by | Apr 19, 2024 12:04 pm | Comments (32)
The indispensable DFA New Haven weighs in on freshly painted bike lane on long-delayed Edgewood cycletrack.
When the light at Osborn and Whalley turns from red to green, Hilda Kilpatrick counts to ten.
by | Mar 11, 2024 1:33 pm | Comments (4)
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RWA crew fixing a broken valve on West Elm Street.
If Fair Haveners see streaks of blue paint on the sidewalk or in front of their homes in coming weeks, it likely means that artificial intelligence has tracked them down.
Sounds ominous, but not to worry.
Continue reading ‘Water Authority Readies Citywide Pipe Survey’
by | Feb 27, 2024 1:14 pm | Comments (21)
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Depictions of geothermal temperature control in both warm and cool months.
Yale is soon to test out a new way of heating and cooling campus buildings without burning fossil fuels: by drawing from the earth’s temperature 850 feet below “Science Hill.”
by | Jan 8, 2024 1:37 pm | Comments (5)
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Make way for greens: Neighbors have begun planning new planting at Grand Acres (pictured).
While the harshest months of winter may be just upon us, spring planting is already on the minds of those optimistic Fair Haveners who gathered for the first Fair Haven Community Management Team (FHCMT) meeting of 2024.
by | Nov 27, 2023 8:20 am | Comments (15)
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Time to call in the alders: City's Kathleen Krolak, sustainability intern Lewis Johnson III at the Ives CMT meeting.
Eating, drinking, shopping, and soon enough being ho-ho and merry are all roaring back post-Covid, which is good news for Downtown and Wooster Square and the city’s economy.
However, that also means parking woes and complaints from both merchants and residents are on the rise. And don’t forget about the dreaded 8,000-person bar crawl.
Continue reading ‘Happy Holidays! = Bar Crawls, Valet Crunch’
by | Jan 27, 2023 9:12 am | Comments (1)
Shirley Lawrence: Support is needed for traumatized residents.
Newhallville neighbors issued a resounding call for mental health support in the wake of violence at their latest management team meeting.
Continue reading ‘Safety, Resilience Sought After Shootings’
by | Dec 21, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (2)
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Ann Swain and Kim Harris at management team holiday party.
Ann Swain wiped tears from her eyes as Newhallville Community Management Team Chair Kim Harris listed all of the little reasons that make her a neighborhood hero — from returning trash cans to neighbors’ homes after the garbage truck comes to going door-to-door to making sure every kid on the street gets treats from block parties they couldn’t attend.
by | Nov 3, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (0)
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The former CVS building and future MCCA treatment center on Whalley.
New Haven residents make up three-quarters of the patients served by a substance use disorder treatment center that currently operates out of a rented Whalley Avenue office building — and that plans on moving to the former CVS site at the corner of Whalley and Orchard.
Continue reading ‘Drug Rehab Clinic Serves Mostly Local Patients’
by | Oct 18, 2022 7:19 pm | Comments (23)
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Elmer Rivera Bello at Tuesday's presser on Davenport.
A dozen Hill neighborhood leaders and residents pressed for more time — and more affordable housing — in a last-ditch effort to stall a 194-unit apartment complex planned for Davenport and Congress Avenues.
by | Oct 10, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (8)
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So long, mixed-use building and parking lot; hello, new health center?
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A map of the clinic's current headquarters, planned addition (at the top left), and planned new parking lot.
Fair Haven Community Health Care’s upcoming Grand Avenue expansion came into sharper focus — as a health center representative described plans to knock down an existing corner building that currently houses a pharmacy, a pizzeria, and a handful of apartments, and to construct in its stead a new neighborhood clinic and community space.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Health Expansion Plan Detailed’
by | Oct 7, 2022 9:34 am | Comments (5)
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Rick Altice: As overdoses rise, patients need safe equipment.
A Yale harm reduction-focused healthcare team has its sights set on installing a trio of vending machines around town that would dispense not candy bars and soda, but clean syringes, safe injection kits, and overdose reversal medication.
by | Oct 6, 2022 3:08 pm | Comments (62)
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Valerie F. Boyd: "Is $2,000 a month affordable for a child to get started?"
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New apartment design rendering, as seen from Davenport.
A California-based developer plans to knock down six industrial buildings and two houses on Congress and Davenport Avenues and build a 194-unit luxury apartment complex in their stead — prompting pushback from Hill residents concerned about rising rents.
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 | Aug 15, 2022 2:49 pm | Comments (1)
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The "Young Kings" take home the tournament championship.
Newhallville celebrated its past, present, and future at a closing event at an annual summer community reunion and basketball tournament hosted at Lincoln Bassett Park.
Organizers present Newhallville leaders with appreciation awards.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Celebrates Its Champs, On The Court & In The Community’
by | Jul 27, 2022 3:47 pm | Comments (14)
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A draft rendering of the Living Village addition, at the top left of the map, as it fits into the Divinity School's existing structure.
The Yale Divinity School plans to build a dormitory that recycles its wastewater and generates all its own energy — aiming to create the first residential building to meet “Living Building Challenge” standards for sustainability.
by | Jul 8, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (9)
Sketch of the plan.
Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) has examined its parking-related growing pains, and is now looking for community and government approval for the cure.
by | May 18, 2022 11:16 am | Comments (2)
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Upon This Rock Ministries at 882 Grand Ave.
As New Haven gears up for sunny summer days, Mark Washington is already thinking about the frigid weather next winter — and the community members who won’t have a place to shelter during cold emergencies.
Continue reading ‘Grand Avenue Ministry Pitches Warming Center’
by | Apr 20, 2022 1:52 pm | Comments (48)
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The new intersection, including red lights.
As a new traffic-calming intersection has reopened at Orange Street and MLK Boulevard, old driving habits have persisted, at least for now: blowing through red lights.
by | Mar 29, 2022 9:47 am | Comments (13)
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Imam Saladin Hasan at anti-APT-plan rally: "We are pro-help."
The East Rock Community Management Team voted to oppose a proposed methadone clinic in the next-door Newhallville neighborhood, after passionate discussion over whether such a stance would further stigmatize people with opioid use disorder.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Backs "Stop APT" Drive After Debate’
by and | Mar 23, 2022 5:42 pm | Comments (13)
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February community rally against planned methadone clinic.
(Updated) A former school building on Dixwell Avenue might become a wellness-focused “Resilience Academy” rather than a community-opposed methadone clinic under a plan under consideration for millions of state bonding dollars.
Continue reading ‘Kimber-Clifford Beers "Resilience Academy" Would Replace Methadone Clinic Plan’
by | Mar 18, 2022 11:27 am | Comments (0)
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At 2019 opening for the first iteration of 169 Plymouth student-built home.
The newest addition to New Haven’s affordable housing stock will be a 400 square-foot dwelling cheek by jowl to the railroad tracks in the Hill.
If innovative plans go right, it’ll be just as quiet, or noisy, as if it were 20 feet farther away.
by | Mar 16, 2022 3:12 pm | Comments (26)
Rendering of Wall St. Pizza conversion.
Yale plans to transform the former home of Wall Street Pizza — and before that, Naples Pizza — into classrooms and gathering spaces.
by | Mar 2, 2022 12:34 pm | Comments (11)
Top neighborhood cop Lt. Dana Smith promised East Rockers that police will focus on traffic-calming in response to five separate incidents of drivers hitting pedestrians in January alone.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Promised Increased Attention To Dangerous Drivers’
by | Mar 1, 2022 6:53 pm | Comments (43)
Rendering of project facade.
“This is absolutely ridiculous, who you people are. This is unbelievable. We’re trying to make a significant investment in your area. You really want the buildings that are there to continue to be there the way like this? You’re happy with the status quo?”
Jared Hutter — CEO and co-founder of real estate firm Aptitude Development — said that to the East Rock Community Management Team at a combative meeting Monday night.
He got as good as he gave.
by | Feb 10, 2022 11:36 am | Comments (2)
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Marcia LaFemina: "I always wanted it to be in Fair Haven."
Marcia LaFemina is looking to transform a vacant Fair Haven industrial building into a community hub where manufacturing trainees can take bilingual classes, sign up for energy assistance, and receive diapers for their kids.