Cannabis dispensary, now under construction at ex-Long Wharf Theatre site.
“Given the increasing likelihood of more frequent and severe storms, should we as a city pull back from the shoreline, or should we allow more development in coastal areas?”
Westville Alder Adam Marchand posed that question to his fellow local legislators — and successfully urged his colleagues to choose the latter vision and rezone Long Wharf to become more walkable and densely built.
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Chef Marc Ramirez at the grill.
On a picture-perfect Sunday afternoon, kids moon-bounced, Fats Domino crooned, and Barbara Montalvo was dancing in the middle of Glen Road.
Barbara Montalvo.
“This is a fun, joyous event, neighbors loving neighbors, this is the community coming out embracing everybody, regardless of age, gender, color, creed, background,” she said, mid-swivel, amid the aroma of grilled hotdogs and burgers and the air of late-summer revelry in the tree-lined shade.
Elicker, Abdussabur offer different takeaways at Jepsen mayoral forum.
Days after a rainstorm flooded Tweed airport and left passengers temporarily stranded, mayoral candidates conveyed varying takes on the airport’s economic value and environmental impact to its neighbors.
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Jul 13, 2023 9:28 am
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Attendees at Wednesday's Grand Avenue Special Services District board meeting.
The Grand Avenue Special Services District voted to partner with a sister business improvement organization downtown to try to raise funds to cover the costs of everything from cleaning graffiti off of buildings to power-washing sidewalks to improving the area’s trash collection, all with the goal of making Fair Haven a safer and cleaner place to shop.
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Jun 21, 2023 9:07 am
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The proposed new apartment building at 873-897 Grand.
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873-887 Grand as it looks today.
A New York-based landlord plans to knock down two vacant Grand Avenue commercial buildings and build 112 new apartments in their stead on the northern end of Wooster Square.
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Apr 17, 2023 3:33 pm
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A shower of pink, for 50th straight year.
Valentina Simon doing her thing at Sunday's fest.
Amid a riot of pink blossoms, the scent of spring in the air, and the sounds of Airborne’s “Groovin’ on a Sunday Afternoon,” Valentina Simon leapt and spun and twirled in front of the bandstand, prompting others to join her.
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Mar 24, 2023 3:23 pm
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Police cars on Lewis Street after Thursday evening's shooting.
When seven gunshots popped from a car outside a Lewis Street rental home, the children next door wailed and trembled, and their parents scrambled to explain away the sounds as fireworks.
Edward Bouchet, as painted on Henry St. by artist Kwadwo Adae.
Robert Lucas: "My main point is rethinking Eli Whitney."
Should Whitney Avenue hold onto the name of the cotton-gin inventor who played a key role in the expansion of slavery?
Not according to a Yale business student, who’s pointed to the university’s first African American doctorate holder as an alternative namesake for the East Rock corridor.
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Feb 22, 2023 9:22 am
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Fair Haven Alders Sarah Miller and Claudia Herrera (right) talking with Alexis Cruz on a recent neighborhood walk.
Caroline Smith at the triangular island at Monroe and Alton.
Litter on Monroe Street — and a perilously crash-prone intersection at Blatchley and Peck — led two Fair Haven alders and a handful of neighbors to knock on doors and talk with residents about how to improve the area’s quality of life.
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Feb 1, 2023 12:30 pm
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At Tuesday's presser: KeyBank's Analisha Michanczyk, ConnCORP COO Paul McCraven, KeyBank's Matthew Hummel, ConnCORP Board Chair Carlton Highsmith; ConnCorp CEO Erik Clemons, Lab Executive Director Aya Beckles Swanson, and ConnCORP Chief Investment Officer Anna Blanding.
A vegan baker, a mobile notary, and a professional organizer were among the 20 hand-picked Greater New Haven minority business owners to embark on a rigorous entrepreneurial boot camp — and to benefit from a new $1 million grant designed in part to help that program and its participants thrive.
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Sandra's owners Miguel and Sandra Pittman: Planning to push back on zoning board rejection.
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The contested outdoor refrigeration containers on Arch St.
City zoners turned down a Congress Avenue culinary institution’s bid to store five outdoor fridges in a residentially zoned area — following testimony from the restaurant’s neighbor that the restaurant’s expansion has resulted not just in nationally renowned chicken wings, but also pesky rodents and stenches.
The restaurant’s owners now plan to contest that decision so that they can continue to keep corn, sugar, flour and plenty of perishables nearby as they look to continue serving the neighborhood they’ve long called home.
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Jan 10, 2023 9:01 am
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A Sunday walk in the Fair Haven Heights woods.
Talk about a geological, paleontological, and historical marvel.
That’s Quarry Park Preserve, which was the site on Sunday of an hour-long walking tour that began at the Friends Meeting House at 225 East Grand Ave. in Fair Haven Heights. It was led by the New Haven Bioregional Group’s Aaron Goode and Friends of Quarry Park Founder Tracy Blanford.
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Dec 21, 2022 9:11 am
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Ann Swain and Kim Harris at management team holiday party.
Ann Swain wiped tears from her eyes as Newhallville Community Management Team Chair Kim Harris listed all of the little reasons that make her a neighborhood hero — from returning trash cans to neighbors’ homes after the garbage truck comes to going door-to-door to making sure every kid on the street gets treats from block parties they couldn’t attend.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 7, 2022 8:51 am
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Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A Fair Haven community healthcare center has won a key city approval needed to expand its parking lot — and, eventually, its Grand Avenue headquarters.
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Nov 28, 2022 3:11 pm
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Sabrina Gibbs with daughters Xora and Nova.
Alder Smith greets Stetson Librarian Diane Brown.
Sabrina Gibbs and her two daughters Xora and Nova got a slice of their new neighborhood — and a slice or two of pumpkin pie — at a reborn West Hills community center’s inaugural “Our Table” Thanksgiving dinner.
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Nov 21, 2022 11:00 am
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Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde and attorney Meaghan Miles at Thursday's Board of Alders Legislation Committee meeting.
Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) is on its way to getting new city approvals to bring more cars to its grounds — as the nonprofit advances towards executing a broader vision of expanding its community healthcare campus on Grand Avenue.
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Nov 1, 2022 11:11 am
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At Monday's trunk-or-treat on Ashmun St.
Baby Savannah practices candy crawling her own way Monday night.
Little mermaids, Minions and monsters gathered outside of the Connecticut Violence Intervention Program’s headquarters Monday — to take turns “trunk or treating” within a web of safety-minded community members and their cars.
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Oct 26, 2022 3:45 pm
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Grand Cafe plaza regular Curt Duarte (at left): We're being targeted.
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A protest/sit-in/"occupation" of the Grand Cafe parking lot in Sept. 2021.
The parking lot outside of the Grand Cafe swelled last fall with live music, poetry, and pizza as activists gathered to “reclaim” a Fair Haven corner known for attracting violence.
A year later the bar is closed, shootings are down, and a new set of neighbors fills the lot with cannabis smoke and stereo tunes.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 25, 2022 1:10 pm
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Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A health center’s plan to rezone a Fair Haven block to allow for more parking, and eventually a larger medical campus, moved ahead — despite city staff’s initial recommendation of denial.
Congress/Davenport apartment plan, now OK'd by City Plan.
Make way for 194 new apartments on Congress and Davenport Avenues, now that a California-based developer has won a key — and hotly contested — city approval.
City 911 director Joe Vitale: "Trying to repair what is happening."
The city’s director of public safety communications had a message for the Hill South community management team: in an emergency, call 911 — not the personal number of the neighborhood’s top cop.
“We did call 911,” responded Meghan Currey, who heads the neighborhood’s Wilson Library Branch. “Nobody ever answered.”
