by | Jun 14, 2023 11:14 am | Comments (8)
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2019 model New England Golf Cars cart: Gas for now, electric soon?
Seventy-five gas guzzling golf carts are rolling towards another three-year deal for New Haven’s municipal green links — with green energy plans in the works to go electric when the course’s clubhouse renovations are complete.
Continue reading ‘City Swings For Gas-Powered Golf Carts ... For Now’
by | May 3, 2023 11:56 am | Comments (3)
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The Trelleborg plant at 30 Lenox St.
A fabric-coating chemical manufacturer on Lenox Street has been fined over $305,000 for allegedly violating a federal air-pollution law — and must now clean up its act, or shut down entirely, by this summer.
by | Apr 13, 2023 4:10 pm | Comments (7)
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Judge Spader: If tenant's out by May, eviction case will disappear.
A state judge granted a Newhallville tenant an eviction reprieve after a Fair Haven Heights landlord testified that the renter could move into an apartment he owns on Lenox Street, thus sparing her from getting kicked out of her current home.
Continue reading ‘Lenox Landlord Prevents Sheffield Eviction’
by | Feb 24, 2023 10:42 am | Comments (1)
The Mandy-controlled two-story house at 698 Dixwell.
An affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management is looking to add one more apartment to a two-story Newhallville house — rather than build six new rental units or bring in a commercial tenant.
Continue reading ‘Mandy Eyes New Groundfloor Apartment On Dixwell’
by | Feb 2, 2023 8:59 am | Comments (8)
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Friends Center ED Allyx Schiavone: Building housing for teachers.
4 new houses (solid-line rectangles) planned for around 53 Howard.
A local affordable childcare nonprofit is looking to take on the role of housing developer — as it moves forward with plans to expand its current rent-free-shelter options for teachers, by building four new houses in Fair Haven Heights.
by | Dec 15, 2022 3:24 pm | Comments (2)
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Sean Reeves at Wednesday's vigil at St. James Episcopal Church.
Dozens of advocates against gun violence gathered in Fair Haven Heights to mourn the 26 young people murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School — as well as the hundreds of fellow Connecticut residents shot to death each year — in a solemn ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of a preventable tragedy.
Continue reading ‘“Every Day Is An Anniversary of a Gun Death”’
by | Dec 8, 2022 4:14 pm | Comments (18)
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Marie takes the stairs up from Building D's garage.
A Bella Vista elevator is once again out of commission, leaving residents of the Fair Haven Heights elderly apartment complex’s Building D to test cardiovascular conditions and mobility challenges while walking up and down the stairs from the ground floor lobby to access their cars.
by | Jul 3, 2022 9:12 pm | Comments (3)
A shooting sent a 5‑year-old boy and his 26-year-old father to the hospital.
by | Jun 7, 2022 4:27 pm | Comments (14)
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Collapsing back roof of 201 Summit.
Norbert Church: No hint of what's inside.
A foreclosed house on a Fair Haven Heights block of pastel-painted single-family homes eluded the hands of investors — landing instead in the hands of a soon-to-be-first-time homeowner, who hopes to live there with his family.
by | May 20, 2022 9:36 am | Comments (1)
Friends Center for Children sent in this article and these photos about a recent event it organized.
What do we want? To fix child care! – and have some fun along the way.
Last Saturday marked the 10th New Haven Family Stroll and Festival, an annual event to raise awareness and much-needed funds for high-quality early care and education. After a two-year Covid-induced hiatus, this year’s event grew by over 300 people and had over 1,220 children, parents, educators and advocates converge at the Quinnipiac River Park for a day of awareness, fundraising and family fun
by | May 6, 2022 12:37 pm | Comments (9)
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Entrance to Wheeler Street waste-transfer site.
Do seagulls on the site of an Annex waste transfer station mean that the place is filthy, smelly, and in violation of city zoning rules?
Or does that web-footed, salt-water-drinking avian presence reflect nothing more than the facility’s riverfront location — and the fact that there are lots of seagulls up and down the coast?
Continue reading ‘Transfer Station Debate Goes To The Gulls’
by | Apr 27, 2022 2:26 pm | Comments (1)
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With four hours of sometimes passionate debate, Fair Haven Heights environmental activists succeeded in putting off renewal of the permit for the solid waste transfer station at 19 Wheeler St. on the Quinnipiac River.
Continue reading ‘Transfer Station's Permit Renewal Fought, Delayed’
by | Mar 29, 2022 9:20 am | Comments (5)
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Goode leads urban explorers into wilderness, clears invasive species.
Environmental advocate Aaron Goode, loppers in hand, smiled as he looked over the hikers who had just waded through ankle-deep mud to get around a fence built across Hemingway Creek, behind the Bella Vista apartment complex.
Continue reading ‘Heights Wilderness Explored; Invaders Felled’
by | Feb 14, 2022 4:02 pm | Comments (0)
The word on Foxon Boulevard Monday was: Love lives on Valentine’s Day.
by | Feb 9, 2022 5:17 pm | Comments (8)
A state judge gave a 74-year-old tenant until the end of the month to move her belongings out of her Fair Haven Heights apartment, while her daughter seeks to relocate her mom from the hospital and into a nursing home.
Continue reading ‘Eviction Of Hospitalized Tenant, 74, Upheld’
by | Jan 20, 2022 4:33 pm | Comments (7)
Jahmal Furman's dining room ceiling, before and after being repaired. It took his landlord nearly four months to make the fix.
Furman: "I just wanted them to fix the ceiling."
A rainstorm knocked a hole in Jahmal Furman’s ceiling, which remained unrepaired for nearly four months.
A rent dispute stemming from the Quinnipiac Avenue tenant’s concerns over delayed maintenance may now lead to his eviction.
Continue reading ‘Leaky Ceiling, Rent Dispute Spark Eviction Case’
by | Jan 18, 2022 2:38 pm | Comments (3)
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Ozyck and Curran cross the reopened bridge on Day One.
After waiting nearly two years, neighbors Rosie Ozyck and Donna Curran got to walk across the Grand Avenue bridge Tuesday — and meet up more efficiently for their daily stroll.
Continue reading ‘They Crossed That Bridge When They Came To It’
by | Jan 15, 2022 5:51 pm | Comments (4)
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Bridge party! On Grand Avenue Saturday.
Repainted, rehabbed, and reopening (on Tuesday).
Engineer Giovanni Zinn shows underside of bridge's "exodermic" deck.
Dozens of Fair Haven and Heights residents braved the single-digit cold for a neighborhood-spanning celebration above the Quinnipiac River, as the historic Grand Avenue Bridge — fresh off of a $28 million, on-time-and-under-budget rehab — prepares to reopen for the first time in nearly two years.
by | Nov 15, 2021 4:52 pm | Comments (4)
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Operation Hug: Staff sergeant Andre Cunningham greets 4-year-old Moriah after four-month deployment.
Serenity before her father’s surprise arrival.
Andre Cunningham came home from a four-month deployment in the Middle East a week early — and deployed to Benjamin Jepson School for a surprise mission.
by | Nov 12, 2021 9:16 am | Comments (3)
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RegalCare nursing home at 181 Clifton St.
A Bronx-based nursing home company has purchased the 150-bed RegalCare facility in Fair Haven Heights for just under $8 million, in the city’s latest property transactions.
Continue reading ‘Real Estate Roundup: Heights Nursing Home Sold For $7.99M’
by | Nov 2, 2021 2:24 pm | Comments (5)
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Jingle-jangle morning: Greens Patricia Kane and Allan Brison shake for change outside Jepson polling station.
Leslie Crescenzi came to the polls Tuesday undecided on whom to vote for as her alder. She desired change but wasn’t familiar with the candidates. Then a loud ringing made up her mind.
Continue reading ‘Candidate Wins 2 Votes With Tambourine Shake’
by | Oct 31, 2021 12:20 pm | Comments (5)
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UI crew on scene at Bella Vista.
Three hundred sixty tenants spent the night without power at Bella Vista, the second mass outage in two weeks.
Continue reading ‘Power Outage Hits Hundreds Of Seniors Again At Bella Vista’
by | Oct 19, 2021 8:41 am | Comments (21)
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Builder Joe Levy and Q Meadows Alder Gerald Antunes at City Hall vote.
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Rendering of 27 apartments planned for Hemingway.
The Board of Alders overwhelmingly approved selling a 1.29-acre Hemingway Street plot for $40,000 to a New York City-based developer that plans to build 27 new apartments on the vacant site, which includes wetlands.
Continue reading ‘Alders OK Heights Sale For New Apartments’
by | Oct 18, 2021 9:51 am | Comments (4)
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Outside Bella Vista’s Building E on Friday afternoon.
Gayle Hall, Tomas Robles, and Griselle Crespo awaiting help.
Three days after the lights went out at a Bella Vista high rise, dozens of displaced tenants remain in area hotel rooms and at family members’ homes as the apartment complex’s managers try to figure out what caused the power outage — and how to fix it.
by | Oct 15, 2021 10:08 am | Comments (53)
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Ward 13 alder candidates Rosa Santana (vaxed, pro-mandate), Patricia Kane (vaxed, anti-mandate), Deborah Reyes (unvaxxed, anti-mandate).
Fair Haven Heights voters have more choices than anyone else in town in this year’s general election: Three different candidates are seeking their support for alder in the Nov. 2 election, and they offer three mixes of positions on issues ranging from health care to policing.
Continue reading ‘In The Heights, 3 Candidates = 3 Opinions’
