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Edgar Becerra and Josue Mauricio Arana in court.
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Edgar Becerra protests his former employer, MDF Painting and Power Washing, before the eviction proceedings.
A judge has ruled that Edgar Becerra and Josue Mauricio Arana must find a new place to live, ending an eviction case that sparked protests over alleged exploitation of migrant workers.
by | Apr 17, 2024 10:36 am | Comments (11)
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The Edgewood Yeshiva, no longer in foreclosure.
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Rabbi Greer: Signs mortgage docs and runs nonprofits while behind bars.
Incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer’s nonprofit housing organizations received a $12 million boost from a mystery lender — and then saw two longstanding lawsuits ditched by Greer’s sexual-abuse victim.
Continue reading ‘Sex Offender Finds Millions, Keeps Yeshiva’
by | Apr 16, 2024 3:14 pm | Comments (11)
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911 stalwarts Joe Vitale, David Mancini, and Kenya James.
One of the year’s 164,949 emergency calls to New Haven’s 911 center came from a man at the edge of a bridge. Kenya James answered it.
by | Apr 16, 2024 9:37 am | Comments (47)
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City transit director Sandeep Aysola.
As alders consider whether to legalize red light and speeding cameras in New Haven, Mayor Justin Elicker has proposed adding four new city employees to install and manage 20 such cameras in the next fiscal year.
by | Apr 15, 2024 3:35 pm | Comments (49)
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64 apartments eyed for Hamilton lot: a new housing solution?
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Ben Trachten: IZ makes it EZer.
Because of one section of New Haven’s zoning code, this apartment building can’t be built.
Because of another section of New Haven’s zoning code, this apartment building might be built.
by | Apr 15, 2024 11:06 am | Comments (12)
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Yanis Bouchfira and Fabien Guedes ...
... at Sunday's 51st annual Wooster Sq. cherry blossom fest.
Cherry blossoms met pizza grease as French students Fabien Guedes and Yanis Bouchfira lunged to catch the falling petals in their paper plates.
Continue reading ‘French Students Chase Cherry Blossoms At 51st Fest’
by | Apr 15, 2024 9:51 am | Comments (2)
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Future pilot and current kindergartener Harmonie Santaella with sister Dhaniellie and mom Dagmar.
Making good choices, being polite, working hard, building community, and becoming student council leaders earned students and staff at John S. Martinez School recognition as “Rising Stars.”
Continue reading ‘Martinez School's Rising Stars Recognized’
by | Apr 12, 2024 4:42 pm | Comments (44)
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NHPS Supt. Madeline Negrón (second from right) at budget workshop.
Should New Haven wait until 2025 to begin closing some of its 41 schools? Or should it speed up that consolidation process and start this year?
by | Apr 12, 2024 3:46 pm | Comments (35)
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LCI's Javier Ortiz investigates conditions in a Vernon St. apartment.
Liam Brennan, hired by city to review LCI.
A former mayoral candidate has been tapped to guide future reforms to enhance housing code and blight enforcement at the Livable City Initiative (LCI), as the Board of Alders reviews a mayoral proposal to remove affordable housing development from that city agency’s work.
Continue reading ‘LCI Could Grow & Split; Brennan To Consult’
by | Apr 12, 2024 1:16 pm | Comments (25)
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Erick Gonzalez, Annette Genovese, and Rosa at Martinez-hosted meetup.
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One possibility: a Mill River boardwalk?
To revitalize a neighborhood known for its warehouses and abandoned factories, focus on nature.
Residents and business owners offered that advice to city officials planning a more walkable, community-oriented Mill River district.
by | Apr 12, 2024 9:33 am | Comments (9)
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Bethlehem.
It’s the shape of an ancient Middle Eastern cityscape, verandahs and towers, arched doorways and windows like peeping eyes. But it’s not anywhere near the Middle East; it’s on a rock hilltop in Waterbury, and it’s part of Holy Land USA — to some, a roadside attraction, to others, a place of serious pilgrimage, and for Joy Bush, the subject of an almost 40-year-long series of photographs.
Some of those photos are up now at City Gallery in a show called “Ruins of a Holy Land,” running through April 28, with a reception on April 13.
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Wallace in the Hill with two of the youngest members of Guns Down, Books Up.
Raymond Wallace led by example, showing young New Haveners that they too could turn away from violence and towards a life of self-respect and love for their community.
He organized book giveaways and street cleanups and basketball tournaments, ran for alder, and mentored countless youth along the way through his nonprofit Guns Down, Books Up.
by | Apr 11, 2024 12:36 pm | Comments (1)
In the backroom lounge of Mediterranea Cafe, among centuries-old hookah pipes and patterned cushions, a fairy rising from the Underworld sang about darkness — and love, too.
by | Apr 11, 2024 9:33 am | Comments (30)
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Yet-to-be-deployed city-owned Chevy Bolts lined up at 200 Wintergreen.
A shortage of electric car chargers has left 27 city-owned Chevy Bolts sitting unused in a parking lot — revealing how the process of electrifying public vehicles is more complicated than just buying a fleet of cleaner-energy cars.
by | Apr 10, 2024 4:10 pm | Comments (16)
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Joseph: "Verbal agreement" in place for med-office parking.
Should a planned new medical office building on a West River superblock be allowed to have 0 off-street parking spaces — when there’s a 700-space parking garage right next door?
