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.
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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.
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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’
by | Sep 13, 2022 3:38 pm | Comments (7)
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Ed board member Darnell Goldson at Monday's alder hearing.
Board of Education member Darnell Goldson took on the role of whistleblower as he criticized the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) contracting process as unduly shielded from public oversight, and as overly favorable to the current school bus provider.
by | Sep 13, 2022 9:10 am | Comments (17)
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At the main branch on Elm St.
City libraries remain closed on Sundays 11 weeks into a fiscal year in which they are supposed to be open, with the Elicker Administration citing staff shortages as the biggest roadblock so far to realizing a heralded budget promise.
Continue reading ‘Despite Budget Vow, Libraries Closed On Sundays’
by | Sep 12, 2022 9:33 am | Comments (11)
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City Plan Commission Chair Radcliffe, set for another term.
Hill community advocate, civic volunteer extraordinaire, and City Plan Commission Chair Leslie Radcliffe won another three and a half years on the local land-use body during a continued remaking of New Haven’s landscape, thanks to a unanimous reappointment vote by the Board of Alders.
by | Sep 9, 2022 11:21 am | Comments (16)
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The empty lot at 27 Valley Pl. North today ...
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... and in wake of March 5 blaze.
A fire engulfed and destroyed a World War II-era single-family house on the far west side of town in March, leaving the building in such a dangerous state of disarray that the city hired a contractor to demolish it one month later.
This week, the Board of Alders closed the loop on at least one chapter of that now-houseless West Hills property’s history, when local legislators voted unanimously to approve spending $62,585 to cover the cost of tearing down the building.
by | Sep 7, 2022 3:06 pm | Comments (0)
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Tenants union advocates Kay Pittman and Luke Melonakos-Harris celebrate Tuesday's vote.
Tenants unions now officially have a seat at the table in New Haven city government, thanks to a new law approved by alders Tuesday night.
by | Sep 7, 2022 11:04 am | Comments (2)
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Night Market in the 9th Sq. in May.
Downtown streets will ditch cars for arts for parts of October, thanks to two different sets of road closures approved by the Board of Alders.
by | Sep 7, 2022 9:41 am | Comments (13)
City government now has an officially adopted plan for how to overhaul New Haven’s bike, pedestrian, and public transit infrastructure to promote safe, connected, and car-free travel.
Next up: Applying for federal funds to help make that vision a reality.
Continue reading ‘Alders OK "Safe Routes" Active Transit Plan’
by | Sep 6, 2022 1:25 pm | Comments (21)
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At EastCoastin 2021 in the Annex.
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Bike life event organizers Sal Fusco and Gabe Canestri.
The Elicker Administration has filed suit against the organizers of the “EastCoastin 2021” motorcycle event in a bid to collect on roughly $92,000 worth of police, public works, and traffic employee overtime spent on last year’s unpermitted Annex gathering.
by | Sep 6, 2022 12:24 pm | Comments (5)
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Tuesday midday at Whitney and Trumbull.
(Updated) A driver was taken to the hospital Tuesday after driving through the heavy rainstorm — and then crashing into a house at Hobart Street and Whalley Avenue.
by | Sep 6, 2022 8:47 am | Comments (16)
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Map of New Haven areas vulnerable to increased flooding.
Floods in City Point. Heat waves in tree-sparse, lot-heavy Newhallville. More storms that require evacuation. More periods of drought.
As climate change progresses, those conditions will become the new normal for New Haven, especially for the heat- and flood-vulnerable neighborhood of Fair Haven, reported officials tracking the trends.
An environmental transformation is already in motion. But, the officials said, the city can adapt its current infrastructure and prevent carbon emissions from making the problem worse.
Continue reading ‘Maps Show Climate Change's Neighborhood Impacts’
by | Sep 2, 2022 2:02 pm | Comments (28)
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Kai Addae (left) and Max Chaoulideer (right) at City Hall hearing.
The city’s planned overhaul of bike, pedestrian, and transit infrastructure is on a fast track to potential approval, as officials race to meet a mid-September deadline for a crucial grant.
by | Aug 24, 2022 12:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Erick Santiago cuts Alberto Reyes' hair on the Green Tuesday.
“I’m tired of being outside,” said Jazel Brown as he waited in line for a haircut. He’d had a stressful few weeks of missing medication, sleeping in hospital beds, and witnessing a violent attack near the downtown church steps where he typically sleeps.
In the middle of a hard month, Brown stumbled across a glimmer of kindness in Erick Santiago’s weekly volunteer barbershop in the center of the New Haven Green — where a “One-Stop Pop Up” provided him with a fresh cut, a place to charge his phone, a medical check-up, and the possible beginnings of a new friendship.
by | Aug 18, 2022 5:58 pm | Comments (14)
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Hutcherson: I'm "fall guy" for mismanaged health dept.
A third-party investigator found that poor communication by the city’s fired former public health nursing director was largely what led to hundreds of Covid-19 vaccine doses being mishandled by the city Health Department in late 2021 and early 2022.