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Allan Appel |
Oct 29, 2020 1:48 pm
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Still from security camera video, with cyclist and driver involved in pushing incident.
Someone cut the line at P&M Orange Street Market. A pushing incident ensued.
Across the street, a security camera attached to a neighbor’s house caught the action. The neighbor saw officers investigating the incident. So he approached them and offered them his security footage.
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Emily Hays |
Oct 22, 2020 10:33 am
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New Haven Peace Commission member Millie Grenough: Let’s spend on living.
Vote to shift funds from the U.S. military to local governments, and tell your friends about it.
This was the message at multiple community management team meetings this month, where members of the New Haven Peace Commission pitched Dwight, Downtown and Wooster Square neighbors on a referendum on the ballot this year.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 15, 2020 5:23 pm
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You can’t throw a rock in New Haven without hitting a nonprofit organization, quipped one neighbor.
Yale-New Haven Hospital services are all over the place. And there already are mobile units out there from a range of state and local mental health services.
So why does the city need for yet a new agency, however worthy, especially when government budgets are so tight?
Management Team Chair Kim Harris gives out prizes at last year’s Newhallville holiday party.
Newhallville neighbors are looking to spend $10,000 in public dollars on spotlighting “a sense of who we are,” said management team Chair Kim Harris: By installing signs that point the way to community landmarks and delve into the neighborhood’s history.
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Allan Appel |
Sep 17, 2020 10:28 am
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Lisa Deane speaks this month at overdose awareness event at state Capitol.
A woman who lost her 23-year-old son to a fentanyl overdose in 2018 has launched a campaign to provide scholarships for trade school education as an alternative for kids who might otherwise migrate into the deadly drug life.
She intends to offer the $1,000 scholarships dedicated to a kid in each of New Haven’s neighborhoods, beginning with Hill South.
Jenny Berkett: “A park without benches doesn’t make sense.”
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The Lenzi Park benches.
Neighbors succeeded in getting two wooden benches installed in a Wooster Square mini-park — and now in some cases are expressing second thoughts, because of who sits on them.
And this is occurring right at the time of widespread general concern that the United States Postal Service is under bureaucratic attack and may not be up for the expected onslaught of mailed-in ballots.
A little triangular orphan lot across the street from the successful Corsair complex on State Street might become the site of another 60 units of spiffy apartments.
The proposed new project would incorporate an old existing building, add on to it on an adjoining surface parking lot, and toss “affordable” units in the mix.
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Allan Appel |
Aug 25, 2020 11:49 am
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Forget the door-to-door trick-or-treating and the accidental sidewalk clustering of ghosts, demons, ballplayers, and Beyonces. Covid-19 may not allow for those traditions.
Here’s an alternative idea: Invite small groups of socially distancing trick-or-treaters and their families to four different garages to watch four groups of actors perform a story of a giant Brazilian snake that saves the forests and the world.
You have now seen almost everything new Downtown and Hill South neighbors learned on Thursday evening about the mini-city planned for the former Coliseum site.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 30, 2020 2:51 pm
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Reyes with Alder Honda Smith at community anti-violence event.
Otoniel Reyes began his police career as a young beat patrol officer keeping in touch with the pulse of the neighborhoods.
Twenty-one years later, as chief, he’s repeating those steps — hitting community management team meetings over the past week in Dixwell, East Rock, and Newhallville to check in with neighbors on his department’s response to a crime uptick and demands for change.
That turned out to be false. But protest vigils followed, and those continue to cause problems and lead to public conflicts, especially around the anniversary of the crash.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 23, 2020 1:58 pm
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In another continuing sign that the pandemic is easing its grip on our area, officials announced that the Blake Field Drop-In Center—a pop-up facility (pictured) providing on-site Covid-19 testing and other services for the homeless amid the pandemic— will soon fold its flaps.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 23, 2020 1:56 pm
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Bradley at State.
If there were a touch of poetic justice to street design in New Haven these days, Bradley Street, home of the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-Op, should have been given its own bike lane as part of the recent repaving operations conducted by the Public Works Department.
Townhouse-style apartments planned for the corner of Mill River and Humphrey Streets.
Twelve new homes may sprout near the Mill River where an empty brick garage now stands.
Developer Eric O’Brien of Urbane NewHaven presented his plan for 156 – 158 Humphrey St. to the Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team on Tuesday to praise from neighbors. Four of the 12 homes would be deed-restricted to be affordable.
Crosswalks can wait. People have lost jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic and are hungry now.
That logic drove the Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team on Monday to reverse a previous vote and give all $20,000 of their Neighborhood Public Improvement Project (NPIP) dollars to the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK).
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Allan Appel |
Jun 8, 2020 12:41 pm
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As part of pandemic-mandated protocols, New Haven police have been trying to reduce their in-person contacts with the public, except in the case of violent crime.
That may have resulted in drug activity going way up along Fair Haven’s major thoroughfare, Grand Avenue.
Two Dwight-based groups have received money from Yale to address the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic with food assistance, face masks and menstrual supplies.
DeBorah Davis Scholarship winner Sam Koroma and his mother.
When Sam Koroma moved from Sierra Leone to the United States, he did not expect ever again to participate in community service. He had gleaned from U.S. television shows and movies that his future home has no poverty.
