April 23, 1987 was a vacation day for me, a quiet day fishing in the woods. No cell phone, pager, internet or any of the
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Tag: Larry Merly
Affordable Housing Builds As A Mayoral Campaign Issue
Larry Merly, city attorney under former Mayor Tom Bucci in the 1980s, was the barracuda of the administration. He ferociously took on protective nimbys in
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City Remembers L’Ambiance And The Loss Of 28 lives
April 23, 1987, photographer Wayne Ratzenberger captured this overhead view just minutes after the L’Ambiance Plaza building collapse. Fire, police and emergency medical personnel at
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Examining Connecticut’s Housing Inequality–The Racial Gulf Between Cities And Suburbs
The health pandemic has created a hot housing market in Connecticut, fleeing New Yorkers embracing the open spaces of Fairfield County where exclusionary zoning creates
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Why Won’t State Leaders Tackle Connecticut’s Housing Segregation?
When Larry Merly served as city attorney under Mayor Tom Bucci 1985-89 he was well ahead of his time. He’d assert that large-acre discriminatory zoning
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L’Ambiance Plaza Anniversary Ceremony Reduced By Pandemic
It’s been 33 years since the worst construction accident in Connecticut history left 28 men dead in the collapse of L’Ambiance Plaza, April 23, 1987. I was
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