Ground Broken On Housing, Not Highway

Agreed. They have to do traffic calming and pedestrian and bike safety measures along the entire stretch of the Route 34 corridor from Ella Grasso Blvd to the I-91-95 exit and entrance ramps.
They should have reconnected the streets that used to cross between the West River/Dwight/Downtown and The Hill/Long Wharf neighborhoods, with traffic lights and crosswalks and bus stops and bike lanes.

So it's OK that residents' lives were turned upside and they were booted from their homes because most of them are now dead??? Really... I guess you could apply that to any situation where the victims are now dead..... if we follow your argument. This scheme enriched the powerful once and it will do so again...... hoorah for the rich and powerful, right?

“Forty-four of those apartments will be rented out to residents making up to 60 percent of the area median income (AMI), or around $55,000 for a family of two, and the remaining 12 apartments at 100 percent AMI, or around $90,000 for a family of two. ”

This does nothing for the working poor who earn minimum wage or just slightly above it, which is the vast majority of retail and service provider jobs.
What about deeply affordable units for the retirees and disabled living on Social Security?
The incomes listed above are for middle management in those types of jobs, and beginning civil servant worker, so where are the apartments for the vast majority of workers for the front line and essential jobs that our society depends on?
We need deeply affordable subsidized apartments for our retail workers, our daycare workers, our nursing home and home health aide workers, our grocery store and retail workers, our bank tellers, our food and beverage workers, our nurses aides, our retirees, our disabled, etc?
So far, there have been almost no housing units built for them.
Good luck finding a salesperson, teller/cashier, a childcare worker, and elder care or disability care worker, a lawn care or custodial services worker, or any other essential workers to fill those jobs when they have nowhere near or in the city that they can afford to rent.

I do not support reparations and do not feel there is a compelling argument for it ..... more "I was more hurt than you" victimology competition. Everybody everywhere would have to be the recipient of reparations if you start with your favorite group..... and it doesn't matter if they are dead or alive. All have been harmed and no one has dibs on victimhood

I'm one of those displaced persons who is still alive, so I wrote a brief history of just that particular site in the comments. I had to move from Tyler St. 57 years ago, and I am grateful I can still recall my time growing up there.

The project should not break ground until the eagles have left the property for the winter, and any eaglets have left the nest. I believe the bald eagle is protected under federal law and the construction company could be fined if they disturbed a nesting pair of eagles.
Can the city build eagle nesting platforms in the West River park just across the street?
We could use some eagle nesting structures all along the length of the West River and Quinnipiac and Mill rivers to the harbor.

I used to go with my teachers and classmates from the private school that rented space from the Jewish Community Center on Chapel St (now the Yale arts school,) to the Oak St neighborhood in the early 1970’s to see the final stages of the demolition and the occasional fires along this stretch that was once home to many.
The empty lots that stayed empty for decades, with weeds and parked cars, and a highway feel down both directions on either side.
While I’m glad the semi affordable units are being built with amenities for the residents, I’m sad more has not been done to reknit the street grid and sidewalks back together and to make Legion Ave and MLK Jr Blvd and N. Frontage Rd turned back into city streets instead of mini highways.
More needs to be done to heal the scar that was the Highway To Nowhere.

Actually, Italian and Sicilian immigrants were also lynched in this country.
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/italian/under-attack/#:~:text=In the 1890s alone, more,more than 100 Sicilian Americans.
And Irish, Jewish, Mexicans, and other ethnic and racial and religious minority identity groups, females, and people for gender identity and homosexuality have been lynched in American history.
American has a long history of violence and oppression against anyone who isn’t white, male, straight, binary, Christian.
But systemic racism against people with African ancestors has been at the highest levels of discrimination, genocide, and murder besides the indigenous peoples of the Americas who were also systematically targeted for extermination and who are oppressed to this day by our government.

During the Irish Great Hunger large numbers of Irish immigrants who came to America were treated to horrible discrimination and while no large numbers of lynchings happened that were recorded for the history books, Irish immigrants were lynched sporadically as a result of anti-Irish immigrant sentiment from people who migrated to the US generations earlier.