by | Nov 26, 2024 1:49 pm | Comments (0)
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Suzio truck rolls on out of the Chapel St. concrete plant.
Expect 4,000 fewer truck deliveries per year to an industrial riverfront stretch of Chapel Street — as a Meriden-based concrete company plans to build out capacity for train transport, instead.
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by | Nov 26, 2024 10:40 am | Comments (59)
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Naranjo at ULA's City Hall protest: "We're full of fear.”
Paula Naranjo fought back tears as she spoke on the front steps of City Hall about what Donald Trump’s second presidential administration could mean for New Haven-area immigrants like herself.
by | Nov 25, 2024 3:04 pm | Comments (19)
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Barnett Brodie (left): "It's impossible for me to match shingles from 50 years ago" or to force tenants to clean hallways.
The landlord didn’t contest that tenants kept a laundry basket in a common hallway. Or that he had old shingles on the house.
He did wonder why the city was pushing him to do something about it or potentially face a fine.
by | Nov 25, 2024 12:52 pm | Comments (7)
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Next stop: Gas station.
A highway-adjacent diner took a big step towards becoming a gas station, thanks to approvals granted by the City Plan Commission.
by | Nov 25, 2024 11:39 am | Comments (2)
Proposed elevations for the 2 new apartment buildings.
A Milford-based development team has won permission to construct 60 new apartments atop 2.25 acres of vacant land in Fair Haven Heights.
by | Nov 22, 2024 1:25 pm | Comments (27)
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Siri, get me rewrite ...
New Haven’s police chief has a new strategy to get cops out from behind the desk and into the city’s neighborhoods — police reports written by artificial intelligence.
by | Nov 21, 2024 3:59 pm | Comments (22)
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Hearing officer Megna, with LCI attorney Bedosky: "That's a big fine for a two-family home."
A Queens-based landlord is on the hook for $25,500 in fines — after missing a City Hall hearing he said he didn’t know about, that concerned two LCI inspections he was surprised to learn he’d skipped.
by | Nov 21, 2024 9:55 am | Comments (12)
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Alders Smith and Hubbard examine Narcan nasal sprays.
Every New Haven police officer may soon carry overdose-reversing medication — in a donated pouch on their uniform’s vest.
by | Nov 20, 2024 2:22 pm | Comments (20)
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Majority Leader Richard Furlow to Board of Ed: "Get it together."
The Board of Alders issued a lifeline — along with a warning — to the Board of Education, as they unanimously approved transferring $8.5 million from the city’s surplus for the school system’s use.
by | Nov 19, 2024 12:07 pm | Comments (10)
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Ismail Abdussabur: Looking forward to "more time at home."
The Board of Alders unanimously approved a long-awaited, six-year police union contract — to applause from an audience of police officers who have worked for two years without a contract.
by | Nov 15, 2024 3:14 pm | Comments (23)
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Landlord and Alder Kampton Singh: Licenses are not a problem because "I follow the rules."
Bill Santillo walked into City Hall with an open mind, ready to learn about a landlord licensing program he’d once staunchly opposed.
by | Nov 15, 2024 11:12 am | Comments (6)
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Church Trustee Lee and Pastor Hardy talk up elevator benefits.
A second-floor meeting room at City Hall was temporarily transformed into a standing-room-only celebration of a religious community — as parishioners of St. Matthew’s Unison Free Will Baptist Church turned out in force to support adding an elevator to make their sanctuary more accessible for the elderly and disabled.
by | Nov 11, 2024 5:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Bridgette Prince: "For us to just be recognized for this one day is a disservice.”
With the help of a student orchestra and a slate of elected officials, City Hall speakers celebrated Veterans Day by honoring sacrifices, emphasizing the necessity of mental health and housing supports, and recognizing the challenges of returning to the “mundane” when one’s military service is done.
by | Nov 11, 2024 12:48 pm | Comments (7)
New City Parks Director Max Webster.
City government’s newly un-merged parks department has a new director, a Yale forestry school grad who most recently worked in the public greenspaces of Chicago.
by | Nov 7, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (95)
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Geter-Pataky completes paperwork for a client inside New Haven's vital statistics office.
Wanda Geter-Pataky found a way to supplement her income while on paid leave from her Bridgeport city job and facing criminal charges for ballot fraud: Bring crews of out-of-state non-citizens to marry as many as 100-plus Americans a month at New Haven City Hall.
by | Nov 7, 2024 1:22 pm | Comments (16)
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LCI hearing officer Bob Megna: Fines approved.
It took an hour and a half for volunteer hearing officer Bob Megna to issue $1,000 fines to 27 local landlords — part of the city’s latest effort to revive a mandatory landlord licensing program after a lapse in enforcement.
Continue reading ‘$27K In Fines OK’d For Unlicensed Landlords’
by and | Nov 5, 2024 9:45 pm | Comments (19)
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EDR detritus at City Hall.
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Luisa Miliano: Thrilled to vote, regardless of line.
(Updated) Four hours after arriving at City Hall to cast her first vote as a new U.S. citizen, Luisa Miliano found herself still waiting and waiting — along with 100 others — to make it to the end of Election Day Registration.
Continue reading ‘Would-Be Voters Wait Hours After Polls Close’
by | Nov 5, 2024 1:35 pm | Comments (5)
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Makenzie Webber: "No Trump."
Tyrone White: "He's got what it takes to run this country."
The wait is on, for Election Day Registration.
Makenzie Webber waited and waited and waited — for two and a half hours — to same-day register and then vote for Kamala Harris. Tyrone White eyed that same long line at City Hall and decided to leave early before casting his ballot for Donald Trump.
Continue reading ‘Same-Day-Registration Voters Line Up & Wait’
by | Oct 31, 2024 3:38 pm | Comments (11)
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Supt. Negrón (right), with schools CFO Hannans: “I don’t see it as a cushion.”
Is a $3 million budget-balancing fund for New Haven Public Schools a “cushion” or a “lifeline”?
It depends on who’s asked.
by | Oct 31, 2024 12:27 pm | Comments (26)
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Hearing Officer Cormie: Trying to give both sides a “fair shake.”
Nine volunteer “judges” now work out of City Hall — presiding over quasi-judicial proceedings that can result in hefty fines for landlords who are cited by the city for unsafe or unsightly properties.
by | Oct 30, 2024 5:10 pm | Comments (5)
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Union Prez Cotto and Chief Jacobson: “This is a game changer.”
A proposed new six-year police union contract would boost not only salaries but also officers’ morale and mental health, thanks in part to an overhauled time-off system in the agreement.
Police Chief Karl Jacobson made that pitch on Tuesday evening to the Board of Alders Finance Committee, which unanimously voted to recommend the tentative labor deal’s approval.
by | Oct 30, 2024 8:29 am | Comments (19)
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269 Humphrey: 6 apartments now. 15 to come.
An East Rock landlord won permission to boost the number of apartments at a Humphrey Street house from six to 15 — after a local attorney pointed out that the existing building contains four floors, not three, and therefore has enough gross floor area to accommodate the higher unit count.
by | Oct 29, 2024 8:44 am | Comments (29)
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Mist Tobacco and Convenience owner Farooq Alwajih (pictured in his other business, Audubon Market): “I personally hate smoke shops.”
New Haven could soon see restrictions on new smoke shops — limiting where they can locate and prohibiting window displays full of smoking accessories.
by | Oct 28, 2024 10:13 am | Comments (4)
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Principal Foreman: On a mission to "Transform Troup."
As more than 90 percent of Troup School’s students have been showing up for classes so far this year, Troup School Principal Eugene Foreman showed up to a Morris Cove gala — to be recognized for helping turn around the reputation of a state-designated “turnaround” school.
Continue reading ‘"Turnaround" Troup Principal Honored At Gala’
by | Oct 25, 2024 10:51 am | Comments (29)
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Supt. Negrón (center): School security down from 100 in 2010, to 56 today.
The number of security guards in city public schools is down 44 percent in more than a decade, resulting in a shortage that sometimes forces the district to shuffle officers around to multiple schools over the course of a single day.