Cedar Hill

Inspector Seeks The Heat

by | Jan 31, 2024 2:55 pm | Comments (3)

Dazauna Smith shows paint problems in her bathroom to LCI inspector Alvarado.

LCI Inspector Frank Alvarado paced around a frigid Cedar Hill bedroom with a mystery to solve: How could a bedroom have been built without a heating vent?

Another city inspector hadn’t noticed the problem the last time he’d visited the apartment. Now a judge had sent Alvarado back to check again.

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Gallery Inside Cedar Hill Home Keeps It Light

by | Jan 10, 2024 8:59 am | Comments (0)

It’s a plush duck butt, hanging from the wall. Is it a piece of cartoon taxidermy? Is the bird crawling through a hole? Or is there something more oddly magical going on?

The only way this reporter knows for certain that the bird in question is, in fact, a duck, is because elsewhere in Outdoors at Paul’s” — a show of art by Douglas Degges and Noe Jimenez running now through the week at iiiiotae in Cedar Hill — the duck’s head and torso are emerging from the wall, with the kind of blank stuffed-animal expression into which one can read just about any emotion.

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Investor Skips Hello, Starts Evictions

by | Nov 18, 2022 12:42 pm | Comments (40)

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View St. tenant John Barbiero: Woke up one day with new landlord, workers on the roof, and eviction notice on the door.

A local investor-landlord has moved to evict everyone who lives in a Cedar Hill three-family house — including a 76-year-old Air Force veteran — less than a month after buying the property as part of a $1 million package deal.

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Rehabbed Bridge Reopens In Cedar Hill

by | Sep 30, 2022 11:59 am | Comments (1)

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Cutting the ribbon on the rehabbed Ferry St. bridge.

Construction crews wrap up work before bridge's official reopening.

Cars and trucks looking to cross between Fair Haven and Cedar Hill can use the Ferry Street bridge again, now that the state has wrapped up a $3 million rehab of a span that has been closed to traffic for the last five months.

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Cleanup Crew Hits Cedar Hill Streets

by | Aug 13, 2021 11:41 am | Comments (13)

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Jermaine Smith (right) cleaning the tree belt ahead of a city street sweeper on Friday.

The EMERGE crew getting to work on May Street.

Cedar Hill streets shone a bit brighter and cleaner Friday, thanks to a new federal pandemic relief-funded partnership between the public works department and a job-training nonprofit for ex-offenders.

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Leaders Vow Action Amid Violence Wave

by | Jul 15, 2020 6:14 pm | Comments (47)

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Crime scene tape left at site on one of Tuesday night’s homicides.

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Homicide victim Howard Lewis (center) with family in early July.

Melissa LyTrelle: “The devil was busy in our city last night.”

Life went painfully on Wednesday for Howard Lewis’s family as they held an outdoor birthday party for his 10-year-old son — while top cops and city officials sought to figure out who killed Lewis and one other man the night before, and how to get a handle on New Haven’s worst stretch of violence in a decade.

New Haven has now surpassed the number of shootings it saw in all of 2019. It’s only July.

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City Orders Homeless Camp Cleared

by | Jun 25, 2019 1:25 pm | Comments (27)

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Joe Jadach in his tent under I-91. Below: A city notice ordering the homeless to vacate their encampments under the highway overpass.

Joe Jadach has lived in a tent under the I‑91 overpass behind the Ralph Walker Skating Rink for the past seven months.

Now that the city has ordered the clearing out of his and a handful of other Goatville homeless encampments, Jadach is packing up his belongings and getting ready to move … where? He’s not sure. But he has survived outdoors this long, and figures he can last a bit longer until he lands a stable job and apartment.

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Sweep Turns Up 4 Illegal Apartments

by | Jun 25, 2019 1:20 pm | Comments (4)

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City officials gather outside 31 Grace St. House’s owners at left.

Paint was peeling by the front door of the house at 31 Grace St. Rafael Ramos, the deputy head of housing code enforcement at New Haven government’s Livable City Initiative (LCI), noticed a broken window by the side as well as trash left out in the backyard.

He didn’t expect to discover four illegal apartments in the house’s basement when he knocked on the door.

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An Inconvenience Truce

by | Mar 13, 2019 7:24 am | Comments (1)

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PMG’s Armand Keurian debates neighbors after the meeting.

Cedar Hill neighbors didn’t want a 24-hour convenience store. And they’re not going to get one. Instead, they will keep a plain gas station at the corner of Ferry and State Street — one that still stays open 24 hours.

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Cedar Hill Resident RIP

by | Mar 12, 2019 5:58 pm | Comments (17)

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Road trip to her favorite annual music festival.

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Rebecca Turcio.

Rebecca Turcio, who championed the cause of one of New Haven’s littlest-noticed neighborhoods and emerged as one of the first and most passionate humane local grassroots voices of the Internet Age, died Monday after a long illness at the age of 54. Her imprint on New Haven lives on.

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Cedar Hill To City: S.O.S.

by | Oct 12, 2018 8:14 am | Comments (10)

State Street between Warren Place and May Street.

Cedar Hill is in its worst shape in half a century, and its few remaining business owners desperately need the city’s help.

They also need to convince city zoners to reconsider a decision that’s preventing an investor from expanding a gas station with a 24-hour convenience store.

Merchants from the pocket-sized neighborhood at the eastern end of New Haven’s Hamden border delivered that message Thursday to city economic development and anti-blight officials during an emotional hour-and-a-half-long meeting.

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