by | Feb 25, 2020 9:45 pm | Comments (4)
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The future Mulberry Jam site, State and Bradley Street, at the base of I-91 overpass, looking southwest.
The land for a future“Mulberry Jam” parklet on State Street near Bradley, which neighbors are trying to retrieve from disuse and long DOT neglect, got a big boost Monday night.
Continue reading ‘East Rockers Earmark $20K For “Mulberry Jam”’
by | Feb 21, 2020 8:59 am | Comments (4)
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Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey listens to the Hill South Community Management Team.
Angela Hatley heard Board of Education representatives make the case for supporting a bigger budget. And she had a question.
“The state said don’t look for extra,” Hill South Management Team Secretary Angela Hatley pressed them. “So what’s your Plan B?”
Continue reading ‘Hill To School Board: “What’s Your Plan B?”’
by | Feb 21, 2020 8:57 am | Comments (6)
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WEB Community Management Team Chair Nadine Horton.
The Whalley, Edgewood, and Beaver Hills neighborhoods are in for a number of community engagement-driven initiatives including a literacy festival, a community mural, park trail repairs, and a community garden.
by | Feb 19, 2020 3:50 pm | Comments (18)
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Design for 232 State St.
The back of the former Chapel Square Mall will grow by two stories, and a parking lot across from Cafe Nine will sprout a nine-story apartment building under plans revealed by a Philadelphia-based developer, the latest signs of a still-torrid downtown building boom.
by | Feb 18, 2020 4:09 pm | Comments (4)
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CFO Penn in foreground, with Superintendent Tracey.
The Board of Education is really not in deficit. It has just been chronically and systemically under-funded for the last 30 years, and you should write to your representatives, especially in the state to deliver that message.
Continue reading ‘School-Funding Road Show Rolls Into Westville’
by | Feb 17, 2020 2:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Pink or red or salmon-colored cards up in Westville.
Westvillians raised their pink cards — or were they salmon-colored? or red? — to give the thumbs up to support for a local longtime after-school program and a job training program that has been in the neighborhood for 50 years.
Continue reading ‘After-School Care, Job Training Supported in Westville/West Hills’
by | Feb 14, 2020 8:40 am | Comments (14)
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Proposed plaza location at Central between Whalley and Fountain.
Hay bales and rubber duckies might sprout in Westville, as city planners ponder closing the short block of Central Avenue between Whalley and Fountain to create a one-block pedestrian plaza or piazza.
by | Feb 13, 2020 5:29 pm | Comments (3)
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Grand Avenue Bridge.
Starting in the spring, drivers accustomed to driving west across the Grand Avenue Bridge will instead follow a new route to Fair Haven: a left south down Quinnipiac Avenue, then a right onto Ferry, across the Ferry Street Bridge, then up Ferry back to Grand.
Continue reading ‘Grand Avenue Bridge Closing Plans Revealed’
by | Feb 13, 2020 4:47 pm | Comments (0)
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City employee Arthur Natalino, Jr, Hill North chairman Howard Boyd, Sgt. Justin Marshall
As the New Haven Police Department quietly begins promoting a new information-sharing app called Neighbors, Hill North neighbors expressed support for using the platform.
Continue reading ‘Hill North Embraces Amazon’s Policing App’
by | Feb 13, 2020 12:59 pm | Comments (15)
The city has started getting the word to neighbors about how to prepare for increased anticipating flooding in areas near the water.
by | Feb 10, 2020 3:33 pm | Comments (2)
Oliver with Fair Haven School music teacher Dan Kinsman.
Mark Oliver faced an array of choices when he joined neighbors in a “ranked-choice” voting process of deciding how to spend $20,000 to improve Fair Haven.
by | Feb 5, 2020 10:33 pm | Comments (2)
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With results far clearer than those partially reported in Iowa, residents on the east side of town completed a months’ long process and used a version of ranked choice voting to approve a wide range of projects to improve the Quinnipiac Meadows neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Q Meadows Approves Butterflies, Traffic Calming, Historic Markers’
by | Feb 5, 2020 5:25 pm | Comments (23)
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Lt. Rentkowicz pitches neighbors on Amazon’s crime-reporting app.
The rise of Ring has spawned privacy concerns.
So long block watches. Hello … Neighbors by Ring?
That was the word from District Manager Lt. Jason Rentkowicz at Tuesday night’s Quinnipiac East Management Team (QEMT) meeting.
by | Feb 5, 2020 8:54 am | Comments (23)
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School CFO Penn: New Haven behind by an “awful lot of money.”
Dwight neighbors examine school district’s proposed plan.
Mark Griffin had a front-row seat at opening night of a new neighborhood road show starring local education officials — and left vowing to write to his representatives from New Haven to Hartford to Washington, seeking more money for public schools.
by | Feb 3, 2020 1:01 pm | Comments (8)
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The Lehman site, looking south on Canner at Foster
Anna Festa is distressed by the extent of graffiti defacing a long-delayed construction site in Goatville and other locations in the area, including a “first,” graffiti on stop signs. So she’s considering asking the new mayor to restart a citywide (anti-)graffiti initiative to deal with the problem that doesn’t go away.
Continue reading ‘Condo Plan Poised To Advance; Graffiti Targeted’
by | Jan 29, 2020 2:53 pm | Comments (4)
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Hamden Lt. Tim Wydra.
Hamden Police Lt. Tim Wydra said he was bringing advice for the “ladies” of New Haven’s Newhallville Community Management Team: Amid a dramatic uptick in purse snatchings in recent weeks, “do your best not to be a victim.”
Continue reading ‘Purse Snatchings Plague Newhallville, Newhall’
by | Jan 29, 2020 9:07 am | Comments (1)
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Environmental remediation contractors at 71 Shelton.
Blinky the three-eyed fish was nowhere to be found at the site of a former nuclear manufacturing facility in Newhallville.
The fenced-off demolition area was instead replete with dozens of tightly-sealed intermodal containers filled with uranium-impacted concrete, asbestos, and lead dust — as well as hardhat-wearing remediation contractors working to complete a $10 million federally funded clean-up.
by | Jan 24, 2020 8:51 am | Comments (28)
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Ortiz, at right, with LCI staffer Maggie Fernandez.
There was a new face in the familiar crowd at this month’s Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hill (WEB) community management team meeting: A deputy fire chief.
by | Jan 22, 2020 8:52 am | Comments (19)
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230-unit complex, expected to open next summer.
LCI’s Carmen Mendez: Please pick up after yourselves.
• Comcast demolition to start within month.
• New owners update management team.
• Neighbors press for local hiring, property upkeep.
by | Jan 21, 2020 4:49 pm | Comments (13)
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265 Dixwell, former home of Monterey Cafe.
The concept for the two buildings.
Ocean Management hopes to transform two vacant Dixwell Avenue properties into apartment buildings with three- and four-bedroom units, including 40 percent subsidized housing.
An owner’s representative shared a concept for the project with the Dixwell community management team — and heard back concerns about the well-being of the children who might move in.
by | Jan 21, 2020 3:21 pm | Comments (1)
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Traffic whips down Quinnipiac at Runo Terrace, near school entrance.
Traffic calming on dangerously fast Quinnipiac Avenue came in first by a length. Storm-drain art placed second. Boat-launch improvements and butterfly gardens tied for third.
Those were the preliminary results a friendly horse race of pet projects, to be decided through ranked-choice voting, for how to spend $20,000 in public money to improve Fair Haven Heights.
Continue reading ‘Butterflies, Fish, Safe Streets On Ballot’
by | Jan 20, 2020 1:24 pm | Comments (1)
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Danger zone: Navigating treacherous Hil Health parking-lot trek.
Cornell Scott Hill Health Center CEO Michael Taylor announced that all center employees now earn at least $16 an hour — well ahead of the state’s gradual transition to $15.
Meanwhile, Taylor worries that one of his center’s staffers or hundreds of daily patients will be hit by cars blowing through the crosswalk in front of the Columbus Avenue main entrance.
by | Jan 17, 2020 8:49 am | Comments (8)
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Angela Hatley: Hill shouldn’t be regional “repository.”
Future home of Portsea Place.
The planned conversion of a former Hill homeless shelter into rent-subsidized apartments for housing-insecure young adults earned pushback from neighbors fearing an overly dense “rooming house” for needy tenants from throughout the region.
by | Jan 17, 2020 8:45 am | Comments (4)
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Hill South Management Team Communications Director Angela Hatley announces grocery store gift card idea.
Over 100 food insecure seniors in the Hill are slated to receive $50 worth of free help each with their grocery store bills thanks to the neighborhood management team’s decision about how to use its annual “participatory budgeting” allowance.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Direct City $ To Hungry Seniors’
by | Jan 16, 2020 4:14 am | Comments (11)
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All the census tracts marked in red (which are most of them) have insufficient local census takers signed up.
Unless more neighborhood people apply for 2020 federal census-taker jobs, the city runs the risk of having outsiders come in for whom fewer doors will be opened.
That could lead to a lower count and less federal government money for the next decade.