by | Nov 22, 2006 8:35 am | Comments (0)
If this looks like a team photo, it is, sort of. But why were Sgt. Bernie Somers and A.P. Mastrogiovanni (on the left in the photo) and Angelo DeLeo, the president and secretary respectively of the Westville-West Hills Neighborhood Management Team, far from home and hanging out at the Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hill (WEB) Management Team meeting on Tuesday night at the substation across from Edge of the Woods?
by | Nov 9, 2006 10:24 am | Comments (0)
She lives on Winthrop Avenue and attends Troup Middle School. He goes to Yale Drama School. They met Wednesday at a festive pre-opening night party for a new play about competitive high-school girls — her new play. Click here to read about a delightful comedy, and an inspiring backstory.
by | Oct 18, 2006 9:43 am | Comments (3)
If people in the Whalley, Edgewood and Beaver Hills (WEB) neighborhoods are unhappy with the way police are doing their job, they’re not the ones coming to the WEB management team meetings. At Tuesday night’s meeting, held at the police substation on Whalley Avenue, residents and the NHPD district supervisor (pictured) traded compliments about successful community policing.
by | Sep 20, 2006 12:01 pm | Comments (3)
The spike in crime has startled Edgewood and Beaver Hills as much as any neighborhoods in town, with some people questioning whether community policing is dying. But the cops received nothing but love at a meeting with the area’s management team, and these two officers were part of the reason why. Meanwhile, Police Chief Cisco Ortiz announced that more cops would soon be on the street.
by | Jun 21, 2006 5:28 pm | Comments (4)
In more tree trouble in Beaver Hills, a UI tree-trimmer (pictured) came under the fire of angry neighbors who didn’t want to hear justifications for the power company pruning. They wanted a “moratorium” on the “hacking.”
by | May 16, 2006 3:38 pm | Comments (2)
Joe Dease was on his way home from solving one stolen-car caper when he saw another suspicious crew driving around Fair Haven, and cracked a second case. Dease came to the task with an extra helping of training: his own experience getting ripped off.
by | Apr 10, 2006 1:04 pm | Comments (0)
The Dish actually got down and dirty on Sunday, at a group activity on Whalley Avenue at the New Haven Holocaust Memorial. The memorial, on the corner of West Park Avenue, in Edgewood Park, was built 30 years ago; it is the first such structure in the nation to be erected on public land and part of the proud legacy of Mayor Frank Logue. It is a tribute to the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide.
by | Mar 22, 2006 8:57 am | Comments (1)
The firing range at the Police Academy on Sherman Avenue draws FBI and Secret Service agents, members of the U.S. Coast Guard and local patrol cops. Honing firing skills is key, especially with the recent spate of violence against cops —‚Äù three separate incidents in the last month. But neighbors say the range, where guns go off in evening hours, disrupts neighborhood peace. Sgt. Stephen Shea (pictured) responded to neighbors’ complaints at a Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hill (WEB) Management Team meeting Tuesday night at the police substation on Whalley Avenue.
by | Mar 15, 2006 12:26 pm | Comments (1)
Neighbors of the trashy Walgreen’s at Whalley and Ellsworth are pleased in general about plans to upgrade the store, but they came out to public meeting to question whether the design fits in with the cityscape.
by | Feb 9, 2006 12:06 pm | Comments (0)
Parking lots were on the minds of 80 people who filled the Hall of Records Wednesday night for the monthly city zoning board meeting. The crowd debated, among other proposals, a possible expansion of Cero’s restaurant on State Street (which worries neighbors including Alderwoman Elizabeth Addonizio, pictured) to plans to spiff up the Walgreen’s at Whalley Avenue and Ellsworth.
by | Jan 31, 2006 2:22 pm | Comments (2)
A businessman named Wallie, and the business of selling flowers in the park in winter.
by | Dec 21, 2005 3:33 pm | Comments (0)
These guys promised to turn the Walgreen’s at Whalley and Ellsworth from a dump into a nice place.
by | Dec 7, 2005 3:35 pm | Comments (0)
Anthony Reid and Rasheen Henry (above) are psyched about the prospect of a Wendy’s coming to this vacant corner of Winthrop and Whalley avenues. Merchants and adult neighbors have a different vision of how Whalley should develop. They’re fighting chains like Wendy’s. And the city might seize the property before Wendy’s can serve a burger.
by | Nov 27, 2005 12:42 pm | Comments (2)
This neighborhood eyesore on Whalley Avenue will remain burned out and empty all winter. But good news has arrived: Four years after an electrical fire gutted it, the building has a new owner with plans to demolish it in the spring. In its stead will rise a $6 million project with 22 apartments for homeless or nearly-homeless elderly people, plus storefronts on the first floor.
Continue reading ‘Two Problems, and a Solution on the Horizon’
by | Oct 26, 2005 8:14 pm | Comments (1)
After a fire, a Victorian skeleton rises again on Elm Street. A cat corpse fares worse.
Continue reading ‘Edgewood Journal: How to Measure Progress?’
by | Oct 24, 2005 2:48 pm | Comments (0)
After an inconclusive report from the state’s chief medical examiner, Police Chief Cisco Ortiz (picture at left) said Monday that the cops are pursuing new leads in the drowning last week of a man in Edgewood Park.
by | Oct 16, 2005 1:55 pm | Comments (2)
Stephen Kobasa was fired from his schoolteacher job this week for refusing to fly Old Glory in his classroom. For years Kobasa has displayed flags from the porch of his home in the Edgewood neighborhood — Tibetan prayer flags. There’s a world of difference between the two kinds of flag-waving.
by | Sep 21, 2005 9:32 am | Comments (0)
The city has a plan for changing the character and appearance of the Whalley Avenue strip from the Boulevard to Sherman Avenue. Neighbors offered their reactions Tuesday night.
by | Sep 18, 2005 12:32 pm | Comments (1)
If you didn’t think Westville was Canine Country, check out who was running the show at WAG-fest 2005.
by | Sep 8, 2005 1:34 pm | Comments (0)
Neighbors converged on the Walgreens on Whalley Avenue near the Boulevard Thursday morning — not to shop, but to demand that they not be “used.”
by | Sep 7, 2005 10:45 am | Comments (0)
One of the city’s trashiest parking lots has been getting cleaned up these days. Hmm — Maybe the cleaning up around the Walgreen’s on Whalley Avenue near the Boulevard has something to do with a demonstration planned for Thursday at 11 a.m. by the Edgewood-Elm block watch. Or maybe it has something to do with a recent citation for health code violations from the city Health Department. Or maybe it has something to do with persistent complaints by a city neighborhood worker, Elaine Braffman, about abandoned junk cars and out-of-control trash.