Downtown New Haven Confronts Cops, City
Talk of massive overcrowding in the bars and safety and health violations
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Crown Street landlord Ronald LoRicco started out accusing the city of turning downtown into Beirut. He ended the night shaking a city official’s hand and pledging to join a committee to help clean up the club district.
The owner of the building that houses Hula Hanks, Static, and Kelly’s joined nearly 100 business owners, students and residents who gathered at the ballroom at the Omni Tuesday night to hear city, police, and economic development officials for what was described as “summit” on conditions downtown amid a furor over nighttime violence and the police response to it.
The Downtown Wooster Square Management Team originally convened the meeting to discuss the area’s quality of life. But given recent events, quotidian issues such as lighting, noise and snow removal were trumped by hot and often accusatory interchanges.
They focused primarily on the effects of the new police crackdown called Operation Nightlife, along with the alleged mishandling of arrests by the NHPD , and the future of the club district.
Officials said they needed to institute the crackdown because an attempt at collaboration with bar owners broke down.
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