New Haven Independent

More Foreclosures, More Signs

by Allan Appel | May 15, 2008 3:46 PM

The current foreclosure crisis has meant more work for a Fair Haven-based sign-making family -- which sometimes needs doggie treats or a call to the cops to finish the job.

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Short Term Dissuaded Would-be Chief

by Paul Bass | May 15, 2008 12:39 PM

If New Haven had a longer contract to offer, it might have landed its first choice to rebuild the city's battered police department.

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Seniors: Don't Close Our Home

by Melissa Bailey | May 15, 2008 8:24 AM

As their West River Senior Center came under the knife in the mayor's latest round of budget cuts, bingo buddies united to protest the breaking up of their makeshift family.

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No Absentee Landlords Need Apply

by Thomas MacMillan | May 15, 2008 8:23 AM

In the late '60s, it was New Haven's very own Haight-Ashbury (pictured). Later it became a blighted eyesore. Today? An upscale duplex. It's for sale -- if you'll live there.

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His Billboards Don't "Flash." They "Change"

by Melissa Bailey | May 14, 2008 4:06 PM

"It's a new era for us," said billboard owner Frank Nataro (at left in photo), as the city zoning board gave him the OK to revamp his old-fashioned Ferry Street billboard with new, changing digital displays.

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Cuts Revealed; Econ Development Nuked

by Paul Bass | May 14, 2008 11:38 AM

New Haven plans to get out of the small-business business, according to hot-off-the-presses details of emergency city budget cuts. The jobs of city workers like Clayton Williams are on the line.

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