by | Apr 25, 2018 12:08 pm | Comments (5)
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Next stop: 620 Grand Ave.
The state Department of Correction’s (DOC) planned relocation of its parole office from Westville to Grand Avenue is moving forward despite city concerns that it conflicts with the development vision of the Mill River District.
by | Apr 23, 2018 8:39 am | Comments (3)
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Attendees try their waists at hula hooping …
… while St. Luke’s Steel Band keeps the crowd on it’s feet.
The cherry blossom trees hadn’t quite popped, but it seemed that spring had — finally, maybe — Sunday just in time for the 45th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Wooster Square.
Continue reading ‘Mother Nature Smiles On Cherry Blossom Festival’
by | Apr 16, 2018 1:11 pm | Comments (8)
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The transformers on the Huges Place side of 311 Greene St.
Three years ago United Illuminating moved its high pole-mounted transformer banks so close to Ellen Ryerson and Bonnie Rosenberg’s historic 311 Greene St. building, no painting, scraping, and pointing work could be done without violating federal health and safety rules.
Yet the work must be done on the historic facades of these Wooster Square landmarks, or they’ll deteriorate.
So what’s to be done? Who’s to pay?
by | Apr 13, 2018 7:50 am | Comments (0)
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Old C. Cowles Company building on Water Street, acquired by U-Haul.
U-Haul’s Levi Parmerter and Patrick Keefe with neighbors.
Starting Aug. 1, Wooster Square residents will have a new neighbor on Water Street offering 200 self-storage units, upwards of 69 rental vans, 25 new jobs — and some bike racks and a hydration station — at a refurbished factory that has been vacant for the past three years.
by | Apr 10, 2018 12:02 pm | Comments (11)
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Developer Kraus with rehab rendering.
Not every environmental clean-up site involves radium.
It does if you’re cleaning up a centuries-old factory where generations of “radium girls” labored to make clock dials glow in the dark.
by | Mar 29, 2018 4:16 pm | Comments (0)
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Chapman Wednesday at her last Historic Wooster Square Association Inc. meeting as president
Elsie Chapman never intended to be president of the Historic Wooster Square Association. She was just helping a founding member of the association navigate how to use email.
by | Mar 26, 2018 3:27 pm | Comments (14)
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Design for the planned new canal tunnel.
A year after a breakthrough in negotiations with abutting property owners, the city is wrapping up legal loose ends on plans to construct the last leg of the Farmington Canal Trail in New Haven.
by | Mar 1, 2018 4:10 pm | Comments (13)
CROSSKEY ARCHITECTS
Rendering of the planned renovation.
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Radcliffe: “One man’s trash is another man’s junk collection.”
Should the city choose artists as a special class of renters needing affordable housing?
Leslie Radcliffe posed that question as the city and an out-of-town developer prepare to transform a former clock factory into 130 apartments for artists.
by | Feb 28, 2018 12:58 pm | Comments (2)
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Justin Elicker, Russell Moore, and Amelia Reese Masterson at the grand opening of New Haven Farms and New Haven Land Trust’s new offices.
“Nonprofits don’t often work well together,” Justin Elicker said at the grand opening of a new working space Tuesday night to be shared by the New Haven Land Trust and New Haven Farms.
Well, at 817 Grand Ave. they now do.
Continue reading ‘Land Trust, NH Farms, CitySeed Become Roomies’
by | Feb 27, 2018 2:28 pm | Comments (13)
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The late Sal and Flo Consiglio.
Pretty soon, they may be lining up for hours outside Sally’s Pizza in, say, Austin or L.A., not just on Wooster Street.
Continue reading ‘New Sally’s Owner Plans National Expansion’
by | Feb 19, 2018 12:07 pm | Comments (47)
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Rendering of the planned renovation.
A developer is seeking a 15-year tax break and $400,000 in city environmental clean-up help to transform a long-vacant clock factory complex on Hamilton Street into 130 low- and moderate-income apartments for artists.
by | Feb 7, 2018 5:20 pm | Comments (3)
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Ronnetta Holmes shows patches and inadequate drains on the roof of the LEAP building.
Patches won’t fix LEAP’s roof. But a new $75,000 grant will.
by | Jan 25, 2018 3:34 pm | Comments (5)
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630 Chapel St., Spinnaker’s contested property.
Enough already, a judge told a property development company that has filed multiple rounds of litigation to block potential competitors from building apartments at the downtown edge of Wooster Square.
by | Jan 9, 2018 2:26 pm | Comments (16)
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Rendering of the 44 Olive Street development.
The new developer of a Wooster Square property said he plans to move forward on schedule to build 299 new apartments and 6,000 square feet of stores as planned on land at the gateway to Downtown.
Continue reading ‘New Owner Stays Course On Wooster Sq. Project’
by | Jan 4, 2018 4:09 pm | Comments (8)
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Callie, a golden retriever, and her humans Chris Han and Addie Gorlin play fetch the snowball in Wooster Square Park.
One thing that is true no matter the weather: You’ve got to walk the dog.
That was true for Chris Han and Addie Gorlin during Thursday’s blizzard.
by | Jan 4, 2018 8:36 am | Comments (0)
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Armoni McCoy, Alejandro Torres, J’Sha’Ray Suggs, Dakota Davis and Elijah Joyner at Columbus Academy.
Teacher Michael Pavano sent in the following aritcle:
Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2017, was a cold day, but the warm welcome inside the K‑2 classrooms at Columbus Academy was spreading.
Continue reading ‘Holiday Reads, From One Student To Another’
by | Dec 19, 2017 8:48 am | Comments (34)
The newly approved overhaul of the federal tax code could raise federal income taxes for at least 1,780 New Haven homeowners, according to the city.
Continue reading ‘Tax Plan Could Hit 1,780 Homeowners Hardest’
by | Dec 6, 2017 9:07 am | Comments (10)
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The 1198 Chapel lot.
A builder is a step closer to getting a second chance to construct a residential building on a Chapel Street lot — as long as he agrees to include four affordable apartments this time.
by | Dec 6, 2017 8:17 am | Comments (2)
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Mayor Harp helps cut the ribbon.
Say you want to take 30 minutes at lunch time to give a touch up to that hairdo. Also maybe upgrade those lashes a bit and perhaps add a je ne sais quoi of mystery to your hairline in some tonsorial manner. Then head back to work renewed, and maybe even a touch more beautiful.
by | Nov 24, 2017 9:36 am | Comments (3)
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Newly named teacher of year Michael Pavano.
A student came to New Haven’s teacher of the year with a picture of lion she wanted to trace. He suggested she draw it freehand.
“This looks hard!” she said.
“Well, that’s just it,” said the teacher, Michael Pavano. “You want to challenge yourself, right?”
by | Oct 24, 2017 12:32 pm | Comments (2)
The following was submitted by LEAP Executive Director Henry Fernandez.
That spooky time of year is coming back to New Haven, and you are invited!
by | Oct 20, 2017 8:02 am | Comments (6)
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The five finalists.
Wooster Square will soon be home to two public ping pong tables after neighbors voted in a spirited election to spend part of their annual citizen-controlled allotment of the city budget on tabletop tennis.
by | Oct 6, 2017 8:35 am | Comments (13)
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A “fat cat” in a plush three-piece suit dangled and strangled a working guy in a yellow construction helmet on Grand Avenue the other day.
The cat and worker were 15-foot-tall cartoon characters full of compressed air and bobbing in the breeze. But the display was no joke no joke. The blow-up figures were deployed Thursday afternoon by members and supporters of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters (NERCC) in support of Terail Slaughter, a non-union carpenter who had been employed helping to build the tower buildings of the Housing Authority of New Haven’s Farnam Court Townhouses rebuilding project.
by | Oct 5, 2017 12:37 pm | Comments (9)
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Lauren Brown with newly installed piano in Russo Park.
Musical chords resonated throughout the south end of Wooster Square, as a jazz musician struck out notes on a piano. A crowd took seats on city benches to listen; a mother danced with her baby.
That was the lively scene for one of the many impromptu recitals the past few days plunked out at the newly installed Wooster Piano, New Haven’s first outdoor piano.
by | Sep 10, 2017 8:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Rosa DeLauro brings mom Luisa to 200 Orange St. to vote in 2016.
It’s not by accident that Luisa DeLauro made it well past her 100th birthday.