Hill resident Aura Soto showed up with her two children to the latest planning meeting for the future of the former Church Street South site with concerns about neighborhood safety, and ideas about educational programs to “keep the kids busy and out of trouble.”
She left feeling optimistic. “With the help of the people,” Soto said, looking around at those gathered in the cafeteria of High School in the Community, “we will make it a better place.”
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Jun 20, 2024 3:33 pm
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University Row Homes resident Demeka Anderson: "We're the only ones that are sensing the urgency because it's our lives."
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1 of 2 Henry St. auctions, scheduled for Saturday.
A row has broken out at row homes on Henry Street — leading to holes in the roof, allegations of mismanagement, ownership confusion, back-tax frustration, and two properties heading to the foreclosure auction block this weekend.
Eitan Hochster: Sale changes only "where the profits go."
A 37-unit East Rock apartment complex changed hands for $11.5 million — because a Long Island City lighting company’s land value kept rising while its manufacturing business kept slowing down.
How are those two real estate phenomena two states apart connected?
Through a federal tax deferral provision called Section 1031.
Jeanette Sykes, at the helm of new neighborhood dev corp.
A group of Newhallville residents has banded together to build affordable, owner-occupied housing — and expand awareness of neighborhood resources — by way of a revived community development corporation.
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Jun 19, 2024 12:13 pm
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Fixing the leak at Winters Run.
The members of a Fair Haven Heights condo association have voted to pay their entire $138,000-plus overdue water bill — and will now try to collect from the complex’s former property manager, whom they accuse of failing to promptly address the leak that left them in such a financial mess.
Emerson tenants Kolokotronis, Blau, Perez, and Hinds: Unionized, and ready to fight lease-non-renewal notices.
The new landlord of a leak-damaged downtown apartment complex has told the building’s unionized renters that their leases won’t be renewed — leaving some scrambling to figure out where they’ll live next as soon as this summer.
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Jun 18, 2024 2:09 pm
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Waiting for a pie from Sally's on Wooster St. ...
... as, right around the corner, Mykala Grace grabs two iced teas for maximum hydration at DESK's drop-in center.
Two lines that never meet form around lunchtime on one Wooster Square block: one for Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen’s drop-in center, the other for the world-famous Sally’s pizzeria.
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Jun 18, 2024 9:30 am
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Derek Baker: 201 Munson "fit all the bills"
Derek Baker unloaded his U‑Haul truck after wrapping up the roughly 700-mile drive from metro Detroit to Munson Street, as he prepared to enter a new stage of his life studying MRIs and brain scans at Yale — while living out of a brand new luxury apartment complex in a development-rich stretch of Dixwell-Newhallville-Science Park.
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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.
An Edgewood-based landlord has purchased a church-affiliated apartment building downtown for $2.7 million — leaving the property’s tenants to wonder whether the new owner will be any better than the last at promptly repairing leak-damaged rental units.
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Jun 10, 2024 2:09 pm
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Rose Appi with the pod that's been storing her furniture since March.
A years-long leak has sunk a Fair Haven Heights condo association into $138,000 in debt — landing the group in bankruptcy court, and leading to a legal fight over whether the association’s water bill or urgent maintenance should be paid for first.
Meanwhile, Winters Run resident Rose Appi has been living with all of her furniture in a storage pod since March as construction crews work to repair the source of the water problem beneath her condo’s kitchen.
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Jun 7, 2024 4:53 pm
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Edgar Becerra and Josue Arana (center) join ULA for Friday's protest.
Edgar Becerra and Josue Arana packed their belongings into a total of two mid-sized suitcases and a backpack. On Friday morning, they stepped one last time out of the house at 200 Peck St. where they’d lived for the past year. They did not know where they would be sleeping that night.
The eviction culminated a months-long court battle revealing the triple power of one local business’s role as an employer, landlord, and visa sponsor to the temporary migrant workers it hires.
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Jun 5, 2024 4:48 pm
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ConnCAT Youth Program Assistant Rachel Graziano (center) cuts the ribbon to her future home alongside ConnCORP's Ian Williams and Erik Clemons.
Rachel Graziano currently lives in Naugatuck, because the rent there is cheaper — but not for long.
By July, she’ll finally move back to her hometown of New Haven, renting a brand new Newhallville house built by her employer, the local workforce and housing developer ConnCAT/ConnCORP.
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.
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Judge Stone: Landlords can't control everything.
New Haven’s new housing court judge ruled that a Newhallville landlord isn’t on the financial hook for thefts allegedly perpetrated by one rooming house tenant against another — in part because the owner doesn’t have “exclusive control” over what goes on in a renter’s room.
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May 31, 2024 3:19 pm
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Newhallville's Jeanette Sykes: "You are taking a step in the right direction."
Questions from Newhallville neighbors flew fast and furious at a community meeting with a representative from Mandy Management on Thursday evening: Why is an old eviction still coming up when I’m applying for an apartment? How do I overcome a bad credit score? And what is the turnaround time for addressing repairs and upkeep?
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Clarice Elarabi with a photo of her twin brother, Michael Randall, who perished in the fire (pictured below).
A lawsuit stemming from a fatal fire at an illegal Hill rooming house won’t go to trial after all — now that the Elicker administration has agreed to a $14.5 million settlement with the estates of the two men who died during that blaze.
Broken past, fixed future for 596 George (pictured)?
The city has abandoned plans to convert a long-vacant duplex on George Street into owner-occupied housing — and is now looking to sell the boarded-up brick buildings to a local nonprofit with the goal instead of creating affordable rentals for veterans.
146 Greenwich (right): Room on the block for another car?
Trachten and Rodriguez offer different views to BZA on adding housing without parking.
The city’s latest clash of cars and beds took place at the dead end of Greenwich Avenue, where an alder sought to stop the creation of a single new apartment on the grounds that the street already has too many parked vehicles.
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May 16, 2024 2:41 pm
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150 West St., after the 2019 fatal fire.
A reporter entered the courtroom for a trial about a fatal fire at an illegal rooming house — not to write about the case, but to get screened as a possible juror.
