Kimberly Square Gets Time Of Day
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| May 13, 2024 6:33 pm |A clock unveiling at Kimberly Square was running late — until Rafael Flores ran across the street with a ladder, right on time.
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| May 13, 2024 6:33 pm |A clock unveiling at Kimberly Square was running late — until Rafael Flores ran across the street with a ladder, right on time.
It’s official: Union Station and its adjacent lots are now a “Transit Oriented Community,” where taller, denser developments supporting car-free living may soon take shape — so long as new housing builders can navigate an extra bureaucratic step.
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| May 7, 2024 12:26 pm |Geneva Pollock showed up.
She showed up for the three generations of students she taught English to at Jackie Robinson Middle School; for the neighbors she met on her Newhallville door-knocking tours; for anyone she heard had lost a loved one and was grieving.
On a brisk, grey morning, 125 people showed up to honor the legacy of Pollock, who died in May 2020 at 76 years old, with a street corner renaming.
The four-foot-nine dynamo who grew up picking cotton in Alabama went on to become “a teacher, a ward co-chair, an usher, a mother and grandmother, a friend, my friend, and so much more,” said Claudine Wilkins-Chambers, as she waited for the street renaming ceremony to begin. “She did so much for so many of us.”
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| Apr 30, 2024 12:16 pm |Ex-business owners make the best employees, according to P&M Orange Street Market meat department manager and ex-business owner Jimmy Apuzzo, who’s retiring on May 15.
“I have almost a photographic memory,” Apuzzo, 69, said on a recent morning in the basement storeroom of the East Rock market where he began his working life on Dec. 6, 1967. He was 13. “I can walk into the cooler, look around, and instantly know what’s there and what’s not.”
What should be preserved about today’s New Haven in 2034?
“I want the community feel back,” said Angela Hatley, who joined 60 other city residents to brainstorm visions for the city’s future alongside urban planners.
To revitalize a neighborhood known for its warehouses and abandoned factories, focus on nature.
Residents and business owners offered that advice to city officials planning a more walkable, community-oriented Mill River district.
A city proposal to let landlords build extra apartments on their properties met resistance from an aldermanic committee wary of removing an existing owner-occupant restriction.
With climate change in mind, an aldermanic committee advanced a zoning proposal that would allow as-of-right restaurants, supermarkets, and offices — but not housing — along the Union Station railroad tracks.
Continue reading ‘Extra Step Added For Transit-Oriented Housing’
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| Apr 3, 2024 3:57 pm |The corner of Dixwell and Argyle might soon bear Dr. Ann Garrett Robinson’s name, in honor of a beloved champion of local Black history who, in 89 years of life so far, has made a mark on history herself.
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| Mar 22, 2024 3:14 pm |Agitating the atmosphere: That’s what Doreen Abubakar called the opening of the Newhallville Bike Box, a new free bike repair station on Shelton Avenue and Hazel Street.
“We live in a place where there is no library, no medical institution, and no community space where people can gather,” Abubakar, founder of the Community Placemaking Engagement Network, told the spirited group of 30 at a festive, if wind-buffeted, ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Speed bumps are on the way to Newhallville. What, neighbors asked, about the schools?
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| Mar 15, 2024 2:03 pm |An all-boys charter school is gearing up to open this fall in a stately Dixwell Avenue building that neighbors stopped from becoming a methadone clinic two years ago.
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| Mar 6, 2024 4:26 pm |A two-alarm fire interrupted renovations at Dwight’s Kensington Square apartments while sending two firefighters to the hospital.
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| Feb 28, 2024 12:14 pm |How will local bids for geothermal and political power translate into a more empowered Newhallville community?
That question arose repeatedly at the latest gathering of the Newhallville Community Management Team.
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Developers returned to the City Plan Commission with a promise: If they get permission to transform a Shelton Avenue industrial building into self-storage units, the artists currently working there can stay.
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| Feb 5, 2024 2:10 pm |(Updated) You can speak all you want into somebody’s ear. If their stomach is growling, they can’t hear it.
Those were the words of Marcus Harvin, the visionary founder of Newhallville fREshSTARTs, at Pitts Chapel Unified Free Will Baptist Church on Friday night. The occasion was the grand opening of the fREsh-taurant, a food recovery initiative that will provide free hot, nutritious meals for the community, either eat-in or take-out, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening. Everyone is welcome.
At sunrise, a pair of construction workers grabbed both ends of a flat stone atop a Pitkin Plaza planter, ready to heave it off.
An abandoned lighting manufacturing hub will soon transform into 150 below-market apartments a block from Union Station, if a development plan comes to fruition.
As Science Park developers presented renderings of a housing complex soon to rise on Winchester Ave., Carlota Clark wondered if one of the 283 apartments would someday be hers.
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| Jan 30, 2024 3:13 pm |A tire swing. A skate park. “A lot of butterflies.” And toys promoting “sensory play.”
Neighborhood children eagerly offered those visions for a planned redesign of Kensington Playground, following years of adult-dominated debates over the future of the park.
Formerly unhoused activists, Ninth Square business owners, and city officials agree: New Haven needs a downtown public restroom that actually gets cleaned.
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| Nov 22, 2023 8:32 am |Geneva Pollock and Pearlie Napoleon were friends who both dedicated their lives to their students and their Newhallville community. So it’s fitting that the street corners soon to be named after them will be located just one block apart.
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| Nov 15, 2023 7:30 am |For nine weeks, they painted, enduring darkness of night, thick humidity, and driving rain.
The result: Las Flores de Esperanza, a mural color-saturated with flowers that spans 50 feet of concrete wall at the corner of Blatchley and Grand, and the latest street-beautifying creation of the Ghanaian-American visual artist and muralist Kwadwo Adae.
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| Nov 14, 2023 9:16 am |Ten-year-old Cristian Estrada and his brothers Joshua, 9, and Jeremiah, 5, took turns plunging a shovel into the dirt on Kimberly Avenue to bring more beauty to their neighborhood park — this time in the form of installing a Friends of Kimberly Park sign.
Continue reading ‘Sign Installed As Kimberly Park "Friends" Keep Cleaning’
Prospective builders of 112 new apartments have gotten the go-ahead to help fill a blighted stretch of western Grand Avenue — despite opposition from neighbors convinced that a six-story complex would wreck the corridor’s character rather than revitalize it.
Continue reading ‘Grand Ave. Housing Transformation Gets Green Light’