by | Sep 28, 2022 8:41 am | Comments (15)
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City 911 director Joe Vitale: "Trying to repair what is happening."
The city’s director of public safety communications had a message for the Hill South community management team: in an emergency, call 911 — not the personal number of the neighborhood’s top cop.
“We did call 911,” responded Meghan Currey, who heads the neighborhood’s Wilson Library Branch. “Nobody ever answered.”
by | Sep 23, 2022 6:01 pm | Comments (8)
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Town Engineer Stephen White with pup Diamond on Davis St. ...
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... which is one of four Hamden Streets slated for sidewalk repairs and additions.
New sidewalks are en route to Southern Hamden as part of a revived effort to protect pedestrians — leading some neighbors to question whether safer places to stroll are needed where not many people currently walk.
by | Sep 6, 2022 8:47 am | Comments (16)
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Map of New Haven areas vulnerable to increased flooding.
Floods in City Point. Heat waves in tree-sparse, lot-heavy Newhallville. More storms that require evacuation. More periods of drought.
As climate change progresses, those conditions will become the new normal for New Haven, especially for the heat- and flood-vulnerable neighborhood of Fair Haven, reported officials tracking the trends.
An environmental transformation is already in motion. But, the officials said, the city can adapt its current infrastructure and prevent carbon emissions from making the problem worse.
Continue reading ‘Maps Show Climate Change's Neighborhood Impacts’
by | Aug 23, 2022 9:44 am | Comments (3)
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Tamya celebrates new back-to-school hairstyle on Middletown Ave ...
... as Tanya Solomon's grandsons pick up books on Valley St. Monday.
Tamia Massey usually spends more than $200 getting her two daughters’ hair braided at the start of every back-to-school season.
This year was different — thanks to one of a host of community-led events focused on helping families cut costs as students prepare to return to the classroom.
by | Aug 10, 2022 11:49 am | Comments (7)
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Developers and officials break Beulah ground.
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Sustainable, affordable housing envisioned for 340 Dixwell.
Faith leaders, politicians, and investors shoveled a pile of ceremonial dirt, breaking ground on a soon-to-rise apartment complex that will be sustainable not only for the earth, but for low-income families.
by | Aug 8, 2022 2:37 pm | Comments (5)
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Greenspace outside Mitchell Library.
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URI Intern Justine Phillips-Gallucci at the tour's new Valley Street stop.
Dozens of New Haveners peeled off of yellow school buses and down a pathway toward the Botanical Garden of Healing, nestled in the shadow of West Rock on Valley Street. They were grandmothers, grad students, kindergarteners, actual gardeners, high school friend groups, and everyone in between, who braved the thick August heat for a tour of New Haven’s ever-growing roster of community greenspace sites, including this new one on Valley.
Continue reading ‘Bus Tour Highlights Community Greenspaces Citywide’
by | Aug 2, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (8)
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A young couple held a tag sale in East Rock that stopped this bargain hunter in his tracks.
by | Jul 29, 2022 5:55 pm | Comments (16)
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New District Manager Jasmine Sanders: "The Hill is like my home."
Hill residents welcomed a new top neighborhood cop — and presented her with a familiar set problems to address.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors, New Top Hill Cop Talk Strategy’
by | Jul 14, 2022 4:44 pm | Comments (28)
The proposed configuration of the old plinth next to the new statue.
Now that the statue of Christopher Columbus is gone from Wooster Square Park, what should happen to the pedestal that once held it up?
The Historic District Commission weighed that question on Wednesday evening. It voted to keep the pedestal in place without a statue atop it, a few feet behind the new sculpture slated for the park.
Continue reading ‘Historic District Commission Approves Revised Columbus Statue Replacement’
by | Jul 1, 2022 10:07 am | Comments (9)
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At Newhallville anti-violence parley. Top row: State Rep. Robyn Porter, city resilience chief Carlos Sosa-Lombardo, youth worker Ron Huggins. Bottom: District Manager Lt. Dana Smith, State Sen. Gary Winfield, and Ice The Beef's Chaz Carmon.
As summer set in, grassroots gun-violence prevention leaders compared notes about ongoing efforts to keep people safe in Newhallville, and heard a plea to step up their game in conjunction with a broader anti-poverty strategy.
by | Jun 30, 2022 1:01 pm | Comments (9)
City rendering of a new vision for Long Wharf.
City Plan Commissioners unanimously advanced a proposed one-year building moratorium on Long Wharf, as one developer accelerated a truck maintenance facility application before the deadline.
by | Jun 8, 2022 3:21 pm | Comments (15)
Up next at Long Wharf Theatre (clockwise from top left)?: Model smoking INSA pre-rolled joint; theater's sign on Sargent Dr.; INSA cannabis chocolates; theater's current home in the Food Terminal.
Could the Long Wharf stage that hosted performances by Sam Waterston and Anna Deavere Smith become a spot to purchase “Mellow Bar” cannabis chocolates and “Infused Rocket” pre-rolled joints?
That possible future won a vote of support from an aldermanic committee that greenlit the legal sale of marijuana on Long Wharf — including on an industrial stretch of Sargent Drive where a Massachusetts-based cannabis dispensary hopes to move in to the longtime, soon-to-be-former home of Long Wharf Theatre.
by | Jun 6, 2022 3:01 pm | Comments (7)
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Azucena Rojas with her mom and business partner, Angeles Romero.
At the 10th annual Quinnipiac Riverfest on Saturday.
Fair Haven businesswoman Azucena Rojas moved her Mexican grocery outdoors for the day — and further connected with the neighborhood she calls home — during a festive, sun-dappled 10th annual Quinnipiac Riverfest.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Flourishes At Quinnipiac Riverfest’
by | Jun 6, 2022 12:30 pm | Comments (1)
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Families hula hooping at Saturday's festivities.
Members of the Concerned Citizens for the Greater New Haven Dixwell Community House.
Lance Legion looked out on a Dixwell Avenue bustling with dance, music, art, and laughter — all in front of a reborn “Q” House community center and a relocated and expanded Stetson Library.
“I’m really happy about the changes they made,” he said with a smile, holding his son in the afternoon sunshine. “Growing up, I’ve always wanted to come to the ‘Q’ House, so it’s nice to see it’s open and that they’re finally giving back to the community.”
Continue reading ‘Stetson Library Celebrated At Dixwell Fest’
by | Jun 6, 2022 10:50 am | Comments (1)
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Sound School students Jacob Smith and Jenae Epps at Sunday's block party.
Fifty neighbors gathered in the sun on Sunday to celebrate the City Point and Hill communities with popsicles, bikes, and boats.
Continue reading ‘Block Party Brings Students, Cyclists To The Sound’
by | May 31, 2022 4:43 pm | Comments (6)
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Brenda Harris celebrates results of a decade-long process.
Tuesday's Mill River Phase 2 ribbon-cutting.
Brenda Harris fought for safer, higher-quality homes throughout her 50 years living in the once-dilapidated housing complex known as Farnam Courts. On Tuesday, she helped unveil the results of her advocacy: about 200 gleaming new townhouse-style apartments and community spaces in the second phase of a complex reborn as “Mill River Crossing.”
by | May 26, 2022 5:28 pm | Comments (27)
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Participants in Thursday's "Children's March" to Edgewood Park.
One hundred and fifty New Haven middle and high school students put their pencils down and posters up Thursday to give the city a lesson on solidarity, passion, and leading through action.
by | May 24, 2022 1:19 pm | Comments (6)
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Monday night's full Board of Alders meeting.
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Newly approved redistricting map.
New district lines for the city’s 30 wards are now locked in for the next decade, now that the Board of Alders has voted unanimously to approve a redrawn map that accommodates New Haven’s recent Census-counted population growth.
by | May 13, 2022 4:32 pm | Comments (20)
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A shingle oak with star-like leaves was planted Friday just feet from the Quinnipiac River — marking a milestone in New Haven’s ongoing efforts to make the Elm City a tree city once more with deeply connected grass roots.
by | May 9, 2022 4:41 pm | Comments (4)
Italian-American Historical Society's Laura Parisi at Monday's "Walk New Haven" event in Lenzi Park.
“Anybody have a guess?” Laura Parisi asked, brandishing a a metal artifiact of the old Grand Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Forgotten Neighborhood's History Springs To Life’
by | May 3, 2022 7:53 pm | Comments (3)
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Proposed new ward lines.
Westville’s Ward 25 would dip down into West River.
Morris Cove’s Ward 18 would stretch up to the city’s industrial port.
Dwight’s Ward 2 would take over an apartment-rich stretch of Goffe Street.
While Ward 14 would remain straddling one river and three neighborhoods.
Continue reading ‘Ward Redistricting Committee Publishes Draft Map’
by | May 2, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (2)
Eat Up's Isaiah Pinion, Bryan Burkett-Thompson, and Kristen Threatt.
It was a battle of Afrotina’s Latin-flavored southern cuisine versus Eat Up’s Italian-inspired soul food cuisine: Chef Ohioma Odihirin’s Sazon chicken took on Chef Bryan Burkett-Thompson’s mumbo chicken, and Chef O’s homemade Voodoo sauce vied with Chef BB’s pineapple salsa.
Continue reading ‘Battle Of The Chefs Promotes Community In Dwight’
by | Apr 27, 2022 8:33 am | Comments (6)
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Redistricting in action, clockwise from top left: Fair Haven Alder Jose Crespo and Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers; Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez; city map whiz Jacob Conshick with West Hills Alder Honda Smith and Majority Leader Richard Furlow; Fair Haven Alder Sarah Miller.
Potential new ward lines -- and population breakdowns.
Ward 6 is on the move — as Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez eyes a likely expansion north to an apartment-rich stretch of Chapel Street.
While Ward 14 appears stuck — as Fair Haven Alder Sarah Miller tries and tries, so far in vain, to negotiate a more coherent shape to her three-neighborhood, river-straddling district.
Continue reading ‘Adventures In Redistricting: Chapel Trade Supported; Fair Haven Shifts Rebuffed’
by | Apr 26, 2022 4:08 pm | Comments (4)
Abandoned 560 Newhall St. property ...
... will continue to look like this for foreseeable future.
After ten months of delaying a decision on whether to solidify a seven-year contract with a nonprofit affordable housing developer, Hamden’s Legislative Council has officially axed a plan to have a nonprofit turn an abandoned Newhall Street middle school into apartments.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Dumps Affordable Housing Developer’
by | Apr 13, 2022 4:00 pm | Comments (6)
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Fair Haven Alders Jose Crespo and Sarah Miller, at right, pore over drafted ward map with new city map whiz Jacob Conshick.
Sarah Miller arrived at the Board of Alders chamber with a mission: to reallocate the six blocks of the Annex neighborhood that she represents along with a portion of Fair Haven so that residents don’t have to cross a bridge in order to vote on election day.
Continue reading ‘Adventures In Redistricting: Annex Slice Annexed’
