It didn’t “concern” Mayor Justin Elicker that protesters shouted down his annual “State of the City” address Monday night, he said.
“I am a little bit concerned about the dialogue,” he said. “I don’t think it was the most productive way to have a conversation. I also understand the frustration.”
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A rough sketch of what the building could look like.
A local developer is planning to build an affordable housing complex designed for seniors atop a vacant city lot in the Hill — with the hope that she could someday move in.
Parks staffer Janice Parker, right, explains the department's current structure.
A public-private funding structure. A “superintendent of fields.” A department divided into geographical districts, each with a point person for neighbors to contact.
Those ideas are all on the table as the city moves forward with a plan to un-merge the Parks and Public Works Department.
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Jan 3, 2024 9:00 am
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Coming soon to a barricaded home near you: BRINC's depiction of its upgraded drone model.
New Haven SWAT teams will have an easier time communicating with barricaded people in tense situations once new drones arrive this year, thanks to a vote taken at a City Hall meeting Tuesday night.
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A rendering of what a denser development (at left) could look like on the current "east lot" next to Union Station.
A Union Station rezoning proposal got a thumbs down — for now — from City Plan commissioners, amid concerns that it might not make sense to build so many new apartments next door to an active railyard.
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Jan 1, 2024 5:44 pm
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Alders take the oath of office Monday afternoon.
A year after first taking an oath of office in a private swearing-in ceremony at City Hall, Ward 21 Alder Troy Streater stepped onto the stage of City Hall with 28 other alders for his first full-fledged inauguration.
New Haveners who hail from Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Chile, Honduras, and elsewhere across Latin America gathered downtown to deliver a message to the mayor: that their adopted home city should be a “sanctuary city” — not just by executive order, but by law.
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Dec 18, 2023 9:15 am
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198 River St.: Former factory, to be sold for $1.
The Elicker administration won approval to sell a vacant, contaminated waterfront industrial property in Fair Haven for $1 to a local builder and provide $400,000 in cleanup funds, to help develop the site of the now-demolished former Bigelow factory complex into a new 10,000 square-foot commercial/industrial building.
Immigrant activists at a protest on Monday outside City Hall.
What happens when a city official reports your marriage to immigration authorities?
Immigration lawyers are working to make sense of that question as local families prepare for what could be years of scrutiny, uncertainty, and anxiety.
Norma Rodriguez-Reyes, who officiated Erika's wedding: "The day of a marriage is one of the happiest days in their lives."
Three weeks after getting married, Erika found herself wondering whether her family was one of at least 78 couples that a city official had reported to federal immigration authorities.
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Clockwise: Dennis Serfilippi, Michael Gormany, Alex Pullen, and Justin Elicker.
A local financial consultant and recent Westville alder candidate is suing the city for keeping non-residents in New Haven’s top financial offices — and is pushing to push out the current controller and tax assessor in the name of improved municipal fiscal management and compliance with the city charter.
Mayor Justin Elicker has responded by pressing the importance of keeping the most qualified people in those jobs amid a shortage of applicants, and has denied that the city is violating the charter as his administration seeks to keep those finance roles filled.
Trish Clark: Now on leave for flagging 78 marriages in 3-month period to federal immigration authorities.
State DPH associate Katie Sehi emailed this guidance to Clark in February.
(Updated) A state employee told New Haven’s official responsible for maintaining marriage records to report “suspicious” marriage license applicants to federal immigration authorities.
The registrar replied that her office was “uncomfortable” issuing licenses to “numerous” couples — before reporting at least 78 marriage licenses for non-citizen immigrants in a three-month period to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Registrar of Vital Statistics Patricia Clark: "I've done nothing wrong."
(Updated) The city official responsible for maintaining marriage records has been placed on paid administrative leave as the Elicker administration investigates whether or not she violated a local executive order by reporting at least 73 marriages in a three-month period as “questionable” to federal immigration officials, on state guidance.
Mayor Elicker: City will make more money in near term if Yale takes 300 George off tax rolls ...
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... because of city-Yale deal that requires university to pay portion of tax bills for 12 years after converting to tax-exempt.
Even if Yale does take the recently purchased med-tech complex at 300 George St. off the tax rolls, New Haven will bring in more revenue from that property over the next 13 years than if the university had never even bought it.
So argued Mayor Justin Elicker in an interview about Yale’s $139.6 million acquisition of the nine-story downtown lab-and-office building — and in defense of the near-term benefits of a key provision of a recently inked city-Yale deal.
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Kica Matos: Time to lead again.
Sixteen years after New Haven became the first city to issue a municipal ID card to city residents regardless of their citizenship status, advocates are calling on the city to once again lead the way in protecting immigrant rights — including by creating a new city Office of Immigrant Affairs.
The 2023 hurricane season is underway and New Haven residents should plan for the possibility of flooding, which may lead to impassable roads, power outages, and property damage. To learn how to prepare for a flood, visit here.
Asst. Chief Bialecki at July swearing-in ceremony.
Assistant Fire Chief Justin Bialecki is stepping down from his city job at the end of the week, after nearly two decades with the New Haven Fire Department, including four months in the second-to-top role.
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Nov 22, 2023 8:32 am
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Alder Troy Streater, who petitioned for Geneva Pollock Way, on the block between the two renamed corners.
Geneva Pollock and Pearlie Napoleon were friends who both dedicated their lives to their students and their Newhallville community. So it’s fitting that the street corners soon to be named after them will be located just one block apart.
Sixty tiny-home supporters at a church in North Branford lifted their voices in song. It was about electricity and housing affordability, and aimed at New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker.
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Nov 16, 2023 12:54 pm
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Friends Jean-Claude Harrison and Philip Paris after testifying before the Health and Human Services committee.
A few days after obtaining stable housing, Philip Paris approached a committee of alders with a message he’s still trying to fully believe: that regardless of the fact that his addiction played a role in his homelessness, “my need is just as valid as anyone else’s.”
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Nov 13, 2023 11:38 am
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Eliza Halsey at Thursday's Board of Alders meeting.
The Board of Alders officially approved local charter school founder Eliza Halsey to lead the city’s social services department — while passing new mechanisms to enforce elevator maintenance and salons’ health code compliance.
The city’s transit department is moving ahead with plans to convert a handful of downtown streets from one-way to two-way — and is seeking public input before deciding how many parking spots should remain on George Street, where protected bike lanes should go on York, and whether or not to place a Bus Rapid Transit lane in the middle of Church Street.
