Mayor Lee describes ...

Mayor Lee has been a strong proponent of tenant's rights, but also a business-friendly mayor to the city's burgeoning tech community.

For his part, Chief Skousen said Mayor Lee was "soft on law enforcement."

Afterward, Mr. Rampton recalled, Mayor Lee confronted him in a courthouse hallway.

While malls everywhere else were rising on wide-open suburban tracts, Mayor Lee built a mall anchored by Macy's downtown.

While Mayor Lee renovated and rebuilt, all the metropolitan region's growth occurred in surrounding towns.

I was responsible, under Mayor Lee's direction, for the design and implementation of his highly regarded urban renewal program.

And if Mayor Lee was anything, his friends said, he was a pragmatist who knew who to get to know and how to get things done.

Mr. Logue and Mayor Lee were credited with getting the most federal redevelopment dollars per capita in the country.

With all due respect to Mayor Lee, he and many others during the 50's and 60's destroyed New Haven and many other cities in this country.