by | Jun 6, 2024 4:37 pm | Comments (28)
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Anderson Curtis of ACLU-CT: Criminal record discrimination "amounts to perpetual punishment."
Mandy Management refused to rent 58-year-old Mark Griffin an apartment because of two misdemeanor convictions from more than three decades ago.
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by | Jun 3, 2024 4:15 pm | Comments (2)
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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by | Jun 3, 2024 1:30 pm | Comments (16)
(Updated) City police have arrested a 48-year-old New Havener for allegedly stabbing to death 47-year-old Travis James during a fight at a Whalley Avenue convenience store in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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by and | May 30, 2024 3:19 pm | Comments (29)
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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.
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by | May 28, 2024 12:00 pm | Comments (4)
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Galina Zalman, in front of her 33 Hazel St. home in 2020.
New Haven’s new housing judge heard three versions of what went wrong at a Hazel Street rooming house.
In the process, she also got a firsthand look at some of the challenges facing people living one false step away from homelessness.
by | May 24, 2024 2:53 pm | Comments (21)
Carlos Gomez: No time off for remorse.
A 69-year-old husband of a daycare provider was sentenced by a state judge Friday to 25 years in prison for raping two children as young as 3 years old.
by | May 23, 2024 3:18 pm | Comments (1)
18-year-old Keyasia Mcelveen.
(Updated) Keyasia Mcelveen has been located by Detective Kealyn Nivakoff and her adoptive family. She said she was with her boyfriend for two weeks.
An earlier version of this article appears below.
by | May 23, 2024 1:06 pm | Comments (12)
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Aurora: "Bittersweet" retirement call.
For the second time in 11 days, someone left behind a Molotov cocktail somewhere in New Haven.
“Think they’re connected?” Detective Joe Aurora’s supervisor asked him about the two incidents.
“I don’t know,” he responded. But he did know he was headed down a “rabbit hole.”
by | May 22, 2024 11:09 am | Comments (13)
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Filibuster-ready if needed: State Sen. Gary Winfield at WNHH FM.
Gary Winfield was ready to talk. And talk. And talk. For hours and hours.
He let his colleagues in the legislature know that he was ready to talk and talk and talk.
So he didn’t need to end up talking. He got the message across — and mission accomplished.
by | May 21, 2024 5:27 pm | Comments (3)
A 42-year-old New Havener named Peter Arroyo was shot and killed near Wolcott Street and Ferry Street early Monday afternoon.
by | May 19, 2024 9:05 pm | Comments (15)
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On-duty NHPD rifle operators take positions outside Richmond Avenue house.
A late-night argument over a microwave oven Sunday led to a gunshot — and then, 14 hours later, police surrounding a house and blocking off the street until the alleged shooter came outside.
by | May 16, 2024 2:41 pm | Comments (3)
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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.
by | May 14, 2024 1:15 pm | Comments (3)
Two separate incidents of gunfire, one fatal, occurred within an hour of each other in Newhallville late Monday afternoon.
by | May 14, 2024 11:42 am | Comments (18)
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Ocean's Shmuel Aizenberg and attorney Gerry Giaimo in housing court.
Ocean Management’s Shmuel Aizenberg won’t have to take the witness stand in Waterbury after all — now that his company has struck a last-minute settlement in a long-standing child lead poisoning lawsuit that had been set to go to trial this week.
That jury trial was to determine how much the local megalandlord had to pay a mom whose son suffered “irreversible brain damage” while living at one of Ocean’s New Haven apartments on Edgewood Avenue.
While the dollar amount of that deal remains secret, public land records show that plenty of cash has been flowing into Ocean’s coffers — as the company has sold another 37 New Haven rental properties for nearly $13 million over the past two months.
by | May 10, 2024 2:00 pm | Comments (16)
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Clarice Elarabi (pictured) is suing the city for the death of her brother, chef and gardener Michael Randall, in a 2019 illegal rooming house fire on West St.
Clarice Elarabi woke up at 3:12 a.m. feeling “just so hot. Like, on fire.”
She stuck her head out of the window. She took a cold shower. She tried and failed to go back to sleep. “I was so hot,” she said, “I didn’t know what was going on with me.”
Two hours later, Elarabi learned that her twin brother’s house in the Hill had erupted into flames.
The blaze took his life. It hurled her into life-altering grief. And Elarabi is now preparing to argue in court that the City of New Haven could have prevented it.
by | May 10, 2024 12:04 pm | Comments (7)
(Updated Monday) Police arrested three people late Thursday night outside a Westville residence following a fight that included shots being fired.
by | May 9, 2024 3:15 pm | Comments (3)
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Lead plaintiff Personna Noble, at right, at 2016 announcement of lawsuit at pre-demolished Church Street South.
The last of $18.75 million in checks have gone out to former tenants of Church Street South, closing out a seven-plus-year legal quest to compensate families subjected to unhealthy living conditions.
by | May 9, 2024 2:00 pm | Comments (18)
Fair Rent's Wildaliz Bermúdez with new tenants union rep Zach Postle.
A cracked window at 1455 State.
Zach Postle and his neighbors got tired of waiting days and weeks and months for their landlord to respond to maintenance concerns like broken windows and busted heating, so they formed a tenants union — the sixth to officially file with City Hall, and the fifth created at an Ocean Management rental property.
by | May 8, 2024 12:35 pm | Comments (27)
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Yale senior Craig Birckhead-Morton and attorney David Grudberg in court Wednesday.
Donning keffiyehs and blouses and dress shirts and the occasional suit and tie, nearly 50 Yale students took their turns appearing before a state judge to face criminal trespassing charges stemming from their arrests at recent pro-Palestinian protests on campus.
The judge continued each case until dates in July or August, taking care to accommodate students’ summer break schedules when determining whether each should return in person or online.
by | May 7, 2024 2:41 pm | Comments (15)
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Det. Dash: Cellphone records helped crack case.
A gun purchased in Milford ended up connected to a Hill homicide — after the purchaser lent the firearm to a relative’s friend, who lent it to another friend, who then tried to sell the gun in New Haven, only to be shot and killed himself.
by | May 3, 2024 3:50 pm | Comments (7)
Former cop Vincent Raucci, pictured in plainclothes participating in a 1980s-era Q Terrace drug bust...
...is now behind bars in New Mexico.
Vincent Raucci was in jail when he received notice of a lawsuit against him — by a man he once sent to prison when he was a cop.
Continue reading ‘Corrupt Cop Located For Lawsuit — In Jail’
by | May 2, 2024 9:22 am | Comments (57)
Instagram posts documenting Wednesday's protests and arrests.
Yale police arrested another four protesters — including by tackling some to the ground — during the latest pro-Palestinian demonstration on the university’s downtown campus.
by | May 1, 2024 4:28 pm | Comments (65)
New Haven police Wednesday afternoon released video footage of the East Rock crash Sunday involving a cop cruiser and an ATV, sending the ATV rider to the hospital.
by | May 1, 2024 4:02 pm | Comments (21)
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The Beinecke Plaza flagpole on Wednesday.
A Yale graduate student allegedly spent 23 minutes working to release the rope and lower the American flag in Beinecke Plaza during the first night of a pro-Palestinian tent encampment.
A week later Yale police arrested that graduate student for vandalizing university property — with repair costs for the “damaged” flagpole estimated at more than $9,100.
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by | May 1, 2024 11:55 am | Comments (27)
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Police cameras at Orchard and Edgewood.
The streets have eyes — an additional 266 and counting, to be precise — now that several million dollars in one-time federal aid have translated into a trove of new police surveillance cameras watching out for crime across the city.