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.
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Sep 11, 2024 9:49 am
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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.
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Sep 9, 2024 11:56 am
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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.
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Aug 26, 2024 11:14 am
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Students at MATCH, a new manufacturing training program that received a city ARPA grant.
A future vocational training hub for New Haven Public Schools students could offer tracks in building, manufacturing, technology, health, and transportation — per the city’s latest plan for millions of dollars of one-time federal aid that were allocated for various trade education initiatives two years ago.
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Aug 26, 2024 9:27 am
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Kismet Douglass: “One day, I’d like to have an event space of my own.”
Momma Kiss's jerk chicken, rice, and pigeon peas.
Kismet Douglass hurried from pot to pot under the shade of her tent at the Q House Farmer’s Market, where the “global flavors” of Momma Kiss Kitchen Cuisine were on display.
In one pot she cooked Jamaican jerk chicken with rice and pigeon peas, and in another, Thai curry vegetables with jasmine rice — all served up as part of a food business showcase featuring 10 local culinary entrepreneurs.
Elm City Market: Moving from 360 State to "Square 10."
(Updated) A downtown grocery store that has anchored a luxury apartment complex at Chapel and State streets for more than a decade will be closing up shop this fall — with plans to move two blocks down the road to a mixed-use development currently on the rise at the former Coliseum site.
Just kidding: Arvinas won't be relocating here, after all.
One of New Haven’s biggest biopharma success stories won’t be moving into 160,000 square feet of brand new office and lab space at the 101 College St. biosciences tower after all — and has agreed to pay $41.5 million to nix its lease and stay put in Science Park.
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Aug 21, 2024 9:50 am
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On the trail again ...
A walk by the New Haven Bioregional Group followed part of the route through Morris Cove of the proposed Shoreline Greenway Trail, which will connect the Farmington Canal Trail to the shore. In the process, it revealed a complex history of land use, and the ways that the push and pull of industrial use versus green spaces have shaped — and continue to shape — the neighborhood.
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Aug 19, 2024 9:40 am
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Matthew Boland at Saturday's fest: Self-love "starts with you."
Cerella Griffin, with 4 types of fruit-flavored lemonades.
Adriane Jefferson, with Babz Rawls Ivy: “I have goosebumps seeing what we have been able to create.”
The sky hanging over the New Haven Green may have been hazy Saturday, but to anyone attending the Black Wall Street Festival it was clear that this was the place to be.
Over 200 vendors dotted the lawn and lined up along Temple and Church Streets to offer a stunning variety of products and services — some to help treat your body, mind, soul, and spirit, some to help you look and feel good, and some to simply help you have fun under the summer sun.
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KP's serving of Ozzy's Apizza.
New Haven-style apizza arrived in East Rock Market last weekend as the East Coast outpost of a super successful Glendale, Ca. location. Wait — New Haven apizza from L.A.? Yes, indeed.
Ozzy’s Apizza, which started in the West Coast kitchen of CT native Chris Wallace and made its way from pop up to mainstay in Los Angeles is now a part of Goatville. Pies with names like The Liotta, The Swanson, and The Bada Bing are already hits on the other side of the U.S. Now co-owners Wallace and Craig Taylor are hoping to become an integral part of their home state’s scene.
Neighbor Radcliffe: "I want my meat in a package."
Your soon-to-be-beheaded dinner inside here?
“Which of these chickens would you like us to slaughter?”
Meat-eaters may have a chance to answer that question at a live poultry market on Kimberly Avenue, unless at least one Hill neighbor has a say in the matter.
The scene at AdvanceCT on James Street Tuesday morning.
Lamont: We taught Stuttgart how to spell "Connecticut."
Fears of an international trade war might hurt Connecticut in the long run — but it may lead to new jobs in the short term.
So reported Gov. Ned Lamont at a press conference Tuesday at the headquarters of the state-connected economic development nonprofit AdvanceCT on James Street in New Haven.
CitySeed chief Sarah Miller (second from right) leads Sate Sen. Martin Looney, State Rep. Pat Dillon, Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, city Health Director Maritza Bond, and state agriculture chief Bryan Hurlburt on tour of former factory.
The state’s top agriculture official walked into an empty Fair Haven factory Monday and reached for his wallet.
City Plan commissioners approved a plan to convert up to 65,000 square feet of industrial space on Lenox Street into self-storage units — after deciding that that controversially quiet use fit better at a former factory in the Heights than at a former factory in Newhallville.
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Jul 17, 2024 9:26 am
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Six Lakes last fall.
Trails for wheelchairs and strollers. A pavilion for events and education programs. Kayaking and fishing.
All these ideas and more emerged from a meeting at Thornton Wilder Hall at Miller Library in Hamden, held by Six Lakes Park Coalition, as the coalition invited the public to submit input on what a future state park in the middle of Hamden might look like, and how it might best serve the community around it.
Not that they're praising Democrats: Former Trump acting AG Matthew Whitaker, at left in photo with attendees after antitrust panel.
Milwaukee — Amid another day of Biden-bashing here at the Republican National Convention, a little-noticed breakout session Tuesday afternoon featured discussion of emerging common ground between some MAGA Republicans and liberal Democrats.
City development official Carlos Eyzaguirre, Whalley leader Allen McCollum, Eddie Eckhaus, Rabbi Andre Malek, Mayor Justin Elicker at Monday's ribbon-cutting.
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Eckhaus's trademark super-stuffed felafel.
It’s a miracle how many toppings Eddie Eckhaus can stuff into a felafel sandwich. But he needed more than a miracle to make his felafel storefront succeed: He needed a maschgiach.
I.e. a rabbi who certifies that a restaurant serves kosher food.
Like Elijah the Prophet on the first night of Passover, that rabbi appeared at Eckhaus’s Lea’s Felafelhaus to-go storefront Monday for a ribbon-cutting bringing hopes for a business resurrection.
Minsky, Eyzaguirre, Pickett, and McLeggon in the Art to Frames showroom ...
... as employees put together custom frame orders, as viewed on Development Commission tour of Mill River / River Street districts.
Machinery whirred as employees of Art To Frames on River Street fulfilled custom frame orders, during the final stop on a city Development Commission tour showcasing what a commercial-industrial district near the Mill River currently looks like — and what it some day might be.
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At the new Jitter Bus cafe's grand opening.
While patrons celebrated the grand opening of Grand Avenue’s Jitter Bus Coffee, in the back corner of the café stood a framed coffee-stained page torn out of a notebook, tucked on a shelf.
It read: “This letter of correction serves to prove that Darlene A. Miconi sold a 1999 Chevy G30 Express to Daniel Barletta on February 6th 2015 for a sum of $3200.”
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Jun 27, 2024 11:13 am
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Ariel Diaz: "I've been in the convenience store business my whole life."
For Ariel Diaz, who recently opened Big Apple Grocery & Deli on Blatchley Avenue, convenience stores are a family affair.
When he was growing up in Brooklyn, his father “had stores all over Manhattan and the Bronx.” His uncles own stores in Connecticut. His own brother has one in New Haven, too.
“You have to be running around” City Hall constantly in order to get anything done, Diaz told a group of city officials and fellow food entrepreneurs about the challenges of opening a business in the Elm City. “It’s very time-consuming and money, too.”
