by | Jan 23, 2025 5:31 pm | Comments (9)
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CTTU Vice President Luke Melonakos-Harrison at the mic, fighting for "for housing stability, for dignity and respect."
(Hartford) New Haven’s tenants union leaders are back at the state Capitol for the second straight year to push for limits on landlords’ ability to evict tenants — and they’re hoping this session goes better than the last.
by | Jan 23, 2025 3:14 pm | Comments (8)
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Inauguration Day protest outside City Hall.
(Opinion) Local government is at the center of a contentious national conversation about immigration.
Many cities across the United States, including New Haven, have adopted sanctuary policies, limiting the role of local law enforcement in federal immigration policy. These orders are not just acts of political defiance; they are deeply rooted in constitutional principles, practical governance and the need to build trust between local authorities and the communities they serve.
by | Jan 23, 2025 10:33 am | Comments (3)
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Detective Leonardo Soto, NHPD's longest-serving "special victims" investigator.
The phone awakened Det. Chris Boyle around midnight. His supervisor, Sgt. Cherelle Carr, was calling with a sad story: an 11-month-old baby had overdosed and stopped breathing in an Exchange Street basement apartment.
by | Jan 22, 2025 7:57 pm | Comments (20)
Elicker: “What world are we in right now where, because of a disagreement on policy, the Trump administration is threatening arresting local officials? That's something you see in Iran, that's something you see in Russia, and I guess that's something we see in America right now, but that's really sad.”
The Trump administration might try to criminally prosecute local officials who stand in the way of its mass deportation efforts — but Mayor Justin Elicker isn’t worried about being locked up.
After all, he stressed, there’s a big difference between not participating in federal immigration raids and actively trying to prevent them.
by | Jan 22, 2025 2:44 pm | Comments (23)
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McClune and Schwan: $300 more is too much; Chen: That's the market.
Is Mandy Management raising the rent to align with market rates, or does the megalandlord practically set the market rates?
That question was asked at a Fair Rent Commission hearing on Tuesday evening, at which Lenox Street tenants Douglas Schwan and Natalie McClune succeeded in getting a monthly rent increase knocked down from $300 to $100.
by | Jan 22, 2025 1:42 pm | Comments (16)
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20, 34 Fair St.: Garages demolished, housing to come.
A development team has knocked down two vacant Fair Street garages — as builders move forward with plans to construct 168 new apartments on the housing-rich downtown edge of Wooster Square.
Continue reading ‘Fair Street Demolition Clears Way For More Apartments’
by | Jan 22, 2025 10:28 am | Comments (5)
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The grave of New Haven's first mayor: Not crazy about kings.
Where’s a good place to visit in New Haven in the first days of the Trump administration?
City Historian Michael Morand recommends the grave of Roger Sherman at the National Historic Landmarked Grove Street Cemetery — one of 25 local history stops included on a new list put out by the city in honor of New Haven’s 241st birthday.
by | Jan 21, 2025 4:33 pm | Comments (14)
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Sodas and energy drinks, not allowed ...
... cigarettes and vaping products, still allowed, at 864 Whalley.
A “Not For Sale” sign remains taped to the top of a beverage case filled with Monster energy drinks, Powerade and Diet Coke at the Grab n’ Go Market in Westville Village — where city zoners recently rejected Mohammed Ababneh’s bid to sell soda and prepackaged food in addition to vaping products and cigarettes.
by | Jan 21, 2025 4:19 pm | Comments (32)
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Kica Matos: Trump's executive orders "should offend any American who believes in our Constitution and our democracy."
Connecticut has joined 17 states in suing President Donald Trump to challenge an executive order to end birthright citizenship — just one of a slate of executive orders signed by the new president that a national immigrant rights activist based in New Haven describes as “comprehensive, cruel and shocking in scope.”
by | Jan 21, 2025 12:03 pm | Comments (9)
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Judge Arterton at a citizenship ceremony on the Green.
No, the proprietors of the Green are absolutely not against changing with the times. Quite the opposite, as long as the future changes reflect the values of the past and the common good is served.
That’s one of the main takeaways from a conversation with Judge Janet Bond Arterton, chair since 2007 of the Committee of the Proprietors, a self-perpetuating quintet that shares control of the look and uses of the Green with the city.
Continue reading ‘Green Proprietor: "We Are Not The Committee Of 'No'"’
by | Jan 20, 2025 10:15 pm | Comments (21)
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Protesters declare support for trans, immigrant, Palestinian rights and more on the Green...
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...and outside City Hall, on Trump Inauguration Day.
A Statue of Liberty drawn on fire, free toiletries for any who needed, and collective shouts of immigrant, transgender, and Palestinian resistance rang through the frigid cold at two parallel protests downtown.
Their message resounded on Monday afternoon as Donald Trump once again took an oath of office — with a flurry of executive orders cracking down on immigration and cementing anti-trans policies awaiting his signature.
by | Jan 20, 2025 3:27 pm | Comments (27)
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Punk rocker Paul Heriot, at left, with fellow Trump supporters at Monday's downtown New Haven inaugural watch party.
A rebel roar arose from a Temple Street bar in the People’s Republic of New Haven as Donald Trump took the oath of office Monday as America’s 47th president.
by | Jan 20, 2025 11:53 am | Comments (6)
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201 Winchester and 235 Winchester (below), now under new ownership.
For the first time in more than two decades, a vacant lot and an incomplete apartment building on Winchester Avenue are no longer controlled by NFL cornerback-turned-housing developer Kenny Hill.
by | Jan 20, 2025 9:09 am | Comments (17)
(Opinion) — Despite what Yale students and other protesters insisted at City Hall, our mayor is not the same as our new president. Not even close.
by | Jan 17, 2025 7:19 pm | Comments (39)
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Chief Jacobson: "We want you to call the police no matter what your immigration status is."
New Haven will protect immigrants, regardless of legal status, during a second Trump administration.
More than two dozen city officials, alders and immigrant rights advocates gathered in Fair Haven Friday afternoon to send that message — as they highlighted the city’s newly updated resource guide for new residents, which includes sections on the legal rights available to undocumented New Haveners.