by | Mar 7, 2022 9:02 pm | Comments (9)
Nesta Allen: "Who are we, nothing?"
Residents gathered in Jocelyn Square Park and then walked surrounding blocks on the eve of a zoning vote to demonstrate that they live in a neighborhood — not in “Las Vegas” or an “industrial wasteland” befitting a midnight-to-dawn BYOB strip club.
by | Feb 28, 2022 1:52 pm | Comments (10)
Gov. Ned Lamont bit into a lab-grown mini-chicken shawarma in Israel — and tasted future jobs back home in Connecticut.
by | Feb 9, 2022 2:52 pm | Comments (6)
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Coming soon to Wallace Street?
An adult “Las Vegas-style” “cabaret” with exotic dancers and late-night night drinking will bring economic revival and safety to a forlorn industrial zone.
So said the people looking to open said strip joint.
To which neighbors responded: In case you haven’t noticed, people live here. People from New Haven, not Las Vegas.
by | Jan 28, 2022 9:45 am | Comments (11)
Coming to Mill River?
Mill River residents are weighing how to thwart a “Vegas”-style strip club — without demeaning the sex workers whom the club would employ.
by | Nov 19, 2021 9:11 am | Comments (21)
Lamont at DISTRICT presser: “I like winning.”
Connecticut is “beginning to win” by attracting large, innovative, good-paying employers, Gov. Ned Lamont rejoiced in New Haven Thursday.
Lamont’s team’s Example A: The global tobacco giant Philip Morris International.
by | Oct 26, 2021 8:04 am | Comments (12)
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Dishing at DISTRICT: CEOs Bailey, Swanston, Zamani, Londa.
Fiber.
Family.
Football?
by | Sep 3, 2021 7:55 am | Comments (2)
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Durden gets ready to record Jefferson and Thabisa’s conversation.
District on James Street was the scene Thursday night of the official launch of Space Studios, the brainchild of videographer and entrepreneur Donnell Durden. Durden is hoping to provide the physical space and equipment — as well as the spark and support — for creatives to make their mark in the world of music, photography, videos, and more.
by | Jul 26, 2021 9:36 am | Comments (10)
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Underneath the Humphrey Street Bridge.
The city plans to “scour-proof” the Humphrey Street Bridge after a recent routine inspection revealed significant erosion of the riverbed that supports the Mill River-crossing infrastructure.
by | Jul 20, 2021 9:52 am | Comments (2)
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Marshall cleaning up a scene on A&E’s “Dirty Rotten Cleaners.”
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Marshall gets ready for action.
Sadie Marshall’s team packed up her gear to answer a call to clean up two decomposing bodies, after answering a separate call from the A&E Network to broadcast her “Dirty Rotten” work to the nation.
by | Jul 16, 2021 1:44 pm | Comments (16)
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Design with planned new building at bottom right.
Four under-utilized and individually unusable parcels of land across from the Corsair apartment complex on the old industrial patch of upper State Street are slated to become the site of 75 market-rate units. Look for solar arrays on the roof and interior design features to appeal to people who have gotten used to working from home during the pandemic, among other amenities.
by | Jul 15, 2021 9:32 am | Comments (6)
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Tom Pescatore: Bringing the public onto the water.
Here is some of what you see while gliding through lily pads on a kayak trip down the Mill River: Turtles dipping their heads out of the water. Deer wandering the shores. A roaring waterfall by Goose Dam.
by | Jun 21, 2021 11:57 am | Comments (16)
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424 Chapel: Future home of Health Dept. and public works garage?
The Board of Alders unanimously signed off on the city purchasing a state-owned warehouse, garage and office building on the eastern edge of Wooster Square — where the city plans to move the Health Department and snow plow and streetsweeper maintenance operations.
Continue reading ‘City Rushes To Buy State Office-Warehouse’
by | May 12, 2021 1:46 pm | Comments (25)
Not allowed on Wallace Street … for now.
A plan to convert a Wallace Street warehouse into a “Las Vegas-style” entertainment complex hit a roadblock when a state judge upheld a city law that prohibits two strip clubs from being located less than 1,500 feet apart.
by | Apr 12, 2021 4:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Al Proto: Grand was the Avenue of the Americas.
A vaudeville theater becomes a church. A church becomes a parole office. An integrated boys’ swim club becomes a swim-focused nonprofit.
A group of dedicated ethnic historians sketched out these transformations and more neighborhood lore in what will eventually become an official Grand Avenue tour.
by | Feb 4, 2021 9:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Operators of a newly opened Reentry Welcome Center in Wooster Square are calling on the community to join them in the quest to help formerly incarcerated New Haveners get back on their feet.
by | Feb 4, 2021 10:59 am | Comments (4)
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Fifty demonstrators organized by Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA) protested outside Unique Auto Sales at 392 East St. demanding repayment for a couple they claim were scammed out of $4,000 on a downpayment for a 2011 Dodge Ram.
Continue reading ‘ULA Protests Car Dealership Over Alleged Fleecing Of Immigrants’
by | Dec 4, 2020 3:53 pm | Comments (3)
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Volunteers clearing the Mill River Trail.
It’s easier to clean up rivers in rural and suburban settings than in a busy city, given obstacles like accessibility and private property interests.
Meanwhile, urban waterways like our Mill River have received less clean-up funding than they need and deserve.
Continue reading ‘$100K On Horizon For Mill River Clean-Up Projects’
by | Dec 3, 2020 6:27 pm | Comments (1)
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Amid growing demand, Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) moved its Covid-19 testing operation Thursday to 293 East St., a .6‑mile walk from the former testing site on Grand Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Walk-Up Covid Testing Moves To Expanded Site’
by | Nov 18, 2020 1:10 pm | Comments (4)
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A new grocer is poised to reopen inside soon-to-close Ferraro’s Market, with the “Meat King” intact, according to the current owner.
by | Nov 16, 2020 5:49 pm | Comments (69)
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Victoria Ferraro with staffer Aniello Furino outside the market Monday.
Yelissa Martinez (left): Crosses street daily to shop.
The Ferraro family is moving the market it started in New Haven in 1952 to the suburbs — leaving public-housing tenants like Yelissa Martinez and Gladys Lugo with no walkable place to buy groceries.
by | Oct 26, 2020 1:07 pm | Comments (1)
Elm City Industrial Properties, Inc.
What the warehouses would look like from South Wallace Street.
A plan to fill in the long-vacant block bounded by Chapel Street, Ives Place,and East and Wallace streets with two large warehouses has received unanimous approval from the City Plan Commission.
by | Oct 21, 2020 1:54 pm | Comments (1)
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What the warehouses would look like from South Wallace Street.
The now-empty site of a factory by the Mill River that sent products to Home Depot could host warehouses for the delivery side of Home Depot, or another delivery-focused company like Amazon, by the summer of 2021.
by | Sep 28, 2020 12:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Stefanie Clark Harris and the Feverfew
Friday was a night of firsts for the New Haven music scene. It was the live debut of Stefanie Clark Harris and the Feverfew, the EP release party for the band’s first record “Black Diamond’, and it all happened at the inaugural show of The Stack Sessions, a District Arts and Entertainment presentation being held in the amphitheater on the back lawn of The Stack and Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ, in the District Complex on James Street.
Continue reading ‘Stack Sessions Serve Up Live Music And BBQ’
by | Sep 17, 2020 5:26 pm | Comments (10)
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Newly completed stretch of phase 2.
J.R. Logan: Six years of community action, and counting.
Continue reading ‘Second Phase Of Mill River Trail Completed’
by | Aug 21, 2020 11:05 am | Comments (1)
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A rendering of the proposed townhouses.
City plans to sell a vacant Jocelyn Square lot to a developer interested in building six new two-family houses advanced — even as city staff cautioned that the proposed development will likely require zoning relief.
Continue reading ‘Affordable Mill River Townhomes Deal Advances’
