Tiny particles from Tweed planes like this one have raised concerns about Morris Cove air.
An air pollution researcher reported finding that unregulated “ultrafine” particles spike when Tweed airplanes take off and land — prompting neighbors to consider whether to adjust their daily routines to avoid air pollution, and the airport to double down on plans to expand their operations.
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Feb 13, 2024 2:17 pm
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In advance of Valentine’s Day, city officials gathered outside “Sweet Mary’s Bake Shop” and called on consumers to open their hearts (read, “wallets”) and shop local in support of their city.
I visited each of the Court Street small businesses courted by politicians at the event and made my own wish list.
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Feb 5, 2024 1:29 pm
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WaveMAX's ribbon-cutting ceremony.
In December, Michelle Robinson graduated from the city’s program for new entrepreneurs. Last week, she and her husband Jazz Stair celebrated the grand opening of WaveMAX, their new laundromat in Quinnipiac Meadows.
Neighbor Shawn: Affordable apartments needed to combat high rent.
10 Liberty St.
An abandoned lighting manufacturing hub will soon transform into 150 below-market apartments a block from Union Station, if a development plan comes to fruition.
Carlota Clark at Wednesday evening's open house at Science Park.
A rendering from Pine's presentation: Apartments up to $4,500 a month on Winchester Ave.
As Science Park developers presented renderings of a housing complex soon to rise on Winchester Ave., Carlota Clark wondered if one of the 283 apartments would someday be hers.
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Jan 29, 2024 4:03 pm
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"Just look at this place": State Attorney General Tong, Mayor Elicker, State Sen. Looney, and DEEP Commissioner Dykes on Monday.
State officials stumbled across the littered grounds leading up to English Station to announce a lawsuit filed on the same grounds as other failed threats against United Illuminating — seeking to re-energize the company’s long-delayed remediation of the site.
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Jan 25, 2024 4:15 pm
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Kennies Earl: Not "invisible."
Mother Juniper members Lindsay Skedgell and Christian Abbott: Jamming conversion plans.
Mother Juniper frontwoman Lindsay Skedgell unplugged from her Vox AC15 and tuned into Zoom from a “vacant” ex-factory building to send developers a message: 91 Shelton is far from empty.
Skedgell was among dozens of artists who banded together to flood the City Plan Commission’s Zoom room after hearing earlier that day that their studio space, a five-story former factory building at 91 Shelton Ave., is slated for sale to a self-storage company.
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Jan 22, 2024 12:15 pm
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LaundroMax GM Chris Walker (center) with officials at ribbon-cutting.
By the time officials arrived to cut the ribbon on the west side’s newest laundromat, customers were already inside using the state-of-the-art washing machines. The air was fragrant with the smell of fabric softener and dryer sheets, and the speakers pumped in classic Mary J. Blige and Erykah Badu.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 19, 2024 8:50 am
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Veterans group members at the Long Wharf memorial.
A local nonprofit is backing up but not out on plans to convert a vacant lot into housing for vets — after the city rejected their idea to let vets back their cars over sidewalks and into an intersection.
Artist and customer Susan Clinard in Artist & Craftsman on Monday: "It’s one of those last-standing real art stores.”
“It is a disaster for our block. We LOVE this store. I am so angry.” “It’s my life’s blood.” “This is a huge bummer … I’m there weekly with buying materials for my work or for my class at CAW.” “I feel bad for us but also the wonderful staff who have always been so great.”
These were a few of the many outcries from New Haven artists and citizens as news spread yesterday that Artist & Craftsman Supply, at 821 – 825 Chapel St., had announced it would be closing in early March.
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Jan 8, 2024 11:26 am
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Hallie "Rock" Bolden, Jr. with Hallie "Bizzy" Bolden III.
The bell above the door sounded at DA’W.O.R.L.D., the Whalley Avenue mecca for men’s urban clothing.
“Coming in for some love,” the customer said, dapping up DA’W.O.R.L.D. manager Hallie “Bizzy” Bolden III, wardrobe consultant Tariq “Riq” Bolden and owner Hallie “Rock” Bolden, Jr. behind the counter. “Have a good one.”
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Jan 4, 2024 1:15 pm
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These kids can't drive or park on River Street, but they'll be able to kick the ball.
What if 12 kids playing soccer in a vacant warehouse becomes 200?
City Plan commissioners debated that allegedly nightmare scenario for an hour before deciding they could live with it after all — as long as the number of players, benchwarmers and spectators doesn’t escalate beyond that cap.
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Dec 13, 2023 12:15 pm
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Past and present SNET/Frontier employees, at the 4 Hamilton St. garage. Back row: Charles Nixon, Tommy Joyner, Earl McCoy Sr., Webster Zackery. Front row: James Jones, Rodney Diggs, Edward McClain, Jermaine Allen.
Earl McCoy, Sr. grabbed a rung on the phone company ladder, lifting other Black New Haveners along with him into lives of stable employment at a livable wage.
He and other SNET “legends” connected offline to reflect on that journey, and where it’s headed today.
Rite Aid cashiers Tyrek Caesar and Claire Hernandez ...
... on one of their last shifts at the soon-to-close Church St. Rite Aid.
After Monday, Tyrek Caesar and Claire Hernandez will no longer be able to walk right across the street from class at Gateway Community College to work at the Rite Aid on Church Street — because the downtown pharmacy is shuttering for good, the latest victim to a wave of bankruptcy-induced closures for the national chain.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Dec 8, 2023 4:08 pm
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The Yale Golf Course, as pictured in a City Plan presentation.
Yale has won city permission to cut down more than 1,000 trees and renovate its Upper Westville golf course as part of a plan that university officials pitched as making 200 acres of fairways and tees more “sustainable” — and that local activists criticized as environmentally backwards.
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Nov 30, 2023 9:59 am
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Co-owner Michael Massey with a young customer.
The Black Corner Store on Edgewood Avenue isn’t closing. For now. But it is up for sale, as Kenia and Michael Massey try to find a way to keep their neighborhood storefront afloat as both a for-profit business and a nonprofit hub for classes in financial literacy and other community resources.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Nov 22, 2023 12:19 pm
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669 Dixwell today: what will best boost the Avenue?
Ricotta pies and pepperoni slices may replace the ghosts of bygone fifths and whiskey bottles at a former Dixwell Avenue liquor store — though neighbors are offering mixed reviews about a potential pizzeria on their main commercial strip.
