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Allan Appel |
Mar 14, 2024 4:30 pm
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“We build too many walls and not enough bridges,” quoth Sir Isaac Newton. But it gets a little complicated when the wall you are building is also along a beloved bridge and river, and the construction is all unfolding in a historic district.
The housing authority has officially purchased two Fair Haven Heights properties by the Quinnipiac River as part of its latest effort to redevelop long-underused city plots into new places to live.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 27, 2024 11:24 am
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Aaron Goode of the New Haven Bioregional Group smiled at the roughly 30 people assembled in the parking lot of New Haven Friends Meeting on Grand Avenue in Fair Haven Heights, ready to hike.
“Welcome to New Haven’s own Jurassic Park,” he said, explaining that the sign-in sheet people had signed also doubled as a “liability release” in case of dinosaur attack. He then corrected himself; if he were being more accurate, it would have to be called Upper Triassic Park, for the age of the rocks — and the fossils — that were found behind him in Quarry Park, a city park and site of a previous Bioregional hike last year.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 6, 2024 5:51 pm
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Lenox Street residents said they couldn’t get through to their landlord to report rodents, water damage and trash pile-up — so they formed a union and pasted their collective complaints to Ocean Management’s front door.
New Haven has seen fewer shots fired these days — in part because of the arrest of a street gang “honcho” who has pleaded guilty to firing shots meant to kill.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 16, 2024 9:30 am
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New Haven nursing home patients may fret less about flu season next year — if a Bronx-based assisted living company gets the green light to build 150 beds, pave half as many parking spaces and bring ultraviolet disinfection tech to the Hill neighborhood.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 20, 2023 11:58 am
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The housing authority took one big step towards building 40 new mixed-income apartments and ground-floor retail space by the Quinnipiac River, as its board voted to spend $1.42 million to purchase an East Grand Avenue lot and nearby pizzeria.
The housing authority plans to purchase a vacant lot on the Quinnipiac River and a nearby pizzeria to build a mixed-income, mixed-use development with between 40 and 50 apartments.
A splash pad, swing set, and children’s play area are en route to Fairmont Park, thanks to playground upgrade plans for the Fair Haven Heights greenspace.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 3, 2023 4:37 pm
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Local Democrats have picked 59-year-old Bella Vista resident and political newcomer Henry “Rodney” Murphy to replace the late Renee Haywood as their last-minute candidate for Ward 11 alder in Tuesday’s general election.
That means that Murphy — a Greater New Haven Transit District operations manager, embroidery enthusiast, and avid drone flyer — has just a few days to convince his neighbors to cast their ballots for him instead of for Republican challenger Gail Roundtree and write-in candidate Ira Johnson, both of whom have unsuccessfully run for local office before.
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Nora Grace-Flood and Dereen Shirnekhi |
Oct 24, 2023 9:19 am
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A three-way alder race in Fair Haven Heights pits an incumbent Democrat focused on parks against Green and Republican challengers raising concerns about single-party rule at City Hall.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 23, 2023 5:00 pm
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Renee Haywood, a long-time Bella Vista resident and advocate for the disabled who represented Ward 11 on the Board of Alders for nearly six years even as she underwent dialysis, died on Friday. She was 60.
As 85-year-old Raisa pulled up a photograph of her daughter on her iPhone, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy took a break from walking across Fair Haven Heights to ask her a question.
A mysterious tube — carrying something out of a Clifton Street house’s sewage-flooding basement, through the backyard, over a neighbor’s fence, and out beside the Quinnipiac River, and installed without permits or permission from the riverbank property’s owner — led the Fair Rent Commission to drop two tenants’ monthly rents to $1 apiece.
It also put a convicted mortgage fraudster who is still involved in New Haven rental real estate back in the spotlight.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 20, 2023 9:13 am
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A Waterbury-based holding company has purchased a 50-bed nursing home and residential care facility on Lexington Avenue for $2.25 million — and a Stamford-based contractor has bought a Westville ex-convent and 10-unit apartment-complex-to-be for $865,000 — in some of the city’s latest property deals.
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Laura Glesby and Allan Appel |
Sep 15, 2023 12:03 pm
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“I’ve been a Democrat all my life,” said May, an 81-year-old Newhallville resident who said she’s voted at Lincoln-Bassett School every election since she bought her home in 1985.
Except she wasn’t a Democrat on Tuesday. She found out from a moderator that she had been re-registered as an “unaffiliated” voter, ineligible to vote in the primary.
May was one of at least dozens of people across the city to find out on Tuesday that they couldn’t vote because they weren’t Democrats. To many, including May, that news came as an inexplicable surprise.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Aug 21, 2023 1:37 pm
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Early childcare provider Paris Pierce arrives to work on time and with a clear headspace — because her employer ensures the single mom has a safe home with two bathrooms, storage space, and a washing machine to care for herself and her three kids at no cost.
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Allan Appel |
Aug 21, 2023 12:17 pm
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It’s technically Ailanthus Altissima, or colloquially Tree of Heaven, but in Fair Haven Heights’ Fairmont Park it’s more often called, with a grrrrrrrr, as gardeners labor to uproot it, the Tree of Hell. Or from Hell.
But there’s now a lot less of this quick rising (thus toward heaven?) invasive Chinese species, and that’s thanks to decades of effort by Sylvia Dorsey and her stalwart crew of Friends of Fairmont Park.
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.
Ronisha Baskin didn’t know how to tell her 14-year-old daughter that the Housing Authority of New Haven had evicted them. “I didn’t even know what to say.” She could not find the words to explain that a lack of housing options would force them to split up across different cities.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 20, 2023 1:09 pm
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Batter up!
That was the word (or two) on a half cloudy-half sunny Saturday afternoon as Jayden Alexander stepped in for travel team batting practice at Dom Aitro Field in Fair Haven Heights.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 14, 2023 11:14 am
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Seventy-five gas guzzling golf carts are rolling towards another three-year deal for New Haven’s municipal green links — with green energy plans in the works to go electric when the course’s clubhouse renovations are complete.