New Haven Independent

Jet fuel fumes and park funding. Healthcare premiums and electric bills.

Those environmental and cost-of-living concerns were on the minds of Morris Cove voters when Wildaliz Bermudez asked for their signatures on Wednesday evening.

Bermudez, the executive director of the city’s Fair Rent Commission, is

Tenant Steven NeSmith and his one-year-old daughter, who was visiting him on Tuesday. City inspector Jason Almeida shines a light on the exposed wiring in the complex’s basement.

Five city inspectors discovered 77 housing-code violations related to leaky ceilings, blocked gutters, and broken windows at a 40-unit apartment complex this week after conducting a mass inspe...

A downtown drop-in center is that much more equipped to save the lives of clients in cardiac arrest — now that a Guilford-based medical-technology company has donated a new “easy-to-use” defibrillator.

That donation was celebrated Thursday morning during a press conference held at the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) at 266 State St.

DESK has a volu...

The entrance to the former Trelleborg/Uretek plant. A cigarette-smoking, N95-mask-wearing man shoos this reporter away as the man walks in and out of the ex-factory complex.

A Queens-based investor has purchased the former Trelleborg fabric-coating chemical factory complex on Lenox Street — two years after a different investor won permission to convert the site into se...

Hari Manchi, a URI intern, talks with Nan Bartow and another neighbor about improvements being made to the garden this summer. Nan Bartow holds out a mugwort root.

“I want to tear out all these weeds,” declared seven-year-old Beatrice Cramer, as she gestured on Wednesday towards a patch of dirt and invasive plants that used to be her favorite flower garden in