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Beaver Hills neighbors Nan Bartow and Rebecca Cramer advocating for a new Crescent St. sidewalk in February.
Approximately 550 feet of new sidewalks should soon be coming to an oft-traversed stretch of Crescent Street thanks to the pedestrian safety advocacy of Beaver Hills neighbors.
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The early voting question slated for Nov. 8's ballot.
New Haveners will have the chance to vote this second Tuesday of November about whether or not they should be able to vote in future elections before the second Tuesday of November.
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by | Oct 7, 2022 3:02 pm | Comments (8)
Thursday's City Plan Commission meeting.
Three city parks and a flood-prone west side road are slated to receive millions of dollars worth of upgrades thanks to a bevy of state and federal aid coming New Haven’s way.
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by | Oct 7, 2022 12:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Gillin (right) speaks out at Thursday's workshop.
A pay-raise dispute led a longtime local polling place moderator to City Hall — not to oversee an election, but to criticize New Haven’s top elections officials for allegedly failing to live up to past promises.
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Gwendolyn Busch Williams at WNHH FM.
Coogan Pavilion is a wide-open space. And now it’s a community space: Depending on what time you enter it, you might stumble into a line-dancing class. Or a yoga class. Or a ceramics session. Or painting.
A different nonprofit group runs each of those activities. The landlord is the city’s Youth and Recreation Department (YARD).
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by | Oct 6, 2022 10:12 am | Comments (9)
City Budget Director Gormany and Mayor Elicker on Wednesday.
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Last fiscal year's budget surplus data.
Increased state and Yale aid — along with vacancy-induced salary savings — helped propel city government to a $16.9 million budget surplus as well as a slightly higher credit rating.
by | Oct 4, 2022 2:51 pm | Comments (3)
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Tatania Sellers (right) and Mayor Elicker at Tuesday's presser.
Tatania Sellers was pregnant, in between jobs, and looking for some way to get herself and her kids into an apartment — not into a homeless shelter.
Thanks to a newly launched city aid program, she and her family were able to move into a new home on Starr Street in her “time of need.”
by | Oct 4, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (10)
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Kadir Catalbasoglu at work at Brick Oven Pizza.
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The city-owned driveway and garage at 55 Dixwell.
For the fourth time in five years, alders signed off on selling a vacant city-owned garage to a local pizza maker-turned-landlord — this time on the condition that he convert the property into five apartments with at least one unit reserved for low-income tenants.
by | Oct 4, 2022 8:35 am | Comments (17)
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Finance Chair Marchand: Making compensation "more competitive."
Alders signed off on boosting pension benefits and salary ranges for some top City Hall positions in a bid to reduce vacancies in the higher ranks of municipal government.
Continue reading ‘Pay-Pension Bump Passes For City Managers’
by | Oct 3, 2022 8:59 am | Comments (4)
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Nemerson: “Redevelopment agencies among most powerful tools we have."
Matthew Nemerson took one step closer to returning to City Hall — not to his former role as economic development administrator, but instead as a volunteer member of the city’s Redevelopment Agency Advisory Council.
by | Sep 30, 2022 3:57 pm | Comments (7)
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Fiber internet? City embraces fed subsidies, private service.
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City's next steps for internet expansion plan.
Because the Biden Administration has chosen to “build back better,” the Elicker Administration has chosen not to build its own new municipal broadband network after all.
by | Sep 30, 2022 10:28 am | Comments (3)
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NHPS Supervisor of Literacy Lynn Brantley presents plan at City Hall hearing.
Committee alders welcomed the New Haven Public Schools’ (NHPS) new math and literacy plan — which officials claimed may shift towards a more phonics-based “structured” reading program — while questions arose about whether the draft proposal is complete enough to effect significant needed change.
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Now-former CRB Secretary Crouse: "Members of the board were handed a monumental task."
The Civilian Review Board’s secretary and most public-facing member has resigned, leaving the police accountability panel with yet another seat to fill as frustration-fueled vacancies steadily mount.
by | Sep 23, 2022 11:50 am | Comments (6)
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Juan Salas-Romer (center) at 2016 ribbon cutting: Village Suites residential conversion endorsed by City Plan.
A local developer’s plans to convert a 112-room extended-stay hotel on Long Wharf into 112 new apartments moved ahead thanks to a favorable recommendation from the City Plan Commission.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Hotel-To-Apts Conversion Advances’
by | Sep 22, 2022 4:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Site of the planned new 16-unit condo building.
A Stratford-based builder won permission to construct 16 more condos in City Point as part of the final phase of development for the Breakwater Bay Condominiums.
by | Sep 22, 2022 1:26 pm | Comments (7)
A rebuilt Dixwell Plaza, with a one-level-larger greenhouse-topped parking garage (circled in red).
Dixwell Plaza’s redevelopers won permission to scrap a too-costly underground parking garage in exchange for a larger temporary surface parking lot in their ongoing effort to build up the heart of New Haven’s historic Black neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Parking Change OK'd For Dixwell Plaza Redo’
by | Sep 22, 2022 11:18 am | Comments (4)
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28 Thompson: Don't expect any megalandord "For Rent" signs here.
Two new two-family houses and a rehabbed single-family home should soon be coming to the Hill and Newhallville, thanks to a local affordable homeownership nonprofit’s recent purchases of three underused lots from the city.
by | Sep 21, 2022 9:01 am | Comments (48)
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Sample image of an Axon drone.
The New Haven Police Department is planning to acquire two drones and a set of GPS equipment that can latch onto cars implicated in crimes.
Continue reading ‘NHPD Buying Drones, "StarChase" GPS Launchers’
by | Sep 20, 2022 1:56 pm | Comments (7)
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Board of Alders Majority Leader Furlow introducing legislation Monday.
The term “handicapped person” will be changed to “person with a disability” in city law, thanks to a comprehensive legal-language update approved by the Board of Alders.
by | Sep 20, 2022 1:49 pm | Comments (1)
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Finance Committee Chair Marchand on Monday night.
The city’s Health Department will remain in its rented Meadow Street headquarters for another year before moving to a renovated publicly owned space on Chapel Street, thanks to a new lease approved by the Board of Alders.
Continue reading ‘Alders Approve 1-Yr Lease For Health Dept. Before Move’
by | Sep 20, 2022 11:37 am | Comments (25)
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Sports Haven: Place your bets while you can before trucks take over.
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City Plan Director Brown: "Unfortunate" that moratorium won't cover truck project.
A one-year building moratorium on Long Wharf is now in effect — but will almost certainly not stand in the way of a new truck trailer parking facility proposed for the current Sports Haven off-track-betting site.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Pause OK'd; Truck Lot Squeaks In’
by | Sep 19, 2022 3:15 pm | Comments (17)
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Librandi: Successor findable?
The Elicker Administration is looking to boost pension benefits and salary ranges for some top City Hall positions in a bid to reverse a rising tide of vacancies — which now includes the city’s hiring manager, whose last day on the job was Friday.
Continue reading ‘Amid Vacancies, City Seeks Pay-Pension Bump’
by | Sep 16, 2022 1:34 pm | Comments (6)
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15 Brown St., now OK'd for a new 2-family house.
Three different vacant lots in Wooster Square, West River, and Upper State Street should soon sprout new two-family houses, thanks to approvals granted by the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA).
by | Sep 15, 2022 4:23 pm | Comments (23)
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Ben Crump (center) with Cox's family, friends, lawyers Thursday.
Richard “Randy” Cox’s lawyers and family put the Elicker Administration on notice that, within the next seven to 10 days, they plan to file a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the city violated the paralyzed 36-year-old New Havener’s civil rights.
by | Sep 15, 2022 12:42 pm | Comments (1)
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The former Harold's site at 19 Elm.
A new 96-unit apartment complex is one big step closer to coming to the site of the former Harold’s Bridal Shop, after zoning commissioners gave a final OK to the new owner’s requested parking relief.
Continue reading ‘Zoners OK Parking Relief For Harold's Apts’