Fire Displaces 5 Families
by | Apr 18, 2025 11:39 am | Comments (0)
The site of Thursday's fire.
The Red Cross is finding homes for five families displaced by a Thursday night fire in the Fair Haven Heights neighborhood.
The Heights
60 New Apartments OK'd For Essex St.
by | Nov 25, 2024 11:39 am | Comments (2)
Proposed elevations for the 2 new apartment buildings.
A Milford-based development team has won permission to construct 60 new apartments atop 2.25 acres of vacant land in Fair Haven Heights.
"Mr. Mark" Keeps Jepson Clean
by | Nov 15, 2024 2:47 pm | Comments (6)
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Bohannon, on the job 27 years and counting: "I make myself available to make the ship run smooth."
Kindergarteners greeted Benjamin Jepson Building Manager Mark Bohannon with hugs and fist bumps as the school’s top custodian prepared to escort them from the gym to their classrooms — as part of a daily morning ritual that goes well beyond taking out the trash.
But it includes plenty of that, too.
Man With Machete Shot Dead At Bella Vista
by | Oct 7, 2024 9:34 am | Comments (5)
A 56-year-old man with a machete — and an apparent history of mental health problems — was shot and killed during an altercation with a fellow resident at the Bella Vista apartment complex on Friday afternoon.
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Cheese Biz Pioneer Dies At 87
by | Jul 17, 2024 12:57 pm | Comments (6)
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Lino Liuzzi with brother Nicola, co-founders of Liuzzi Cheese.
The aging room at Liuzzi cheese — what Lino built.
Pasquale “Lino” Liuzzi’s first job upon immigrating to America in 1962 was pouring concrete for sidewalks in the Bronx.
A few weeks after landing that work, he saw an ad in an Italian newspaper: a factory in East Haven was looking for a cheesemaker. He decided to give it a shot.
So he took a train to New Haven station — and took his first steps towards building a Connecticut cheese empire.
"Teachers Village" Grows In The Heights
by | Jul 16, 2024 11:38 am | Comments (8)
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Friends Center's Executive Director Allyx Schiavone (center) with teachers Eric Gill and Justin Cross.
For financial reasons, Justin Cross lives with his mom and Ubers, an expense he can ill afford, all the way across town from the Hill to his early childhood education job in Fair Haven Heights.
Eric Gill commutes from Waterbury, where he shares a single room with a brother and a cousin in an uncle’s house, traveling 50 stressed round-trip miles, often arriving very late or very early, depending on traffic.
Both idealistic young men are about to receive a huge financial relief package: They will be moving into a pioneering “teachers village,” free rental housing in a verdant compound a five-minute walk from the Friends Center for Children’s school (no more commute!) on East Grand Avenue.
Condo Owners Vote To Pay Full Water Debt
by | Jun 19, 2024 12:13 pm | Comments (3)
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Fixing the leak at Winters Run.
The members of a Fair Haven Heights condo association have voted to pay their entire $138,000-plus overdue water bill — and will now try to collect from the complex’s former property manager, whom they accuse of failing to promptly address the leak that left them in such a financial mess.
Micro-Manufacturing Eyed For Ex-Factory
by | May 20, 2024 9:07 am | Comments (15)
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30 Lenox St.
A former Fair Haven Heights fabric-coating chemical factory could become a mix of private studios occupied by artists, small business owners, and small-scale manufacturers — as well as a site for self-storage.
Quarry Park Friends To City: Show Us The Survey!
by | May 17, 2024 10:33 am | Comments (4)
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Friends of Quarry Park friends Jane Coppock and Tracy Blanford.
A letter, which should have been alarming, arrived at the Parks Department.
It described a growing, layered mound of more than 5,000 square feet of dumped junk like mattresses, refrigerators, old play equipment and construction debris encroaching from private backyards into the public park land of Quarry Park Preserve in Fair Haven Heights.
That letter was dated February 28, 2002!
After more than 20 years, Tracey Blanford, who heads the Friends of Quarry Park Preserve and was the author of that letter, showed up to a parks commission meeting on Wednesday night.
She was polite and civil, and also simmering with two decades of frustrated advocacy over how to get the city to help keep the park clean.
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Fatal Crash Victim Was Unhoused Activist
by | Apr 5, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (41)
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Arthur Taylor at Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen's drop-in center in 2022.
Arthur Taylor brought the music — and an unflagging sense of urgency — to advocacy for the rights of unhoused people like himself.
He died at age 71 in a car crash this week while walking along an I‑91 travel lane, a few weeks after moving into the city’s new non-congregate shelter in a former hotel on Foxon Boulevard.
Sea Wall Split: Stone v. Speed
by | Mar 14, 2024 4:30 pm | Comments (9)
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Looking east from where wall would begin.
“We build too many walls and not enough bridges,” quoth Sir Isaac Newton. But it gets a little complicated when the wall you are building is also along a beloved bridge and river, and the construction is all unfolding in a historic district.
Housing Authority Buys Q River Site
by | Mar 6, 2024 3:06 pm | Comments (11)
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Ziggy's Pizza: Lease extended, staying put, as part of plan.
The housing authority has officially purchased two Fair Haven Heights properties by the Quinnipiac River as part of its latest effort to redevelop long-underused city plots into new places to live.
Repairs Ready Bridge For Boaters
by | Feb 27, 2024 4:13 pm | Comments (4)
Public Works' Mike Dorsey enjoys a view of the Quinnipiac River while overseeing bridge repairs Tuesday afternoon.
The Grand Avenue bridge got a new gear — and is gearing up to reopen not just to car travel, but to boat traffic as well.
Quarry Hikers Rock Out
by | Feb 27, 2024 11:24 am | Comments (2)
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Goode leads group into woods.
Aaron Goode of the New Haven Bioregional Group smiled at the roughly 30 people assembled in the parking lot of New Haven Friends Meeting on Grand Avenue in Fair Haven Heights, ready to hike.
“Welcome to New Haven’s own Jurassic Park,” he said, explaining that the sign-in sheet people had signed also doubled as a “liability release” in case of dinosaur attack. He then corrected himself; if he were being more accurate, it would have to be called Upper Triassic Park, for the age of the rocks — and the fossils — that were found behind him in Quarry Park, a city park and site of a previous Bioregional hike last year.
Tenants To Fair Rent: Hear Our Cases
by | Feb 19, 2024 5:11 pm | Comments (7)
Sunset Ridge tenant Asia Huff protests a $400 rent raise alongside legal aid organizer Caitlin Maloney.
Can the city’s Fair Rent Commission regulate federally-funded housing?
East side tenants facing rent hikes of up to 45 percent are demanding a hearing — and raising that question in the process.
4th Tenants Union Presses Ocean
by | Feb 6, 2024 5:51 pm | Comments (3)
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Tenant Alisha Moore with her union on Tuesday: "We want real fixes."
Lenox Street residents said they couldn’t get through to their landlord to report rodents, water damage and trash pile-up — so they formed a union and pasted their collective complaints to Ocean Management’s front door.
Shooting Sprees End With Guilty Pleas
by | Jan 25, 2024 12:01 pm | Comments (4)
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Social media postings by arrested alleged Exit 8 members, entered into evidence. The 8 ball is a reference to the gang.
New Haven has seen fewer shots fired these days — in part because of the arrest of a street gang “honcho” who has pleaded guilty to firing shots meant to kill.
Heights Park Playground OK'd
by | Jan 22, 2024 2:20 pm | Comments (3)
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New parks chief Siciliano: Intends "to learn the town."
Rehab Facility Fights To Get Moving
by | Jan 16, 2024 9:30 am | Comments (5)
2 Thorn St.
New Haven nursing home patients may fret less about flu season next year — if a Bronx-based assisted living company gets the green light to build 150 beds, pave half as many parking spaces and bring ultraviolet disinfection tech to the Hill neighborhood.
Housing Authority Board OKs Q River Buys
by | Dec 20, 2023 11:58 am | Comments (5)
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Commissioners William Kilpatrick, Alberta Witherspoon, and Elmer Rivera at Tuesday's meeting.
The housing authority took one big step towards building 40 new mixed-income apartments and ground-floor retail space by the Quinnipiac River, as its board voted to spend $1.42 million to purchase an East Grand Avenue lot and nearby pizzeria.
Housing Authority Eyes Q River Site
by | Dec 18, 2023 2:12 pm | Comments (31)
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Ziggy's at 36 E. Grand: Lives to bake and slice another day.
The housing authority plans to purchase a vacant lot on the Quinnipiac River and a nearby pizzeria to build a mixed-income, mixed-use development with between 40 and 50 apartments.
Make Way For A New Playground At Fairmont Park
by | Nov 21, 2023 9:56 am | Comments (2)
Fairmont Park's planned new play area.
A splash pad, swing set, and children’s play area are en route to Fairmont Park, thanks to playground upgrade plans for the Fair Haven Heights greenspace.
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3 Vie For Open East Side Alder Seat
by | Nov 3, 2023 4:37 pm | Comments (2)
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Ward 11 alder candidates Gail Roundtree, Henry "Rodney" Murphy, and Ira Johnson.
Local Democrats have picked 59-year-old Bella Vista resident and political newcomer Henry “Rodney” Murphy to replace the late Renee Haywood as their last-minute candidate for Ward 11 alder in Tuesday’s general election.
That means that Murphy — a Greater New Haven Transit District operations manager, embroidery enthusiast, and avid drone flyer — has just a few days to convince his neighbors to cast their ballots for him instead of for Republican challenger Gail Roundtree and write-in candidate Ira Johnson, both of whom have unsuccessfully run for local office before.
3-Party Alder Race Hits The Heights
by and | Oct 24, 2023 9:19 am | Comments (9)
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Ward 13 alder hopefules: Green challenger Paul Garlinghouse, Democratic incumbent Rosa Ferraro-Santana, and Republican challenger Deborah Reyes.
A three-way alder race in Fair Haven Heights pits an incumbent Democrat focused on parks against Green and Republican challengers raising concerns about single-party rule at City Hall.
Bella Vista Alder Renee Haywood Dies
by | Oct 23, 2023 5:00 pm | Comments (3)
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Ward 11 Alder Renee Haywood, on the campaign trail in 2017.
Renee Haywood, a long-time Bella Vista resident and advocate for the disabled who represented Ward 11 on the Board of Alders for nearly six years even as she underwent dialysis, died on Friday. She was 60.