Barry Lytton Journalist Profile

Articles

St. John tower partially collapses during demo

3 weeks ago | middletownpress.com | Ignacio Laguarda |Barry Lytton |John Nickerson

UPDATE: 11:12 AMFrom Stamford police:Article continues below this adDue to ongoing demolition of St John's Tower, Washington Blvd is closed north and south between Main Street and Tresser Blvd. There's a detour on Washington Blvd at Broad for southbound traffic until further notice. UPDATE: 8:31 AM WEDNESDAYArticle continues below this adPolice Capt. Diedrich Hohn said the seventh floor of the St. John’s Towers collapsed early Wednesday morning.
Fairfield County’s growth mirrors Westchester, leaving Conn. to languish, census data shows

Jan 7, 2025 | middletownpress.com | Barry Lytton

Southwest Connecticut has long been considered more a part of New York than New England, but recently released U.S. Census Bureau figures show that Fairfield County closely mirrors a booming suburb of New York City, bucking downward population trends in nearly all other counties in the Nutmeg State. Since the last census in 2010, Fairfield County and New York’s Westchester County have grown at the same rate, nearly 4 percent.
After mosque shootings, hundreds gather in solidarity with Stamford’s Muslims

Jan 6, 2025 | middletownpress.com | Barry Lytton

STAMFORD — Packed in a Washington Boulevard mosque, more than 300 gathered Friday to hear a call to prayer and together reflect on last Friday’s terror. The prayer hall wasn’t busy last Friday, said Imam Nour Aldean. Only half the number of normal worshipers attended, with many afraid to go, he said. It was just hours after the slaughter of 50 Muslims during prayer at mosques half a world away. “The blood of these people wasn’t lost in vain,” Aldean said.
Candace Owens sues BLT over ‘dangerous’ mold in luxury apartment

Dec 9, 2024 | middletownpress.com | Barry Lytton

STAMFORD — The city’s biggest builder, Building and Land Technology, and one of its most controversial daughters, Candace Owens, have something in common. They’ll face off this spring in a civil jury trial in state Superior Court in Stamford. Owens claims her 16th-floor luxury apartment in BLT’s Beacon building — where she lived from October 2015 until January 2017 — was so infested with “mold and/or other contaminants” that she developed more than a dozen ailments.
Stamford forbids food trucks from Spring Street as Lord & Taylor welcomes them

Dec 8, 2024 | middletownpress.com | Barry Lytton

STAMFORD — Finding a place to sling sausages, poutine or tacos from four wheels has become tricky for vendors this spring, with new locations becoming available in the city as others are taken away. The city on Monday forbid downtown vending by food trucks on Spring Street, where some four trucks had regularly set up camp after being moved off Bedford Street last year.
Overhaul would close affordable housing loopholes in Stamford

Dec 6, 2024 | middletownpress.com | Barry Lytton

STAMFORD — The City that Works realized it wasn’t housing its workers in the early 2000s and sought to do something then on the zoning vanguard for cities of its size. Now nearly 20 years later, it will revamp for the first time that program, which has made the city the state’s leader in one facet of affordable housing: units restricted by land deed to be forever affordable through so-called inclusionary zoning.
New developments dent legacy of ‘father’ of Stamford’s skyline

Nov 24, 2024 | middletownpress.com | Barry Lytton

STAMFORD — Victor H. Bisharat, the architect whose buildings dot downtown, was dictated by emotion and form, he said, not the straight lines and boxes that come with his geometric line of work. “I love woman because she has form,” he once said. “I am emotional, I don’t feel straight lines. ... Nothing in nature is a straight line, the bird, the fish, the snowflake.
Stamford’s State Cinema to close, despite family’s efforts

Nov 22, 2024 | middletownpress.com | Barry Lytton

STAMFORD — The storied brick movie house on Hope Street was never meant to be — its history a tale of reinvention and adaptation in fiscal crises as the village around it morphed into a part of the city, and its clientele shifted from men in bowler hats to those in fedoras to children sneaking an impromptu matinee.