Alders Accept State $ For Barbell Revival

“It’s history,” Carmen Rodriguez said of the building in an interview before the meeting. She described waking up at 3 a.m. some mornings, unable to sleep, researching the history of the Trowbridge mini-neighborhood as an integrated, low-income community in the 1800s and a stop on the Underground Railroad. She wants to make sure that the kids who eventually use the community center building are aware of that past, she said.

Here we go again with the word It’s history.

“History is in the making today. We are going to see something new, beautiful,” Rodriguez said. ​“It’s going to connect community.”

Yea right Here we go again with the words History is in the making today. The only thing History will show is how the poor and working poor will not benefit from this.Because they will be push out.

OMG. Here we go again - another community center using free money, and then of course, will need local tax dollars to stay afloat. Keep saying that a magic band aid will solve a community problem with youth and adults. How many times will this city keep painting while the structure falls down? When will the power elites start addressing real issues, real problems and stop building monuments to their egos? When?

Plain and simple THREEFIFTHS & One City Dump (and feel free to bash!): this is something for our youths, for our new young leaders and for the children that are in the need of something positive and beneficial. Its fine to give your opinion but why not work together to make this happen! To better these young lives instead of criticism. Really, give something back by showing up and who you really are and making this long into a reality. Kudos to the Trowbridge community for not forgetting its HISTORY & WORKING TOGETHER!

When I co-founded New Haven Inner City Outings (now Inspiring Connections Outdoors, still ICO) in 1993, the first community group I worked with was the Barbell. The kids I met there and took on trips for the next two years learned self-respect, respect for others and leadership in their afternoons there, while doing homework and having fun. The Barbell was just one of several youth organizations that closed its doors in the last 30 years, and I'm very happy to see that it is being reborn for a new generation of kids in the Hill (along with the reopening of the Q House). IMO, this is money very well spent.

Redeemer821
Nov 15, 2022 8:04 am
Plain and simple THREEFIFTHS & One City Dump (and feel free to bash!): this is something for our youths, for our new young leaders and for the children that are in the need of something positive and beneficial.

First,I donot bash.You said this is something for our youths.This will be for the New youths who parents will be moving in as the youth who grow up will be push out as Gentrification picks up in the area.

Its fine to give your opinion but why not work together to make this happen! To better these young lives instead of criticism.

Criticism? I said.Here we go again with the word It’s history.

“History is in the making today. We are going to see something new, beautiful,” Rodriguez said. ​“It’s going to connect community.”

Yea right Here we go again with the words History is in the making today. The only thing History will show is how the poor and working poor will not benefit from this.Because they will be push out.

I was talking about what Alder Carmen Rodriguez, said in this story.In fact.You should ask her why would she surport housing that the major of the poor and working poor can not afford to live in.

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/coliseum_grave_rumbles_back_to_life#cmt
Really, give something back by showing up and who you really are and making this long into a reality.
Do you know me? I do not think so.
Let me ask you this question.Which is more Need it at the time. Housing for the poor and working poor or a center.

My bad.Like I said.We need,Housing for the poor and working poor.Not shelters

A year after a tentative plan to convert a Long Wharf hotel into housing for the homeless fell apart, the city is considering a second attempt to invest federal pandemic-relief dollars towards stable long-term shelter for the unhoused.

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/winter_is_coming
So what is your plan to help them.

I understand ThreeFifths point about how the poor and lower middle class are being priced out of the city. But there will still be families remaining in the city who desperately need community centers to give young people positive and productive activities and programs and to provide a resource center for seniors and other community members. The way to combat crime, anxiety, depression, neglect and disempowerment is to create strong community ties and resources. Also community centers can provide a base camp location for activism and social change. They provide political clout in neighborhoods. They can become a force to be reckoned with for advocating for the neighborhood and to draw resources and funding to shape the direction the community is going in, and to make the city administration sit up and take notice of their needs. They can become a village to raise our children, to help our needy, to support our seniors, to care for our struggling community members.
Instead of complaining about the direction things are going in, how about getting active in organizing and advocating to make things better, one community center at a time. Between community centers long neglected being revived, and religious organizations serving the community with increased social services and outreach, and more cultural and community fairs, celebrations, events, neighborhood clean up days, community gardens, and friends of neighborhood parks groups, we can rebuild the communities and create neighborhoods with more interpersonal connections, that are more resilient and safer and cleaner, and healthier.