(Updated 5:34 p.m.) After 20 years running City Hall, John DeStefano plans to move into an office a mile west on Whalley Avenue—to help run a community development bank he brought into existence. ]]>(Updated 5:34 p.m.) After 20 years running City Hall, John DeStefano plans to move into an office a mile west on Whalley Avenue—to help run a community development bank he brought into existence. ]]>That’s “crypto-racist,” says another.
At the corner of Orange and Crown sits one person’s “weird art place.” To another it’s “Artspace (not weird.)”
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Mayoral candidate Toni Harp questioned a developer’s argument that it needs a $10 million-plus bailout from the city to keep the Ninth Square project alive, while two of her opponents expressed support for spending some new money to preserve affordable housing there. ]]>
One telecommunications company withdrew its application to put an antenna on a historic Fair Haven building, while another got the OK to upgrade out-of-sight equipment atop an East Rock roof. ]]>
By a unanimous vote Wednesday night the City Plan Commission gave the thumbs up to a plan for a convenience store and four gasoline pumps to be installed at 281-289 Chapel at Mill River Street. ]]>
The city went public Tuesday with phase one of a developer’s plan for the Coliseum lot: A strollable “town square” with five- or six-story apartment buildings; top-of-the-line wine shops and restaurants; and a “woonerf”—a special lane for pedestrians and cyclists, not drivers—that takes you to State Street. ]]>
C-Town Supermarket’s attempt to spread commercial activity onto an adjacent block in Fair Haven came to an end after neighbors convinced lawmakers to overturn a zoning decision. ]]>If you’re New Haven tech powerhouse Higher One, that much money will get you an existing company with 60 employees and several hundred clients.
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Saying it’s running out of cash, the developer of the Ninth Square downtown apartment and retail district is asking the city to forgive $9.9 million in unpaid interest and obtain another 15 years worth of tax breaks. ]]>
Amid an onslaught of garage-rock guitar chords, the biggest name you’ve never heard of in local music promotion waded through a crowd of nodding teenagers wearing ironic T-shirts and claimed a new kind of concert swag: a pair of jeans. ]]>
Days after another daylight fusillade of bullets on Newhallville’s streets and a decision by Yale to pull out of a home-building project due to safety concerns, mayoral candidates Wednesday called for creative new approaches from the city to bring order to the neighborhood.
In pre-dawn raids, state and local cops hit four different houses, made five arrests, and grabbed 2,375 bags of heroin. ]]>
Jane Lederer’s photograph of a seemingly ordinary July 4 celebration is anything but.If you look close up, folks are relaxing in lawn chairs and taking in the fireworks. Step back and they become sprawled out bodies, carnage in a battle scene beneath the rockets’ black and and white glare.
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As she launches a reelection bid, East Rock Alderman Jessica Holmes said she’s making one change this time around—running without money from political action committees. ]]>
This story originally appeared in Spanish in La Voz Hispana.Though Justin Elicker is relatively new to the political scene as he is currently in his second term as alderman for the East Rock neighborhood, he prides himself in the devotion he has to his constituents and the fresh perspective he can bring for planning of the city’s future.
Elicker, who is 37, is a graduate of the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry, and previously worked as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for the State Department and was stationed in Washington D.C., Taiwan, and Hong Kong. His platform as a mayoral candidate emphasizes the importance of school reform, economic development, and increasing public safety.
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When a dryer ignited in a Hill neighborhood basement Wednesday morning, firefighters searched through the smoke to find a missing cat and three dogs. ]]>
Chris Murphy voted Tuesday to try to keep the average food stamp recipient receiving $4.80 a day—then, stomach growling, he went home for a second straight supper of Ramen noodles. ]]>
After an 83-year-old architecture professor was attacked at the Lilac Street building site of a Yale-designed house, the university plans to pull out the newly installed foundation—and has decided it’s just too dangerous to build a home in Newhallville. ]]>