top right) at Ricotta in September.
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The Annex house now owned by Yair Netanyahu's company.
Yair Netanyahu, the oldest son of the Israeli prime minister and a prominent defender of his father’s government, has formed a company in Fair Haven and bought a house in the Annex to boost his work speaking on college campuses about Israeli history, Judaism, antisemitism, and his life at the center of his home country’s politics.
His business creation, real estate purchase, and recent visits to New Haven — including at a downtown kosher restaurant — reveal the younger Netanyahu’s tie to a small city with a growing Orthodox Jewish community.
by | Mar 6, 2025 12:56 pm | Comments (17)
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300 George, walking off the tax rolls.
More than $56 million in assessed real estate value has disappeared from New Haven’s tax rolls more than a year after Yale purchased the med-tech complex at 300 George St.
It will take 13 years for the city to feel that revenue hit — even if the university stands to reap the full benefits of the property’s partial tax exemption in the long run.
Continue reading ‘Yale Moves 300 George Mostly Off Tax Rolls’
by | Mar 6, 2025 10:41 am | Comments (0)
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Umut Yasmut brings the kanun to RAWA, all the way from New York.
As Umut Yasmut filled the dining area of Westville’s Mediterranean and Middle Eastern fusion restaurant RAWA with cascading melodies, the New York musician said that his instrument, an intricately carved stringed creation, did not exist.
by | Mar 5, 2025 5:06 pm | Comments (26)
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IRIS Executive Director Salem: Responding to vanishing federal support.
New Haven’s flagship refugee resettlement agency is closing its main doors at 235 Nicoll St. and shifting to remote work and satellite locations after losing millions of dollars in federal funding.