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Some expensive cracked concrete, outside the Boathouse.
Cracking concrete outside the Canal Dock Boathouse is set to cost the city another $210,000 in legal fees, as a city-contractor lawsuit drags into its third year.
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by | Mar 24, 2023 6:16 pm | Comments (9)
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Newly minted Asst. Chief Colon takes the oath of office.
Surrounded by dozens of friends, family members, city workers, and police colleagues, Lt. Manmeet Colon raised her right hand and took the oath of office to become the city’s third assistant police chief — and the department’s first ever second-in-command of Asian descent.
by | Mar 24, 2023 10:01 am | Comments (10)
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Ashmun/Canal development site: Soon to get city $ infusion?
The Elicker Administration has proposed spending $5 million of federal pandemic-relief aid on helping delayed affordable housing developments get off the ground in Dixwell, West River, and the Ninth Square.
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by | Mar 21, 2023 12:40 pm | Comments (1)
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Grant application OK'd for more recycling.
Local legislators gave a green light for greener waste management, and another green light for affordable housing.
by | Mar 21, 2023 9:00 am | Comments (16)
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Ivana Lewis paints beside her mom, Shauniqua Davis, at a Wilson Library event.
The Wilson Library branch is a “second home” to Helen and her children — especially to 7‑year-old Eli, who devours every animal-themed book he can find.
In spare moments, Wilson staff members set aside volumes they think Eli will like. But most days, they’re kept busy with adults needing job applications or a place to rest their head while inebriated.
So Wilson staff, regulars, and allies are calling on the city to fund a full-time children’s librarian at Wilson — the only branch in the city to lack the funding for one.
by | Mar 17, 2023 12:06 pm | Comments (35)
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Elicker fielding questions at reelection campaign kick-off.
Justin Elicker said he can understand where his numerous mayoral campaign opponents are coming from when they say they can do a better job tackling the city’s challenges.
by | Mar 17, 2023 12:04 pm | Comments (9)
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Nan Bartow at the West River Greenway.
A trio of park stewards offered a budget revision pitch: undo the recent merger of the Parks and Public Works departments, and keep in the proposed new hires who’d care for the city’s greenspaces.
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by | Mar 16, 2023 3:16 pm | Comments (2)
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City Labor Relations Director Wendella Ault Battey at Monday's committee meeting.
(Updated) Seventy-five parks employees are now one step closer to a new contract — three years after their last city labor accord expired.
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by | Mar 14, 2023 3:31 pm | Comments (2)
Asst. Chief Justin McCarthy, Mayor Justin Elicker, Asst. Chief Dan Coughlin, retired firefighter William Coughlin, Asst. Drillmaster Shytan Floyd, and Chief John Alston.
Two New Haven natives have been promoted to top spots in the city’s fire department, with Dan Coughlin filling the role of assistant chief of operations and Shytan Floyd becoming assistant drillmaster.
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by | Mar 14, 2023 2:43 pm | Comments (24)
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Acting Assessor Alex Pullen and Acting Budget Director Michael Gormany Monday.
More than 55 percent of New Haven’s $17.9 billion in real estate value is currently off the tax rolls, according to the city’s top property-monitor.
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by | Mar 10, 2023 9:30 am | Comments (17)
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A rendering of the future Winchester Green apartments.
Alders approved a 17-year tax abatement for dozens of planned new income-restricted apartments in Science Park — along with a rezoning plan that could allow for even more places to live, shop, and conduct research at the former Winchester factory site.
by | Mar 8, 2023 2:10 pm | Comments (20)
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Paul C. at an encampment off Ella Grasso Boulevard, where a growing number of New Haveners are staying.
Alders voted to spend $4.8 million in federal money on affordable apartments and shelter space for the homeless — while inviting advocates to help oversee the plan’s rollout.
by | Mar 8, 2023 11:32 am | Comments (15)
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More $ sought for more recycling (in the blue toters).
Regionalized composting, recycling bin chips, and refuse savvy students could all lie in New Haven’s future — if the city gets requested dollars and support needed to amp up sustainable waste management education and practices.
by | Mar 1, 2023 2:29 pm | Comments (74)
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City Budget Director Gormany and Mayor Elicker on Wednesday.
Revenue summary for mayor's proposed FY24 budget.
Many New Haveners would see taxes increase again — and the city’s budget grow by less than the rate of inflation — according to a $662.7 million general fund budget newly proposed by Mayor Justin Elicker.
Continue reading ‘$662.7M City Budget, 37.2 Mill Rate Proposed’
by | Feb 28, 2023 9:13 am | Comments (12)
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Tuesday morning on Lawrence St.
Roughly five inches of snow fell on New Haven Monday night and Tuesday morning, and 130 cars were ticketed thanks to the now-lifted overnight parking ban.
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by | Feb 24, 2023 2:10 pm | Comments (25)
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NHPS's Ekaterina Barkhatova, Rosalyn Díaz-Ortiz, Michael Soares, Kristin Bengtson Mendoza, Keisha Redd-Hannans, and Pedro Mendia-Landa, at City Hall.
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New Haven public school leaders pitched alders on doubling the district’s number of ESOL teachers and adding 18 more multilingual coaches — at a combined annual cost of $4.14 million — while mapping out classroom staffing needs at a time when more and more students enter city schools speaking a language other than English.
by | Feb 24, 2023 10:42 am | Comments (1)
The Mandy-controlled two-story house at 698 Dixwell.
An affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management is looking to add one more apartment to a two-story Newhallville house — rather than build six new rental units or bring in a commercial tenant.
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by | Feb 23, 2023 9:51 am | Comments (0)
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Yale's current Chemical Safety Building at 350 Edwards: To be demolished, according to Yale's Science Hill development plans.
Alders granted a needed parking-related approval for Yale’s proposal to knock down and construct a new chemical safety building off of Prospect and Edwards Streets — as the university moves ahead in the early stages of a broader plan for building up Science Hill.
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by | Feb 22, 2023 4:48 pm | Comments (8)
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Educators rally outside City Hall for full school funding last March.
City teachers will be getting a 15 percent pay raise over the next three years — while a new math-and-literacy tutoring initiative will be getting $3 million in federal aid to get off the ground — thanks to two recent education-focused votes by the Board of Alders.
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by | Feb 22, 2023 12:14 pm | Comments (14)
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Newly re-confirmed Board of Ed VP Matt Wilcox at Tuesday's alder meeting.
Board of Education Vice President Matthew Wilcox won another four-year term on the city’s school board — after alders debated how to assess his leadership over a school system grappling with low attendance, a reading instruction overhaul, and severe teacher shortages.
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by | Feb 20, 2023 11:40 am | Comments (4)
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New Parks & Public Works Deputy Stephen Hladun at recent parks commission meeting.
A veteran of Bridgeport’s parks and rec department is now New Haven’s top parks official, after stepping into the role of deputy director in the city’s Department of Parks & Public Works.
by | Feb 20, 2023 11:16 am | Comments (21)
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Chief of Staff Matteson and Corp Counsel King: "Let's move into a four-year term."
“In New Haven, it seems like there’s an election basically every six months.”
City Chief of Staff Sean Matteson offered those words of endless-campaign caution as he and the city’s top attorney pressed for mayors and alders to see their terms in office bumped up from two to four years each.
Continue reading ‘Elicker Administration Pitches 4-Year Terms’
by | Feb 17, 2023 10:01 am | Comments (6)
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263 Dixwell Ave.: One of 2 Ocean-owned properties the city plans to sell to Beulah.
The Elicker Administration is one step closer to buying and selling two two-family homes on Dixwell Avenue — so that a nonprofit can maintain the currently megalandlord-held properties as rentals.
Continue reading ‘Megalandlord-City-Nonprofit Housing Deal Advances’
by | Feb 17, 2023 9:27 am | Comments (23)
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Alders recess as U-ACT protests at City Hall.
Should a nearly $5 million federal grant fund a couple dozen affordable housing units, or more humane infrastructure to help the city’s unsheltered residents survive the perils of living outdoors?
Elicker Administration staff pitched a plan to alders on how to use that money to chip away at the root cause of housing insecurity. They were countered by a group of activists and nonprofit leaders calling for more attention to the immediate, life-or-death needs of New Haveners living outside.
Continue reading ‘Competing Visions Emerge For Homelessness $’
by | Feb 16, 2023 3:52 pm | Comments (9)
An illustration of the upcoming Stone Street senior housing.
A Branford-based developer won permission to replace four single-family homes with 65 new apartments in Beaver Hills, following site plan approval for a project seeking to bring more income-restricted housing for the area’s elderly.