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Laura Glesby |
Jul 23, 2024 9:03 am
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Break a leg! LCI ad to preview on this digital display outside the Shubert.
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LCI's Mark Wilson pitches alders on advertising housing help.
A digital Water Street billboard and a series of Shubert Theatre Playbills might soon feature ads from the Livable City Initiative — as part of the city’s new marketing strategy to spread awareness of its housing and anti-blight resources.
One hundred and sixty eight more apartments took a big step closer to coming to Wooster Square, after the project’s new co-development team won permission to modify a plan last approved in 2021.
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Thomas Breen |
Jul 18, 2024 3:19 pm
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Ballinger and TenBerke, courtesy of Yale Office of Facilities
New lab building, new greenspace, OK'd for Science Hill.
A green, landscaped, public-welcoming entry point to Yale’s northeastern campus is coming to Science Hill — as part of a Yale Bowl-sized redevelopment project, including a massive new lab and classroom building, newly approved by the City Plan Commission.
City Plan commissioners approved a plan to convert up to 65,000 square feet of industrial space on Lenox Street into self-storage units — after deciding that that controversially quiet use fit better at a former factory in the Heights than at a former factory in Newhallville.
Moisture bubbles and tears in the field house track last fall.
A new indoor track, roof, locker rooms, and scoreboard are all one step closer to coming to the Floyd Little Athletic Center — as alders endorsed accepting nearly $8.8 million in state funds to make those planned improvements a reality.
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Laura Glesby |
Jul 17, 2024 9:35 am
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Local historian and history-maker Dr. Robinson.
Dr. Ann Garrett Robinson knows how to advocate for a street corner name. In 2022, she made sure that New Haven’s first known Black resident, Lucretia, would have a place among official city signage.
On Monday, she returned to City Hall to join 20 friends and neighbors in calling for a corner of her own.
Tiny home resident Joel Nieves at Rosette St. press conference: “Mr. Mayor, I say to you, am I not human? ”
Nieves, Godek, and Colville return city's cease-and-desist letter to City Hall.
(Updated) As a group of unhoused activists on Rosette Street held a press conference denouncing the city’s bid to shut down their backyard tiny homes, a state marshal arrived with a cease-and-desist letter from the Elicker administration — ordering the group to vacate the “illegal” dwelling units in 24 hours.
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Thomas Breen |
Jul 10, 2024 11:45 am
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Don't do this on Water St.
Highway drivers won’t get to enjoy / be distracted by another electronic billboard by the Q Bridge, now that the zoning board has turned down an Ohio-based firm’s outdoor advertising application.
Michael Carter with Supt. Negrón at Monday's school board meeting.
Former city Chief Administrative Officer Michael Carter is back in town to do the work of the Board of Education’s suspended chief of operations (COO), at least for the next three months.
Existing billboard north of the Q Bridge. Should another one be allowed south of the highway on Long Wharf?
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The "Spectacular Sign" overlay district when it was first adopted, and how it looks with the expanded highway today.
An Ohio-based advertising firm seeking to erect another billboard by the Q Bridge has run into a “spectacular” roadblock, in the form of an expanded highway and a decades-old zoning map.
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Jul 2, 2024 1:50 pm
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596-598 George St., to be sold to veterans housing nonprofit.
Alders signed off on selling a long-vacant, city-owned duplex next to Yale New Haven Hospital for $6,000 to a local veterans housing nonprofit that plans to rehab the property into six affordable rentals.
New Haven Adult Education’s planned move from the Hill to Newhallville took a key step forward, as the zoning board cleared the way for the city to build a new 4,500 square-foot addition to the back of a derelict building on Bassett Street.
Liam Brennan’s elderly parents will be able to live just steps away from their grandchildren — while maintaining the independence of residing in their own detached home — now that the city’s zoning board has approved the conversion of the former mayoral candidate’s backyard garage into a two-story accessory dwelling unit (aka “ADU”).
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Arthur Delot-Vilain |
Jun 28, 2024 10:20 am
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At November's launch of Overdose Prevention Program.
A recent pair of resignations has left the city looking to fill two vacancies in a four-person program designed to combat overdoses by building relationships with people who use drugs and guiding them towards safe housing, medical care, and other supportive services.
The same hackers who stole $6 million from the city last year also obtained access to birth dates, Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, and other “personal information” of hundreds of city employees, retirees, and contractors.
"IZ" affordable apartments approved, but not built, at 50 Fitch.
Two and a half years after the city adopted a law designed to require affordable housing to be built as part of New Haven’s market-rate construction boom, the city’s “Inclusionary Zoning” law hasn’t yet created a single new reduced-rent place to live.
Most of the 50 “IZ” affordable apartments approved so far appear to be indefinitely held up by the high cost of borrowing money — even as other, non-“IZ” affordable developments move ahead.
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Jun 17, 2024 10:56 am
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DESK director Werlin (center): Guided by "accessibility."
In order to operate a soon-to-be-renovated four-story hub of meals, healthcare, and gathering for unhoused clients, Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) is going to need an elevator.
And in order to dig an elevator shaft, the organization first needs to shore up the foundation of the parking garage next door.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 7, 2024 9:01 am
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794 Dixwell Ave.
The leaky roof of 794 Dixwell Ave. will soon get fixed, with the help of $300,000 from the city, in time for a new all-boys charter school to open there in the fall.
10 Liberty (top) and 48 Grant, soon to become housing?
Two abandoned factory buildings in the Hill are each a step closer to revival as housing, after alders approved a tax break and a zoning change on Monday night.
The city’s chief administrative officer can now live with her family in a Hartford suburb while continuing to oversee New Haven’s police and fire departments — thanks to a residency-requirement exemption granted by the Board of Alders.
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Laura Glesby |
May 29, 2024 5:49 pm
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Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola introduces the ammo-storage amendment.
In a last-minute federal funding reallocation on Tuesday evening, alders unanimously voted to spend $250,000 in Covid-recovery aid on a new police ammunition storage unit.
Steve Winter: "Neighborhood-scale platform for decarbonization."
The city hopes to draw clean energy directly from the earth to heat and cool a train station, a thousand or so apartments, and maybe one day an entire neighborhood.
