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Call her Downtown DeLauro (inset); house for sale (above).
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro is joining the wave of empty-nesters selling homes and moving into downtown New Haven.
The Congresswoman and her husband, pollster and political strategist Stanley Greenberg, have put their Huntington Street home up for sale.
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Rosa and Luisa DeLauro at the 2015 Cherry Blossom Festival in Wooster Square.
The couple has rented an apartment in The Eli, a renovated art deco former phone company building on Church Street, DeLauro said in an interview Tuesday. She said they plan to move there along with her mother, former Wooster Square Alder Luisa DeLauro, once the house sells. (Luisa DeLauro celebrated her 100th birthday in 2013.)
The Eli was among the earlier apartment building conversions in what has become a boom in downtown rental housing, as both young professionals and empty-nesters choose urban living.
“We’re downsizing. The kids — they’re in Washington, New York,” DeLauro said. “We’re very excited about being in downtown New Haven. It’s a very buzzing these days.
“I love New Haven. I was born and raised in the city of New Haven. I think it’s a good place to be, downtown. It’s a cultural life. It’s restaurants. It’s walking distance to places.”
The Eli is around the corner from DeLauro’s Third U.S. Congressional District office on Elm Street.
DeLauro, a Democrat, was first elected to the seat in 1990.
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Former Alder Esther Armmand with then-U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy inside DeLauro’s kitchen during a 2012 Murphy campaign event.
“Yes, of course I’m running for reelection” this year, DeLauro replied, when asked.
DeLauro and Greenberg purchased the Huntington Street home in the East Rock neighborhood in 1978 for $80,000. They’re asking $1.05 million for it now. The 4,800 square-foot home has four bedrooms and five baths; view the listing here. The home has been the site of many political gatherings over the years.