by | Jun 2, 2021 12:05 pm | Comments (11)
BOA Public Safety Committee gathering Tuesday.
Honda Smith is concerned not just about young people involved in violence — but their parents and grandparents.
Continue reading ‘Cops Pressed On Support For Families Amid Youth Violence’
by | Jun 2, 2021 11:58 am | Comments (2)
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Three dummies showed up in City Hall Wednesday — to help city workers get smarter about saving lives in an emergency.
Continue reading ‘City Workers Push Hard, Fast To Save Lives’
by | May 31, 2021 11:59 am | Comments (8)
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Alder Roth: a dissenting voice.
Downtown Alder Abby Roth has decided not to run for a fourth two-year term on the Board of Alders, opening up Ward 7 for new local legislative representation come 2022.
by | May 26, 2021 10:31 pm | Comments (21)
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Alder Wingate: “Bold” moves on crime.
Alders overwhelmingly adopted a $606.3 million operating budget for the new fiscal year that keeps taxes flat and the libraries open, jacks up the city’s pension contributions — and assumes the state and Yale will fork over an extra $53 million.
by | May 26, 2021 4:44 pm | Comments (17)
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Fairbank Apartments: No tax break for new owners. For now.
LISHTA member and Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola: NHI comments make secrecy necessary.
Alders lambasted two low-income senior apartment building owners for failing to show up to defend requested tax breaks and for attempting to take advantage of a cash-strapped city without creating new subsidized housing.
It turns out the landlords were never invited — and they had filed plans about which the alders were either unaware or confused.
by | May 24, 2021 3:57 pm | Comments (22)
Tenant Fabian Rosario and Rosa Rivera outside Fairbank: “Perfect.”
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Newly sold Fairbank Apartments at 355 Ferry St.
A California-based affordable housing developer has purchased a Fair Haven senior apartment complex for $11.1 million — and is seeking a local tax break for a $7 million rehab.
by | May 21, 2021 5:21 pm | Comments (21)
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Candidates in do-over-over election: current teacher union president Dave Cicarella and Hillhouse teacher Vincenzo Sullo.
Balloting has begun to choose a new teachers union president — after the national union stepped in and canceled the previous election.
Meanwhile, the city government clerical workers union has new temporary leaders — after the national union stepped in and suspended the elected ones.
Continue reading ‘National Unions Intervene In Leadership Decisions For Teachers, Clerical Workers’
by | May 21, 2021 2:54 pm | Comments (3)
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How the city plans to spend the first $26.3M in American Rescue Plan money.
Alders have fast-tracked approval of city plans to spend the first $26 million-plus in federal pandemic-era aid to bolster lost municipal revenue and build up a host of summer youth programs moved ahead.
Continue reading ‘City’s First $26.3M Covid-Aid Spending Plan Advances’
by | May 21, 2021 2:30 pm | Comments (0)
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“Parcel B,” where materials and vehicles will be located during construction of 101 College.
Expect to see dirt piles, dump trucks, and a whole lot of hard hats and building materials atop the former Rt. 34 Connector downtown —as the planned two-year construction of a new 10-story, 525,000 square-foot bioscience lab and office tower is about to begin.
Continue reading ‘Dirt Pile OK’d For 101 College Construction’
by | May 21, 2021 10:41 am | Comments (4)
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That small triangle at bottom right now belongs, again, to the DOT.
The city has officially handed back to the state a vacant triangle of land on Mill River Street — with the hopes that that small parcel may one day grow into 70+ new apartments.
Continue reading ‘Little Land Triangle Ditched To Help Building Plans’
by | May 20, 2021 2:31 pm | Comments (2)
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The former tennis courts (in yellow) to be removed and replaced by grass.
So long, tennis courts that haven’t been used in years.
Hello, a new grassy plot for sports-related parking.
Continue reading ‘Yale To Replace Old Tennis Courts With Grass Parking’
by | May 20, 2021 2:30 pm | Comments (4)
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Carl Goldfield: Newly approved for City Plan Commission seat.
Former Board of Alders President Carl Goldfield is now officially back at City Hall — as a volunteer land-use commissioner newly approved by the Board of Alders.
by | May 20, 2021 8:49 am | Comments (0)
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Rendering of the planned new “East Rock Center” painted sign at 285 Nicoll.
Land-use commissioners unanimously signed off on a new 175 square-foot painted sign for a Nicoll Street factory-turned-commercial complex.
by | May 19, 2021 1:43 pm | Comments (9)
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NHCM organizer Kiana Flores (center).
The following letter was written by Co-Op High School senior Kiana Flores in collaboration with other New Haven Climate Movement organizers to Mayor Justin Elicker in advance of Thursday night’s public hearing on how to spend the city’s American Rescue Act federal aid.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Spend Federal Covid $ On Climate Projects’
by | May 17, 2021 4:47 pm | Comments (2)
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Corp Counsel Pat King and legal aid’s Amy Marx sign lead settlement.
Chipped lead paint on a Fair Haven window sill.
With the stroke of a pen, city officials and legal aid attorneys are now one court hearing away from ending a two-year legal battle over how the city Health Department protects lead-poisoned local children.
by | May 17, 2021 8:40 am | Comments (12)
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More housing, coming soon, at (clockwise from top left): 47 Stanley St., 25 Lynwood Pl., 551 Orange St., 234 Howard Ave., 65 East Pearl St., 83 Butler St.
Some wanted to add new apartments to existing multi-family homes they rent out for profit. Others wanted to build new affordable nonprofit homes.
They were united by one goal: Find a way around New Haven’s strict zoning rules for what can be done with small lots and living spaces.
Their varying reasons reflected the challenges New Haven faces as it rewrites those rules for the 21st century.
by | May 15, 2021 10:16 pm | Comments (5)
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BOE student rep Ma’shai Roman at her election at City Hall.
After a rough year of remote learning, Dwight teen Ma’shai Roman says New Haven schools need to do better with providing students with mental health help and resources.
Now she’s in a position to get that message directly to the people in charge.
by | May 14, 2021 5:08 pm | Comments (5)
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Sidelined front-line worker Veronica Cassis: Why won’t the city help?
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Clybrun (right) checking on tenants: Program’s point is to help people like this.
Veronica Cassis turned to the city for emergency pandemic help paying bills — and so far has been turned down because … she hasn’t been able to pay her bills.
by | May 14, 2021 9:27 am | Comments (11)
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Westville’s Mitchell library: No longer on the chopping block. If it ever really was.
Alders cast the first of two votes needed to pass a new city budget — ditching a “crisis” version tax increase and library closure, embracing a “forward” version assuming the state and Yale will pony up an extra $53 million.
Continue reading ‘“Crisis” Wanes: “Forward” Budget Advances’
by | May 12, 2021 1:46 pm | Comments (25)
Not allowed on Wallace Street … for now.
A plan to convert a Wallace Street warehouse into a “Las Vegas-style” entertainment complex hit a roadblock when a state judge upheld a city law that prohibits two strip clubs from being located less than 1,500 feet apart.
by | May 12, 2021 9:42 am | Comments (5)
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The proposed new self-storage site slated for 129 Amity Rd.
Medical marijuana? Nope.
Baconator with a side of fries? Not happening.
What about … self-storage?
Continue reading ‘Self-Storage — Not Burgers, Not Pot — Coming To Amity Lot’
by | May 11, 2021 5:16 pm | Comments (4)
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Gage Frank.
Mayor Justin Elicker’s press spokesperson, Gage Frank, is leaving City Hall to take the same position with State Treasurer Shawn Wooden.
by | May 11, 2021 11:21 am | Comments (4)
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The new Q House, on the rise on Dixwell Ave.
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Monday night’s Finance Committee hearing.
Committee alders enthusiastically endorsed a three-year, $300,000 contract between the city and LEAP that would have the local youth tutoring and recreation agency manage — and fundraise for — the reborn “Q House” Dixwell Avenue community center.
by | May 11, 2021 9:20 am | Comments (10)
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Young New Haveners who spoke up at Monday’s budget hearing. Clockwise from top left: Kiana Flores, Jamila Washington, Eva Hana Starkey, Abiba Biao.
Seven-year-old Westville resident Eva Hana Starkey took a breath, leaned towards the camera from her father’s lap, and issued her budget-season plea to city lawmakers:
“I want the Mitchell Library to be open.”
Starkey was the youngest of two dozen members of the public to testify Monday night during the aldermanic Finance Committee’s last public hearing of this year’s budget-making season.
by | May 10, 2021 4:04 pm | Comments (15)
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City social-services chief Mehul Dalal with Mayor Justin Elicker at announcement of second six-month planning phase for crisis team.
Mayoral challenger Karen DuBois-Walton calling for swifter, more inclusive action on recovery aid.
New Haven has a chance to seize the post-pandemic, social-justice moment — and it needs to hear from everybody about the best way to do it.
Two mayoral candidates held separate press conferences with that message, and disagreed about who can deliver.