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346 and 350 Grand Ave., which the city plans to buy and convert into new owner-occupied housing.
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LCI’s Evan Trachten: This affordable housing project could transform the block.
City plans to buy a medical office building and a vacant three-family house on Grand Avenue for $440,000 moved ahead — as part of a larger publicly funded effort to convert three buildings on a Fair Haven block into six units of new housing.
Yale union members and supporters at a Prospect Street rally in May.
Yale and its blue-collar and clerical and technical worker unions have struck a tentative agreement for new contracts that would cover more than 5,000 university employees over the next five years.
Mayor Elicker: If people won’t talk to cops, then cameras will.
“Cameras don’t lie.”
Mayor Justin Elicker offered that assessment in support of his administration’s new proposal to spend $12 million of federal pandemic-relief aid on various public safety initiatives, including placing 500 new surveillance cameras citywide.
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The Ralph Walker Skating Rink on Upper State Street.
The Board of Alders unanimously approved two public-private agreements — one that will keep Cornell Scott Hill Health Center in Dixwell for the next two decades, another that will bring an ice rink management company to Upper State Street for the next five years.
Aerial view of the proposed expanded oyster farm on the Quinnipiac.
How it all works.
Plans to revive the Quinnipiac River’s bivalve-harvesting heritage took a big step forward, with three unanimous city approvals for an expanded oyster farm on the Fair Haven Heights waterfront.
And just like that, there is now a new city department — charged with finding a data-driven, coordinated response to a vast array of social issues, from homelessness to mental health disorders to drug addiction to prison reentry.
Avports CEO Jorge Roberts with Tweed Airport Authority Executive Director Sean Scanlon at City Hall for Thursday night’s vote.
Lauding the prospect of more jobs, fewer government subsidies, and an environmentally conscious approach to developing a larger airport, the Board of Alders Thursday night unanimously approved a new 43-year agreement between the city and Tweed’s airport authority.
A downtown landlord won city permission to build 106 new market-rate apartments atop a Crown Street parking lot and in the adjacent, converted LoRicco Tower.
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190 River St., where Armada plans a brewhouse and taproom.
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Plans to build a new small brewery and taproom in a renovated former Bigelow Boiler Factory building on River Street won two key city approvals, as the transformation of Fair Haven’s former industrial riverfront continues to take shape.
A proposed amendment to a 43-year agreement between the city and Tweed’s airport authority would scrap a section on eminent domain, mandate decennial performance reviews, and require the authority and the airport’s management company to study and — “to the extent feasible” — implement a passenger carbon offset program.
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Fredo Delgado in a new vaccine video …
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… and with fellow high school athlete Christian McClease at Tuesday’s presser.
Wilbur Cross High School junior Fredo Delgado looks directly at the camera, a basketball cradled in his left arm. “What’s up. I’m Fredo. Want your life back?” he asks.
He passes the ball to his classmate and teammate Christian McClease, who now holds the answer to that pandemic-era riddle between his two hands. “Get vaccinated,” McClease says. “We did.”
… and a partially collapsed rear wall at 133 Hamilton St.
A Howard Avenue barbershop has been reduced to a dusty pile of wood and bricks.
Two fire-damaged Sheffield Avenue homes are boarded up and awaiting repairs.
And the old clock factory on Hamilton Street has a collapsed rear wall, 20 leaking oil drums, a corner apron of fallen bricks — and no construction workers in sight.
City building inspectors have their eyes on those derelict properties and more, according to a half dozen newly issued “unsafe structure” notices filed by the Building Department on the city land records database.
Rafael Ramos at WNHH FM: “Government can impact people’s lives.”
After 25 years making sure porches didn’t crumble and the heat stayed on in renters’ apartments, Rafael Ramos is taking on a new challenge: making sure kids don’t eat lead paint at home and diners don’t eat poison at restaurants.
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Union Station: Details released for 55-year deal.
A proposed new 55-year deal between the city and state would see New Haven stay in control of Union Station for the next half century — along with the development of 600 new parking spaces, an “intermodal center” for bus riders, and improved retail options at the local transit hub, all depending on the availability of state, federal and private funds.
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Safe streets improvements that could be included in city’s active transportation plan.
Don’t let this be just another “binder on a shelf.”
Local alternative transportation advocates issued that call to action in advance of the public release of a new citywide plan focused on making it easier and safer to walk, bike, and take the bus around New Haven.
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Salvatore Punzo, at July’s Democratic Town Convention.
Alders unanimously endorsed renaming an East Shore Park-adjacent street corner after retired former New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) principal — and longtime Annex Little League president — Salvatore Punzo, whom admirer after admirer described as “one of the best human beings you’re ever gonna find.”
Abdussabur at press conference: “Help the people who elected you.”
Hours after New Haven already matched its 2020 homicide rate for 2021, alder candidate and retired police Sgt. Shafiq Abdussabur called on the governor to declare a state of emergency related to gun violence in the city.
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Judge Abrams: The court can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.
A state judge agreed to strike two key counts and a request for an injunction from the Board of Alders’ ongoing lawsuit against the mayor over former fire union President Frank Ricci’s pension benefits.
One of the lawyer’s attorneys promised that the case is far from over — and that the alders will seek a new remedy to stop Ricci from continuing to get the pension enhancement.
Leslie Radcliffe: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
A new training program for community management team leaders is in the works, as a group of alders aims to offer centralized guidance to the grassroots neighborhood teams.
City Building Official Jim Turcio during a Covid code crew inspection last August.
Local bars, restaurants, and other businesses that don’t comply with the city’s indoor mask mandate could face $100 fines — and even mandatory shutdowns — as part of city government’s latest efforts to stem the spread of Covid-19.
Airport chief Sean Scanlon (right) with U.S. Sen. Blumenthal at May’s Tweed expansion announcement.
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After hours of debate about the length of the term and about who stands to profit, a committee of alders unanimously advanced a proposed 43-year agreement between the city and Tweed’s airport authority.
“Disingenuous”? Police union prez Cotto, at right, confronts Elicker after announcement.
All city employees will either have to get a Covid-19 vaccine or undergo weekly testing for the coronavirus by the end of September, Mayor Justin Elicker announced Friday.
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Design for self-storage site at 129 Amity: Plans OK’d. No tenant yet.
Will the third time prove the charm?
That’s the question for a vacant parkway-adjacent Amity lot, where a property owner won city permission to build a four-story self-storage facility — after that same landlord won approvals for projects that never got built.
