by | Feb 21, 2024 6:21 pm | Comments (6)
Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez: The Hill's happening.
Two affordable housing developments are a step closer to materializing in the Hill, along with the nearby revival of the old Coliseum site, thanks to approvals from the Board of Alders.
by | Feb 21, 2024 9:12 am | Comments (10)
Inside the Arvinas lab.
A growing New Haven biopharma company won “fast-track” federal review for a drug it’s developing to fight breast cancer.
Meanwhile it administered the first human test dose of another drug it has under development, to tackle neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s.
by | Feb 20, 2024 2:21 pm | Comments (0)
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Co-owners Donald Moody and Mujahid Mohammed with Dannie Beverly of Made in Greenwood smoke shop.
Mujahid Mohammed had a dream. So did Dannie Beverly. And Donald Moody. It was, as it turned out, the same dream.
“All three of us did time in prison, and we wanted to come up with something for the community, a platform to give back, and that was starting our own business,” said Mohammed on a recent afternoon at Made in Greenwood.
by and | Feb 16, 2024 2:54 pm | Comments (25)
Builder Clay Fowler (at center): Market's back, but construction costs rose too.
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The vacant lot where a hotel is slated to rise.
A developer has revived the idea of building a hotel, rather than apartments, on the vacant lot that once housed Webster Bank. The city gave him some extra time to decide.
Continue reading ‘Hotel Might Come To Ex-Webster Lot After All’
by | Feb 15, 2024 2:30 pm | Comments (14)
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has allocated a $2.5 million grant to help fund a new terminal at Tweed airport.
by | Feb 15, 2024 12:40 pm | Comments (3)
A plan to build affordable housing for veterans has been discharged due to a bad parking design.
by | Feb 14, 2024 4:42 pm | Comments (4)
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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Congressional staffer Lou Mangini, fest chief Shelley Quiala, and A&I staff at Wednesday's announcement.
The International Festival of Arts and Ideas has received a federal grant for $45,000 to support two of its events this June — adding to a larger pot of federal support for the organization as it lays out its lineup for the summer and charts its path forward as an organization for this year and beyond.
by | Feb 13, 2024 4:12 pm | Comments (62)
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Tiny particles from Tweed planes like this one have raised concerns about Morris Cove air.
An air pollution researcher reported finding that unregulated “ultrafine” particles spike when Tweed airplanes take off and land — prompting neighbors to consider whether to adjust their daily routines to avoid air pollution, and the airport to double down on plans to expand their operations.
Continue reading ‘"Ultrafine" Pollution Enters Tweed Debate’
by | Feb 13, 2024 2:17 pm | Comments (0)
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In advance of Valentine’s Day, city officials gathered outside “Sweet Mary’s Bake Shop” and called on consumers to open their hearts (read, “wallets”) and shop local in support of their city.
I visited each of the Court Street small businesses courted by politicians at the event and made my own wish list.
by | Feb 5, 2024 1:29 pm | Comments (1)
WaveMAX's ribbon-cutting ceremony.
In December, Michelle Robinson graduated from the city’s program for new entrepreneurs. Last week, she and her husband Jazz Stair celebrated the grand opening of WaveMAX, their new laundromat in Quinnipiac Meadows.
by | Feb 1, 2024 4:09 pm | Comments (29)
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Neighbor Shawn: Affordable apartments needed to combat high rent.
10 Liberty St.
An abandoned lighting manufacturing hub will soon transform into 150 below-market apartments a block from Union Station, if a development plan comes to fruition.
by | Feb 1, 2024 12:46 pm | Comments (53)
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Carlota Clark at Wednesday evening's open house at Science Park.
A rendering from Pine's presentation: Apartments up to $4,500 a month on Winchester Ave.
As Science Park developers presented renderings of a housing complex soon to rise on Winchester Ave., Carlota Clark wondered if one of the 283 apartments would someday be hers.
by | Jan 29, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (42)
"Just look at this place": State Attorney General Tong, Mayor Elicker, State Sen. Looney, and DEEP Commissioner Dykes on Monday.
State officials stumbled across the littered grounds leading up to English Station to announce a lawsuit filed on the same grounds as other failed threats against United Illuminating — seeking to re-energize the company’s long-delayed remediation of the site.
by | Jan 25, 2024 4:15 pm | Comments (21)
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Kennies Earl: Not "invisible."
Mother Juniper members Lindsay Skedgell and Christian Abbott: Jamming conversion plans.
Mother Juniper frontwoman Lindsay Skedgell unplugged from her Vox AC15 and tuned into Zoom from a “vacant” ex-factory building to send developers a message: 91 Shelton is far from empty.
Skedgell was among dozens of artists who banded together to flood the City Plan Commission’s Zoom room after hearing earlier that day that their studio space, a five-story former factory building at 91 Shelton Ave., is slated for sale to a self-storage company.
Continue reading ‘91 Shelton Studios Smash Storage Space Sale’
by | Jan 22, 2024 12:15 pm | Comments (3)
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LaundroMax GM Chris Walker (center) with officials at ribbon-cutting.
By the time officials arrived to cut the ribbon on the west side’s newest laundromat, customers were already inside using the state-of-the-art washing machines. The air was fragrant with the smell of fabric softener and dryer sheets, and the speakers pumped in classic Mary J. Blige and Erykah Badu.
by | Jan 19, 2024 8:50 am | Comments (14)
Veterans group members at the Long Wharf memorial.
A local nonprofit is backing up but not out on plans to convert a vacant lot into housing for vets — after the city rejected their idea to let vets back their cars over sidewalks and into an intersection.
Continue reading ‘Vets' Housing Plan Returned To Drafting Table’
by | Jan 18, 2024 12:34 pm | Comments (35)
Design for one of the planned courts.
Break out the paddles, because indoor pickleball is coming to town.
Continue reading ‘Pickleball Complex OK'd For Valley Street’
by | Jan 16, 2024 4:00 pm | Comments (48)
Trachten in the office: Fed up with people saying, "We have a crisis -- so all rules out the window; we can do whatever the fuck we want.”
If you’ve ever had to go before the Board of Zoning Appeals, you probably know Ben Trachten.
by | Jan 15, 2024 11:57 am | Comments (10)
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Aric Isaacs and Ian Alderman inside the space at 280 Blake St. to be developed into a black box theater.
A local theater troupe is setting the stage to bring a black box theater to Blake Street.
Continue reading ‘Broken Umbrella Pushes Black Box For Blake’
by | Jan 12, 2024 11:32 am | Comments (49)
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City Plan chief Laura Brown Thursday night: Help us chart city's future.
The city invited the public to a launch party for a once-in-a-decade rewrite of New Haven’s primary land use document — and the community showed up.
by | Jan 9, 2024 3:45 pm | Comments (8)
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Anesthesia's storefront: "Thirsty Trap" for sale?
The state is suing Chapel Street’s Anesthesia Convenience & Smoke Shop as part of a crackdown on stores allegedly selling illegal cannabis products.
Continue reading ‘State Sues Smoke Shop For Alleged Cannabis Sales’
by | Jan 9, 2024 9:05 am | Comments (31)
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Artist and customer Susan Clinard in Artist & Craftsman on Monday: "It’s one of those last-standing real art stores.”
“It is a disaster for our block. We LOVE this store. I am so angry.” “It’s my life’s blood.” “This is a huge bummer … I’m there weekly with buying materials for my work or for my class at CAW.” “I feel bad for us but also the wonderful staff who have always been so great.”
These were a few of the many outcries from New Haven artists and citizens as news spread yesterday that Artist & Craftsman Supply, at 821 – 825 Chapel St., had announced it would be closing in early March.
by | Jan 8, 2024 4:27 pm | Comments (25)
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Jisu Sheen helps customer Monday at soon-to-close Artist & Craftsman.
Jisu Sheen refuses to sign away her rights in return for four weeks of severance pay. Including to a company she supposedly “owns.”
Continue reading ‘Worker-"Owner" Won't Shut Up For Severance’
by | Jan 8, 2024 11:26 am | Comments (0)
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Hallie "Rock" Bolden, Jr. with Hallie "Bizzy" Bolden III.
The bell above the door sounded at DA’W.O.R.L.D., the Whalley Avenue mecca for men’s urban clothing.
“Coming in for some love,” the customer said, dapping up DA’W.O.R.L.D. manager Hallie “Bizzy” Bolden III, wardrobe consultant Tariq “Riq” Bolden and owner Hallie “Rock” Bolden, Jr. behind the counter. “Have a good one.”
by | Jan 4, 2024 1:15 pm | Comments (16)
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These kids can't drive or park on River Street, but they'll be able to kick the ball.
What if 12 kids playing soccer in a vacant warehouse becomes 200?
City Plan commissioners debated that allegedly nightmare scenario for an hour before deciding they could live with it after all — as long as the number of players, benchwarmers and spectators doesn’t escalate beyond that cap.
Continue reading ‘Commission Frets Over Kids Playing Soccer’
