by Jake Dressler | Nov 15, 2018 2:47 pm | Comments (5)
Family and friends are filtering in and out of Rubber Match to console the owner, George Zito, in the coming weeks before the store closes its doors for good.
by Thomas Breen | Nov 15, 2018 1:54 pm
Syreeta Nicholson’s second-youngest son Marque already had an elevated blood lead level two years ago when his family first moved into the single-family home at 489 Sherman Pkwy.
Marque’s blood lead level quintupled after just five months of living at the property.
It turns out at least 100 renters like Nicholson have moved into federally subsidized apartments without promised lead paint inspections.
by Thomas Breen | Nov 15, 2018 7:34 am | Comments (16)
A plan to convert the long-vacant and historic Pirelli Building into a 165-room hotel received approval from the City Plan Commission despite a one-hour push by labor-affiliated alders and city staff to stall the proposal.
Continue reading ‘Pirelli Hotel Plan Survives Surprise Attack’
by Linda Greenhouse | Nov 14, 2018 4:00 pm | Comments (14)
When my husband and I moved to New Haven in 2010, one of the first things we did was register to vote. We assumed that voting in New Haven would be the same pleasant, even rewarding experience it had been for the 30 years we lived in Montgomery County, the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
by Markeshia Ricks | Nov 14, 2018 8:52 am | Comments (19)
The crowd said: Start over. The alders voted to move ahead.
That was the upshot of a passionate three-hour public meeting Tuesday night where a panel of alders presented a new version of a long-delayed proposal for a police Civilian Review Board (CRB).
Continue reading ‘Amid Outcry, Civilian Review Plan Advances’
by Thomas Breen | Nov 14, 2018 8:05 am | Comments (25)
The state has a new design for a second parking garage at Union Station.
Unlike the design from a year-and-a-half ago, this one has plenty of spaces for bikes.
by Thomas Breen | Nov 13, 2018 9:23 pm | Comments (9)
Cue up the concerts: The College Street Music Hall’s proposal to open a new mid-sized music venue emerged victorious in a months-long bid to fill a vacant downtown commercial space.
by Thomas Breen | Nov 13, 2018 3:27 pm | Comments (5)
More school dollars and faster New Haven-New York trains were at the topic of the agenda Tuesday at the first face-to-face meeting between big-city mayors and Gov.-Elect Ned Lamont.
by Christopher Peak | Nov 13, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (25)
School board members recommended paying consultants over $15,000 to facilitate their next Board of Education retreat — right before another consultant reported that the district is still facing an $8.89 million deficit this fiscal year.
by Paul Bass | Nov 13, 2018 8:00 am | Comments (11)
“Team Porter” navigated a newish app to turn out suburban votes. Now Connecticut might get paid family leave, a $15 hourly minimum wage — and maybe even electronic highway tolls.
by Lary Bloom | Nov 12, 2018 8:06 am | Comments (4)
A half century ago, I wore a uniform of a different hue. The jungle fatigues and cap were manufactured in only one color, olive drab, which the military still refers to, drably, as Color 107. Unofficially, it was the shade of derision during and after America’s most divisive foreign war.
by Paul Bass | Nov 9, 2018 1:55 pm | Comments (20)
As darkness fell on New Haven Thursday night, citizens rallied on the Green against perceived threats to democracy in the wake of this week’s election.
A block away, in a locked basement bunker in the 200 Orange St. municipal office building with the door window papered over, the election wasn’t over yet.
by Thomas Breen | Nov 9, 2018 1:00 pm | Comments (25)
“What’s going to happen to the neighborhood?” Ralph Marcarelli asked. “What’s going to happen to the church?”
by Christopher Peak | Nov 9, 2018 7:34 am | Comments (16)
A high-school teacher threw a pencil-sized stick of wood across a classroom, hitting a talkative student’s hand.
A fireable offense?
Superintendent Carol Birks thought so. The Board of Education disagreed.
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio | Nov 8, 2018 12:59 pm
For the past year I have spent countless hours with a New Haven family that seems brought forth by the pages of a Hollywood sitcom, so all-American and wholesome it’s hard to believe they’re not Cold War propaganda. They love each other so ferociously, spend every hour together so joyously, and like each other so genuinely that young people in the community flock to them for a sense of family.
Being around them has provided me so much comfort and genuine joy that my real family has become jealous. You’re about to note the bizarre irony of their jealousy.
The Pinos family is fighting a deportation order that threatens to break their family apart. Many New Haven families have been faced with deportation orders. But here too the Pinos family is unlike the rest.
Along with “apizza,” in Jocelyn Square.
Americana supergroup plays a memorable song at the Music Hall.
Guv-elect Lamont names David Salinas, Jorge Perez to 20-member transition steering committee.
• Pending pact paves way for Spinnaker to turn ex-Comcast building into 200 luxury apts.
State senator wins 2nd term by 85 votes in recount.
City “clean and safe” tour hits the Hill.
3 takes in all: 
For rising Audubon mini-city.
At post-election forum.
Supports 5-year charter renewal; state to make final decision.
After Ansonia State Senate recount. Recounts in the race continue Wednesday.
After 55 years teaching at Neighborhood Music School. 
