by | Mar 4, 2019 2:03 pm | Comments (1)
Four men disavowed any connection to the marijuana paraphernalia found in their car; a trio robbed a pizza delivery driver; and Officer William Gargone tracked down a burglar who’d been caught on a Willard Street home security camera.
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by | Feb 27, 2019 3:50 pm | Comments (12)
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270-290 State garage (left), soon to be acquired by city. Sherman-Tyler lot: Future housing? Below: Hausladen outlines changes.
The city’s parking authority is about to pick up a 278-space garage downtown, a few months before it is set to lose a 470-space surface lot in West River.
Adding the former could bring in around $600,000 a year, as well as bolster parking options for downtown’s red-hot building boom.
Dropping the latter would mean an annual $700,000 loss, but might also encourage the development of an empty lot in a neighborhood eager for housing.
by | Feb 25, 2019 8:41 am | Comments (0)
Police tracked down a thief and instead of making an arrest, made peace.
by | Feb 18, 2019 8:33 am | Comments (11)
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Dolores Colon: “Kudos.”
VISION
177 Winthrop Ave.
With an eye toward stabilizing neighborhoods through homeownership, the city’s anti-blight agency got the green light to purchase a bank-foreclosed property before slumlords get their hands on it.
by | Feb 15, 2019 8:59 am | Comments (17)
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Boxcutter-wielding landlord Xie Meiqiang flees a reporter Thursday outside his Orchard Street property.
68 Mechanic St.: Condemned.
The city condemned a two-family home that two Guilford-based landlords had illegally converted into a five-unit rooming house. Four tenants were displaced.
The landlords’ — and their citywide tenants’ — problems may have just begun.
by | Feb 13, 2019 5:34 pm | Comments (23)
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Peggy Moore.
A schools superintendent has once again asked Peggy Moore to take the helm of a school in transition.
Last time, that didn’t work out so well.
by | Feb 12, 2019 2:26 pm | Comments (11)
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Monitoring the situation: Asst. Superintendent Redd-Hannans.
The assistant principal and three other employees at Barnard have been placed on administrative leave while an internal investigation is underway.
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by | Feb 7, 2019 1:17 pm | Comments (1)
Edgewood, Martinez, ESUMS, Nathan Hale: Parents invited in.
Moms and dads, alders, social-service providers and neighborhood fixtures will be walking through eight schools over the coming months, giving school principals and teachers a lesson on how to make them feel welcome.
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by | Jan 29, 2019 5:49 pm | Comments (20)
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Rosalyn Bannon, who plans to resign next month.
The principal at Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School will begin a new job in a suburban school next month, in yet another mid-year departure that’s draining New Haven’s top talent.
by | Dec 13, 2018 4:22 pm | Comments (23)
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Tenant Williams after his electricity was cut: “Now I got no meat.”
A ground floor window at 202-208 Sherman.
A local mega-landlord continued buying the block on Sherman Avenue — leaving tenants wary about what comes next, and in some cases making plans to move as quickly as possible.
by | Dec 13, 2018 8:34 am | Comments (4)
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Signs like these are up in New Haven, West Haven and Woodbridge.
The West River Greenway is getting a little more advertising in the towns that it meanders through thanks to some new signage \going up in the watershed.
by | Nov 20, 2018 8:59 am | Comments (21)
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A rendering of the proposed 16 Miller St. complex.
•17-year abatement finalized after 31 minutes of debate.
• Walker-Myers leads charge for new housing.
by | Nov 15, 2018 2:54 pm | Comments (0)
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Syreeta Nicholson and her 3-year-old son, Marque.
Syreeta Nicholson’s second-youngest son Marque already had an elevated blood lead level two years ago when his family first moved into the single-family home at 489 Sherman Pkwy.
Marque’s blood lead level quintupled after just five months of living at the property.
It turns out at least 100 renters like Nicholson have moved into federally subsidized apartments without promised lead paint inspections.
by | Oct 24, 2018 3:31 pm | Comments (24)
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Rendering of proposed 16 Miller St. complex.
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Antunes: That’s all?
A developer got penultimate approval for a 17-year tax break to build 56 townhouses on long-vacant Route 34 land, but not before two alders questioned whether the help needed to extend that long.
by | Oct 24, 2018 8:50 am | Comments (4)
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Chyrise Holmes and daughter Riley, who can now move.
The health department dragged its feet, failed to follow up. Then the housing authority swept in and took action.
Now a West River mom can move to a new apartment where she needn’t worry about her toddler getting lead paint poisoning.
Meanwhile, her current landlord is asking why she never got notice of a lead problem in the first place so she could fix it.
by | Oct 19, 2018 2:00 pm | Comments (6)
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Holocaust survivor and local tailor Libby Glucksman.
As she prepares to close a tailor shop that was a West River fixture for five decades, Libby Glucksman has a lot of boxes to pack. She has even more of a story to unpack. A survivor’s story.
by | Oct 2, 2018 1:59 pm | Comments (10)
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Eroded support beam in basement of 66 Norton. Rot and declay caused a large hole.
The city’s anti-blight agency has placed an open-ended lien on a century-old, 41-unit apartment complex to cover relocation expenses for the dozens of tenants displaced from the Edgewood building that was condemned in February.
by | Sep 26, 2018 2:16 pm | Comments (3)
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Foot and ankle surgeon Dr. Ray Walls and operating room nurse Jessica DeLucia celebrate the new OR digs.
When she was an undergraduate on the women’s crew team back in 1976, Mary O’Connor and her 18 teammates one day became sick and tired of shivering after practice. Yale University had not gotten around, under Title IX, to provide women their own lockerroom.
So one day they marched up to the powers that be at Yale athletics, stripped off their sweats to show just what shivering, cold, and naked looks like.
The next semester and a New York Times story later, women had their own locker room at Yale, and O’Connor had learned the power of team work.
by | Sep 21, 2018 8:33 am | Comments (35)
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Stacy Spell and Anthony Dawson: 2 takes on Route 34 plan.
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A rendering of the proposed 16 Miller St. complex.
A plan to develop housing on 4.3 vacant acres along Route 34 moved forward Thursday night, but not before a longtime neighborhood leader criticized a turn away from promoting homeownership.
by | Sep 17, 2018 8:09 am | Comments (3)
The city’s health department issued seven lead paint abatement orders in two weeks to six different landlords in the Hill, East Shore, the Annex, West River, and Fair Haven.
One of those abatement orders is for a Chapel Street apartment complex that the city has cited three times so far this year for three different units containing dangerously high levels of lead paint and housing child tenants with high levels of lead in their blood.
by | Aug 24, 2018 8:05 am | Comments (5)
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Mychelle Stancil and her sister, Branazia Walton, outside of their Sherman Avenue home.
Mychelle Stancil and her four children are moving from their West River apartment to Stancil’s mom’s place in Hamden on Friday.
Stancil decided she doesn’t want her two youngest children living in an apartment that she just recently learned contains dangerously high levels of lead paint.
by | Jul 25, 2018 8:20 am | Comments (6)
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Judge Spader: just get it done.
A Superior Court judge threatened to hold the city in contempt of court if it continues a pattern of providing incomplete and last-minute health and property records to opposing counsel in a West River child lead poisoning case.
by | Jul 17, 2018 1:43 pm | Comments (0)
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City to tenant: don’t chew on the lead paint.
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Inspector Jomika Bogan.
The city’s Health Department has found lead paint hazards at three different city apartments, all of which currently house children with elevated blood lead levels.
by | Jul 11, 2018 7:44 am | Comments (4)
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Legal aid intern Alden Pinkham and Attorney Amy Marx, Attorney Ori Spiegel, City’s Counsel Roderick Williams in court Tuesday.
A second Superior Court judge ripped into the city’s handling of a child lead poisoning case, declaring that he is “appalled” at the city’s delays and deficiencies in completing an adequate abatement and inspection of the child’s apartment.
by | Jul 2, 2018 2:52 pm | Comments (2)
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75 Sherman Ave.
An independent lead inspector found 10 improperly abated lead hazards and over 20 dangerously high lead dust samples at a West River home that had been cleared as safe by the city’s Health Department over a month ago.
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