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Members of two species gather to cut the ribbon at the new Cambria Hotel on Route 34.
New Haven closed out the year with two of three planned new hotels getting past the finish line and opening to the public with a festive holiday party.
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Plan for the new Dixwell Plaza.
Over $4 million is coming to the city to help builders clean separate polluted properties in order to construct new homes and other public buildings.
Continue reading ‘Millions Flow To City For Building-Site Clean-Ups’
by | Dec 13, 2022 3:42 pm | Comments (2)
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Nobody tripped over the edge of a rising parking garage and broke his leg or worse Tuesday morning. Jared Hunter was making sure of that.
Continue reading ‘Safety Hunter Keeps Eye On The Rising Tiers’
by | Dec 1, 2022 4:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Two customers were already in the barber chairs with two more waiting not long after Aaron Polanco opened the doors Thursday morning at the male side of Morena Salon and Barber Shop.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: "Blessed," & Ready For Busy Barber Season’
by | Dec 1, 2022 1:14 pm | Comments (5)
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Tent City starts morning with hot coffee, eggs and potatoes.
A West River encampment woke up to hot food and coffee after another crew of individuals experiencing homelessness arrived with frittatas and potatoes — plus the promise of second helpings and opportunities to grow solidarity across Greater New Haven’s unhoused populations.
by | Nov 30, 2022 1:49 pm | Comments (14)
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The Mandy-owned nine-unit house on Sherman Avenue.
After half a decade of roaming between abusive homes and strangers’ couches, Asia Harris moved into her first-ever apartment and purchased a dresser from Goodwill for $20. “Nobody bought it for me,” she said. “I bought it my own self.”
Three years and one eviction notice later, Harris threw out the dresser. It was too heavy to sell for rent money and it no longer felt like her own.
by | Nov 17, 2022 4:17 pm | Comments (19)
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So long, linen. Hello, housing? New England Linen workers inside the plant in 2015.
An Avon-based housing developer won a key approval to clean up the blighted remains of a former West River laundry service — and to convert that no-longer commercial space into 64 new below-market-rent apartments.
by | Nov 17, 2022 2:52 pm | Comments (1)
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Jacinto DaGraca overseeing curb and sidewalk work on Winthrop.
The word on Winthrop Avenue Thursday was: sidewalks.
by | Nov 11, 2022 9:55 am | Comments (1)
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Carl Harvey with one of the three vehicles the group hopes to ship next month.
As a young nurse training at Walter Reed Medical Center during the Vietnam War, Jane Ryzewski knows firsthand how much care and how many supplies are needed to help injured soldiers.
Which is why she joined three dozen fellow volunteers at the Ukrainian Catholic Church on George Street to organize and prepare to ship out an ever-growing assemblage of medical supplies and winter clothing to the front lines of another international conflict that is now in its ninth month.
Continue reading ‘As Winter Nears, Local Aid To Ukraine Grows’
by | Sep 16, 2022 1:34 pm | Comments (6)
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15 Brown St., now OK'd for a new 2-family house.
Three different vacant lots in Wooster Square, West River, and Upper State Street should soon sprout new two-family houses, thanks to approvals granted by the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA).
by | Aug 31, 2022 3:24 pm | Comments (10)
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YNHH leaders and city officials break out their shovels.
Yale New Haven Hospital ceremoniously started construction Wednesday on a long-awaited, $838 million neurosciences center in the Dwight neighborhood, celebrating the forthcoming addition as “transformative” for patients with brain-related illnesses.
by | Aug 16, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (15)
Site work underway at Orchard and George.
Sign posted at site of future neuroscience center.
After more than two years of pandemic-induced delays, Yale New Haven Hospital has revived its neuroscience center development plans — with construction vehicles now on site at the southern end of the St. Raphael’s campus, and local building permits pulled for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of medical-center-expansion work soon to come.
by | Aug 1, 2022 2:45 pm | Comments (10)
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Tom Lehtonen, Honda Smith, and Frank Cochran cut ribbon on new West River pedestrian bridge.
Anna Baker accompanied her grandmother Nan Bartow to walk for the first time across a new West River pedestrian bridge.
by | Jul 29, 2022 2:36 pm | Comments (3)
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Everyone got out safely when a fire engulfed a West River house on Friday.
by | Jul 10, 2022 5:22 pm | Comments (3)
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Blumenthal Sunday after Mass at St. Michael.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal brought a message back from Ukraine to New Haven Sunday, and received one in return.
Continue reading ‘Back From Kyiv, Blumenthal Promises To Keep Up The Pressure’
by | Jun 27, 2022 2:43 pm | Comments (15)
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Left: Edison's back stairwell before cleanup; right: buckets absorb the leak in Edison's kids' bedroom.
Edison's check from court.
Hawa Edison will resume paying rent to her landlord for the first time in eight months — the first time in years since the ceiling of her kids’ bedroom has been intact and free of mold.
Continue reading ‘Ceiling Fixed After Rent Goes Into Escrow’
by | Jun 22, 2022 2:30 pm | Comments (2)
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New property manager Joe Katz at 76 Sherman Ave.: "Things look fine."
A 22-unit Sherman Avenue apartment complex once known as “The Cage” has changed hands for $3.3 million — nearly twice the amount its former landlord paid for the property seven years ago.
by | Jun 9, 2022 5:02 pm | Comments (8)
Darryl Brackeen and Pat Dillon.
Darryl Brackeen Jr. won’t be mounting a Democratic primary challenge for a state representative seat after all, but he’s still eyeing the seat. He is now turning his campaign sights to November, after failing to gather enough qualified petition signatures to force an August Democratic primary against State Rep. Pat Dillon.
Continue reading ‘Brackeen's State Rep Primary Petition Drive Comes Up Short; Eyes General Election’
by | May 20, 2022 5:56 pm | Comments (11)
Darryl Brackeen Jr. and Pat Dillon.
At least one Democratic primary contest is brewing in New Haven this year, in the 92nd General Assembly District.
by | May 2, 2022 1:38 pm | Comments (17)
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Customer Bill Kux with his Monday purchases: Will miss store and the "rewards," whatever they're worth.
The Rite Aid at 249 Legion Ave. is scheduled to close on May 12 — only six years after it opened.
Continue reading ‘Legion Ave. Rite Aid Closing; Actor Bummed’
by | Apr 10, 2022 9:23 pm | Comments (14)
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Yevgeny and Kristyna with baby Leonell Sunday at St. Michael's Church.
Yevgeny and Kristyna Biziaieva and their three children observed Palm Sunday on George Street, the first Ukrainian refugee family to be welcomed in New Haven since the war broke out.
by | Feb 27, 2022 4:34 pm | Comments (10)
Parishioners sing Ukrainian national anthem at St. Michael Church.
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Myron Melnyk, at right, Sunday with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who invited him to Tuesday night's State of the Union address.
The first Sunday of the war in Ukraine saw prayer services at New Haven’s Ukrainian churches attracting hundreds of patriotic parishioners and supportive political leaders, all determined to see Ukraine remain a free, independent nation.
Ukrainians greeted each other with “Heroyam Slava” — “Glory to the Ukrainian fighters.” Then they prayed, shared heart-rending stories of killed or endangered relatives, and found hope in the continuing fight against Russian invaders.
by | Feb 24, 2022 9:43 pm | Comments (14)
At Thursday night's church service on George Street.
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Alexandra Altrui: "My poor country."
As Russian forces pushed towards Kyiv Thursday night, Alexandra Altrui sat in a back pew of the Ukrainian Catholic church on George Street and wept — praying for her nephew as he prepared to take up arms to defend her home country under siege.
by | Dec 16, 2021 3:26 pm | Comments (11)
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Rapper Dustystaystrue back at Barnard Thursday after a national tour.
Five hundred students gathered in the courtyard of Barnard Environmental Science and Technology School roared with excitement Thursday morning as Dustystaytrue’s “Never Change” blared from the speakers — and the rising rapper himself arrived on scene.
by | Dec 10, 2021 2:14 pm | Comments (2)
A Covid-19 outbreak at Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School has led to the largest quarantine to date at a New Haven public school.
