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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.
by | Aug 1, 2024 1:23 pm | Comments (6)
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KulturallyLIT Executive Director and Founder IfeMichelle Gardin leading Tuesday's workshop.
What will New Haven look like in ten years? On Tuesday night, Vision 2034 hosted its fourth workshop to help answer this question.
by | Jul 29, 2024 1:00 pm | Comments (32)
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Hill Alder Ron Hurt: “It was a matter that happened with me personally. ... I don't think that was a power dynamic."
A rehab facility fired Alder Ron Hurt as a therapist after a months-long sexual and romantic relationship between him and a patient came to light.
Continue reading ‘Alder Fired From Drug Rehab Job After Sexual Relationship With Patient’
by | Jul 26, 2024 3:42 pm | Comments (9)
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Serena Neal-Sanjurjo: "Change will come" in housing market.
Rosette Village protesters at City Hall announcement.
A former city housing official will spearhead new efforts to convert blighted properties into affordable housing through a quasi-public land bank.
by | Jul 24, 2024 11:35 am | Comments (23)
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So long suckers: The former Criterion movie house.
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Bow Tie Partners CFO Ron Statile to alders: Not our fault we didn't notice we hadn't paid our taxes for six years.
The city is on track to forgive over $10,000 of interest on the city’s last non-pornographic movie theater owner’s unpaid tax bills it left behind when it left town.
Continue reading ‘Fleeing Theater Gets Going-Away Tax Present’
by | Jul 23, 2024 3:59 pm | Comments (32)
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Grant proposal seeks to expand clean energy, composting, bike education, and street trees, among other projects.
Composting for up to 20 schools. Energy upgrades for over 200 homes. Bike education for every third grade student. Four hundred new street trees.
Those are among the plans for a potential $20 million federal grant to build out New Haven’s climate resilience infrastructure.
by | Jul 23, 2024 9:03 am | Comments (6)
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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.
by | Jul 22, 2024 9:50 am | Comments (47)
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The latest design for 20-34 Fair St.
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.
by | Jul 18, 2024 3:19 pm | Comments (7)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Science Hill Build-Up Cleared For Takeoff’
by | Jul 18, 2024 12:38 pm | Comments (11)
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The former Trelleborg plant at 30 Lenox.
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.
by | Jul 18, 2024 11:31 am | Comments (13)
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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.
Continue reading ‘$8.8M In Repairs Readied For Floyd Little’
by | Jul 17, 2024 9:35 am | Comments (1)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Turn Out For "Dr. Robinson Way"’
by | Jul 16, 2024 5:54 pm | Comments (49)
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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.
by | Jul 10, 2024 11:45 am | Comments (7)
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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.
by | Jul 9, 2024 3:17 pm | Comments (17)
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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.
by | Jul 8, 2024 9:09 am | Comments (4)
The New York “daisy” model of syringe disposal structures.
Fewer syringes in public spaces.
by | Jul 3, 2024 9:26 am | Comments (23)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Billboard Builder Seeks "Spectacular" Relief’
by | Jul 2, 2024 1:50 pm | Comments (22)
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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.
by | Jul 2, 2024 12:30 pm | Comments (11)
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Broken windows, for now, at 188 Bassett.
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.