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New liaison Alex Guzhnay and former liaison Barbara Montalvo.
Former Yale/Downtown Alder Alex Guzhnay is back as a regular presence at Board of Alders meetings — this time, as the mayor’s new legislative liaison.
Meanwhile, his predecessor Barbara Montalvo is moving on to a new position in Stamford after over 11 years working in City Hall.
by | Sep 5, 2024 9:31 am | Comments (0)
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Dr. Robinson, at July's corner renaming committee hearing.
The corner of Dixwell Avenue and Argyle Street will now have a new name — honoring a pioneering psychologist, researcher, and volunteer local historian who still calls Dixwell home.
by | Sep 4, 2024 12:13 pm | Comments (5)
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Make way for LCI ads at the theater.
The Elicker administration has now won aldermanic approval to advertise affordable homeownership and rent assistance programs at the Shubert Theatre and on a Water Street digital billboard, with the help of one-time federal pandemic-relief aid.
by | Aug 30, 2024 5:13 pm | Comments (52)
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Liam Brennan: Looking for enforcement mechanisms "everywhere we can."
With hopes of building a faster housing code inspection system with more teeth, the Livable City Initiative (LCI) under its new director is moving away from the courthouse and toward municipal fines.
by | Aug 28, 2024 12:03 pm | Comments (11)
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Nadine Horton, gardening outside the Armory: What about a wintertime indoor mega-garden and farmer's market for the historic building?
More planning for the future of the dilapidated Goffe Street Armory is on the horizon, with the help of $250,000 in state funding.
by | Aug 27, 2024 9:35 am | Comments (24)
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The building proposed for 34 Level St.
A plan to build 50 new affordable apartments for seniors in West Rock took a key step forward, as alders endorsed a 39-year tax-break deal for the housing authority development to-be.
Continue reading ‘Affordable Senior Housing Tax Break Advances’
by | Aug 26, 2024 11:14 am | Comments (6)
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Students at MATCH, a new manufacturing training program that received a city ARPA grant.
A future vocational training hub for New Haven Public Schools students could offer tracks in building, manufacturing, technology, health, and transportation — per the city’s latest plan for millions of dollars of one-time federal aid that were allocated for various trade education initiatives two years ago.
Continue reading ‘ARPA Update: Vo-Tech School Still In The Works’
by | Aug 23, 2024 4:10 pm | Comments (47)
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Charles Warner, Jr.: "We would have had a different city economically, educationally, politically" with the 1831 Black college.
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A resolution before the Board of Alders would issue a formal apology for the city’s actions preventing the founding of a local Black college in 1831.
Continue reading ‘City Apology Proposed For Blocking Black College’
by | Aug 22, 2024 2:14 pm | Comments (4)
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345 Norton St.: One of 3 homes newly eyed for daycare.
New Haven’s daycare “desert” is about to grow a bit more green, in the form of three new or expanded group child care centers in Fair Haven and Edgewood.
by | Aug 20, 2024 3:10 pm | Comments (8)
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Mike Gormany: Working on the weekends to help new city budget director transition into the role.
The Elicker administration has contracted with the city’s former budget director to help the city’s new budget director transition into her role, with an indefinite agreement that pays $55 an hour for up to 19 hours a week.
Continue reading ‘Former Budget Director Returns, On Contract’
by | Aug 20, 2024 1:04 pm | Comments (6)
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420 Middletown Ave.: Diner now, gas station soon?
A Middletown Avenue mainstay for burgers and fries could next become a site for pumping gas and charging electric cars.
by | Aug 19, 2024 3:37 pm | Comments (3)
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67 Winchester: Now approved for expansion.
A plan to build new bedrooms atop a derelict Winchester Avenue home’s backyard won approval the second time around — after calls for more, quality housing beat out concerns about neighborhood change.
by | Aug 19, 2024 2:14 pm | Comments (7)
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402 Crown St.: 2 apartments, coming up?
A vacant former Crown Street car rental center is slated to become two new apartments — after the landlord’s attorney explained that now is not the best financial time to knock down the commercial structure and build a big new building in its stead.
by | Aug 13, 2024 9:22 am | Comments (6)
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Tax Abatement Chair José Crespo, speaking in support of movie theater tax deal.
Alders voted to forgive more than $10,000 of interest on several years worth of unpaid taxes on “personal property” like movie screens, popcorn machines, and digital video projectors at New Haven’s last — now-closed — movie theater.
Continue reading ‘Alders Slash Ex-Theater's Tax Interest Bill’
by | Aug 8, 2024 5:45 pm | Comments (0)
Anais Nunec: "I wanted to cry, it was so amazing."
Junior Miss Puerto Rico Lysella Pujols and Miss Puerto Rico of Greater New Haven Alanna Herbert.
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As rain came down, this year’s Miss Puerto Rico of Greater New Haven, Alanna Herbert, stepped to the microphone and filled the Green with her voice as she sang the national anthem. Behind her was the Puerto Rican flag, grand and waving in the wind, ready to be raised.
by | Aug 7, 2024 3:32 pm | Comments (4)
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Black Wall Street organizers Adriane Jefferson (right), and The Breed's Rashad Johnson and Aaron Rogers: "This is not just a festival. It is a movement."
A fashion show, film festival, investing summit, and 200-vendor fair on the Green are all on tap for this year’s third annual Black Wall Street – an example of city staff and local entrepreneurs teaming up to “turn the hate from the past into hope for the future.”
by | Aug 7, 2024 1:27 pm | Comments (24)
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Kiki Moreno and Fernando Morales: Formerly homeless, currently calling for better shelter hours.
Upon This Rock to revive the Grand Avenue shelter.
One of the city’s go-to homeless shelter contractors is slated to revive a shuttered 65-bed facility on Grand Avenue, with case management and healthcare services on site.
Alders voted to allocate $500,000 toward that effort — part of just over $1 million approved on Monday evening for helping people with nowhere else to go.
by | Aug 6, 2024 4:59 pm | Comments (8)
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New Budget Director Shannon McCue and Tax Collector Karen Gauthier.
Mayor Justin Elicker has appointed two new members to his administration, according to a Tuesday press release: Shannon McCue as city budget director and Karen Gauthier as city tax collector.
Continue reading ‘Mayor Appoints New Budget Director, Tax Collector’
by | Aug 6, 2024 11:56 am | Comments (5)
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Wooster Square/Mill River Alder Ellen Cupo.
Ellen Cupo learned how to walk again before making it back to her seat in the Board of Alders chamber.
by | Aug 5, 2024 1:29 pm | Comments (0)
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Voter's Clerk Cynthia Cavo scans Steve Winter's early voting envelope.
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Fellow state rep candidate Abdul Osmanu, voting early in Hamden.
Steve Winter didn’t have to walk far from his second-floor City Hall office on Monday to cast his ballot on the first day of early voting — in a Democratic primary where he himself is a candidate for state representative.
by | Aug 2, 2024 5:34 pm | Comments (18)
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New LCI head Liam Brennan and former LCI head, new housing development czar Arlevia Samuel.
Former mayoral challenger Liam Brennan will have the chance to enact the “philosophy sea change” he called for last year in the Livable City Initiative (LCI) — as the department’s new director starting Monday.
Meanwhile, current LCI Director Arlevia Samuel is moving to a new position in the city focused on spurring affordable housing development.
Continue reading ‘Elicker Taps Former Foe Brennan To Refocus LCI’
by and | Aug 2, 2024 1:50 pm | Comments (35)
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Ron Hurt.
Apologizing for “disappointing” the community, Hill Alder Ron Hurt has stepped down from his elected post — as well as his visible community organizing role — in the wake of a controversy involving his former job at a drug rehabilitation facility.
by | Aug 2, 2024 1:42 pm | Comments (8)
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Mayor Elicker on the witness stand: City labor relations office handles this stuff.
City Clerk Smart: I signed the amendment.
Can the Board of Alders grant raises to unionized employees through the city budget process without those pay bumps also being ratified by collective bargaining agreements? Or do union contracts have the final word on how much covered municipal workers are paid?
Those questions sit at the center of a bench trial that began Friday morning in a fifth-floor courtroom at the state courthouse at 235 Church St.
The trial marks the latest legal entanglement between the legislative and executive branches of city government, raising questions about who has the power to provide money to which city workers, and why.
by | Aug 2, 2024 10:46 am | Comments (2)
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Alders-For-A-Day Ada Akdağ and Melissa Rodriguez at work learning about Keiry Pena and Joseph Jenkins' deli dreams.
Two “alders” checked in on a couple’s revived East Street deli, talked street improvements with a development official, blasted the news to constituents — and dreamed about what they want to be when they grow up.
by | Aug 1, 2024 2:18 pm | Comments (22)
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The Townshend Mansion: New road, new houses en route?
Eleven new single-family homes are one step closer to coming to the historic Townshend mansion property in the East Shore — now that the City Plan Commission has approved a plan to build a private road to those residences to-be.