Welcome to New Haven? The view of Union Station from Columbus and Church St. South, looking across the future "Union Square" site.
The walk between Union Station and downtown could become a little less forlorn — thanks to a new 20-foot-wide “promenade” the city is looking to build out on Church Street South.
Meanwhile, the city is also applying for a state grant to help slow down Orange Street.
Aaron Robinson, smiling while getting stitches one week ago.
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Robinson's grandma, Shannon Nkrumah: "I need my baby, and he isn't here. I can't get my baby back."
A hundred people filled a block of Greenwood Street Thursday evening to show their love for Aaron Robinson, the goofy, energetic 15-year-old kid who died in a shooting earlier in the week.
Friends and family lit candles, shared memories, burst into tears, and released balloons into the sky with the resounding message: “Long Live A!”
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Apr 17, 2025 11:47 am
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Should the Citgo and Sam's stay open 24/7? Hill South CMT says no.
The owners of a Kimberly Avenue gas station are trying again to keep their business’s convenience store open all day and night — prompting neighbors to push back again on a proposal they say will make the Hill less safe.
... preparing food that Jerome Hauser, Jr. served up to guests like James Davis, in the Hill.
Jerome Hauser, Jr., Diamond Tree, Zelinda Clark, Tony Evans, and Rev. William Mathis had half an hour to go Thursday before the expected lunchtime rush at a newly opened soup kitchen in the Hill.
The fried chicken, beef, hash browns, and corn were hot. The takeout containers were stacked and stickered. Motivated by a commitment to feeding the hungry, the crew was ready to serve.
Panelists Justin Farmer and Jennifer Heikkila Díaz at Tuesday's Big Read.
Four hundred and fifty one degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns.
Just transpose the number and word, and it’s also the title of an influential sci-fi novel born in the era of McCarthyism.
On Tuesday, that book was the subject of a spirited, two-alarm discussion on A.I., censorship and addiction to the internet and social media, that unfolded in the community room at the Wilson Branch Library in the Hill.
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Clemente Principal Adela Jorge: "Reaffirm that your child is safe and that your child is loved."
(Updated) Roberto Clemente Academy has lined up extra counselors and psychologists to help students process the loss of one of their second-grade classmates — two days after an 8‑year-old boy named Stacey Glasgow died from an apparently accidental gunshot wound at his home in the Hill.
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Mar 10, 2025 4:24 pm
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Truman 7th graders Balal and Jovanni: Yondr is better than a lock box but not better than new sports teams.
As 5th-8th graders across New Haven locked away their cellphones for the official kickoff of phone-free schools Monday, many Truman School students did so knowing that it would help them in the long run — though some argued that the money could’ve been spent better, like on more school sports.
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At NHPS' mental health and first aid training session.
Rather than watch students present mid-year projects, 20 New Haven educators and school staffers stood at the front of the “class” to present their own research to their peers about what to look out for when it comes to student wellbeing and mental health.
NICE Director Rasheed: “People know we’ll be here and won’t fail them.”
Sacred Heart University student Pavan Morla and his three roommates showed up to the Howard Avenue police substation just before noon — to pick up apples, tomatoes, cheese, and milk, at a food pantry that has been serving the Hill for nearly a decade.
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Jan 9, 2025 7:10 pm
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At 54 Meadow: "We are the union... the mighty, mighty union!"
Vereen: "I really didn't think it was going to take this long."
After a full day of preparing students’ meals, John C. Daniels School lead cafeteria cook Latasha Vereen added a coat and scarf to her uniform and headed to the school district’s headquarters — to rally for a new contract and a living wage for public school food service workers.
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Architectural rendering of Dewitt Street redevelopment.
The redevelopment of a former housing cooperative in the Hill will soon net 64 new (mostly) affordable apartments, with another 40 units set to be renovated over the next two years — thanks to a second alder-approved tax break.
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David Germaine: Transitional housing "gives you a chance to get back on track."
U.S. Sen. Blumenthal (center): Bill's import isn't "abstruse."
Army Reserve veteran David Germaine took a break from applying for jobs Thursday morning to stand alongside the top Democrat on the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee — at a Hill press conference celebrating a bipartisan funding boost designed to help keep a roof over the heads of homeless vets like Germaine.
Yale New Haven Health announced on Friday a five-year, $500,000 unrestricted gift to Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, in support of the health center’s Recovery and Wellness Center and “advancing health equity.”
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(Updated) A 38-year-old man named Hassau Powell was found dead last week in a Yale New Haven Hospital office building, apparently from a medical problem.
