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Monsieur Senderoff's Students Speak, Play, Learn

by | Dec 5, 2023 11:46 am | Comments (0)

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Metro French teacher Dylan Senderoff (right) encouraging students to find "Algérie" and "Cambodge" on an inflatable globe.

Se lever,” Metropolitan Business Academy French teacher Dylan Senderoff instructed his students while motioning his hands for them to get up from their seats. 

It was almost the end of class, and time to play Jacques a dit” — a Francophone riff on Simon Says” that would help students identify their tête, nez, ventre, and cou, all while building their vocab through immersive play.

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Build-Denser Zoning OK'd For Long Wharf

by | Sep 27, 2023 10:35 am | Comments (19)

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A rendering of a proposed "walkable" Long Wharf.

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Cannabis dispensary, now under construction at ex-Long Wharf Theatre site.

Given the increasing likelihood of more frequent and severe storms, should we as a city pull back from the shoreline, or should we allow more development in coastal areas?”

Westville Alder Adam Marchand posed that question to his fellow local legislators — and successfully urged his colleagues to choose the latter vision and rezone Long Wharf to become more walkable and densely built.

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Goldenberg Leans Full Tilt Into City-APT Conspiracy Claims

by | Sep 15, 2023 8:21 am | Comments (24)

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Tom Goldenberg: "This is quid pro quo politics. This is non-transparency. This is corruption."

The city’s Republican candidate for mayor kicked off his post-Democratic primary general election campaign by lobbing accusations of corruption at the Elicker administration in its dealings with a local methadone clinic — claims that the current mayor dismissed as fearmongering politics,” ridiculous,” unethical,” and coming at the expense of some of New Haven’s most vulnerable populations.

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Will New Rules Really Help Long Wharf Grow?

by | Aug 3, 2023 10:24 am | Comments (23)

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A rendering of Long Wharf's hoped-for post-rezoning future.

A plan to bring more retail, restaurants, walkability, and form-based thinking to a flood-prone, highway-adjacent industrial district hit a roadblock — as reviewers raised concerns that a Long Wharf rezoning proposal designed to promote mixed-use development might actually hinder growth.

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In "Paradise," Birria Becomes Tac-O The Town

by and | Aug 1, 2023 8:51 am | Comments (1)

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A taco truck customer picks up a piña colada at Long Wharf's "Food Truck Paradise."

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Mark Aronson’s ivory suit, complete with woven tan sun hat, did not stop him from indulging in the dripping tanginess of three birria tacos during a lunchtime visit to Long Wharf’s Food Truck Paradise.

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City Eyes "Responsible Growth" Rezoning For Long Wharf

by | Jun 23, 2023 11:05 am | Comments (7)

Long Wharf Responsible Growth Plan vision of city's waterfront to-be.

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City Plan Director Laura Brown on Thursday.

Glass-fronted first-floor retail spaces to create walkable neighborhoods and protect upper-level housing from floods. Density bonuses that encourage residential builds similar to apartment developments downtown. Street designs that calm traffic and create enough space on sidewalks for pedestrians and, say, outdoor seating for restaurants.

Those are just a few of the goals and anticipated land-use standards to be included in the city’s proposed new zoning regulations for the Long Wharf district, which top city officials unveiled in the latest effort to encourage responsible growth” in New Haven’s mostly industrial waterfront.

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Long Wharf Open-Air Market Set To Launch

by | May 31, 2023 11:21 am | Comments (2)

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Elm City Open Air Market organizers Michelle Groom, Jacqueline James-Boyd, Janice Parker, and Valerie Brown at WNHH FM.

Start with an emerging home/cart/truck start-up culture. Add a pandemic brewing period. Throw in the emergence of pop-up culture. Find a lot the size of an arena right off I‑95 and I‑91.

Jacqueline James-Boyd and a group of fellow entrepreneurial-minded colleagues mixed together those ingredients. They cooked up what they hope will become a new tradition in New Haven: An Elm City Open Air Market” where hundreds of vendors gather to promote their wares and build their businesses.

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Pot Shop Coming To Ex-Theater

by | May 3, 2023 3:10 pm | Comments (38)

Up next at the former Long Wharf Theatre (clockwise from top left): INSA model smoking INSA pre-rolled joint; theater's former sign on Sargent Dr.; INSA cannabis chocolates; theater's former home in the Food Terminal.

The main stage of the ex-Long Wharf Theatre on Sargent Drive could see cannabis curious customers shopping for weed chocolates and pre-rolled joints by as early as December — according to a newly disclosed 10-year dispensary lease.

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$12M State Grant Celebrated For Long Wharf Park's Renewal

by | Apr 28, 2023 4:43 pm | Comments (41)

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A sketch of the proposed new Long Wharf Drive park.

City and state officials imagined a not-too-distant future when New Haven residents and visitors alike can comfortably walk along, eat by, play at, and enjoy a rebuilt and amenity-rich waterfront park, as they celebrated a recent $12.1 million windfall for Long Wharf’s coming transformation.

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$32M Plan Would Fund Long Wharf Overhaul

by | Mar 16, 2023 11:10 am | Comments (18)

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A sketch of the proposed new Long Wharf Drive park.

An aldermanic committee endorsed the Elicker Administration’s plan to build a new community marina and expanded waterfront park on Long Wharf — as well as a cafe kiosk and bathroom on the Green and a family-friendly playground downtown — if the city manages to secure $32.1 million in infrastructure-boosting state aid.

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Opinion: My Week Visiting Methadone Clinics

by | Mar 7, 2023 12:25 pm | Comments (3)

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The APT Foundation's 495 Congress Ave. building and parking lot.

The following writeup was submitted by Democratic mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg chronicling his five days of traveling around to different methadone clinics in and near New Haven.

Click here to read Goldenberg’s recent opinion essay in the Register laying out various proposals for how the city should handle local methadone clinics. Click here to read a recent Independent article about how the Elicker Administration and the APT Foundation are looking to move the clinic’s main Congress Avenue location to a new building on Long Wharf.

Goldenberg plans on holding a press conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday outside APT’s Congress Avenue site to talk about his methadone clinic policy proposals.

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Doc Reveals The New Haven HBCU That Could Have Been

by | Feb 23, 2023 9:43 am | Comments (2)

Still from What Could Have Been: America's First HBCU.

On Wednesday night at the New Haven Museum, New Haveners had a chance to learn, together, about an uncomfortable truth: that, in 1831, New Haven’s white community leaders overwhelming rejected a serious proposal to found what would have been the first U.S. Black college, on the land where the interchange of I‑95 and I‑91 now exists.

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APT, Gateway Eye Long Wharf Moves

by | Feb 9, 2023 3:05 pm | Comments (21)

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Rendering of a proposed new "Gateway District" on Long Wharf.

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Community members hear a presentation at the Betsy Ross School Parish Hall.

A park and pedestrian-friendly walkway where cars now roar down Long Wharf Drive. 

An automotive trade school where the former Gateway Community College building is starting to crumble. 

A new home base for all of the APT Foundation’s New Haven substance-use treatment programs in a building specifically designed to address neighbors’ concerns.

Those ideas stand at the center of a new plan put together by top city officials on how to transform Long Wharf — a waterfront neighborhood currently dominated by big-box stores, parking lots, and the highway — into a mixed-use district bustling with education, healthcare, and outdoor recreation.

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