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New Farnam Courts May Push Out Men’s Shelter
The housing authority’s latest plans to revamp a Grand Avenue public-housing complex call for two new mid-rise apartment buildings with a corner store, 13 townhouses—and, down the line, buying and...
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City Reels In A Big Green Fish
Let’s fix that pier—and give the fisherman who climbed around that chain-link fence more places to catch snapper.
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Amid the whining of power sanders, the droning of drills, and stereos playing Mexican folk music, the interior of a future bar or restaurant was taking shape in the corner of a Fair Haven factory. A...
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Easter Comes Early To Farnam Courts
The cops showed up at Farnam Courts—to bring in the Easter holiday.
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Landlord, Tenant Vie To Revive State & James
One of New Haven’s hottest new-media entrepreneurs and his landlord, a deep-pocket New York developer, are competing to turn a vacant former CT Transit bus garage into what the city envisions as a...
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470 James Choice: Tech Vs. Food; Local Vs. NYC
An abandoned bus garage at the gateway to Fair Haven could become a big-box supermarket — or else a “cool space” incubation hub for “a new generation of makers.”
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State Approves $200K For Clock Factory Study
New Haven still believes it can do better than having a strip club at a sprawling complex where more than 1,500 workers once turned out more than three million clocks a year. The state has agreed to...
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Trailblazers Clear Way For A Mill River Path
Fish swim in it, birds nest by its banks, and soon even pedestrians may be able to walk comfortably along the shore of an historic city river.
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Fire Finishes Off Former Pipe Bending Addition
A small fire led the city to order the city to do what the city planned to do anyway: Demolish an abandoned factory addition at 142 River St.
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$3.75M State Loan Keeps Dwight Gardens Rescue On Track
Ladders were up and the saws out to prepare a Dwight housing complex for along-awaited rebirth, thanks in part to a $3.75 million loan from the state.
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“I Am More Brazilian Than When I Was In Brazil”
“Most martial artists think capoeira is just a dance,” said Efraim Silva, “but it is really a very powerful hidden martial art.”
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State Coming Through For New Tech Hub
The governor has OK’d sending New Haven $5.5 million to clean up a polluted former state bus depot so a new tech campus can rise there. Now the question is how quickly the project can move through the...
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James Street Site Clean-up Plan A Go
Developers looking to transform the former CT Transit bus depot into a multimillion-dollar tech and innovation campus can start moving dirt this month — to demolish a huge piece of the existing...
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“Cool” Tech Hub Fast-Tracked
City lawmakers were so determined to move ahead a plan to build a new $16 million tech and innovation campus that they voted ... not to vote to approve it.
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“Robust Dust” Plan Clears Way For Industrial Pile To Grow
Piles of steel, rebar, and other heavy industrial materials are about to grow higher along the banks of the Mill River, despite fears of neighbors about what’s in the dust that gets kicked up in the...
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Mill River Trail Gets Seed Money
The city got a state grant to develop a trail along the Mill River between East Rock Park and Grand Avenue—furthering a project years in the making to create a connected system of trails and bike routes.
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Visiting Bear Tranquilized
A black bear roamed around the Mill River, East Rock, Fair Haven, and Jocelyn Square Tuesday before cops and state Department of Environmental Protection officers cornered him, tranquilized him, and...
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Crabs Caught, River Trail Hailed
Hector Diaz was netting healthy-sized blue crabs and even big eels in the Mill River Tuesday afternoon.Two dozen non-angling environmental and development officials from the city and state, along with...
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Alder, East St. Neighbors Oppose Homeless Shelter’s Move
Operators of a Grand Avenue homeless shelter looking to move around the block will have to wait at least another month before the zoning board can vote on its relocating request. The reason for the...
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Shelter Starts Again In Home Search
New Haven’s top economic development official has promised to help a Grand Avenue homeless shelter find a new home now that the zoning board has denied its request for permission to move to an empty...
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