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Laura Glesby |
May 28, 2020 10:20 am
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Devin Avshalom-Smith, right, at a February Whalley-Edgewood-Beaver-Hills Community Management Team meeting.
As the whole world seemed to move online amid Covid-19, Newhallville activists struggled at first to spread the word about neighborhood events and resources.
Devin Avshalom-Smith found a possible solution in a new Facebook page, Newhallville Community Action Network, which he hopes will address a new need for pandemic-era communication while also drawing more people into the life of the neighborhood.
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Allan Appel |
May 26, 2020 10:56 am
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As many working class parents prepare go back to their jobs, they are also deciding not to send their kids to summer camps, out of lingering pandemic fears.
What’s to be done with 8 and 9‑year-olds confined to the house?
Provide an infusion of board games? Books? How about community-organized treasure hunts to pry them safely away from their screens?
Rendering of project’s riverine bike path and pedestrian plaza.
Building new apartments on the grave of the old 500 Blake Street Cafe is a great idea. But what about the traffic? And what kinds of stores will go on the first floor?
Westville neighbors offered that support and unleashed those questions Wednesday night in a virtual gathering with a prominent developer about his plan to build on the lot that used to house the storied restaurant-bar-banquet hall.
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Thomas Breen & Emily Hays |
May 13, 2020 3:31 pm
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Proposed 101 College tower; Kendall Square in Cambridge.
The developer of a planned new half-a-million square-foot bioscience lab and office tower at 101 College St. said the Covid-19 pandemic has only encouraged him to proceed with the estimated $100 million building project.
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Allan Appel |
May 8, 2020 11:38 am
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Chatham Square neighbors showing support this past weekend for Mary Wade Home.
The Mary Wade Home survived the 1918 influenza epidemic. It’s now toughing out the health and financial challenges of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic — thanks in part to neighbors’ emotional support and $4,953.19 gift.
That money went to pay for protective gowns, recently donated by members of the Fair Haven Community Management Team.
Renter Herminio Rivera: Looking forward to a new floor.
The owner of Dwight’s sprawling Kensington Square development has the money to start building new apartments in a park and to begin a second phase of rehabbing existing apartments.
Its purpose: To offer medical treatment, food, and, potentially, testing for Covid-19 symptomatic people and to serve as a triage point for those homeless folks who decline to come into one of the city’s sheltered environments.
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Emily Hays |
Apr 16, 2020 10:02 am
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Hill North management team regulars Lynda Faye Wilson, Hill Alder Ron Hurt, and Dora Lee Brown.
The Hill North Community Management Team wants to help their neighbors during the Covid-19 public health crisis by buying fask masks and food with extra neighborhood improvement dollars.
Fair Haven, the generator of one of the highest volumes of calls for police service in the city, had a “great week” crime-wise and quality-of-life-wise, as requests for service were significantly down over the last reporting period.
That well may be one of the only silver linings in the heavy storm cloud of the Covid-19 pandemic hanging over our neighborhoods in New Haven, and around the world.
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Allan Appel |
Apr 3, 2020 11:59 am
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Thursday evening’s Community Management Team meeting.
In a pandemic time, riverine murals and festive community celebrations need to be put hold.
Acknowledging that reality, members of the Fair Haven Community Management Team Thursday evening voted to take back $10,300 earmarked for those two projects.
They supported redeploying the funds to buy personal protective equipment (PPE) for a local assisted living facility and a community health clinic, and maybe even for police and firemen.
But who would purchase the stuff. And can they even find it?
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 12, 2020 4:25 pm
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Management team members voting.
AnneMarie Rivera-Berrios wasn’t sure whether to accept $1,050 to restore the children’s playground at Peat Meadow Park. She’s been trying for four years to raise $25,000.
Viewed from Mill Street, the geese don’t seem to mind what’s going on at English Station.
The Fair Haven Community Management Team (FHCMT) voted to write letters of concern to the state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) and to United Illuminating about the $30 million cleanup of English Station.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 9, 2020 12:14 pm
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A drab stretch of wall beneath the I‑91 overpass at Middletown Avenue and Front Street gives a grey, dull, cold concrete welcome — really a non-welcome — to Fair Haven. That may soon change with an artistic facelift.
Not from the state Department of Transportation, which owns the wall, but thanks to Fair Haveners who voted to spend $7,500 of public money to use art to improve the northern gateway to their neck of the city.
New stoplights on George Street, lights that sync with each other on MLK, new walk signals with countdowns on Derby Avenue: These are parts of a suite of upgrades that could come to Dwight with the Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned neuroscience center.
Dwight neighbors have fleshed out details of a plan to avoid growing pains with the Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned neuroscience center: smooth traffic flow and welcome more employees to the neighborhood
Newhallville’s community management team has endorsed a proposal pushed by the Rev. Boise Kimber to build an intergenerational community center and eight affordable two-family homes on a long-vacant city lot right behind his church.
The project has more hurdles to overcome before becoming reality.
Paul Vercillo pointing to the “death trap,” the intersection at Quinnipiac Avenue and Hemingway Street.
“Shhhhh, drive slowly. The oysters are sleeping.”
Would a sign with that slumbering shellfish sentiment slow you down if you were tearing down Quinnipiac Avenue?
Or, if you hadn’t a clue about local history and industry, would it just evoke a big question mark in the brain, perhaps a moment of distracted head-scratching, and a harder foot on the accelerator?
Do they mean something like: “Yale, just cough up more bucks for the city’s strapped coffers”? Then why shouldn’t the signs put the message more clearly , as in, “Yale, Pay More Taxes”?
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Allan Appel |
Feb 28, 2020 1:26 pm
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Laura Clarke doesn’t know the exact number of people who have stopped in their sidewalk peregrinations to view the optical illusion art work down the Chapel Street alleyway leading to Temple Plaza. She believes it’s more than the number who attended Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 25, 2020 9:50 pm
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Shhhh! Last July 4’s fireworks atop East Rock.
“Quiet” fireworks for this July 4th?
They would certainly make the birds stay in their nests and please other animals and small children. But would it add up to a good ole Independence Day bash?
