by | Dec 29, 2014 1:40 pm | Comments (22)
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From left to right: Shahnan, Ahmad, Akbari, Samad, Noori.
Reza Noori risked his life working as a translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. Now a refugee living in New Haven, he faces a different battle — one he said he fights with little help.
Continue reading ‘Afghan Refugees: IRIS Misuses Resettlement $$’
by | Dec 23, 2014 3:48 pm | Comments (3)
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For 73-year-old Julie Lockhart, Sunday’s Cyclocross race held at Edgewood Park was just another ride in the park.
Continue reading ‘CycloCross Debuts With Snow, Mud & Smiles’
by | Dec 10, 2014 5:48 pm | Comments (47)
Move over, drivers — cyclists may soon have their own protected stretch of the road on Edgewood Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Separated Bike Lanes On The Drawing Board’
by | Nov 4, 2014 10:35 pm | Comments (0)
The two New Haven state representatives facing visible challenges — Democrats Bob Megna and Pat Dillon — ended up cruising to reelection Tuesday.
by | Oct 30, 2014 8:36 am | Comments (2)
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State Rep. Dillon’s Republican opponent found it tough to get people to open their doors on the campaign trail. Dillon, by contrast, got not only a hello at the threshold of Mia Duff’s cozy house — but an invitation inside for a 20-minute chat on campaign issues.
by | Oct 23, 2014 8:02 am | Comments (3)
Two landlords are arguing over whether police should move a substation a block down Whalley Avenue.
by | Oct 20, 2014 3:01 pm | Comments (6)
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Only one steely-eyed door-opener interrupted Jim O’Connell mid-sentence Saturday, refused his flyer, and declared, “Sorry, I’m a stone Democrat.”
Continue reading ‘GOP Longshot Says Voters Deserve A Choice’
by | Oct 16, 2014 4:30 pm | Comments (1)
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Cox: Let’s ramp it up.
Edgewood Park’s skate park is about to get a serious makeover — and perhaps spark an equally serious conversation about public art.
by | Oct 15, 2014 12:16 pm | Comments (1)
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Opponents line up at zoning hearing.
The owner of a controversial former Westville bar found his request to open up elsewhere on Whalley denied by a zoning board – and roundly denounced by neighbors.
by | Sep 30, 2014 8:36 am | Comments (4)
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Eli Greer wasn’t ready to part with his old Giant Upland two-wheel mountain bike and buy a new one. Sure, someone had stolen it. But he believed he would somehow get it back.
by | Sep 29, 2014 3:24 pm | Comments (12)
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NHS’s Paley (at right with a potential financial backer) outside one of the two Winchester Ave. houses he sought to buy.
The Harp administration has decided to sell five city-owned properties to five different kinds of buyers representing five different approaches to rebuilding neighborhoods.
by | Sep 7, 2014 3:15 pm | Comments (0)
A 16-month-old boy was in critical condition at Yale-New Haven Hospital after falling out of a second-story window, police said.
Continue reading ‘Toddler Critical After Fall From 2nd-Story Window’
by | Jun 15, 2014 1:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Once police caught one suspect, Officer Carlos Conceicao knew where to find his alleged partner.
by | Jun 9, 2014 12:07 pm | Comments (0)
Officers tracked down, Tased and arrested a suspect in a shooting, and a man hit over the head with a baseball bat is in a medically induced coma, after a hectic weekend on New Haven’s streets.
by | Jun 1, 2014 5:26 pm | Comments (0)
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She drove a Nissan Maxima. She was traveling in the intersection of Edgewood Avenue and Norton Street around 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
by | Mar 13, 2014 4:35 pm | Comments (23)
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Police escorted a man out of Edgewood Park last weekend after a jogger called 911 to report that the man had concealed his face and pressed himself up against a hidden wall under a bridge where crimes have taken place. The episode sparked a wide-ranging discussion of policing and race in this Independent thread. Following is a transcript of the 911 call. (Click here for the original story.)
by | Mar 11, 2014 4:14 pm | Comments (93)
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The man lurking under the bridge pressed his body up against a concrete wall.
by | Mar 3, 2014 12:59 pm | Comments (0)
Paul Ryan was high up in the air above Hotchkiss Street and Edgewood Avenue in the freezing cold Monday morning, clearing the air.
by | Feb 24, 2014 2:12 pm | Comments (21)
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An outraged Westville writer succeeded in getting the parks department to follow parking laws in the wake of last week’s snowstorms — for a little while.
Continue reading ‘Parks Dept. Parking Double Standard Sparks YouTube Protest’
by | Feb 17, 2014 6:00 pm | Comments (8)
The sign read “Tow Zone — No Parking.” Beneath stood a Chevy Malibu, newly parked in a space cleared out amid the mounds of snow and ice clogging one-block Argonne Street.
by | Dec 5, 2013 2:10 pm | Comments (3)
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“Trash Talkers” Diezi and Kwak and their little helpers at the Whalley Avenue bridge.
A new band of energized west-siders have set out make their park safer and more beauitful by picking up one cigarette butt, one can of soda — and one discarded tire and bicycle — at a time.
by | Nov 1, 2013 5:07 pm | Comments (20)
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Dusk was settling in as Bela rode her bike home from work through Edgewood Park on Halloween night. A gunman hid in the shadows.
Continue reading ‘Commute Home Ends With Gunpoint Bike-Grab’
by | Oct 4, 2013 10:20 am | Comments (7)
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Pastor Valerie Washington frequently tells the story of how David calmed Saul’s agitation — some interpreters call it mental illness—with the playing of his lyre.
In a storefront church on Whalley Avenue, her little congregation is putting that into practice: making a big noise for God through a practical and spiritual ministry that comforts hurting people with the healing power of music.
Continue reading ‘From Whalley Storefront, A Spiritual Song Rises’
by | Oct 2, 2013 12:07 pm | Comments (16)
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Willie Hoffman lays out the plan.
Edgewood Park’s natural splendor helped draw Juliet Avelin’s family to leave Vermont’s green mountains and relocate in New Haven’s Westville neighborhood. Then the news of an assault made her family start avoiding the park.
On Tuesday, she and her neighbors began the process of taking the park back.
by | Sep 26, 2013 10:42 am | Comments (4)
SCSU students who worked on the Edgewood Park clean-up, along with Sgt. Renee Forte, Officers Elizabeth White and Allyn Wright, and LCI Specialist Nick Licatta.
Friends of Edgewood Park’s Jon Miller sent in the following write-up about a clean-up in Edgewood Park:
In small amounts litter is a nuisance, but when it accumulates into the kind of massive eyesore that recently developed in Edgewood Park, it becomes a serious threat. The mounds of garbage along Chapel Street had become a blight that was turning people away from the park. And fewer people means more problems, which means still fewer people — a vicious cycle.
Continue reading ‘120 Bags Of Garbage Is Just The Beginning’