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Arpita Neogi and Alok Agrawal pick up marriage license Tuesday.
Getting hitched in New Haven is about to become just a little bit easier — as a plan advanced to reclassify two Vital Statistics Division positions to allow those employees to sign off on marriage licenses and certificates.
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Community leaders in support of more police cameras (clockwise from top left): Rev. Kelcy Steele, Kim Harris, Stacy Spell, Chaz Carmon.
The idea of investing in 500 new surveillance cameras around town to fight crime and solve more homicides came one step closer to reality Monday night.
by | Nov 5, 2021 9:35 am | Comments (16)
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Thursday night’s Board of Alders meeting.
Electric buses, lower taxes for low-income people, endorsed.
The Board of Alders set Connecticut’s Democratic governor and top state legislators a challenge Thursday: Find a way to make fuel sellers — and not the poor and working class — pay for transportation-related carbon emissions, and help save cities like New Haven from bearing the brunt of climate change and air pollution.
by | Nov 1, 2021 2:01 pm | Comments (5)
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Mayor Elicker gets his flu shot Monday.
Mayor Justin Elicker rolled up his sleeve and got vaccinated — against the flu, as part of a citywide effort to get shots in arms to protect New Haveners from more than just Covid.
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A former city labor relations attorney has filed a complaint against the city for allegedly pushing him out of his job because he is a gay man.
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by | Oct 28, 2021 1:23 pm | Comments (18)
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City Engineer Zinn, City Plan’s Woods: We can do this safely.
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Design rendering of new apartments planned for Long Wharf.
Plans to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf won a key aldermanic approval — after two city department heads made their pitches for why New Haven should not have to wholly abandon waterfront development, even amid climate change.
Continue reading ‘Harbor Plan Advances; Climate Fear Tackled’
by | Oct 27, 2021 12:07 pm | Comments (2)
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Site of planned new construction at McConaughy Terrace.
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Elm City Communities Vice President of Development Edward LaChance.
The public housing authority’s ongoing transformation of the far west side of the city took another step forward, as City Plan commissioners unanimously approved plans to construct 26 new apartments at McConaughy Terrace.
by | Oct 21, 2021 4:23 pm | Comments (12)
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Rendering of the proposed new Fair Street “greenway,” to be included alongside 185 new apartments.
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A view of Fair Street, in August.
The City Plan Commission unanimously approved plans to build a new seven-story, 185-unit apartment complex on Fair Street — paving the way for a reopened public connection between Union Street and Olive Street, and piling on to the residential-development blitz currently taking place on the downtown edge of Wooster Square.
by | Oct 21, 2021 10:35 am | Comments (36)
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Rendering of Fusco’s proposed waterfront apartments.
The City Plan Commission unanimously advanced a proposal to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf — despite the advice of a top state environmental regulator who advocated rejecting waterfront residential developments as unduly dangerous due to climate-change-induced flooding.
Continue reading ‘Harbor Plan Advances, Against State Advice’
by | Oct 19, 2021 9:13 pm | Comments (59)
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Mayor Elicker and John Carlson at Tuesday’s debate.
Mayoral candidates sparred over the environment and education, in a debate that took place two weeks before New Haven’s general municipal election.
Continue reading ‘Mayoral Hopefuls Clash On Climate, Schools’
by | Oct 19, 2021 8:41 am | Comments (21)
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Builder Joe Levy and Q Meadows Alder Gerald Antunes at City Hall vote.
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Rendering of 27 apartments planned for Hemingway.
The Board of Alders overwhelmingly approved selling a 1.29-acre Hemingway Street plot for $40,000 to a New York City-based developer that plans to build 27 new apartments on the vacant site, which includes wetlands.
Continue reading ‘Alders OK Heights Sale For New Apartments’
by | Oct 18, 2021 1:16 pm | Comments (9)
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A rendering of a redeveloped Union Station.
Alders unanimously advanced a proposed new city-state accord that would provide a 55-year roadmap for the operation and redevelopment of Union Station.
by | Oct 13, 2021 1:17 pm | Comments (7)
It worked.
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by | Oct 12, 2021 3:10 pm | Comments (46)
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Gas-powered leaf blowing: Going the way of the dodo in New Haven?
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Pagan: Hard on workers. Mattison: Hard on ears, climate.
Are gas-powered leaf blowers an environmental hazard, or an economic necessity?
And do the noise and air pollution dangers they present outweigh their benefits for working-class landscapers?
by | Oct 8, 2021 1:28 pm | Comments (49)
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Ocean Management’s Shmuel Aizenberg (left) with attorney Ian Gottlieb in court this week.
Carmel Street bathroom: cracked tiles, mold, acrid smell.
The men in charge of two of the city’s largest low-income real estate empires landed in criminal housing court —as part of a city effort to prosecute landlords who take too long to fix up their properties.
by | Oct 7, 2021 8:49 am | Comments (49)
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Developer Lynn Fusco: Back with a round-two plan for Long Wharf.
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A rendering of the planned new apartment towers on Long Wharf.
Imagine picking up lunch at a food hall, picnicking as kids play in a sculpture park, and viewing New Haven Harbor up close as residents move in and out of two new apartment towers.
A developer offered that pitch at a hearing about plans to build up to 500 apartments on Long Wharf.
by | Oct 6, 2021 3:00 pm | Comments (4)
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793 State and the former Pulaski Street: 16 new apartments on tap.
The city plans to sell off a portion of a highway-obliterated former street to make way for a proposed new 16-unit apartment building on Upper State Street.
by | Oct 6, 2021 11:40 am | Comments (0)
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251 West Hazel St.
Dixwell Plaza’s redevelopers are bringing their neighborhood revitalization efforts to Newhallville — in the form of a new duplex where a blighted, vacant single-family home currently stands.
Continue reading ‘Duplex Plans OK’d For Newhallville Eyesore’
by | Oct 5, 2021 2:47 pm | Comments (5)
Things are looking up, a little bit, for New Haven’s finances.
It will require some more discipline to keep it that way.
Continue reading ‘Ratings Agency Ups New Haven’s Outlook From “Stable” To “Positive”’
by | Oct 5, 2021 8:42 am | Comments (27)
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Alder Decker: A strike vs. exclusionary zoning.
Homeowners won — and absentee landlords lost — when a zoning reform passed into law Monday night.
by | Oct 4, 2021 2:46 pm | Comments (4)
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The former St. Rose School on Richard Street.
An affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management plans to convert a former Fair Haven Catholic school and a nearby ex-convent into 18 new apartments.
by | Oct 1, 2021 12:04 pm | Comments (15)
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Kadir Catalbasoglu: “I’m just asking: What I have, I want to make legal.”
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161 Whalley: Upper-story apartments can’t be renovated, because building lacks density.
A new city zoning rule is aimed at creating more housing on Whalley Avenue.
In a bid to uphold the spirit and the letter of that law, the city’s zoning board may have … caused the removal of housing from Whalley Avenue.
by | Sep 30, 2021 3:03 pm | Comments (13)
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Proposed housing slated to replace parking at 300 State St. lot. (The building on the left in this rendering would be new. The building on the right currently exists.)
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A Boston-based affordable housing developer plans to build 79 apartments —and only three parking spaces — in the Ninth Square, in an effort to convert a surface lot and existing historic commercial buildings into affordable places to live rather than affordable places to put cars.
Continue reading ‘79 New Apartments — With 3 New Parking Spaces — Pitched For 9th Square’
by | Sep 30, 2021 2:09 pm | Comments (16)
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Officers arresting Shawn Marshall at the CT Financial Center.
CRB’s Devin Avshalom-Smith: Head punches deter trust in police.
A police internal investigation has found Officer Justin Cole acted appropriately when he punched a troubled man in the head three times after that man kicked him during an arrest at a Church Street office tower.
by | Sep 30, 2021 8:14 am | Comments (25)
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Former Bigelow factory, now cleared for small brewery and taproom.
Downtown Management Team Chair Ian Dunn: Follow the movie studio’s money.
A contentious hours-long public hearing ended with a craft brewer winning his final needed city approval to set up shop on River Street— and a host of questions raised about a movie studio that tried to box him out.