New Haven Independent

New Haven Independent

The New Haven Independent is created in partnership with the Online Journalism Project, a non-profit initiative aimed at fostering high-quality, independent, and localized news outlets online. Our primary financial backers are showcased in the right-hand column on our homepage and throughout most of our internal pages. This platform generates its revenue through three main channels: foundation grants designated for specific reporting areas like healthcare—similar to the funding model of National Public Radio; ongoing sponsorship grants from various organizations; and reader donations. The content provided on this site is truly “independent.” All financial support received is based on the agreement that contributors will not influence or be held accountable for the articles published here. If you have any questions regarding the financial backing of the site, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The New Haven Independent delivers daily news updates and fosters a rich public dialogue covering various topics, including neighborhood happenings, government activities, politics, criminal justice, education, business, and the arts and culture scene. Additionally, it connects readers to other resources for information on New Haven.

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  • 2 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Lisa Reisman

    A week before this year’s Elm City Freddy Fixer Parade, Rodney ​“Rock” Williams and his Green Elm Construction crew engaged in their annual spring cleaning of Dixwell Avenue to get the corridor neat and spiffy. It’s among a host of beautification efforts around the neighborhood that he leads, and that he’s been quietly doing free for years.

  • 3 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen

    Peg Oliveira stood alongside the mayor and a crowd of New Haveners celebrating the start of Pride Month and watched a rainbow-colored flag rise above the Green. She thought back to 2008, when she and Jen Vickery became the first New Haven same-sex couple to get legally married, by the Amistad statue at City Hall. And she thought back to 2015, when same-sex couples across the nation won that same right to get married, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that is a decade old this month.

  • 3 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Lisa Reisman

    Change the narrative and turn it into something positive. Change the hustle and turn it into something good for the ​‘hood. Those words, from co-founder Gaylord Salters Jr., sum up the mission of Double G.I. (short for Go Get It), a new clothing company, which recently unveiled its Fabric Over Fish Scale streetwear collection at New Haven Apparel on Dixwell Avenue.

  • 4 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen

    The Elicker administration has reached a tentative agreement with the APT Foundation that, if approved by the Board of Alders, would see the city sell a 1.5‑acre plot on Long Wharf to allow for the development of a new 36,000 square-foot medical office building, outpatient treatment facility, and pharmacy.

  • 4 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen

    New Haven no longer appears on a public list of ​“sanctuary jurisdictions” targeted for federal-financial punishment by the Trump administration. That’s because that list no longer appears to exist online — as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took it down from its webpage several days after the list was first published.