by | Jan 9, 2025 10:07 am | Comments (11)
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Signs of community life beneath the Front Street I-91 underpass.
It’s official: the city has received $2 million to stitch up the neighborhoods sliced apart by highways.
Continue reading ‘Feds Grant $2M For Local Urban Un-Renewal Effort’
by | Aug 15, 2024 9:33 am | Comments (4)
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Sandreen Fergusen: “I have a little twist on everything that I make.”
Sandreen Fergusen, the owner of the Jamaican food truck Cool Runnings, has loved cooking since she was seven years old. Fergusen’s mother used to give her money to go buy snacks, and she opted instead to spend it on new ingredients — chicken, turkey legs, rice — to practice her culinary skills.
by | Jan 31, 2024 2:55 pm | Comments (3)
Dazauna Smith shows paint problems in her bathroom to LCI inspector Alvarado.
LCI Inspector Frank Alvarado paced around a frigid Cedar Hill bedroom with a mystery to solve: How could a bedroom have been built without a heating vent?
Another city inspector hadn’t noticed the problem the last time he’d visited the apartment. Now a judge had sent Alvarado back to check again.
by | Jan 10, 2024 8:59 am | Comments (0)
It’s a plush duck butt, hanging from the wall. Is it a piece of cartoon taxidermy? Is the bird crawling through a hole? Or is there something more oddly magical going on?
The only way this reporter knows for certain that the bird in question is, in fact, a duck, is because elsewhere in “Outdoors at Paul’s” — a show of art by Douglas Degges and Noe Jimenez running now through the week at iiiiotae in Cedar Hill — the duck’s head and torso are emerging from the wall, with the kind of blank stuffed-animal expression into which one can read just about any emotion.
Continue reading ‘Gallery Inside Cedar Hill Home Keeps It Light’
by | Apr 5, 2023 10:05 am | Comments (8)
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Hometown higher-up: Cedar Hill/Newhallville/East Rock/Dixwell District Manager Sgt. Jarrell Lowery.
Sgt. Jarrell Lowery has spent the past week viewing through new eyes neighborhoods he has known his whole life.
by | Nov 18, 2022 12:42 pm | Comments (40)
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View St. tenant John Barbiero: Woke up one day with new landlord, workers on the roof, and eviction notice on the door.
A local investor-landlord has moved to evict everyone who lives in a Cedar Hill three-family house — including a 76-year-old Air Force veteran — less than a month after buying the property as part of a $1 million package deal.
by | Sep 30, 2022 11:59 am | Comments (1)
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Cutting the ribbon on the rehabbed Ferry St. bridge.
Construction crews wrap up work before bridge's official reopening.
Cars and trucks looking to cross between Fair Haven and Cedar Hill can use the Ferry Street bridge again, now that the state has wrapped up a $3 million rehab of a span that has been closed to traffic for the last five months.
by | Jun 8, 2022 10:15 am | Comments (1)
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Officials cut ribbon Tuesday at Mindless Clothing.
Examples from MTC's line.
Homegrown entrepreneur LaDrea Moss is putting her stamp on New Haven’s clothing — and on a neighborhood that also benefits from a fresh look.
Continue reading ‘Streetwear Star Has Designs On Cedar Hill’
by | Jun 7, 2022 3:26 pm | Comments (0)
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As cars raced by the I‑95 Exit 5 entrance ramp on State Street during the morning rush hour, “Keith Nauer” was “flying a sign.” It read, “Homeless. Help. Thank You. God bless you all.”
by | Aug 13, 2021 11:41 am | Comments (13)
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Jermaine Smith (right) cleaning the tree belt ahead of a city street sweeper on Friday.
The EMERGE crew getting to work on May Street.
Cedar Hill streets shone a bit brighter and cleaner Friday, thanks to a new federal pandemic relief-funded partnership between the public works department and a job-training nonprofit for ex-offenders.
by | Mar 17, 2021 3:54 pm | Comments (2)
Landlord at virtual court hearing Tuesday.
A landlord plans to get married. He needs more living space so he can live with his wife. So he is trying to evict three out of four tenants in his home, all of whom, he argued, overstayed their leases, and, in one case, left him with “worries for his life.”
Continue reading ‘Betrothed Landlord Goes To Court To Evict 3 Tenants’
by | Dec 22, 2020 4:15 pm | Comments (20)
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East Rock’s English Drive, soon to reopen to car traffic.
The city plans to reopen East Rock’s English Drive and a section of Orange Street to car traffic starting in early January in order to ease Cedar Hill residents’ concerns that closings dangerously bottled up their isolated neighborhood.
by | Dec 6, 2020 7:32 pm | Comments (8)
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Mayra Woodhouse addressing neighbors at Sunday’s rally.
Marya Woodhouse heard the gunshots that killed her nephew — and now wants to see her neighbors join her in making Cedar Hill a safer neighborhood.
by | Jul 15, 2020 6:14 pm | Comments (47)
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Crime scene tape left at site on one of Tuesday night’s homicides.
Homicide victim Howard Lewis (center) with family in early July.
Melissa LyTrelle: “The devil was busy in our city last night.”
Life went painfully on Wednesday for Howard Lewis’s family as they held an outdoor birthday party for his 10-year-old son — while top cops and city officials sought to figure out who killed Lewis and one other man the night before, and how to get a handle on New Haven’s worst stretch of violence in a decade.
New Haven has now surpassed the number of shootings it saw in all of 2019. It’s only July.
by | Oct 31, 2019 12:40 pm | Comments (3)
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Challenger Eric Mastroianni, incumbent Alder Anna Festa.
Incumbent East Rock Alder Anna Festa faces a Republican challenge this year from a Cedar Hill native and U.S. Navy veteran in her bid for a fourth two-year term on the Board of Alders.
by | Aug 6, 2019 7:33 am | Comments (2)
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Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison speaking in support of the skate park.
Alders voted unanimously to accept two grants totaling $75,000 to build out a new skate park in Dixwell’s Scantlebury Park.
Continue reading ‘Skate Park Plan OK’d; Housing Commission Created’
by | Aug 5, 2019 7:52 am | Comments (0)
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Nathaniel Jones, Gordon Williams, and Calvin Johnson at City Hall.
A pair of New Haveners with deep roots in their communities within the city are on track to see their names on street corners in Newhallville and Cedar Hill.
Continue reading ‘With Streetcorner Namings, The Living Get Their Due’
by | Jun 25, 2019 1:25 pm | Comments (27)
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Joe Jadach in his tent under I-91. Below: A city notice ordering the homeless to vacate their encampments under the highway overpass.
Joe Jadach has lived in a tent under the I‑91 overpass behind the Ralph Walker Skating Rink for the past seven months.
Now that the city has ordered the clearing out of his and a handful of other Goatville homeless encampments, Jadach is packing up his belongings and getting ready to move … where? He’s not sure. But he has survived outdoors this long, and figures he can last a bit longer until he lands a stable job and apartment.
by | Jun 25, 2019 1:20 pm | Comments (4)
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City officials gather outside 31 Grace St. House’s owners at left.
Paint was peeling by the front door of the house at 31 Grace St. Rafael Ramos, the deputy head of housing code enforcement at New Haven government’s Livable City Initiative (LCI), noticed a broken window by the side as well as trash left out in the backyard.
He didn’t expect to discover four illegal apartments in the house’s basement when he knocked on the door.
by | Apr 16, 2019 12:03 pm | Comments (1)
A Cedar Hill grocery clerk was robbed recently at gunpoint at midnight.
by | Apr 12, 2019 10:12 am | Comments (5)
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Bishop’s Gate Tavern owner Wilson Reyes makes his pitch at the BZA.
Longer hours and live entertainment will be on the menu of a State Street tavern.
Continue reading ‘Cedar Hill Tavern Gets OK For Late Nights, Music’
by | Mar 13, 2019 7:24 am | Comments (1)
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PMG’s Armand Keurian debates neighbors after the meeting.
Cedar Hill neighbors didn’t want a 24-hour convenience store. And they’re not going to get one. Instead, they will keep a plain gas station at the corner of Ferry and State Street — one that still stays open 24 hours.
by | Mar 12, 2019 5:58 pm | Comments (17)
Road trip to her favorite annual music festival.
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Rebecca Turcio.
Rebecca Turcio, who championed the cause of one of New Haven’s littlest-noticed neighborhoods and emerged as one of the first and most passionate humane local grassroots voices of the Internet Age, died Monday after a long illness at the age of 54. Her imprint on New Haven lives on.
by | Jan 29, 2019 4:28 pm | Comments (0)
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PMG’s Gary Kilfeather and attorney Meaghan Miles.
A Cedar Hill gas station overhaul is moving forward at the corner of State and Ferry streets without the ability to operate 24/7 — at least for now.
by | Dec 4, 2018 1:12 pm | Comments (0)
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Leeway.
Just because you don’t hear much about HIV/AIDS doesn’t mean the threat is no longer present.
That is the World AIDS Day takeaway message for the dozens of people who packed a common area of the state’s only free-standing nursing home for people living with HIV or AIDS.