Governor Ned Lamont announced that six new express trains on the New Haven Line and seven new weekday trains on the Waterbury Branch Line have begun service starting today.

On the New Haven Line, three weekday morning rush-hour express trains will depart from New Haven with stops in Bridgeport, Stamford, and Grand Central Terminal. These express trains depart New Haven at 5:09 a.m., 5:41 a.m., and 7:52 a.m. Three weekday evening rush-hour express trains will depart from Grand Central Terminal with stops in Stamford, Bridgeport, and New Haven. These express trains depart Grand Central Terminal at 4:16 p.m., 4:49 p.m., and 6:26 p.m. The express trains operate in as little as 1 hour and 39 minutes between New Haven and Grand Central. Read More

Starting about two years ago, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a culture shift of sorts. A great migration of workers who no longer needed to be confined to their homes realized they didn’t need to pay the current average of around $3,000 to rent a Manhattan studio apartment.

“The whole point of living in the city is having all the things around to do,” Jessica Hoover, a realtor with William Raveis’ The One Team, said. “When the pandemic hit, and you couldn’t do those things or leave your apartment, what the benefit was there for paying high rent for that space.”

Many of those renters, Hoover said, moved to Connecticut to take advantage of lower rents and open spaces.

“You could rent something for half that and go to the beach, go to the woods and roam free,” Hoover said. “Be in a place where you’re not confined. A lot of those people came to Connecticut.” Read More

Hamden is aiming to make at least 10 percent of its housing stock affordable by moving seniors and millennials alike into smaller apartments, with the help of zoning changes and tax incentives.

That’s the takeaway of a new report drafted by consultants with the Southern Central Regional Council of Governments (SCRCOG) and adopted this month by the town’s Planning and Zoning.

Back in 2017, the state mandated that all Connecticut municipalities write up affordable housing plans by June first of this year.

The newly approved Hamden plan — read it here — analyzes local development trends, assesses the town’s housing needs, and proposes strategies to make housing more accessible for all. Read More

America's Seed Fund Week is a collaborative series of events connecting entrepreneurs working on advanced technologies and the organizations that support them to the country’s largest source of early-stage funding – America’s Seed Fund, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Whether you’re a new entrepreneur, existing small business, or entrepreneur support organization, join the America's Seed Fund Week virtual event on July 18-22, 2022 to hear directly from federal agency program managers that invest over $4 billion in over 7,000 new awards annually and celebrate 40 years of small business innovation. Read More