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Erick Gonzalez, Annette Genovese, and Rosa at Martinez-hosted meetup.
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One possibility: a Mill River boardwalk?
To revitalize a neighborhood known for its warehouses and abandoned factories, focus on nature.
Residents and business owners offered that advice to city officials planning a more walkable, community-oriented Mill River district.
by | Feb 1, 2024 5:26 pm | Comments (1)
City Health Director Maritza Bond Thursday at her department's new HQ: Wellness the new "holistic approach."
City officials cut the ribbon on a “health and wellness” center — and hoped the fresh color scheme and branding strategy could sell STI tests, school physicals and flu vaccinations to the public as presents rather than punishments.
by | Dec 6, 2023 11:17 am | Comments (3)
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Testing forces inside Kara Bartunek's third-grade class.
Conte West Hills School third graders Olivia and Deon played tug-of-war in their classroom — not to see who was the strongest, but instead to conduct a science experiment to learn about forces.
by | Nov 8, 2023 2:11 pm | Comments (18)
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Rolling down Chapel Street towards the scrapyard.
Mike P. doesn’t remember exactly when he last voted. It was probably a decade ago, likely for President Barack Obama.
As he pushed a shopping cart full of bicycle wheels and mattress frames and long metal poles to a Chapel Street scrapyard, he reflected on what would convince him to return to the polls: a candidate committed to making “a very, very, very noticeable difference for the homeless community.”
by | Nov 2, 2023 3:56 pm | Comments (61)
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Ellen Cupo and Andrea Zola debate.
Two Wooster Square residents running for alder convened for a debate — and sketched out diverging visions for policing, addiction treatment, and the legitimacy of the Republican Party.
by | Sep 15, 2023 2:43 pm | Comments (39)
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Mandy Management CEO Yudi Gurevitch, at 399 Whalley main office: "We want our tenants, our residents to be happy, to feel safe, to have a good home. ... [W]e want them to feel that we're responsive, that we're there. Because we are."
At the warehouse, with a handful of plumbing supplies.
Inside a Wallace Street warehouse filled with refrigerators and stoves and plywood and snow blowers and water heaters and closet doors and toilets and sheetrock, Yudi Gurevitch engaged in the latest step of retooling, and rebuilding the reputation of, one of New Haven’s largest landlord empires. He wedged himself in between two shelves overflowing with plumbing supplies and lifted up one of dozens of plastic-wrapped SharkBite fittings.
“The goal is to have everything you could ever need for a property management company in stock,” he said. That way, when a Mandy Management property needs repairs — big or small, day or night — his company has the right parts ready to go.
Continue reading ‘"We're Not Sharks": Next Gen Mandy Aims To Do Better’
by | Aug 17, 2023 9:50 am | Comments (19)
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133 Hamilton: From storied factory to affordable housing complex?
The city’s public housing authority plans to purchase the New Haven Clock Company building on Hamilton Street and convert it into 100 mixed-income, mostly-affordable apartments — but only after the abandoned factory’s current owners rid the property of all remaining toxins.
Continue reading ‘Housing Authority To Buy Clock Shop For $4.5M’
by | May 30, 2023 11:22 am | Comments (40)
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Ward 8 alder challenger Andrea Zola and incumbent Ellen Cupo.
A bridal business owner with local political history roots has filed to run against Wooster Square’s two-term, union-affiliated incumbent alder in a Democratic race that sheds light on a neighborhood in flux.
Continue reading ‘Alder Challenge Charts Changing Wooster Sq’
by | May 17, 2023 3:26 pm | Comments (6)
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Vilmarie Ayala emerged from The Meat King market Wednesday morning with no meat.
She did have a smile. Thanks to the 3‑year-old girl running around the quiet parking lot playing with cardboard boxes.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Grand Avenue: Where's The Beef?’
by | May 8, 2023 11:54 am | Comments (5)
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Not energy efficient enough for Texas? ACs piled high inside the newly built, opened, and HVAC-giant-leased Building A at 50 Ives Pl.
Truck driver Dennis Brown pulls up for a Monday morning drop-off.
Texas-built air conditioners are stacked high inside of a new 42,000 square-foot warehouse off of East Street — thanks to an international HVAC giant’s lease of a newly built emblem of New Haven’s delivery economy.
by | May 2, 2023 3:39 pm | Comments (11)
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Missing "I" -- and $235,000 in back taxes and interest.
The current “redevelopers” of an old Hamilton Street clock factory are now looking to sell rather than rebuild the derelict industrial property, according to a new court-filed agreement.
by | Nov 22, 2022 3:18 pm | Comments (14)
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180 Center in-recovery "disciple" James Simon prepares to welcome homeless to warming center.
Short-term cold-weather “warming centers” opened Tuesday while the city and a nonprofit separately prepared to figure out how to spend a combined $7 million on long-term solutions for the homeless.
Continue reading ‘Warming Centers Open, While City Looks To Long-Term Homeless Fixes’
by | Nov 7, 2022 9:21 am | Comments (6)
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Greenberg outside 80 Hamilton: "It'll be a magical place for New Haven."
A local artist and historian with a knack for finding lost artifacts has won a key city approval to convert a former Hamilton Street warehouse into his next curatorial space for Elm City ephemera.
Continue reading ‘Warehouse-To-Museum Conversion OK'd For "Lost" City Treasures’
by | Oct 31, 2022 9:33 am | Comments (0)
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Artist Arizona Taylor.
On Friday evening, the small park between Shelton Avenue, the Farmington Canal Trail, and Hazel Street bloomed into a small arts festival that warmed the cool evening with an explosion of color, sound, and good conversation. It was the beginning of the Artspace-organized Open Source Festival’s weekend of making visual art appear across New Haven, not only from downtown, Westville, and East Rock, but from Newhallville and Dixwell to the Hill and Mill River.
Continue reading ‘Ville, Hill Bring The Art For Open Source Fest’
by | Oct 28, 2022 9:35 am | Comments (15)
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The Wallace St. side of the clock factory: Seen better days.
Grand visions of a new community rising from the ashes of the old Hamilton Street clock factory have disintegrated into a foreclosure lawsuit — and finger-pointing between an Oregon-based developer and the Elicker Administration about why it all fell apart.
Continue reading ‘Accusations, Debts Mount In Clock Shop Debacle’
by | Oct 27, 2022 3:55 pm | Comments (9)
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Third-generation tailor Enzo Valentino with son Antonio at Thursday's ribbon-cutting for family's new shop.
History came full circle on Grand Avenue Wednesday with the help of city government aid aimed at rebuilding a traditional small-business corridor.
Continue reading ‘Shop's Move Tailor-Made For Grand Revival’
by | Sep 20, 2022 7:32 pm | Comments (2)
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Elm City bred and thriving: Teirra, Ebony and Chaance Moore at Tuesday's event.
The Moore family — who found opportunities for better lives in public housing — served as the human face of a celebration of New Haven winning recognition as one of 10 “All-America” cities.
Continue reading ‘"All-American" New Haven Takes A Victory Lap’
by | Jun 3, 2022 9:06 am | Comments (1)
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180 Center leaders join in prayer at dedication of new building.
Over 50 people gathered to celebrate the opening and dedication of a new building for The 180 Center, a Christian nonprofit that provides services for addiction and homelessness in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘"180 Center" Opens New Home On East Street To Address Homelessness, Addiction’
by | Jun 2, 2022 5:57 pm | Comments (16)
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The derelict former clock factory building at 133 Hamilton St.
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Redeveloper Scott Reed at 2018 alder hearing. His company allegedly owes city $137K in back taxes.
Has the clock stopped on a long-delayed effort to convert a derelict former Hamilton Street factory into 130 affordable apartments?
The property’s Oregon-based developer says the project is still moving forward. Three years of unpaid property taxes, a recent default in a tax foreclosure court case, and a spate of city anti-blight and building safety citations suggest a different story.
by | May 31, 2022 4:43 pm | Comments (6)
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Brenda Harris celebrates results of a decade-long process.
Tuesday's Mill River Phase 2 ribbon-cutting.
Brenda Harris fought for safer, higher-quality homes throughout her 50 years living in the once-dilapidated housing complex known as Farnam Courts. On Tuesday, she helped unveil the results of her advocacy: about 200 gleaming new townhouse-style apartments and community spaces in the second phase of a complex reborn as “Mill River Crossing.”
by | May 27, 2022 8:29 am | Comments (4)
The pulsating orb-like structure in the Liberty Science Center appears to float, impossibly, high above the heads of people walking below, as if it’s lighter than air, or underwater. The fact that it isn’t just a sculpture, but in fact a playground for children, only adds to its improbable whimsy. Liberty Science Center is in Jersey City, N.J., but the shop that designed and built the orb, Luckey Climbers, is right in New Haven, on East Street. Its chief architect, Spencer Luckey, has been around the playground design business all his life. He took over the company from his father, and has made dozens of climbers for clients all over the world. But he also has a vision for the Elm City.
by | May 23, 2022 8:38 am | Comments (7)
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50 Ives Pl.
Two concrete emblems of the delivery economy are taking shape atop a site of New Haven’s manufacturing past.
Continue reading ‘Warehouses On Rise At Former Factory Site’
by | May 9, 2022 4:41 pm | Comments (4)
Italian-American Historical Society's Laura Parisi at Monday's "Walk New Haven" event in Lenzi Park.
“Anybody have a guess?” Laura Parisi asked, brandishing a a metal artifiact of the old Grand Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Forgotten Neighborhood's History Springs To Life’
by | Mar 9, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (5)
Eli Westerman, Darlene Casella protest before planned zoning vote.
Planet Venus won’t be landing by Jocelyn Square any time soon.
by | Mar 7, 2022 9:02 pm | Comments (9)
Nesta Allen: "Who are we, nothing?"
Residents gathered in Jocelyn Square Park and then walked surrounding blocks on the eve of a zoning vote to demonstrate that they live in a neighborhood — not in “Las Vegas” or an “industrial wasteland” befitting a midnight-to-dawn BYOB strip club.
