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Slaughterhouse Plan Sparks Squawks
“Which of these chickens would you like us to slaughter?”. Meat-eaters may have a chance to answer that question at a live poultry market on Kimberly Avenue, unless at least one Hill neighbor has a say in the matter. In a city generally removed from the animal farms that feed...
Land Bank Launched; Presser Crashed
A former city housing official will spearhead new efforts to convert blighted properties into affordable housing through a quasi-public land bank. Serena Neal-Sanjurjo, the former director of the city’s anti-blight Livable City Initiative (LCI), announced that role as the executive director of the newly-formed New Haven Land Bank at a press conference at City Hall on Friday afternoon.
Happy Birthday, Flower Lady!
Outside Yorkside Pizza, Yale doctoral student Minh Vu surveyed a basket of roughly 70 chrysanthemums. “I’ll take them all,” Vu told a woman bedecked in a party hat, aka “Flower Lady” Annette Walton. Walton invited Vu and fellow Yalies to an impromptu 64th birthday sidewalk...
The Ful Story
Omar Rajeh had the slow-cooked fava beans ready to go. A little mashing, pinches of seasoning, a drizzle or two, and a signature dish was ready to go. The signature dish is ful madammas (among its various spellings). Regulars of Rajeh’s Mediterranea Cafe like me have been ordering and reordering it since the eatery opened at 140 Orange St. Before the lunch crowd started sweeping in the other day, Rajeh agreed to reveal the ful story of how he manages to strike the balance between light and filling, bright and rich.
20-Year-Old Gang Member Gets 14 Years
The latest Exit 8 member sentenced after a federal gang sweep received a 14-year prison sentence, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a New Haven street gang and several gang-related shootings. Devin Suggs, 20, received that sentence Thursday from U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden,...
3 Judges Sold For $1.55M
Ishan Dave moved from India to the United States in pursuit of his version of the “American dream”: to buy and run hotels he could be proud of. He’s now the co-owner of two motels in a crime-hotspot stretch of the New Haven-Woodbridge border — where he’s working to fix the properties up into safer, cleaner places to stay where, yes, all of the rooms are finally open.
Cops: Killer’s Mom Was At The Wheel
Police announced the arrest of the young man they said shot 16-year-old Joshua Vazquez to death one and a half years ago — and arrested the alleged shooter’s mom as well. Joshua Vazquez’s family and friends gathered at the Shack community center in West Hills Thursday to mourn...
Winfield Seeks Out Next Gen Senators
When Gary Winfield asked a room full of sixth graders who’s interested in being a state senator one day, Jakhai Penn immediately shook his head no. “Who’s going to do it, then, if not you?” Winfield asked. “You can probably do a heck of a lot more than you think you can do.”
Bayberrys Grow, Alongside Mill River Trail
Dig. Plant. Donut — but not the kind you eat, the kind that helps the bayberry shrub retain moisture as it acclimates to its new home on the Mill River Trail. The Mill River Trail gained two new bayberry shrubs Wednesday behind 451 Grand Ave., thanks to volunteer efforts to revitalize the community corridor.
State: Watch Out For Food Stamp Thieves
George Prendergast was sitting in the Downtown Ives Main Library when he heard an announcement over the intercom: there would be a presentation on EBT theft on the lower level of the library. Prendergast’s no stranger to the topic — he’s been a victim of identity theft four times, and now he...
Schools Shuffle Assistant Principals
In the ongoing effort to tackle a $2 million budget deficit, New Haven schools Supt. Madeline Negrón has shuffled nine assistant principals around to new schools for the upcoming academic year and eliminated two central office positions. Those transfers were included in a personnel report presented Monday night at...
Art Is Served At The Table (& Gallery)
On the wall next to the entrance of The Table & Gallery, located at 1209 Chapel St., is the “Blue Vein Mural,” which encapsulates everything that the culinary and artistic space is all about. The mural is made out of pages taken from two eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...
Why Angels Cover Their Eyes
Ben grew up in a college town in Massachusetts. Joshua grew up in a college town in Connecticut — New Haven. Ben is a fictional public defender seeking to extract moments of approximations of justice amid the crumbling court system in post-Katrina New Orleans. Joshua was a real-life public...
Fired Cox Cop Loses Arbitration
(Updated) State arbitrators have upheld the city’s decision to fire Sgt. Betsy Segui for her supervisory role in the mishandling of a detainee who suffered paralyzing injuries while in police custody — and expressed dismay that the arrested cop still thinks she did nothing wrong on that fateful night.
Garden Not-So-Secret, Thanks To EPA
Last week, the pond in Nappésoul’s Newhallville backyard was just a hole in the ground. By Wednesday morning, with the help of a federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant, the hole had turned into a filtered, aquaponic pond system, with koi fish and minnows on the way. That...
NHPS Chief Of Staff Steps Down
New Haven Public Schools is down a chief of staff as of last week. Now, the district is hoping to fill the critical cabinet position as the 2024 – 25 school year draws near. The news of former Chief of Staff Michael Finley’s July 15 resignation was announced at...
Fleeing Theater Gets Going-Away Tax Present
The city is on track to forgive over $10,000 of interest on the city’s last non-pornographic movie theater owner’s unpaid taxes bill it left behind when it left town. How much should the city forgive of the Criterion's bill for interest on six years of unpaid taxes?. ©2024...
DeLauro Skips Netanyahu Speech
Skip the political theater. Focus on human lives at risk. That was the thrust of New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s explanation for skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech before Congress Wednesday. Netanyahu came at the invitation of Republican U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson. Navigating the...
Student Photographers Roll Out (Un?)Welcome Mat
Even though the signs are in sync with one another, not offering contradictory information, the photograph conveys a sense of disorientation. You have to read them twice, maybe, to see that they line up. The inclusion of the house matters, too; it gives the disorientation context. What does it mean for the people who live on that block, that multiple signs tell people unfamiliar with the street layout that they’re not supposed to go there? What does it mean that there’s only one way off the block for the residents, a sense of limited options? Who made these decisions in the first place?
Man, 62, Found Strangled To Death
The state chief medical examiner’s office has ruled the death of a New Haven man a homicide by strangulation. Police found the body of the man, 62-year-old Miguel Rivera of New Haven, face down in a stream by Eastern and Hemingway streets last Friday at 7:10 a.m., according to a release issued Tuesday afternoon by police spokesperson Officer Christian Bruckhart.
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