Kimberly Square

Hill Pushes Back On Greenwich Plaza Plan

by | Jun 22, 2023 3:56 pm | Comments (2)

Hill North CMT Secretary Maxine Harris-Branham & Hill South CMT Chair Sarah McIver at Wednesday's joint meeting.

City-planned improvements to Kimberly Square.

Energized by the summer solstice sunshine on the longest day of the year, Hill neighbors brought a bit of good-natured heat and opposition to a preliminary city proposal to close off a section of Greenwich Avenue to make a little plaza or public realm” — as part of a broader street-scape redo of Kimberly Square.

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C-Towns Become Key Foods

by | Mar 7, 2023 10:44 am | Comments (4)

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Yezenia Lebron outside newly renamed Key Food at Ferry and Grand: Supermarket is "associated with this Latino community."

Yezenia Lebron succeeded in finding pork loin, bacalao, and Fiesta Campesina flower cookies at her go-to Grand Avenue grocery store — even as she struggled to get used to the supermarket’s new name above the door.

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Hill Holiday Bash Brightens Kimberly Square

by | Dec 6, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (1)

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Nova and Zora Zanders at Sunday's Hill holiday fest.

Eight-year-old Nova and her three-year-old sister Zora shared big smiles as they posed for a photo on Santa’s lap. When St. Nick asked Nova what she wants for Christmas this year, she surprised him. She said she didn’t care about what to ask for. 

I just want to be grateful no matter what I get.”

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They Shot. He Shot Back. Trouble Followed

by | Aug 19, 2019 7:00 pm | Comments (14)

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Balmer Gonzalez with wife Maria Arce and son David.

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Balmer Gonzalez’s daughter-in-law after the paintball shooting.

Balmer Gonzalez was closing up shop at his Colombian restaurant in the Hill when a group of strangers rolled down their car window and sprayed him and his family with bullets.

So Gonzalez pulled a handgun from his back pocket and returned fire. And ended up arrested.

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Mayor’s Race, Elevator Pitch Edition

by | Jun 19, 2019 1:04 pm | Comments (12)

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New Haven Ward 9 Committee Co-Chair Sarah Locke and DTC Chair Vinnie Mauro.

The four Democratic mayoral candidates honed their campaign stump speeches — with lists of accomplishments, idealistic visions for the future, critiques of the status quo, and even some stand-up comedy — as they sought to win the local party’s endorsement.

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“We Need To Be Wooster Square People”

by | May 24, 2019 12:26 pm | Comments (5)

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Greenwich Avenue near Second Street, a line of homes owned by Mandy Management, one of the major buyers of properties in New Haven.

Developers and real estate management companies are buying up at a frenetic pace the dwindling number of privately owned homes that give the neighborhood its character.

Nonprofits too are increasing the number of units they own in the area.

Meanwhile the city is poised to make a push to create more affordable housing, with a new proposal to create an affordable housing commission.

In the face of all these changes, some of the last Hill South homeowners have banded together to resist new real estate pressures and to have more of a say in how their neighborhood changes.

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Kimberly Square Pizza Hold-Ups Stopped

by | Mar 21, 2019 2:52 pm | Comments (1)

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Officer John Caron and Sgt. Brendan Canning.

The cops put the kibosh on a string of robberies of pizza deliverers in the Hill South neighborhood, where police believe a tech-savvy 15 year-old was using a scrambled phone number app he had downloaded in order to lure his pie-and-cash bearing victims.

Meanwhile, officers got word of a new problem — open gambling, smoking, and dealing a few blocks farther along on Greenwich Avenue at Galvin Park.

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Medical Records Key To Cop Shootout Case

by | Feb 8, 2019 1:37 am | Comments (1)

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Marcus Rivera with Asst. Public Defender Kelly Billings in court this week.

Detectives are pouring through over 600 pages of medical records as they seek to prove that a chainlink fence — rather than a large, armed, unidentified assailant — was the source of a hand injury on a man accused of shooting at city police.

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State Report Reveals Cop-Shootout Details

by | Jan 17, 2019 7:24 pm | Comments (25)

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State police at scene of Greenwich Avenue shooting.

A newly available state report about an officer-involved shooting” reveals that last week wasn’t the first time a 22-year-old city man led cops on a chase.

When they caught him this time in Kimberly Square, he broke free. He fired at least one shot; officers fired numerous bullets. He fled.

When cops found him again, he had shed his jacket and pants — and claimed to be a robbery victim. A telltale tattoo gave him away.

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Ghost Was Chilling — Then Shots Rang Out

by | Jan 9, 2019 4:51 pm | Comments (3)

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State cops investigate on Greenwich between Kimberly and First.

Ghost outside of Gem Liquor Store.

Kimberly Square was on partial lockdown Wednesday as state police scoured for clues in an officer-involved” shooting the night before, and neighbors like Ghost processed the drama they saw unfold in their neighborhood.

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Primary Plan’s Obstacle: Broken Bus System

by | Nov 29, 2018 9:08 am | Comments (10)

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150 Sargent Dr.: Tough to reach by bus or by foot.

Claudette Kidd of Mothers & Others for Justice testifies Wednesday.

Can these doctors, lawyers, and health CEOs solve a public transit problem? From right to left at Wednesday’s hearing: YNHH VP Jennifer Wilcox, Fair Haven Community Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde, YNHH VP Cynthia Sparer, Cornell Scott-Hill Health CEO Michael Taylor, Yale School of Medicine Associate Dean Stephen Huot.

Given New Haven’s broken bus system, how would car-less New Haveners get to a new primary care center planned for Long Wharf?

Yale-New Haven Hospital and the city’s two community health centers will have to answer that question over the next two weeks to win state permission to transform the way that New Haven’s poor get medical care.

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