Barricaded Gunman Surrenders
by | Feb 2, 2015 2:07 pm | Comments (1)
A Super Bowl argument led to a gun being drawn, then to a standoff with police.
Cedar Hill
They Take “Broken Windows” Seriously
by | Dec 20, 2013 3:22 pm | Comments (4)
Haines explores a newly broken window on Cedar Hill Ave.
Three young men sat in a Chevy Malibu parked illegally outside an abandoned house. One made a cell phone call.
“Can you get your fucking ass down here?” he said into the phone. “These fucking cops are fucking harassing us.”
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New Cedar Hill walking cops Borer and Haines.
Not Again! Who’s Accountable?
by | Nov 20, 2013 9:20 am | Comments (15)
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State Rep. Lemar (left): “People deserve to be pissed off.”
The repair was supposed to take only a year. Now three years into the closure of the State Street bridge, and $20 million in added costs later, the state has announced it won’t finish the job until at least the summer of 2015— prompting one state legislator to offer to try for “disaster relief” for businesses near New Haven’s public-works “money pit.”
Zoners Enable HIV/AIDS Patients To Stay Off The Streets
by | Nov 13, 2013 1:09 pm | Comments (0)
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HIV/AIDS patients found a reason to clap and cheer Tuesday night — a zoning decision that will allow them to keep a roof over their heads.
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New Snafu Delays Bridge Reopening Yet Again
by | Aug 12, 2013 3:39 pm | Comments (17)
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Waitress Medhapond Jaouchaiyakul: “It feels like eternity.”
Frustrated business owners will have to wait another year until their customers can reach them via the State Street bridge, thanks to yet another delay in a years-long construction project at the Mill River.
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East Rock Dems Favor Elicker, Harp
by | Jul 19, 2013 2:27 pm | Comments (29)
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Democratic mayoral candidates Justin Elicker and Toni Harp far outpolled their competitors and walked away with victories in a triple convention in East Rock Thursday evening.
City Condemns Top Slumlords’ Rooming House
by | Apr 11, 2013 8:11 am | Comments (15)
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LCI’s Rafael Ramos at the scene.
A year after neighbors rallied to shut it down, an illegal rooming house in Cedar Hill still held a handful of tenants — until Wednesday, when the city ordered it unfit for human habitation.
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Update: Cedar Hill Won’t Lose Beat Cop
by | Sep 18, 2012 8:08 am | Comments (10)
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Officers Charles Tyson and Ron Perry on the job.
(Updated) As police shuffle shifts due to union rules, East Rock neighbors will be saying goodbye to two familiar walking beat cops.
Now It’s The End Of 2013, They Claim
by | Sep 13, 2012 11:38 am | Comments (6)
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The latest estimates point to the State Street bridge staying closed until the end of 2013 and costing $10 million instead of $5 million — leading East Rock Alderman Justin Elicker to press the state in the meantime to help neighbors suffering from too much traffic, and businesses suffering from too little traffic.
New Pad Makes A Splash
by | Jun 25, 2012 4:13 pm | Comments (3)
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Neighborhood activist Rebecca Turcio of Cedar Hill sent in this write-up and these photos about an event marking the opening of a new splash pad Saturday.
Slumlords Retreat
On Rooming House
by | May 9, 2012 8:09 am | Comments (13)
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Over two dozen Cedar Hill neighbors showed up with media in tow at the the Board of Zoning Appeals, girded for battle with a property owner looking to legitimize its illegal rooming house. But there was no fight to be had.
On New Turf, Officer Tyson Gathers Intel
by | Apr 25, 2012 11:30 am | Comments (4)
Anton Brown flips; his new neighborhood cop watches.
On his first day as a walking-beat cop in Cedar Hill, Charles Tyson set about learning the lay of the land, including figuring out which teenagers can leap over chain-link fences.
Rooming House Riles Cedar Hill
by | Feb 14, 2012 2:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Gallo. Top photo: 1294 State.
After years of neighborhood complaints, a notorious landlord is looking to legitimate an alleged illegal rooming house. Neighbors like Marie Gallo are looking for an opportunity to shut it down altogether.
Source Of Q River
Oil Leak Sought
by | Oct 26, 2011 1:47 pm | Comments (6)
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A yellow boom, installed in May to contain pollution, has since been lifted ashore.
Months after oil slicks surfaced on the Quinnipiac River, an environmental firm got the OK to find out the source of the pollution.
Cops Follow Their Noses
by | Oct 23, 2011 11:04 am | Comments (3)
New Haven Police Officers Jarrod Boyce, Chris Simon, and Marcin Podsiad thought they smelled marijuana as they patrolled the Cedar Hill neighborhood. They did — and they made a bust.
Crack Bust In Cedar Hill
by | Aug 4, 2011 4:15 pm | Comments (1)
A Wednesday search and seizure led to two arrests and 42 packets of crack cocaine recovered.
A Cedar Hill Welcome
by | Jun 6, 2011 2:32 pm | Comments (14)
Cedar Hill activist Rebecca Turcio sent in this write-up and these photos from an event in the neighborhood this past weekend.
Reclaiming their historical name one step at a time.
That is what the Cedar Hill Community has been spending the better part of a decade doing.
Gas Station Crash
by | Feb 1, 2011 4:07 pm | Comments (3)
With cops closing in on him at a Hess filling station, an alleged drug dealer stepped on the gas, smashed into a minivan and came to rest on top of a snowbank.
First Snow-tos
by | Dec 26, 2010 5:09 pm | Comments (9)
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Wooster Square Park.
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(Updated) The snowstorm barely got going before Independent readers caught some memorable images.
It Came Down
To A Penalty Kick
by | Oct 11, 2010 7:01 am | Comments (9)
After two hard-fought halves, the score stood at 0 – 0. The season would now come down to penalty kicks.
The Tiburones Rojos (or “Red Sharks”) scored three goals. Club Peru scored two. If the Peruvians wanted a chance at victory, they needed to send the last kick past the goalie.
"Watch" Out -- Cedar
Hill's On The Move
by | Sep 27, 2010 9:35 am | Comments (6)
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Cedar Hill Resident #1 Rebecca Turcio sent in the following write-up about this weekend’s block party:
Navigating Cultures, Ecuadorians Launch School
by | Sep 6, 2010 9:21 am | Comments (3)
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With hands over their hearts, future pupils of a new Ecuadorian cultural school stood in silence to the Star-Spangled Banner, and then again to the Ecuadorian National Anthem. The elders sang along proudly to the recording of “Salve, Oh Patria.” The children didn’t know the words.
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Play Ecuavolley!
by | Aug 9, 2010 11:01 am | Comments (5)
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In a Cedar Hill backyard, “El Gato” grabbed the ball — and the championship was a foregone conclusion in an inaugural volleyball tournament with an Ecuadorian twist.
Gallo’s Still Open After Crash
by | Jan 27, 2010 3:45 pm | Comments (1)
The morning after a car rammed into her State Street appliance store, Marie Gallo managed to have a sense of humor about the incident.
Will Bistro Bring Cedar Hill Revival?
by | Nov 23, 2009 12:29 pm | Comments (11)
Shlomi Leon is wrapping french fries into falafel sandwiches on State Street. It’s an Israeli thing.