by | Mar 5, 2021 3:45 pm | Comments (2)
Kica Matos: We need volunteers.
The Fair Haven community is partnering with Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) to launch a “Vaccinate Fair Haven” campaign to register all eligible residents for their Covid-19 shot.
by | Mar 3, 2021 5:06 pm | Comments (2)
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Sharon Jones McCann, Malcolm Welfare, Jorge Lopez, Theodore Brooks, James Flaherty, and James Rawlings outside Michelle’s House, the renovated, once-abandoned Victorian at 1389 Chapel St.
A pitch for support for government money turned into a rapid-fire virtual grassroots fundraiser, with Dwight neighbors deciding to dig into their own pockets to help prevent sickle cell disease.
Continue reading ‘Sickle Cell Pitch Prompts Spontaneous Pledge Drive’
by | Mar 1, 2021 11:05 am | Comments (16)
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Patricia Kane: Tell the neighbors.
Newhallville residents expressed their support for a citywide proposal to require that all nearby residents receive mandatory notice of pending public regulatory decisions that could affect them.
by | Feb 23, 2021 2:31 pm | Comments (5)
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Slated for an upgrade: Kimberly Square’s crossroads.
Hill pedestrians may soon have a safer — and more scenic — path through Kimberly Square.
by | Feb 18, 2021 11:13 am | Comments (24)
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To the barricades: Schema for dividing lot into 20 smaller properties.
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Paul Wessel: We have nothing to lose but our soulless monoliths.
How can New Haven’s downtown look more like Wooster Square and less like Stamford?
The answer could start with a one-acre parking lot at the corner of Wall and State streets.
Continue reading ‘Wall Street (Building) Revolution Advocated’
by | Feb 17, 2021 12:08 pm | Comments (0)
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The pole and its new support system, which tower 40 feet.
A 40-foot utility support pole plunked in the flowerbed at the corner of Wooster and Olive streets will return to its original location across the street, on a block being transformed into a six-story apartment complex.
The developer who first moved the pole made this promise to Wooster Square neighbors Tuesday evening.
by | Feb 11, 2021 5:52 pm | Comments (15)
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A New Haven drag race.
Around 1 a.m. on weekends, Hill neighbors often hear what sound like gunshots — which actually come from the pipes of souped-up cars.
by | Feb 11, 2021 5:44 pm | Comments (1)
Solar Youth Trailblazers on the trail.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, as Robert Frost once wrote — but they are sometimes also knee-deep in trash and in need of a major clean-up, new trails, bridges, and sustained TLC.
by | Feb 9, 2021 2:35 pm | Comments (4)
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Laurie Lopez on the blight beat in Fair Haven.
Laurie Lopez is about to start a new city job that continues the mission she has pursued with passion for decades in Fair Haven: cleaning up trashed public areas so everyone can enjoy them.
by | Feb 3, 2021 4:39 pm | Comments (6)
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Lino Monge gets his vaccination shot at the Casa Otonal senior apartment complex.
Long wait times to book vaccination appointments by phone. Transportation difficulties. Lack of information about how to sign up.
Dwight neighbors raised these observations as they considered why nonwhite seniors in particular seem few and far between at Covid-19 vaccination sites in New Haven.
by | Jan 27, 2021 10:50 am | Comments (2)
Walking down a street, you see someone systematically stealing packages from porches and stoops.
You pull out your phone. You call 911 and report the crime in progress. Because that’s what you’ve been told: report crimes in progress to 911.
The dispatcher thanks you and says you should call the non-violent crime emergency number.
Meanwhile, the guy is filling his duffel bag like some kind of reverse St. Nick.
Twenty minutes later, the crime’s still going on. You call back. Same response.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Presses Police On Package Thefts’
by | Jan 21, 2021 2:23 pm | Comments (1)
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If you’ve gotten the shingles or flu vaccine before, you can handle a Covid-19 shot.
Continue reading ‘YNHH Docs Reassure Hill On Vaccine Side Effects’
by | Jan 20, 2021 1:48 pm | Comments (46)
Luke Melonakos-Harrison: “We’re facing a housing crisis of almost unimaginable proportions.”
Ahead of an anticipated deluge of evictions, advocates are pushing for the state to guarantee legal representation for tenants who find themselves in housing court.
by | Jan 14, 2021 10:34 am | Comments (0)
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Cornell Scott Hill Health Center CEO Michael Taylor: Just had sore arm.
Cornell Scott Hill Health Center CEO Michael Taylor got his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine when a patient did not show up for their vaccination appointment.
The only side effect he experienced was a sore arm.
by | Jan 8, 2021 12:53 pm | Comments (3)
Sue DeMaio on the job.
More people have been buying canines during the past year’s pandemic, and the pooches need training and walking.
Enter Sue DeMaio of the dog training and boarding business Sit Stay Train & Play. She has rented warehouse space for a training and boarding facility at 36 River St. in Fair Haven just west of Ferry, to expand her business.
She described it as a “doggy resort.”
by | Jan 6, 2021 12:34 pm | Comments (0)
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Andrew Orefice, who’s arranging for YNHH docs to field vaccine questions at CMT meetings around town.
Is it safe to get a shot if you have seafood allergies?
Is there a different dose for folks over 65, as with the flu vaccine?
Will we get a choice of Pfizer or Moderna?
What do I tell my skeptical friends of color?
Will the city encourage or require us to get the shots?
by | Dec 23, 2020 10:51 am | Comments (0)
Kim Harris rocks the virtual dance floor.
Even from within pixelated Zoom rectangles, the Newhallville Community Management Team found a way to dance.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Celebrates Holidays, And A Year of Community Power’
by | Dec 9, 2020 3:47 pm | Comments (2)
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Wait … that’s how you wear a mask? Nah. Clockwise from top left: Leslie Radcliffe, Pamela Delerme, Alder Kampton Singh and Leslie Brown.
It seemed like Leslie Radcliffe was wearing a flowery, pink and green bandana. It turned out to be a face mask — revealed to make a life-saving point.
Continue reading ‘Hill Holiday Party Mask Game Makes Serious Covid Point’
by | Dec 9, 2020 10:57 am | Comments (13)
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Neighbors Lee Cruz and Christel Manning outside the empty school.
Three years after its last failed attempt, the city is gearing up again to find someone to redevelop the vacant former Strong School — this time by extending the vision of change to the surrounding “district.”
by | Dec 7, 2020 11:03 am | Comments (3)
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Aiden Goodwin, 3, ecstatic to receive his toy.
Hill “Santas” arrive at the Espinos’ house.
Claribel Espino struggled to hold back tears when Christmas came early Sunday to her family’s door on Plymouth Street.
“These gifts are helping out a lot. Times are tough because of the pandemic,” she said. “People aren’t working, the kids are home all of the time, and it’s been stressful.”
by | Dec 4, 2020 3:53 pm | Comments (3)
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Volunteers clearing the Mill River Trail.
It’s easier to clean up rivers in rural and suburban settings than in a busy city, given obstacles like accessibility and private property interests.
Meanwhile, urban waterways like our Mill River have received less clean-up funding than they need and deserve.
Continue reading ‘$100K On Horizon For Mill River Clean-Up Projects’
by | Nov 23, 2020 3:52 pm | Comments (15)
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Ex-factory slated for demolition.
The final remains of the old Winchester Arms factory — a now-rotting building that reeks of oil on a hot summer’s day — is slated to be replaced with a new mixed-use apartment complex.
Dixwell residents pressed a redevelopment team on whether they and their neighbors will be welcomed there.
Continue reading ‘Dixwell Presses Rebuilders On Rents, Jobs’
by | Nov 18, 2020 12:37 pm | Comments (4)
A presentation slide from Tuesday’s meeting depicts the various areas of support that the drop-off center will target.
When a new drop-off center for people transitioning out of prison comes to Wooster Square in January, the program will have some friendly faces — and even a few potential new collaborators — in the neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Wooster Square Neighbors Welcome Planned Re-Entry Drop-Off Center’
by | Nov 11, 2020 4:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Nicole Davis amid the dumped mess to be cleared for a pocket park.
A community dumping ground in Fair Haven is poised to become a greenspace full of bio-retention features and fun and environmental education for neighborhood kids
by | Nov 10, 2020 4:39 pm | Comments (3)
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City reentry coordinator Carlos Sosa-Lombardo.
Services for people emerging from jail are fragmented, confusing and frustrating to those who need them.
The state Department of Corrections (DOC) does not even have a single,agreed-upon place where people are dropped off in the city after leaving prison.