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Coming soon: Kids. Sidewalk. Pedestrians?
LULAC Head Start won approval to convert an empty Fair Haven warehouse into a childcare center — on the condition that it build a new stretch of sidewalk to attract pedestrians to an industrial street near the Mill River.
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Three of the new LCI houses on Thompson Street.
Plans advanced to sell nine new city-built houses in Newhallville, amid questions at public meetings about whether the sales prices are truly “affordable” for the surrounding neighborhood.
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Local musician Smitty featured in the city’s Mask Up campaign, among growing efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
(Updated)—City Hall has pulled the plug on a planned “mask census” to track how many people are wearing Covid-protective face coverings — and then figure out how to get more to comply.
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Elicker, speaking at the presser.
The city Thursday afternoon unveiled a new job-training program aimed at helping New Haven residents gain construction skills.
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Teamed up: Fernandez, mum mayor.
Mayor Justin Elicker has enlisted a former campaign foe to help him shake the Yale money tree.
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Murphy’s Wheeler St. site: ready to expand?
A years-long fight over proposed expansion of an Annex waste-transfer station sparked a three-hour land-use debate — pitting a defense of jobs and corporate responsibility against warnings of malodors, vermin, a polluted river, and plummeting property values.
by | Nov 18, 2020 4:06 pm | Comments (13)
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Carlos Rodriguez in front of the newly rezoned Greenwich Avenue lot.
His Long Wharf food truck, Tacos La Patrona.
Taco truck owner Carlos Rodriguez is further along the way to converting a vacant city-owned lot into a commercial kitchen with apartments on top after clearing a legislative hurdle.
Continue reading ‘Taco Truck Owner Prevails In Zoning Quest’
by | Nov 18, 2020 12:37 pm | Comments (4)
A presentation slide from Tuesday’s meeting depicts the various areas of support that the drop-off center will target.
When a new drop-off center for people transitioning out of prison comes to Wooster Square in January, the program will have some friendly faces — and even a few potential new collaborators — in the neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Wooster Square Neighbors Welcome Planned Re-Entry Drop-Off Center’
by | Nov 17, 2020 3:49 pm | Comments (11)
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Building Official Turcio on a Covid safety crew inspection.
If your employees don’t wear face masks to work or if you host a party with more people than allowed by the state’s reopening guidelines, then watch out: After one warning, it’ll cost you between $100 and $500.
by | Nov 13, 2020 4:46 pm | Comments (19)
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8 Legion Ave.: Pricey parking lot.
Yale New Haven Hospital purchased the above-pictured Legion Avenue surface parking lot and one beside it for over $4.5 million. The city taxes it as though it’s worth just over $126,000.
Continue reading ‘Lot Sells For 35 Times City-Appraised Value’
by | Nov 12, 2020 4:34 pm | Comments (4)
Modeling caution: Frank, Bombero, Bond.
Three mayoral appointees — Health Director Maritza Bond, city spokesperson Gage Frank, and Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Rebecca Bombero — have been in 14-day self-quarantine, working digitally from home.
by | Nov 11, 2020 4:20 pm | Comments (5)
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The Blake Street office complex where Waterstone Counseling needed zoning relief before moving in.
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BZA Commissioner Daum: But is there hardship in the land itself?
A new counseling center won approval to move into a Westville office complex — after a debate about how close zoning commissioners should hew to the letter of the law in making decisions in New Haven.
by | Nov 10, 2020 7:04 pm | Comments (19)
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The Omni Hotel on Temple Street. Below: Tuesday night’s union-led virtual presser.
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As she struggles through months of unemployment during the pandemic, Omni Hotel housekeeper Pauline Oglesby said she needs an assurance that she’ll be able to return to her job as soon as her former employer starts hiring again.
So she applauds a proposed new “worker’s recall” law pitched by the mayor’s office and backed by the local hotel worker’s union
Continue reading ‘City, Hotel Union Team Up On “Recall” Law’
by | Nov 10, 2020 1:00 pm | Comments (53)
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Yale’s Harkness Tower and New Haven City Hall.
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Elicker: Will Yale now “accept its responsibility?”
Yale University has posted a $203 million operating surplus for its most recent fiscal year.
Meanwhile, the city is staring down a $13 million projected deficit — with dozens of job cuts in the rearview, and plenty of pandemic-induced uncertainty ahead.
Continue reading ‘Yale Posts $203M Surplus; City Projects $13M Deficit’
by | Nov 10, 2020 12:12 pm | Comments (3)
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School nurse E.J. Antinozzi on the job before the pandemic.
Covid-19 may have one positive — if temporary — impact on city schools: Each building should finally have its own dedicated school nurse.
Continue reading ‘Every School Would Get A Nurse Under Budget Transfer’
by | Nov 9, 2020 6:11 pm | Comments (2)
Carrie Giarnese signing Monday’s press conference for the hearing-impaired.
As a new Covid-19 wave spreads through New Haven, officials are doubling down on keeping city offices safe and looking into who spread obscene threats through one school’s remote-learning cybersphere.
Continue reading ‘Covid Updates: City Hall Contends With Spread; Hacker Threatens Remote Learners’
by | Nov 9, 2020 2:01 pm | Comments (8)
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Sen. Blumenthal (right) with Mayor Elicker at Monday’s presser.
Richard Blumenthal made a post-election pitch to his Republican colleagues in the U.S. Senate: Start negotiating now over a new Covid-19 relief package worth at least $2.2 trillion.
Families and small businesses and state and local governments hurting during the pandemic cannot wait a minute longer.
Continue reading ‘Blumenthal To McConnell: Pass Covid Relief Now’
by | Nov 6, 2020 4:29 pm | Comments (10)
Eva Smith: Watching a neighborhood rise back from her front porch.
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Three newly-built houses on Thompson Street.
Nine new two-family homes have sprouted atop formerly vacant lots in Newhallville — raising with them neighbors’ hopes for a rejuvenation of a two-block stretch of Winchester Avenue and Thompson Street.
by | Nov 6, 2020 10:46 am | Comments (32)
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Planned 150-unit apartment complex at Ashum, Canal, and Henrys.
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Alder Roth: Too little; no consistent standard.
The Board of Alders approved tax breaks for two residential building projects aiming to add 219 new apartments — 105 at “affordable” rents — to Dixwell.
The board also voted to drop, at the developer’s request, a proposed tax break deal for a Ninth Square project.
by | Nov 4, 2020 6:27 pm | Comments (1)
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Smart: Has half a crew left.
(Updated) The secretary of the state is sending people to help train New Haveners to plow through a data backlog involving absentee ballots after a Covid-19 case send 12 city workers into quarantine.
Continue reading ‘Clerk Office Worker Tests Positive For Covid’
by | Nov 3, 2020 4:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Copes, post-vote at City Hall.
No pandemonium this time, at least at mid-day: Newly registered voters wait to cast their ballots in the Aldermanic Chambers.
Haley Copes hustled to cast a ballot after all this year, and not repeat her 2016 mistake. Fortunately for her, City Hall was ready this time for last-minute “Election Day” voters.
Continue reading ‘EDR Hums Along This Time — So Haley Copes Gets To Vote’
by | Nov 3, 2020 2:52 pm | Comments (1)
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Robinson: With Alder Furlow’s help, in time for class, as well.
Naszier Robinson arrived at City Hall at 6 a.m. to register to vote for the first time ever — and wound up on an hours-long journey back and forth between downtown and his Westville neighborhood in order to cast his ballot.
Continue reading ‘Why Naszier Robinson Traveled Miles, Waited Hours To Vote’
by | Nov 2, 2020 4:46 pm | Comments (0)
Four years after a data breach that compromised the personal information of hundreds of New Haveners with sexually transmitted diseases, the city has agreed to pay a $202,400 fine and clean up its act.
Continue reading ‘City Fined $202,400 For Health Data Breach’
by | Nov 2, 2020 10:48 am | Comments (4)
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Valencia Goodridge braves the rain.
Over 1,000 voters showed up at the Hall of Records this weekend to receive and cast absentee ballots — with in-person assistance.
Continue reading ‘City Clerk Helps Over 1,000 Cast Last-Minute Absentee Ballots’
by | Oct 29, 2020 3:01 pm | Comments (51)
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New Haven Academy freshman Jeremyah Newton at city learning hub.
The vast majority of New Haven Public Schools’ (NHPS) 20,500 students will continue learning all-online for the foreseeable future — as Mayor Justin Elicker announced the school system has pushed back its hybrid reopening date because of the spike in local Covid-19 cases.
And New Haven itself will revert to “Phase II” mode of partial economic shutdown in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus.