by | Jan 7, 2025 11:10 am | Comments (5)
Architectural rendering of Dewitt Street redevelopment.
The redevelopment of a former housing cooperative in the Hill will soon net 64 new (mostly) affordable apartments, with another 40 units set to be renovated over the next two years — thanks to a second alder-approved tax break.
by | Jan 6, 2025 8:43 pm | Comments (2)
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Youth Continuum's Tim Maguire (right): Winthrop Ave. warming center open as of Monday night.
As snow fell and the temperature plummeted, a third city warming center opened Monday night for homeless young adults looking for a place to sleep and stay warm during winter nights.
Meanwhile, two other warming centers will be staying open 24 hours a day until Thursday, as the city has activated its severe cold weather protocol.
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by | Jan 3, 2025 12:11 pm | Comments (6)
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Former owner Salas-Romer (center) at 2016 ribbon cutting: Village Suites sold, apartments to come.
A Brooklyn-based landlord has purchased a 112-room extended-stay hotel on Long Wharf for $15 million — and plans to convert the property into apartments.
by | Jan 2, 2025 1:26 pm | Comments (7)
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David Germaine: Transitional housing "gives you a chance to get back on track."
U.S. Sen. Blumenthal (center): Bill's import isn't "abstruse."
Army Reserve veteran David Germaine took a break from applying for jobs Thursday morning to stand alongside the top Democrat on the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee — at a Hill press conference celebrating a bipartisan funding boost designed to help keep a roof over the heads of homeless vets like Germaine.
by | Jan 2, 2025 9:10 am | Comments (2)
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Imperial Gardens: Under new ownership.
A mystery buyer affiliated with a local property manager who used to work for Ocean Management has purchased a 72-unit Westville apartment complex for $10.25 million.
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by | Dec 24, 2024 9:00 am | Comments (7)
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Firefighter Dan Kislukonin in August at the scene of the second of two fires in two months at the abandoned clock factory.
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The housing authority’s planned redevelopment of a dilapidated clock factory on Hamilton Street will have to wait six months — again — in the wake of a court order issued Friday.
by | Dec 23, 2024 4:10 pm | Comments (1)
The Fresh Starts team, including Marcus Harvin, Diamond Harvin, Talia Cardoba, Bradley Woodworth, Axel Woodworth, Adam Rawlings, and Big Don McDaniel.
On a bone-chilling night, Talia Cardoba spooned spicy chicken onto a heaping plate and handed it to an elf who scurried out of the kitchen.
“Careful, it’s hot,” she said, as the conversation of 16 mothers and their children floated in from the dining room of Life Haven, a 40-bed Ferry Street facility that provides temporary shelter to homeless pregnant women and women with young children.
The occasion was the second iteration of “Dinner & A Movie” hosted by Best Video and Newhallville’s Fresh Starts, a nonprofit founded on the belief that the first step toward helping someone realize their aspirations is nutritional sustenance.
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by | Dec 23, 2024 11:25 am | Comments (2)
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Draughn: Leading city's next public housing chapter.
New Haven’s housing authority is starting the new year with permanent new leadership built on continuity.
by | Dec 20, 2024 12:06 pm | Comments (7)
What might one day be built at 924 Grand.
A long-in-the-works plan to open a youth homeless shelter in Wooster Square got another jolt of public funding, as the Board of Alders approved spending $500,000 in federal Covid aid to help finance its construction.
by | Dec 18, 2024 3:03 pm | Comments (30)
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Time for state to step in for tenants: State Reps.-Elect Laurie Sweet and Steve Winter at WNHH FM.
Laurie Sweet is headed back to the state Capitol to push a tenants’ rights bill — this time to help pass the law rather than push someone else to.
by | Dec 18, 2024 11:35 am | Comments (8)
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235 Winchester: Fined for blight, foreclosure in January?
A long-vacant Winchester Avenue property that a developer and the city have fought over for two decades is the subject of $6,300 in new anti-blight fines — and a new “final” foreclosure date set for next month.
by | Dec 16, 2024 2:17 pm | Comments (29)
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Mayor Elicker and Spinnaker VP Frank Caico (center) ...
... celebrate new apartments at the "Anthem at Square 10" ...
... as property manager Alves (right) shows off common area "plant wall."
Brian Alves reached back in time to his teenage years attending concerts by Aerosmith and Huey Lewis and the News at the Coliseum — as he gave reporters a tour of the shiny new mixed-use building that has risen from the ex-venue’s ashes, complete with 200 apartments, ground-floor retail space, a pool, a gym, and a common room buttressed by a “real life plant wall.”
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by | Dec 11, 2024 3:48 pm | Comments (27)
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That's trash, behind row of vacant Ocean homes.
LCI attorney Williams and hearing officer Bernblum: You're fined.
(Updated) A Livable City Initiative (LCI) hearing officer approved more than $130,000 in anti-blight fines for six vacant Ocean Management properties that look like, well, trash.
by | Dec 10, 2024 2:41 pm | Comments (14)
Can the city help bring this vision to life?
Oh, that's an alameda. Cool!
Imagine an alameda — a long shady tree-lined walkway — running down the middle of Blatchley Avenue all the way from Grand Avenue to the Quinnipiac River.
And how about building up underused lots into lots more housing on East Street and on Wolcott?
Those were a few of the neighborhood-changing ideas that emerged Monday night at 162 James St., CitySeed’s new building, where city economic development officials convened a second public meeting for citizen input to envision a now-and-future identity for the Mill River District.
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by | Dec 10, 2024 11:17 am | Comments (38)
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Tory Sansing at Spruce Coffee meetup: "We simply want the city to recognize the value of the zoning rules."
Might the 15 Edwards old firehouse soon look like this?
An East Rock landlord’s plans to convert a vacant historic firehouse into a five-story apartment building has sparked a debate around preserving character vs. creating new places to live in a vibrant mixed-use stretch of Upper State Street.
by | Dec 6, 2024 10:46 am | Comments (9)
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Robert Harris: “When we do bundle up, it’s tolerable."
The tiny shelters (right) behind 203 Rosette.
A group of unhoused neighbors have taken to sleeping two or even three to a room inside unheated pre-fabricated tiny shelters that are still standing in a Rosette Street backyard.
“When we do bundle up, it’s tolerable being in there,” said Robert Harris, as he pointed at a row of white Pallet shelters. “But sometimes it’s colder in these because it can be like an ice box.”
Continue reading ‘As Temps Drop, Tiny Shelter Residents Double Up’
by | Dec 4, 2024 9:44 am | Comments (10)
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Tenants union leader Zach Postle tapes a pamphlet to Farnam's front door ...
... as union members and supporters rally for a collective lease.
Another tenants union rallied outside another front door of another Ocean Management successor — calling for their new property management company to step it up on maintenance, and to be open to negotiating a collective lease.
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by | Dec 3, 2024 3:26 pm | Comments (11)
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Expect more of this, now that tenants unions can form at buildings with at least 5 rental units.
Five thousand more apartments’ worth of New Haven renters are now eligible to form tenants unions — thanks to a Board of Alders-approved update to the laws governing the Fair Rent Commission.
by | Dec 3, 2024 1:49 pm | Comments (27)
The St. Luke's proposed $32M development ... before it lost its sixth floor.
A long-delayed Whalley Avenue redevelopment lost a floor — and saved $2 million, because of how much more expensive it is to build with steel and concrete instead of just wood.
by | Dec 2, 2024 3:06 pm | Comments (21)
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Future homeowners Melvin Poindexter (center) and Sylvia Cooper (right), shoveling dirt alongside state housing commissioner Seila Mosquera-Bruno.
Melvin Poindexter and Sylvia Cooper dug their shovels into a pile of dirt on an empty Hazel Street lot — and helped move the ground that they, and future generations of their respective families, will some day soon call home.
by | Nov 27, 2024 2:07 pm | Comments (35)
Might this one day be built at 924 Grand?
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Youth Continuum's Tim Maguire (right), with city Homeless Services Director Velma George: Looking to create "a one-stop shop for unhoused youth."
A proposal for a peer-led youth homeless shelter in Wooster Square is back on the table — with a higher price tag and a new design prioritizing privacy and public health.
Continue reading ‘Alders Advance $500K For Long-Delayed Youth Shelter’
by | Nov 25, 2024 3:04 pm | Comments (19)
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Barnett Brodie (left): "It's impossible for me to match shingles from 50 years ago" or to force tenants to clean hallways.
The landlord didn’t contest that tenants kept a laundry basket in a common hallway. Or that he had old shingles on the house.
He did wonder why the city was pushing him to do something about it or potentially face a fine.
by | Nov 21, 2024 3:59 pm | Comments (22)
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Hearing officer Megna, with LCI attorney Bedosky: "That's a big fine for a two-family home."
(Updated) A Queens-based landlord is on the hook for $25,500 in fines — after missing a City Hall hearing he said he didn’t know about, that concerned two LCI inspections he was surprised to learn he’d skipped.
by | Nov 20, 2024 8:31 am | Comments (34)
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Alder — and now homeowner — Jose Crespo...
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... and his new James Street house.
One of Alder Jose Crespo’s constituents wants her security deposit back — from a landlord who happens to be Alder Crespo.
Continue reading ‘Alder, Constituent Spar Over Security Deposit’
by | Nov 18, 2024 1:22 pm | Comments (16)
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Alder Smith, U.S. Sen. Blumenthal, Board Chair Kilpatrick, and Interim Director Draughn: With Biden bucks, "use it or lose it."
Eco-friendly housing planned for 34 Level.
Three electric vehicle charging stations, 4,000 square feet of rooftop solar, and energy-efficient appliances will be built into an entirely electrified affordable senior apartment complex in West Rock — thanks to a newly secured $450,000 federal grant.
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