by Thomas Breen | Oct 19, 2018 2:00 pm | Comments (4)
As she prepares to close a tailor shop that was a West River fixture for five decades, Libby Glucksman has a lot of boxes to pack. She has even more of a story to unpack. A survivor’s story.
by Paul Bass | Oct 19, 2018 12:26 pm | Comments (7)
The faded retail hub of the Dixwell neighborhood appears on the verge of entering the 21st century.
Details to come, and be worked out.
by Markeshia Ricks | Oct 19, 2018 8:07 am | Comments (11)
Focus on talent, not taxes. Focus on growing companies that come here and want to be here, not dying ones that left.
Local pols heard that message in Fair Haven as they entered a different world from the one depicted on this year’s gloomy gubernatorial campaign trail.
by Christopher Peak | Oct 18, 2018 4:25 pm | Comments (8)
As a homeless student at Sound School, Michaelle Gonzalez often crashed at her friends’ houses, but she sometimes had to sleep outside, right behind the school. She missed a lot of days and was reprimanded when she did show up. She eventually dropped out.
by Paul Bass | Oct 18, 2018 3:04 pm | Comments (6)
We’ll sell you the rights to operate money-making Bradley International Airport — if you agree to build up Sikorsky to steal flyers from White Plains and invest in New Haven’s Tweed-New Haven.
David Stemerman wants Connecticut to make that pitch.
by Christopher Peak | Oct 18, 2018 7:57 am | Comments (5)
Georges Clermont looks for the beauty in what’s damaged — whether the material is wood, or a young person who failed to thrive in other New Haven schools.
He has been turning beat-up wood into violins and neglected kids into craftsmen in a shop inside an alternative high school, but budget cuts have now cut his experiment short.
by Thomas Breen | Oct 17, 2018 3:02 pm | Comments (4)
Add bioswales up and down James Street. Convert a portion of Exchange Street into a linear trail park. And always keep parking lot dumpsters closed to avoid stormwater runoff contamination.
Those are among dozens of environmentally-conscious recommendations included in the new Mill River Watershed Plan.
by Markeshia Ricks | Oct 17, 2018 8:25 am | Comments (23)
The police department’s top brass is looking to change the perception of its “no chase” policy as a “do nothing” policy when it comes to the annual summer nuisance of dirt bike and ATV riders.
by Christopher Peak | Oct 17, 2018 8:24 am | Comments (5)
At the last minute, another challenger emerged in the heated contest for the presidency of the teachers union.
by Thomas Breen | Oct 16, 2018 3:01 pm | Comments (8)
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 (15)
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 (11)
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 (14)
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.
The epistolary battle rages on.
In the Valley. 
Elnora was a former member of the New Haven Board of Ed: 
Mike Pinto: On track for a 2018 “bike infrastructure” win.
Updated with Yale’s side.
J.P. Harris & Brian Dolzani haul in their travelin’ tunes.
Online New Haven Biz celebrates launch of glossy mag.
On state energy credits.
Unclear whether 20-year “vision” will become a formally adopted city policy.
Poverty landlord plans to convert 3 vacant Wooster Square church buildings into 29 upscale apartments.
