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Artists Go Back In Time At Ex-Clock Factory

Before the new owners of the historic Hamilton Street Clock Factory seal it up and begin the arduous process of turning it into artist lofts, a few ghosts returned to haunt the buildings abandoned halls.

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Bender Stays, Expands

Mayor Toni Harp, Economic Development Officer Matthew Nemerson and other city officials gathered Thursday afternoon for a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of Bender New Haven’s 21,000...

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Neighbors Push Back On Parole Move

Downtown neighbors and city officials don’t disapprove of the prisoner reentry work done by a state parole office that is slated to relocate to Grand Avenue in a few months. They’re just frustrated...

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So Long, Farnam. Hello, “Mill River”

The former Farnam Courts public housing development has traded its dilapidated townhouses for high-rise living, a new name, and views of the Q Bridge and East Rock that rival some of the fanciest digs...

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Life & Death On The Mill River

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Driver Dies In Crash; Car, Body Recovered From Mill River

A 28-year-old Madison man died after his car crashed and fell into the Mill River.

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Farnam — Er ... “Mill River Crossing”— Readies Phase 2

The first two buildings of the redeveloped Farnam Courts public housing development on Grand Avenue — remonikered as Mill River Crossing —  are now nearly filled up. And the public-housing complex has...

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Biz Tour Updates Demo, Parking Plans

Part of English Station is coming down. Half of Church Street South has been demolished. And barbeque is coming to Fair Haven’s new tech hub.Those were some of the takeaways of a 45-minute van tour...

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Clock Shop Lofts Get $800K Clean-Up Loan

The developers of a new 133-unit low-income and artist loft housing complex in Wooster Square will get $800,000 in city-managed federal funds to help pay for part of the site’s estimated $6.6 million...

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Plan Proposes Mill River Clean-Up

Add bioswales up and down James Street. Convert a portion of Exchange Street into a linear trail park. And always keep parking lot dumpsters closed to avoid stormwater runoff contamination.Those are...

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As Goes Georgia, Doesn’t Go Connecticut

In Georgia, Democrats are accusing the secretary of the state of blocking tens of thousands of black people from voting. In New Haven Sunday, black women working to turn out the vote heard a promise...

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Latest Sales: NHR Sheds Small To Focus Big

A local developer who has made a name building apartments for middle-income renters is shedding smaller properties to invest in larger-unit ventures Downtown and in Fair Haven Heights, as reflected in...

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Grand Avenue Dreams

A grocery, a deli, florist, a coffee shop, or an all-purpose hardware store so you wouldn’t have to drive five miles to pick up a nut, bolt, or screw.An ethnic restaurant with tables on the sidewalk,...

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Chinese Manufacturer Comes Shopping

Over a swanky breakfast and then on a tour of tech and manufacturing hot spots, city leaders sought to convert a newly forged Chinese business connection into the creation of up to 100 local jobs.

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As Lofts Loom, Strip Club Gets The Boot

New owners of a former clock factory on the industrial “Mill River” side of Wooster Square have moved to evict a nearly two-decade-old strip club as they prepare to convert the complex into 130...

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Brews & BBQ Stack Up

Pair a Navy vet-restaurateur with Kansas City barbecue roots with a brewery owner who also runs restaurants with a sense of whimsy and a flair for fun — and you get a match made in brew-hog heaven.

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Shuttered Factory Gets Luckey

Inside a Mill River factory where workers once made parts for jet engines, a new crew is designing and building bean-stalk and leaf-petal-designed children’s climbing sculptures to ship to California...

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Pearl Harbor Memorial Park Dedicated

Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, 19-year-old Electrician’s Mate Floyd Welch was pulling together the microphone and other equipment for church services on his ship, the U.S.S. Maryland, anchored,...

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Strip Club Stalls Eviction With Bankruptcy

A Mill River strip club filed for bankruptcy the afternoon before its eviction hearing, buying itself time before having to leave in order to make way for a new complex of 130 low-income apartments and...

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Amid Freeze, Cops Look Out For Homeless

As temperatures dropped into the single digits on Wednesday night, beat cops fanned out across the city searching for anyone who might be at risk of freezing to death.

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