The Annex

Port Authority Picks Up New Properties

by | Mar 7, 2024 2:46 pm | Comments (22)

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Port Authority's Sally Kruse: Planning for harbor growth.

Ghost ships ahoy? A foggy look at the port district on Wednesday from the Tomlinson Bridge.

Steel rods on Stiles Street.

Need a spot to store lots of steel rods or planks of wood?

Then you’re in luck, because the New Haven Port Authority has now bought more than three acres of previously state-owned land in the city’s industrial waterfront district — and is looking to lease to companies needing a place to put their shipped-in goods.

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East Shore Park Soccer Fields Renamed For Douglas W. Rae

by and | Nov 9, 2023 9:15 am | Comments (2)

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Local officials and Douglas W. Rae (third from right) at Founder's Day event.

The following writeup was submitted by Ellen Doon and Mike Galbicsek of the New Haven Youth Soccer league.

On Saturday, Nov. 4, over a hundred people gathered at East Shore Park to celebrate 40 years of youth soccer in New Haven. Members of New Haven Youth Soccer, along with several city and state officials, came together for the league’s first Founder’s Day” event. The event honors Dr. Douglas W. Rae, Professor Emeritus in the Yale School of Management, who founded New Haven Youth Soccer in the early 1980s.

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New England Obscura Brings Oddities To Annex

by | Oct 9, 2023 8:51 am | Comments (0)

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Bones and more.

Are you in the market for a pair of snake bone earrings or maybe even a lizard wet specimen? Or maybe you’re more into resin earrings or keychains of your favorite pop culture icons, but you still want to check out some taxidermy creatures and gravestone rubbings as well? All that and way more were waiting for you and purveyors of the odd, the weird, and the wonderfully obscure at the third annual New England Antiques and Oddities Exhibition, held this past Sunday afternoon at the Annex YMA Lounge and Hall on Woodward Avenue. 

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After Drive-By Shooting, Police Pursuit Paid Off

by | Sep 27, 2023 3:21 pm | Comments (9)

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Officers Tyler Camp and Justin Julianelle: Suspected drive-by shooters fled. With the right conditions on the road, they pursued.

Nine shots had just been fired on a Wednesday afternoon in Fair Haven, and neighbors who called 911 identified the suspects as two men in masks on a three-wheeled motorcycle. 

Which is exactly what and who Officer Justin Julianelle saw as he rushed to Blatchley Avenue and Lombard Street in his cruiser.

As the three-wheeler suspected shooters fled from Fair Haven to Wooster Square to Fair Haven again to the Annex, Julianelle followed — but he didn’t chase.” That’s an important distinction in New Haven these days.

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Parks, Schools Anchor Annex Alder Primary

by | Sep 6, 2023 10:28 am | Comments (18)

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Camille Ansley and Alder Sal Punzo, ready for Ward 17 Democratic primary.

A first-term Annex alder and retired longtime local educator is seeking another two years in office to focus on cleaner parks, slower traffic, and better schools — while his Democratic primary challenger wants to give a voice to the Annex” after her years of advocacy for her former home neighborhood of Cedar Hill.

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Porn Stays In The Picture At The Fairmount

by | Aug 11, 2023 9:30 am | Comments (25)

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Fairmount Theater owner Gilberto Gonzalez, Jr.: "I don't know how we're surviving, because we're not making any money."

Could this become New Haven's last remaining movie theater?

Gilberto Gonzalez, Jr. wants to sell the porno movie theater he owns in the Annex — but he can’t find any buyers.

He wants to spruce up the decaying commercial building into an adult cinema to be proud of — but he can’t find any lenders.

He wants to retire and move on from screening sexually explicit films he doesn’t particularly enjoy watching — but he’s still catching up on bills from the theater’s Covid-era closure.

So for now, as he’s done for the past 13 years, Gonzalez shows up to work at the Fairmount Theater on a near daily basis to keep one of New Haven’s last remaining movie houses chugging along. Until whatever happens next.

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Sunday Storm Sparks Thursday Tweed Debate

by | Jul 21, 2023 11:45 am | Comments (47)

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Travelers react to latest Tweed flood.

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Elicker, Abdussabur offer different takeaways at Jepsen mayoral forum.

Days after a rainstorm flooded Tweed airport and left passengers temporarily stranded, mayoral candidates conveyed varying takes on the airport’s economic value and environmental impact to its neighbors.

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Sprucing Up Peat Meadow Park With AnneMarie

by | Jun 26, 2023 12:14 pm | Comments (1)

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Annemarie Rivera-Berrios stands by the playscape with her rake and shovel

Chris Ozyck and Mike Simons add new mulch to the playground

It took just under half an hour for AnneMarie Rivera-Berrios and a small group of friends to level the mound of mulch that had been sitting by the swing sets at Peat Meadow Park for three months — to make sure that kids have a softer ground to land on the next time they come out to enjoy the Annex public playground.

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Landscaper Cleans Up At Townsend Foreclosure

by | Jun 19, 2023 1:18 pm | Comments (4)

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Fajardo (center) after winning out at Saturday's 30-round auction.

126 Townsend Ter.

With his trusty Scag lawnmower sitting quietly behind his truck, an East Haven landscaper won the opportunity to cut the high grass of an abandoned East Shore home — which he’ll soon own after prevailing at a foreclosure sale.

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Annex Port Storage Spots Sold For $17M+

by | May 31, 2023 8:59 am | Comments (4)

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Ship ahoy in the Annex. More to come, with a to-be-deepened port?

A Massachusetts-based company has purchased a handful of waterfront storage properties in the Annex for over $17 million — in anticipation of a federally subsidized harbor-deepening project that promises to boost business in New Haven’s already bustling industrial port.

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Candidates Clash On Columbus Statue Removal

by | Apr 24, 2023 5:00 pm | Comments (26)

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Who's playing identity politics? Squaring off in Wooster Square Park over the Columbus statue removal, in 2020.

Mayoral candidate Shafiq Abdussabur made a play for East Shore voters by calling for tax cuts for airport neighbors and questioning the removal of Wooster Square Park’s Christopher Columbus statue.

In the process, he and incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker ended up accusing each other of playing identity politics.” Neither meant it as a compliment. Or as having the same meaning.

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Townshend Estate Owners Eye 50 New Houses

by | Feb 8, 2023 4:11 pm | Comments (27)

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Townshend mansion: To host special events, to be surrounded by new houses?

Estate co-owner Chuck Mascola.

The owners of the 26-acre former Townshend family home and its surrounding properties are hoping to write a new chapter of accessible preservation into East Shore history by building roughly 50 homes behind the property’s 18th-century mansion — and by drafting a fresh set of zoning regulations to govern that development.

Chuck and Marcella Mascola, two of the three individuals who purchased that historic estate at 701, 709, 725, and 745 Townsend Ave. a year and a half ago, shared their plan to convert some of the Townsend Avenue property’s open space into housing as they pitched a broader idea to introduce special heritage mixed use zoning districts” into the city’s zoning code. 

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DeLauro, Democrats Step On The Gas

by | Nov 2, 2022 4:59 pm | Comments (17)

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Palumbo crew prepares to transfer concrete from rail to truck.

DeLauro with concrete-hauling CEOs Dave Palumbo and Len Suzio Wednesday in the shadow of the Q Bridge.

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro brought two concrete contractors before the cameras Wednesday afternoon to deliver an inflation message her fellow Democrats are scrambling to present in the final days of an election season.

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4 Quick Resales Net Flipper $364K

by | Aug 8, 2022 12:02 pm | Comments (7)

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Shneor Edelkopf flips, clockwise from top left: 106 Bassett, 47 Hillside, 232 West Hazel, 268 Exchange.

Real estate investor Shneor Edelkopf has kicked his rental-property-flipping business into high gear this summer — as his companies have bought and promptly sold four apartment buildings in five weeks, at a combined markup of $364,000.

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