Pulaski Circle News Today

In 1990, downtown’s Parkview Hilton — so named for the park just across Ford Street — was demolished to make way for ill-fated redevelopment, leaving a vast parking lot as its legacy for more than three decades. Now, the owner — Chase Enterprises — is exploring the potential for housing to replace at least some of that Hartford surface lot. If a project emerges, it could join plans for ...

The state’s final report on its three-year, Greater Hartford Mobility Study lays out plans for a dramatic change in the area’s transportation system but it first acknowledges the sobering — and lingering — reality: the damage done by 1960s-era urban renewal and interstate highway construction. In the Hartford area, largely white, affluent suburban communities benefited — and thrived — from the ...

A roundabout connecting Routes 82 and 85 in Salem. (Connecticut Department of Transportation) An occasional look at Connecticut’s remarkable people, places ...

The intersection of Routes 82 and 85 in Salem, sometimes called the Four Corners, used to have a lot of crashes, many of them serious. Now it doesn’t. The reason for the welcome decline is deceptively...

Data shows modern roundabouts are safer than intersections. Connecticut has built 17 of them — and more are on the way, CTDOT says.

A particular section of road in Hartford is drawing concerns from people who live and work in the downtown area.  They’re asking drivers to be more careful...

New federal courthouse sites in Hartford drawing sharp scrutiny, some opposition.

One Hartford, Connecticut apartment project near Bushnell Parks gets funding; another on Constitution Plaza gets it pulled

A Connecticut man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill an on-duty state police sergeant.The incident took place in Hartford on Monday, April 24 around 10:30 a.m. on Asylum Street.According to state police, an on-duty sergean…

The snarling mugshot of a scraggly man who allegedly pulled a knife on police and threatened to kill them has been released. Raymond Lapinski, 29, is facing a laundry list...