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Leslie Asanga was on a mission as he popped out of a rented Mitsubishi Wednesday — to help seniors and other vulnerable people get their medicine without risk of contracting Covid-19.
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Daily “Frontline Foods” deliveries commence at Yale New Haven Hospital.
City Hall has enacted a spending freeze due to tanking revenues amid the Covid-19 crisis, and local restaurants began daily deliveries of 1,000 meals to health workers at Yale New Haven Hospital.
by | Mar 25, 2020 5:04 pm | Comments (4)
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From his car, sidelined photog launches “Porch-Ritz” portrait project outside New Haveners’ homes — and helps keep a community stitched together, person by person.
by | Feb 21, 2020 1:18 pm | Comments (6)
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Frank Cochran at work clearing invasive species in the park.
The mystery tree with red bark (center) hides behind a dead tree near the Edgewood Skate Park.
Frank Cochran looked up from clearing rose vines near the base of a large tree — and saw what looked like a California redwood.
An old one. Standing in Edgewood Park. In New Haven.
Could it be?
by | Feb 20, 2020 4:13 pm | Comments (6)
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1471 Chapel lot, anticipating future permanent parking use.
The city’s top zoning official singled out the true culprit responsible for the planned conversion of a former four-family house into a surface parking lot: the city’s outdated zoning code.
by | Feb 14, 2020 1:07 pm | Comments (13)
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One of the statues in Broadway Triangle’s Civil War monument.
Sarah Adams walked between Elm Street and Broadway hundreds of times before she first realized that the unassuming triangular plot of grassy lawns and brick walkways between the two streets is a park.
by | Feb 13, 2020 9:06 am | Comments (13)
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Potential future lot at 1471 Chapel.
A local landlord plans to convert the former site of a four-family house into a surface parking lot, in the inverse of the lot-to-housing development trend that has swept the city in recent years.
by | Jan 26, 2020 10:39 pm | Comments (2)
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Mayor Justin Elicker gets a tour of New Haven’s Holocaust memorial during Sunday’s commemoration.
New Haven faith and political leaders united Sunday evening to send a message of love and determination amid days of hate.
by | Jan 24, 2020 8:51 am | Comments (28)
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Ortiz, at right, with LCI staffer Maggie Fernandez.
There was a new face in the familiar crowd at this month’s Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hill (WEB) community management team meeting: A deputy fire chief.
by | Jan 13, 2020 9:04 am | Comments (5)
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66 Norton St.
A Brooklyn-based landlord paid $1.46 million to buy the 40-unit apartment complex at 66 Norton St., which has been empty for the past two years after the city first declared the building structurally unsafe.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:28 pm | Comments (17)
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Before and after: Plan for Winthrop-Edgewood stretch.
The city will soon go out to bid, again, for the long-planned and years-delayed Edgewood Cycletrack. Now the soonest cyclists can expect to ride the separated lane will be this summer.
by | Oct 22, 2019 12:57 pm | Comments (1)
A 47-year-old man was shot and injured on West Park Avenue near Edgewood Park Tuesday morning.
by | Oct 3, 2019 11:51 am | Comments (20)
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The building at Whalley and Fitch, soon to be demolished.
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It’s a deal: Buyer Mendy Paris (right, center) with partner Sim Levenharz and attorney Ben Trachten; seller Edward Roubeni (left front) and attorney Ken Rozich.
A local developer plans to knock down a blighted Westville commercial building and build in its stead 200-plus luxury apartments, now that he and his partner have purchased the property for $3.1 million.
by | Sep 25, 2019 12:13 pm | Comments (20)
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Attorney Willie Dow with Greer on Tuesday.
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The jurors head toward Regal Beagle for post-verdict lunch.
Rabbi Daniel Greer, one of New Haven’s most prominent religious figures, was led out of a courtroom in handcuffs Wednesday afternoon after a jury found him guilty of four counts of risk of injury to a minor in a high-profile child-rape case.
by | Sep 19, 2019 8:42 pm | Comments (0)
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R.S.A. stares at Rabbi Greer after testifying against him in court.
Det. Kristine Cuddy, who testified on Thursday..
Rabbi Daniel Greer sexually forced himself on another 14-year-old, caressing his rear during lessons and attempting to kiss him during a late-night outing, the former student testified under oath.
by | Sep 17, 2019 8:46 pm | Comments (2)
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Dow with his client, Rabbi Daniel Greer.
Why did an alleged victim of childhood sexual abuse wait nearly 10 years to contact law enforcement? Why did he never share the graphic details before then with his wife, his friend and his therapist? What was in it for him to bring it up now?
by | Sep 16, 2019 10:28 pm | Comments (6)
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Prosecutor Maxine Wilensky leaves court after first day of trial.
Rabbi Daniel Greer gave the 14-year-old his first taste of wine, told him not to worry about the family problems once landed him in protective custody — then put a hand on his upper thigh and leaned in to kiss him.
Eliyahu Mirlis, a former student at the Yeshiva of New Haven, recounted that as the very start of three years of Greer’s sexual abuse, after being sworn in as the state’s first witness in Superior Court on Church Street on Monday afternoon.
by | Aug 26, 2019 7:47 am | Comments (0)
Michelle’le Sanders painting the face of Robert’s little sister Nadia, who misses Rob being annoying.
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It was a beautiful day Saturday — perfect for the second annual Back To School Giveaway honoring the memory of Robert Faulk-Dill. The 21-year-young father of one was savagely gunned down on porch of his grandmother’s home on June 24, 2018.
by | Aug 5, 2019 11:18 am | Comments (4)
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The city’s anti-blight agency found an unidentified dead body lying under a mattress in the rear yard of a boarded-up Winthrop Avenue house Monday morning.
by | Aug 5, 2019 7:53 am | Comments (7)
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Tyisha Walker-Myers, Frank Douglass and Evette Hamilton at joint annouhncemnt
Affordable housing and public safety are among the main concerns for the a team of alders who call themselves the “Three Musketeers” and are seeking another two years in office.
by | Jul 17, 2019 12:47 pm | Comments (6)
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The candidate with Beaver Pond preservationist Nan Bartow.
Mayoral hopeful Seth Poole got his start in politics chairing the WEB (Whalley, Edgewood, Beaver Hill) community management team. He and his neighbors fought successfully to relocate the police firing range from Sherman Parkway — close to his beloved grandmother’s house — to its new location, well out of residential earshot.
by | Jul 10, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (0)
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After spending more than a year out of work to relocate their Jamaican style food restaurant, owner, Norma Parks and family celebrated the grand reopening of Whalley Avenue’s Caribbean Connection on Tuesday.
by | Jul 8, 2019 7:59 am | Comments (2)
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Rabbi Hyman, Rabbi Bistritzky, and members of the Rosenberg family at Sunday’s reopening.
Thirty people gathered in an Edgewood back yard Sunday to mark the reopening of a communal mikvah, which allows observant Jews to perform religious obligations.
by | Jul 4, 2019 9:09 am | Comments (3)
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Teo Baldwin with assistant coach (and son) Roger. Top: Undefeated Edgewood NHYS team.
Whether commanding firefighters at a blazing building or coaching middle schoolers on the field, Teo Baldwin emphasizes the same two principles: Respect your teammates. And know the unique role you play in helping your group succeed.