by | Jul 1, 2024 4:38 pm | Comments (5)
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Fumiatti: Continuing a mission.
A veteran neighborhood top cop is taking on a new assignment: Helping fellow officers as well as the community deal with trauma.
Continue reading ‘Fumiatti Fills New NHPD Mental Health Post’
by | Jun 27, 2024 4:29 pm | Comments (8)
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Happier days, before the collapse: site director Jarel Gallman, public relations director Jackie James, CEO Peter Schorr, Alder (and former facility employee) Ron Hurt, Mayor Justin Elicker at New Haven facility's 2020 ribbon-cutting.
A drug rehab company that shuttered its two New Haven facilities amid two executive suicides over the last week is nearly $230,000 behind in local real estate taxes — with its next $103,000-plus city tax bill due next week.
That’s among the revelations that are emerging about years of financial woes and “corporate anarchy” that plagued for-profit Retreat Behavioral Health before its sudden collapse this past week throwing hundreds of patients and workers into the cold in three different states.
Continue reading ‘Retreat Owes City $230K & Climbing; Deeper Financial Chaos Revealed’
by | Jun 25, 2024 2:39 pm | Comments (34)
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"IZ" affordable apartments approved, but not built, at 50 Fitch.
Two and a half years after the city adopted a law designed to require affordable housing to be built as part of New Haven’s market-rate construction boom, the city’s “Inclusionary Zoning” law hasn’t yet created a single new reduced-rent place to live.
Most of the 50 “IZ” affordable apartments approved so far appear to be indefinitely held up by the high cost of borrowing money — even as other, non-“IZ” affordable developments move ahead.
Continue reading ‘No "Inclusionary" Apartments Built So Far’
by | Jun 20, 2024 3:33 pm | Comments (9)
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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.
by | Jun 19, 2024 12:13 pm | Comments (3)
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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.
by | Jun 17, 2024 12:41 pm | Comments (5)
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Minneapolis officers with Mitchell's casket on Monday.
Mitchell's cousin, Mamie Gardner: “He always had a pleasant smile. Always.”
(Updated) Police officers kicked their motorcycles into gear on Dixwell Avenue early Monday morning for the start of the funeral procession for Minneapolis officer and New Haven native Jamal Mitchell, who was killed in the line of duty last month.
by | Jun 11, 2024 2:41 pm | Comments (6)
New Haven native and Minneapolis Police Officer Jamal Mitchell: Killed in line of duty.
A Minneapolis police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty two weeks ago will be flown back to Connecticut on Wednesday so he can be buried in his home city of New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Slain Minneapolis Police Officer To Be Buried In New Haven’
by | Jun 11, 2024 1:52 pm | Comments (1)
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James's aunt Teresa Clark (center) with Mayor Elicker and Chief Jacobson.
Teresa Clark wiped away tears as she thanked police for so quickly making an arrest in the stabbing murder of her nephew, Travis James — and she braced herself for the long road still to come as she prepares to see his alleged killer in court as she supports the prosecution.
Continue reading ‘Murder Victim's Aunt: "It's Not Over For Us Yet"’
by | Jun 11, 2024 1:40 pm | Comments (4)
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Police Chief Karl Jacobson (right) and Mayor Elicker at Tuesday's presser.
A drive-by shooting during a weekend barbeque in the Hill killed 47-year-old New Havener Marquel Lewis — whom police believe was not the intended target of the violence.
by | Jun 10, 2024 2:09 pm | Comments (15)
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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.
by | Jun 7, 2024 2:05 pm | Comments (1)
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Sam's on Whalley.
Police had the image and nickname of “Money,” a man suspected of stabbing a man to death outside a Whalley convenience store. But they didn’t have his real name.
So they took to social media.
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.
Continue reading ‘Complaint: Tenant Screening Discriminates’
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.
Continue reading ‘Judge: Thefts Fell Outside Landlord's "Control"’
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.
Continue reading ‘48-Yr-Old Arrested For Weekend's Fatal Stabbing’
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.
Continue reading ‘City Reaches $14.5M Fatal-Fire Settlement’
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.