by Thomas Breen | Oct 16, 2018 3:01 pm | Comments (2)
A team of punk rock game designers has taken ownership of a popular downtown co-working space, with a new game plan.
by Markeshia Ricks | Oct 16, 2018 7:43 am | Comments (14)
The Board of Alders for the first time exercised its power to scuttle top mayoral appointments by voting down the the Harp administration’s choice for the next chief administrative officer.
by Thomas Breen | Oct 15, 2018 2:47 pm | Comments (3)
With New Haven’s seat considered safe, a traveling “brigade” of local Democratic campaign volunteers has regrouped for the first time in four years to help a political newcomer one district over win a pathbreaking bid for U.S. Congress.
Continue reading ‘Reunited Brigade Travels To Keep State Blue’
by Thomas Breen | Oct 15, 2018 7:43 am | Comments (10)
A three-family East Rock house sold for over double what it cost 30 years ago, and a major local property management company picked up four new units in two adjoining Fair Haven Heights homes, in some of the latest recorded land transactions in town.
by Paul Bass | Oct 12, 2018 2:01 pm | Comments (13)
Next Wednesday morning, Patricia Lawlor plans to show up for the same employer she has served since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
She plans to arrive at City Hall by 6:30 as usual. Before anyone else gets there.
by Christopher Peak | Oct 12, 2018 1:54 pm | Comments (9)
The role of New Haven’s teachers union is being seriously debated for the first time in a decade, as its longtime president faces a challenge from within his ranks.
by Thomas Breen | Oct 12, 2018 8:14 am | Comments (10)
Cedar Hill is in its worst shape in half a century, and its few remaining business owners desperately need the city’s help.
They also need to convince city zoners to reconsider a decision that’s preventing an investor from expanding a gas station with a 24-hour convenience store.
Merchants from the pocket-sized neighborhood at the eastern end of New Haven’s Hamden border delivered that message Thursday to city economic development and anti-blight officials during an emotional hour-and-a-half-long meeting.
by Markeshia Ricks | Oct 12, 2018 8:13 am | Comments (3)
Poké is the latest trendy dish to sweep into Downtown New Haven, with the fourth spot in a year about to open.
Three intrepid New Haven Independent reporters went on a mission to find out more about New Haven’s new yen for a bowl of fresh veggies and raw fish.
by Sonya Schoenberger | Oct 11, 2018 2:49 pm | Comments (6)
Juan and his son showed up at another foreclosure sale in Fair Haven, hunting for a bargain.
They didn’t find it.
by Markeshia Ricks | Oct 11, 2018 8:34 am | Comments (11)
The new top cop in Westville/West Hills is hearing from neighbors demanding solutions to an uptick of crime in the neighborhood.
by Christopher Peak | Oct 11, 2018 7:59 am | Comments (15)
Grilled at a two-hour-long confirmation hearing, the returning City Hall official Mayor Toni Harp has tapped to oversee city services said his first priority will be reining in runaway police and fire overtime costs.
by Thomas Breen | Oct 10, 2018 2:45 pm | Comments (9)
One day after a judge accused of sexual assault ascended to the nation’s highest court, a local painter unveiled a mural depicting 17 actual and imaginary New Haven women, all standing proud and strong and committed to a more equitable future.
by Christopher Peak | Oct 10, 2018 8:10 am | Comments (4)
In one math class at John S. Martinez Sea & Sky STEM School, students no longer sit in neat, orderly rows. On new four-wheeled desks, they swivel around the classroom without a seating chart.
Continue reading ‘Scores Suggest Personalized Learning Pays’
by Thomas Breen | Oct 9, 2018 6:04 pm | Comments (11)
Part of English Station is coming down. Half of Church Street South has been demolished. And barbeque is coming to Fair Haven’s new tech hub.
Those were some of the takeaways of a 45-minute van tour Tuesday focused on past, present, and future economic development projects in the center of the city.
by Thomas Breen | Oct 9, 2018 7:58 am | Comments (13)
A three-family East Rock house sold for more than twice what it cost in 2005, while a nonprofit dropped a decaying Newhallville single-family home that it couldn’t find enough money to rebuild.
Poverty landlord plans to convert 3 vacant Wooster Square church buildings into 29 upscale apartments.
James Brandon Lewis charts a course to Firehouse 12.
Service is Friday at 11 a.m.: 
Seniors save plastic from landfill, crochet mats for homeless.
Despite reservations, alders vote final OK to pave way for 20-year tax abatement for 9th Square’s new owners.
Yes. “Chair” was singular.
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“Homecooked” app, which brings strangers together for shared meals, debuts next week.
State Democrats descended on Elm City seeking to keep Connecticut blue (or at least purple).
At 2nd weekend of City-Wide Open Studios.
Fair Haven celebrates, marches for Indigenous Peoples Day.
