Bills, Blight Bedevil Clock Shop Project
The derelict former clock factory building at 133 Hamilton St.Redeveloper Scott Reed at 2018 alder hearing. His company allegedly owes city $137K in back taxes.Has the clock stopped on a long-delayed...
View Article"180 Center" Opens New Home On East Street To Address Homelessness, Addiction
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...
View Article"All-American" New Haven Takes A Victory Lap
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...
View ArticleShop's Move Tailor-Made For Grand Revival
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...
View ArticleAccusations, Debts Mount In Clock Shop Debacle
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...
View ArticleVille, Hill Bring The Art For Open Source Fest
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...
View ArticleWarehouse-To-Museum Conversion OK'd For "Lost" City Treasures
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...
View ArticleWarming Centers Open, While City Looks To Long-Term Homeless Fixes
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...
View ArticleClock Shop Foreclosure Accord Reached
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...
View ArticleNew Warehouse Fills Up With Texas ACs
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....
View ArticleThe Word On Grand Avenue: Where's The Beef?
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.
View ArticleAlder Challenge Charts Changing Wooster Sq
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...
View ArticleHousing Authority To Buy Clock Shop For $4.5M
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...
View Article"We're Not Sharks": Next Gen Mandy Aims To Do Better
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,...
View ArticleParty Lines Fracture Ward 8 Debate
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...
View ArticleMike P. Skips Polls, Heads To Scrapyard
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...
View Article3rd Graders Push & Pull — For Science
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...
View ArticleHealth Dept. Move Centers "Wellness"
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...
View Article$5M Boosts Mill River's Possible Futures
Erick Gonzalez, Annette Genovese, and Rosa at Martinez-hosted meetup. One possibility: a Mill River boardwalk? To revitalize a neighborhood known for its warehouses and abandoned factories, focus on...
View ArticleZoning Q: More Housing, More Parking?
Clockwise from top left: Up to 64 new apartments eyed for Hamilton St.; developer Yoon Lee; the 63 Hamilton parking lot; Lost in New Haven's Rob Greenberg. A bid to provide lots more places for people...
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