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Ceiling Fixed After Rent Goes Into Escrow

by Laura Glesby | Jun 27, 2022 2:43 pm | Comments (15)

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Left: Edison's back stairwell before cleanup; right: buckets absorb the leak in Edison's kids' bedroom.

Edison's check from court.

Hawa Edison will resume paying rent to her landlord for the first time in eight months — the first time in years since the ceiling of her kids’ bedroom has been intact and free of mold.

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Property Sales Roundup: Pike Sells Former "Cage" For $3.3M; Mandy Refinances, Expands

by Thomas Breen | Jun 22, 2022 2:30 pm | Comments (2)

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New property manager Joe Katz at 76 Sherman Ave.: "Things look fine."

A 22-unit Sherman Avenue apartment complex once known as ​“The Cage” has changed hands for $3.3 million — nearly twice the amount its former landlord paid for the property seven years ago.

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Brackeen's State Rep Primary Petition Drive Comes Up Short; Eyes General Election

by Thomas Breen | Jun 9, 2022 5:02 pm | Comments (8)

Darryl Brackeen and Pat Dillon.

Darryl Brackeen Jr. won’t be mounting a Democratic primary challenge for a state representative seat after all, but he’s still eyeing the seat. He is now turning his campaign sights to November, after failing to gather enough qualified petition signatures to force an August Democratic primary against State Rep. Pat Dillon.

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Local Ukrainians Dare To Be Optimistic

by Allan Appel | Feb 27, 2022 4:34 pm | Comments (10)

Parishioners sing Ukrainian national anthem at St. Michael Church.

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Myron Melnyk, at right, Sunday with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who invited him to Tuesday night's State of the Union address.

The first Sunday of the war in Ukraine saw prayer services at New Haven’s Ukrainian churches attracting hundreds of patriotic parishioners and supportive political leaders, all determined to see Ukraine remain a free, independent nation.

Ukrainians greeted each other with ​“Heroyam Slava” — ​“Glory to the Ukrainian fighters.” Then they prayed, shared heart-rending stories of killed or endangered relatives, and found hope in the continuing fight against Russian invaders. 

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Local Ukrainians Mourn Russian Attack

by Thomas Breen | Feb 24, 2022 9:43 pm | Comments (14)

At Thursday night's church service on George Street.

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Alexandra Altrui: "My poor country."

As Russian forces pushed towards Kyiv Thursday night, Alexandra Altrui sat in a back pew of the Ukrainian Catholic church on George Street and wept — praying for her nephew as he prepared to take up arms to defend her home country under siege. 

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Dusty Stays True To Barnard

by Courtney Luciana | Dec 16, 2021 3:26 pm | Comments (11)

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Rapper Dustystaystrue back at Barnard Thursday after a national tour.

Five hundred students gathered in the courtyard of Barnard Environmental Science and Technology School roared with excitement Thursday morning as Dustystaytrue’s ​“Never Change” blared from the speakers — and the rising rapper himself arrived on scene.

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Blvd. Healthcare Center Evacuated After Bomb Threat

by Thomas Breen | Nov 9, 2021 5:57 pm | Comments (1)

Updated: Yet another bomb threat — this time at a mental health and substance use treatment center on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard — saw a building evacuated, people displaced, and streets closed to traffic as police investigated whether or not the danger was real.

At 7:22 p.m., the city police department announced that that area was clear, all roads were back open, and ​“it is safe to return to the area” as the Major Crimes Unit continues to investigate.

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Refugee Call Goes Out To Landlords

by Paul Bass | Nov 3, 2021 12:48 pm | Comments (44)

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Movers haul donated furniture up to Scranton Street apartment for newly arriving Afghan family.

Javid Mohammadi, who received similar help when he moved here two years ago from Afghanistan, was part of the crew.

Three Afghan refugee families arrived overnight in New Haven and crammed into temporary lodgings with relatives, while a search continued for landlords willing to rent to a wave of newcomers.

The governor joined the head of New Haven’s refugee-resettlement agency Wednesday to urge landlords to make up to 100 apartments available, with a promise to cover the rent.

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Tenants Displaced, Again, From 66 Norton

by Thomas Breen | Jun 10, 2021 1:06 pm | Comments (13)

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Work crew rebuilds the back fire escape at 66 Norton.

City Deputy Fire Marshal Jen Forslund, a worker at 66 Norton., local realtor and landlord Mendy Paris.

Even though Norton Street’s city-shuttered ​“New Jack City” has been reborn as the upscale ​“Norton Pointe Apartments,” tenants find themselves yet again exiled to hotel bedrooms — waiting for the landlord to finish repairs, and for the city to sign off on the building’s safety.

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Dwight Helps Send Aspiring OB/GYN To HBCU

by Emily Hays | Jun 4, 2021 4:40 pm | Comments (4)

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Graduating Hillhouse senior Tiasia Jones.

Tiasia Jones is heading to Morgan State University with help from her Dwight, West River and Edgewood neighbors.

The Hillhouse senior won $500 from the Dwight Central Management Team’s DeBorah E. Davis Scholarship with her essay on bagging groceries for food insecure families on Thanksgiving.

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DuBois-Walton Slams Elicker On Policing

by Paul Bass | Jun 2, 2021 3:55 pm | Comments (21)

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Karen DuBois-Walton, at right, before Wednesday’s press conference with Celeste Fulcher, who has become active in a homicide survivors’ group since a stray bullet killed her daughter.

New Haven knows how to get violence back under control — even as it rises as well in other cities.

Mayoral candidate Karen DuBois-Walton made that case as she rolled out a 21-point public-safety policy plan.

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Work Begins—& Available—At Hotel Site

by Emily Hays | Apr 21, 2021 9:40 am | Comments (15)

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Construction beginning at corner of MLK Blvd. and Dwight.

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Planned Cambria Hotel.

KBE Building Corporation has selected the large steel and concrete contractors for a six-story hotel that will complete development of the ​“Route 34 West” superblock. Now, it’s time to select subcontractors and fulfill city expectations of minority hiring.

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Land Sale Pitched To Make “Death Blvd” Safer

by Thomas Breen | Apr 5, 2021 7:53 pm | Comments (2)

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The deadly Ella T. Graso-Columbus-Davenport-Orange Avenue intersection.

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Proposed pedestrian safety upgrades.

The city plans to sell a small portion of publicly-owned land near the Ella T. Grasso-Orange-Columbus-Davenport Avenue intersection to the state Department of Transportation (DOT) to help facilitate long-awaited pedestrian safety improvements to New Haven’s deadliest stretch of road for pedestrians.

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4 Affordable Housing Projects Get $5.4M State Boost

by Staff | Mar 26, 2021 9:36 am | Comments (7)

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The proposed 4-story, 69-unit apartment building at 340 Dixwell.

Four local affordable housing projects will be getting over $5.4 million in state support, thanks to the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority’s (CHFA) annual awarding of federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC).

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