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Thomas Breen |
Nov 16, 2021 9:59 am
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On the same day that President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill targeted at improving the country’s transportation networks, the Board of Alder granted final approval to a three-part plan to redevelop Union Station to include 600 new parking spaces, an “intermodal center” for bus riders, and improved retail options.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 18, 2021 1:16 pm
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Alders unanimously advanced a proposed new city-state accord that would provide a 55-year roadmap for the operation and redevelopment of Union Station.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 15, 2021 2:46 pm
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A judge ruled that a Hill family can stay in their rented home for another month — as they try to avoid falling through the cracks of a state Covid-era program designed to help people like them avoid eviction.
Painted crosswalks, protected bike lanes, sculptural light fixtures, and pedestrian crossing signals now line a new almost-finished Orange Street intersection that — when it opens in a few weeks — will mark the culmination of the city’s latest efforts to stitch together downtown and the Hill.
Tenants of a three-family “lemon” of a house on Liberty Street are wondering how two landlords managed to walk away with $180,000 by double-selling a property that they say remains a dump.
A Howard Avenue barbershop has been reduced to a dusty pile of wood and bricks.
Two fire-damaged Sheffield Avenue homes are boarded up and awaiting repairs.
And the old clock factory on Hamilton Street has a collapsed rear wall, 20 leaking oil drums, a corner apron of fallen bricks — and no construction workers in sight.
City building inspectors have their eyes on those derelict properties and more, according to a half dozen newly issued “unsafe structure” notices filed by the Building Department on the city land records database.
An affiliate of the local mega-landlord Mandy Management spent more than $1.1 million adding another 11 apartments to its local rental housing portfolio — and a Hill redeveloper pulled a 10-year, $22.5 million mortgage for a newly built and leased up apartment building on Lafayette Street.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 30, 2021 10:19 am
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Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman are ready for the new school year to begin Monday: They have their vaccine shots, they’re even OK with wearing masks. And, after experiencing remote learning, they much prefer the idea of being back in class in person.
An historic church and an historic school building will be renovated, and a crumbling former rectory and convent will come down to make room for new athletic fields and a basketball court, under a plan to build a new campus for St. Martin de Porres Academy.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 3, 2021 9:57 am
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New Haven’s Board of Alders returned to in-person public meetings for the first time since the outbreak of a life-threatening pandemic — then voted to protect lives of pedestrians on “Death Boulevard” and to push D.C. lawmakers to save lives with universal health insurance.
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Maya McFadden |
Jul 30, 2021 11:14 am
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Donna Thompson — along with several dozen fellow New Haveners currently working part-time, short-term jobs — showed up at Career High School with a goal in mind: To find a new career.
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Natalie Kainz & Isaac Yu |
Jul 28, 2021 10:00 am
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Karen DuBois-Walton’s sudden departure from the mayoral race left supporters crestfallen, critics relieved, and many local Democratic Party stalwarts dismayed at the effective end to a hotly contested bid for the city’s top elected office.
(Updated at 8:58 p.m.) Mayor Justin Elicker unanimously won the local Democratic Party’s endorsement at Tuesday’s town convention — a key step on his path to reelection for another two-year term.
(Updated at 10:14 p.m.) Karen DuBois-Walton has ended her campaign for mayor, leaving the path to reelection all but assured for first-term incumbent Justin Elicker.
City police are investigating a nonfatal shooting and a nonfatal stabbing that took place on back to back days in the Hill this weekend.
In a separate incident, police arrested an 18-year-old New Havener in the East Shore for allegedly stealing a car and possessing a semi-automatic handgun without a permit.
A planned new 55-year accord between the city and the state over the future of Union Station is in the final stages of negotiation, with formal submission of a detailed “lease and funding” document expected within two months.
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Thomas Breen |
Jul 16, 2021 3:04 pm
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Truman Street grew just a little bit greener Friday — as neighbors gathered to weed out the trauma from a recent homicide on the block, and plant new life.