by Markeshia Ricks | Sep 24, 2018 2:48 pm | Comments (1)
The former Hill Central Community Cooperative has a new owner and a new plan for revitalization that allows its current residents to remain in place and ultimately get new units.
by Christopher Peak | Sep 24, 2018 7:59 am | Comments (5)
The Board of Education may have violated the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act — right in the middle of a workshop on how to follow that law.
by Thomas Breen | Sep 21, 2018 3:52 pm | Comments (28)
Dozens of city residents gathered on the New Haven Green to witness a spectacle that, if only for an hour, seemed to transform the historic park at the middle of Downtown.
But unlike the 100-plus synthetic-marijuana-related poisonings that drew local, state, and national attention to a public health crisis at the city center last month, Friday afternoon’s eye-catching activity at the corner of Church Street and Chapel Street was filled with dancing, music, and joy.
by Markeshia Ricks | Sep 21, 2018 8:34 am | Comments (35)
A plan to develop housing on 4.3 vacant acres along Route 34 moved forward Thursday night, but not before a longtime neighborhood leader criticized a turn away from promoting homeownership.
by Paul Bass | Sep 20, 2018 3:51 pm | Comments (32)
Hundreds of New Haven high school students walked out of classes Monday to a downtown “sanctuary” church — with the support of school officials but very much on their own terms.
by Christopher Peak | Sep 20, 2018 2:20 pm | Comments (2)
After murdering four people, should a gang’s enforcer receive a lighter sentence for turning in other members who participated in the bloodshed?
U.S. District Court Judge Janet C. Hall was faced with that dilemma Wednesday in her Church Street courtroom as she weighed the fate of a killer who turned the tables on one of New Haven’s deadly Red Side Guerrilla Brims.
by Thomas Breen | Sep 20, 2018 2:15 pm | Comments (20)
Four New Haven Correctional Center inmates literally beat “swords into ploughshares” on Thursday as they forged new garden tools from donated and repurposed handguns, shotguns, and assault rifles.
by Thomas Breen & Markeshia Ricks | Sep 20, 2018 8:13 am | Comments (47)
Plans to build a new memorial park dedicated to New Haven victims of gun violence are one big step closer to becoming a reality now that the city’s Parks Commission has officially signed off on the project concept and location.
by Thomas Breen | Sep 19, 2018 7:48 am | Comments (33)
The upper levels of the city’s first circulating library and first public high school are now office space and 10 luxury apartments.
by Kica Matos | Sep 18, 2018 2:39 pm | Comments (59)
Last week, over 30 minutes in mid-morning, my husband and I witnessed open-air drug deals outside of the church next door, followed by drug use next to a school bus. A knife-wielding man rampaged up the street followed by a highly intoxicated woman. Five minutes later, a John and a sex worker engaged in sex acts in the open.
Later that afternoon as I walked my dog in the park, I was overwhelmed by what I saw: a used condom on the sidewalk next to my house and dirty needles, bloody gauzes and empty drug bags littering nearly every bench.
by Markeshia Ricks | Sep 18, 2018 12:13 pm | Comments (1)
The city’s engineer and the fire department were given a late afternoon mystery to solve: Two barrels appeared to have been dumped by the banks of the Quinnipiac River.
Both were marked as containing hazardous waste. Polychlorinated biphenyl or PCB to be exact.
by Paul Bass | Sep 18, 2018 12:00 am | Comments (41)
(Analysis) The Shubert theater staged a revival Monday night of the historic 1960 Kennedy-Nixon campaign debate. Bob Stefanowski played the role of John F. Kennedy.
by Markeshia Ricks | Sep 17, 2018 3:46 pm | Comments (21)
It took about 20 years, but the new Canal Dock Boathouse is open and ready to connect people to water.
by Christopher Peak | Sep 17, 2018 1:34 pm | Comments (11)
The students in three New Haven charter elementary schools continue to outperform the state on tests of reading and math proficiency. But a measure of those students’ actual academic growth each year shows they’re mostly still just behind the state.
by Paul Bass & Christopher Peak | Sep 14, 2018 2:07 pm | Comments (41)
Police Chief Anthony Campbell took office promising to tackle domestic violence — and now finds himself addressing it among his own ranks.
In the last three months, four of Campbell’s officers have been arrested on charges of domestic violence.
On the Green and at Yale Law School.
To speeding-weary Beaver Hills block.
• Hopes to glean best practices from Yale’s build-out of its own network.
District doubles down on a new strategy.
For world-famous Mexican band Cafe Tacuba at College Street.
At Cafe Nine.
As Jesse “J-Hop” Hardy throws 8th annual bash on the Green.
• Yale Law’s 
Meanwhile, campaign muzzles its Latino outreach chief, New Haven Alder David Reyes.
Superintendent warns of more coming.
By Reinaldo Goeyenchea/La Voz Hispana. (“I learned this during my stay in Istanbul.”)
• Bus company ends New Haven stop on daily NYC-Hartford express.
On tap at Long Wharf’s New Works fest.
