Thomas Breen

The Arts Paper’s Lucy Gellman reports.

The federal government shutdown was at the top of mind for Robert Kyle as he showed up to Edgewood School to vote in Tuesday's municipal election. That's not because Donald Trump or anyone in Congress was on the ballot. Nevertheless, when he thinks about politics right now, he thinks about "the national scene" and the need to "bring democracy back." And civility, too.

A homeless couple accused Miguel Pittman's campaign of providing free food in exchange for votes -- which Pittman denied. Pittman accused former Alder Ron Hurt of not living at the address he listed as his residence when voting -- which Hurt confirmed.

Roughly 10 construction workers spent more than an hour stuck in an exterior elevator car that stalled halfway up the southern side of the 101 College St. lab-office building Friday afternoon. City firefighters and an elevator technician ultimately figured out how to get them down safely, with no ropes or harnesses or ladders required.

A Maryland-based private equity real estate firm has purchased the 160-unit College & Crown apartment complex for $57.5 million -- a sales price that is more than $15 million above the property's current city tax appraisal, and nearly $15 million below what this same building last sold for in 2017.

Bruce Becker received an email at around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday from a staffer in the White House's personnel office. "On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the Commission of Fine Arts is terminated, effective immediately," that brief email read, as signed by Mary Sprowls. "Thank you for your service."

Doug Glanville weighs in on what the FBI director has described as basketball's "insider trading saga."

At Goffe and Orchard, as Bethel AME envisions new affordable housing.

City firefighters helped remove a construction worker from a 10-foot hole at an Elm Street development site Tuesday morning.

Dozens of elderly New Haveners gathered with top city and state officials in a sun-dappled new dining room at 18 Tower Lane Monday to mark the completion of a $10 million rehab of one of the city's landmark senior housing complexes. They also looked forward to a potential new-construction project that could add another 150 places for New Haven seniors to age in place with dignity and care.