by | Oct 17, 2018 7:43 am | Comments (6)
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The State-Ferry intersection where plans have divided Cedar Hill.
Mayor Toni Harp took a stand on who most represents and speaks for a neighborhood: People who sleep in the neighborhood do, she said.
Continue reading ‘Harp Sides With Residents In Cedar Hill Debate’
by | Oct 12, 2018 8:14 am | Comments (10)
State Street between Warren Place and May Street.
Cedar Hill is in its worst shape in half a century, and its few remaining business owners desperately need the city’s help.
They also need to convince city zoners to reconsider a decision that’s preventing an investor from expanding a gas station with a 24-hour convenience store.
Merchants from the pocket-sized neighborhood at the eastern end of New Haven’s Hamden border delivered that message Thursday to city economic development and anti-blight officials during an emotional hour-and-a-half-long meeting.
by | Oct 11, 2018 12:09 pm | Comments (3)
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In hallway outside hearing, Camille Ansley marshals the resistance.
VISION
The current lot, which new owners want to reconfigure.
How can a business make or break the safety of a neighborhood? Do 24-hour operations make it more or less safe?
Cedar Hill neighbors are confronting those questions at the intersection of Ferry and State streets.
by | Oct 3, 2018 1:40 pm | Comments (1)
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West Hills graffitied wall before and after.
The following was submitted by LCI Neighborhood Specialist Jillian Driscoll
Every fall, incoming freshman are expected to participate in a Day of Service at Southern Connecticut State University and this year about 200 fanned out over the city to make an impact.
by | Aug 16, 2018 7:41 am | Comments (1)
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69 Rock St.
A boarded-up, single-family home in Cedar Hill collapsed on Wednesday when a side wall caved under the pressure of a toppled tree.
by | Jun 1, 2018 11:23 am | Comments (2)
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Leeway, a nursing home for those with HIV/AIDS, celebrate.
CEO Heather Aaron.
Thirty bricks bear the names of the first patients who died from AIDS-related complications in 1995. Hundreds of spots nearby are blank, waiting to be inscribed with the names of donors who will keep today’s HIV+ residents alive.
by | Mar 23, 2018 8:17 am | Comments (13)
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Organizer John Lugo addresses crowd at Ferry & State.
Fair Haven immigrants striking at a metal factory won the support Thursday afternoon of neighbors and activists who marched to offer the kind of street heat they say is needed to combat employers’ leverage over undocumented workers.
by | Sep 14, 2017 8:02 am | Comments (16)
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The YMCA constructed the building in the early 1900s to house workers from the adjacent railroad.
A burned-out former home for itinerant railroad workers has been reborn as modern apartments renting for $1,550 to $2,100 a month (for the one-bedrooms).
Continue reading ‘New Cedar Hill Complex Aims For The Middle’
by | Jul 5, 2017 7:30 am | Comments (2)
Anjaniece Wilson doesn’t recognize the Fourth of July as a holiday, but a promise of fireworks and time with her cousins were enough to get her out of the house and onto a blanket at Rice Field before sundown.
by | Jun 30, 2017 11:53 am | Comments (2)
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1455 State, set to reopen next summer as a 14-unit apartment complex.
Amid concerns of chemical contamination at a abandoned building in Cedar Hill, planning commissioners gave developers the go-ahead to convert the burnt-out space into apartments — a necessary approval before engineers can start on a remediation plan.
by | Jun 12, 2017 12:22 pm | Comments (10)
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Ansley with Hausladen at problem-solving happy hour.
A dark East Rock underpass is about to get brighter, thanks to a few rounds of happy hour drinks.
by | May 30, 2017 12:22 pm | Comments (5)
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Ansley (below) keeps tabs on streetlights (above).
Five streetlights were out on Rock Street in Cedar Hill for months until this weekend — with neighbors staying off the street and asking the city to shed some light on the issue.
Continue reading ‘After 6 Months, Streetlights Come Back On’
by | May 23, 2017 1:38 pm | Comments (4)
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A sign for drivers passing through Cedar Hill.
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Ansley pitches East Rockers.
Thanks to support from the rest of East Rock, isolated Cedar Hill will receive $10,000 toward a grassroots beautification effort designed to build community pride and to connect to surrounding areas of the city currently separated by highway overpasses.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Gets Behind Cedar Hill Campaign’
by | May 16, 2017 2:13 pm | Comments (8)
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Ansley, near proposed wall: Let’s help them take it somewhere else.
Cedar Hill’s graffiti vandals may get an unexpected summer gift — four sprawling, concrete slabs they can decorate under a highway.
There’s only one catch. They’ll have to spell out, in paint, what it means to be a good neighbor.
by | Mar 24, 2017 8:08 am | Comments (8)
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Chlor-Alkali attorneys Shansky and Mendel: 70 jobs on the line.
Drone Photo
The factory, after the Dec. 22 explosion.
Homeland Security told us to put barbed wire around our plant, insisted attorneys for a Cedar Hill bleach manufacturer.
Prove it, said city planners.
by | Mar 22, 2017 3:48 pm | Comments (1)
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The factory, after the Dec. 22 explosion.
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Elicker: Chlor-Alkali hasn’t kept its word.
The owner of a Cedar Hill bleach factory won approval for zoning exceptions he needs to move forward with a greener process he had already begun using — but he still needs to win the neighborhood’s trust on safety.
Continue reading ‘Factory Gets OK After Fact, After Explosion’
by | Feb 24, 2017 9:02 am | Comments (5)
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Plant on day of the explosion.
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Turcio: We don’t feel safe.
Cedar Hill neighbors pressed a chemical plant’s CEO and the city not to wait six hours to tell them they’re safe the next time his factory explodes.
The CEO in turn asked neighbors to help him gain zoning permission to legally carry out the work that caused a recent explosion.
Continue reading ‘Cedar Hill Chemical Plant That Exploded Operated Without Needed Permit’
by | Dec 22, 2016 2:12 pm | Comments (4)
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The factory, after the explosion.
Emergency crews were on the scene mid-day Thursday of an explosion at a chemical plant off State Street near the Hamden border in the Cedar Hill neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Explosion At Chemical Plant; No Injuries Reported’
by | Dec 15, 2016 6:39 pm | Comments (6)
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Holdouts Lora Weeks and Katie Lawson hug good-bye.
What remains of the camp.
At 4:40 p.m. Thursday, David Sadler, the last homeless camper left in the woods off I‑91, wheeled containers down an embankment to the Toyota belonging to a friend, Charlie Lang. And a long-running homeless encampment was no more.
by | Oct 26, 2016 1:51 pm | Comments (1)
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Officers Moore and Santiago and 7-year-olds Noah Holmes and Azarel Diez, the extra duty cop.
The unofficial Mayor of Cedar Hill got an ally when her neighborhood got a new top cop. But over pizza with the crew in blue, she wondered whether that’ll be enough to bring her small pocket of the city the police protection it needs.
by | May 25, 2016 2:27 pm | Comments (5)
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The aftermath.
Inspector Colon at the scene.
A firefighter lost part of his finger Wednesday while helping to put out a fire at a former Cedar Hill paint factory undergoing renovation into apartments, where a demolition crew may have been working without proper permits.
by | May 10, 2016 3:35 pm | Comments (3)
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The east side bear.
A black bear roamed around the Mill River, East Rock, Fair Haven, and Jocelyn Square Tuesday before cops and state Department of Environmental Protection officers cornered him, tranquilized him, and took him away.
by | Oct 14, 2015 8:46 am | Comments (1)
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The plan for the Whalley building.
The Board of Zoning Appeals gave the OK a plan to decrease parking at the former Westville Wines building on Whalley Avenue and did so without adding any strings.
Continue reading ‘BZA OKs Ex-Westville Wines Plans With No Strings’
by | Mar 10, 2015 4:01 pm | Comments (3)
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Bryan Phillips and Paul Vitale came across a rogue cable wire from a vacant retail space randomly stretched across the sidewalk and buried in snow. Somebody could have tripped over it, so they put the cable out of reach.
by | Mar 4, 2015 5:42 pm | Comments (0)
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Hours after being publicly christened New Haven’s new top building official, Jim Turcio headed out to Cedar Hill — to decide whether to condemn a portion of a building.