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.
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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.
by | Aug 25, 2017 12:06 pm | Comments (1)
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A colorful three-story-tall banner of a charming silhouetted urban landscape — recognizable to New Haveners was unfurled Thursday morning on 817 Grand Ave.
by | Aug 10, 2017 7:51 am | Comments (19)
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The latest target: alleged drainage problems at 630 Chapel.
After thwarting other developers’ plans for years with ultimately unsuccessful lawsuits, a Philadelphia-based landlord criticized for not maintaining a Wooster Square apartment complex has gone to court yet again to try to stop a competitor from building on vacant property across Chapel Street.
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by | Jul 19, 2017 7:58 am | Comments (10)
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Closed Fuel Coffee, which’ll house Andrea Zola’s beauty bar (below).
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New Haven will get its first “beauty bar” in Wooster Square, now that the concept has won approval from city zoners.
by | Jul 13, 2017 8:00 am | Comments (5)
Police were on the scene interviewing witnesses in Wooster Square Thursday morning following a reported attack on a woman in her home.
by | Jul 11, 2017 12:51 pm | Comments (4)
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Those of us who are creatures of habit, especially driving habits, will just have to get used to approaching the Chapel Street Bridge, reading the unambiguous signs, saying, “oops” yet again, and taking the detours into or out of Downtown and Wooster Square.
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by | Jul 7, 2017 11:53 am | Comments (2)
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William McLaurin worried he wouldn’t have time to work on his freestyle stroke during the summer. Thanks to Conte West’s second summer as a public pool, now he will.
by | Jul 7, 2017 7:39 am | Comments (6)
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Looking east on Grand at Franklin.
There’s a lot of hammering going on on Grand Avenue these days around Franklin Street.
That’s because the fifth floor and roof of the reconfigured Farnam Townhouses on Grand Avenue at Franklin are just being framed in, and the project remains on schedule and on budget for a Spring, 2018 ribbon-cutting.
by | Jun 29, 2017 12:47 pm | Comments (5)
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New management team chair Smith: Next-generation civic leader.
When Caroline Smith first moved to New Haven from Lexington, Kentucky, she would never have defined herself by her relationship to a city.
by | Jun 28, 2017 7:47 am | Comments (1)
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An unlikely group of tenants has claimed a Wooster Square hotspot for a second year in a row, drawing both friends and foes before they fly south later this summer.
by | Jun 22, 2017 1:30 pm | Comments (17)
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Call it a love story, in two acts.
by | Jun 21, 2017 2:32 pm | Comments (4)
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Malik James at graduation: New Horizons saved my life.
Most parents know what to expect on Graduation Day. But the mother of a New Horizons High School student wasn’t sure — even on the morning of the ceremony — if her son would get his diploma on Tuesday.
Her son, Malik James, had revived his scholastic career following a slide induced by his best friend’s murder. But he still needed to pass one more test to make up the missing credits.
by | Jun 20, 2017 2:30 pm | Comments (8)
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Jadah Moore receives her scholarship at the graduation.
Jadah Moore encountered an unexpected pregnancy and the need to get a job before she could finish high school — and she still made it on time joining 13 fellow students Tuesday in completing her studies at New Light High School.
by | Jun 12, 2017 8:03 am | Comments (8)
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Greenberg announces reelection surrounded by city and state officials.
As he officially launched a bid for a third term as Wooster Square’s alder on a hot Sunday afternoon, Aaron Greenberg had some good news to report: Conte West Hills School’s pool will now open to the community for public swimming.
by | May 19, 2017 7:33 am | Comments (6)
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“Rapid flash” LED lights installed on Olive in 2015 in response to neighborhood speeding concerns.
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Webster: Olive is literally a street of death.
Olive Street will be the beneficiary of a new mobile, radar speed sign next year as the result of an annual exercise in “participatory budgeting”: a democratic decision-making process that empowers a neighborhood to decide how to spend a small share of the city budget.
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by | May 17, 2017 8:02 am | Comments (20)
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Chapman presents plans to community management team.
Facade design for 433 Chapel.
A historic industrial building in the Wooster Square neighborhood that has sat vacant for years may soon be home to nearly two dozen new apartments and a street-level café or microbrewery.
by | Apr 26, 2017 2:25 pm | Comments (0)
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Beyonce Jones, Tranese Streater and Tayrene Rodriguez at LEAP’s (Yo)unity Bot .
Tayrene Rodriguez jumped into programming headfirst when she learned that she would be building, attaching wires to, and writing code for a robot from scratch. Emiya Pearse didn’t, but found that her four teammates helped her get through it.