by | Jul 17, 2019 12:47 pm | Comments (6)
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The candidate with Beaver Pond preservationist Nan Bartow.
Mayoral hopeful Seth Poole got his start in politics chairing the WEB (Whalley, Edgewood, Beaver Hill) community management team. He and his neighbors fought successfully to relocate the police firing range from Sherman Parkway — close to his beloved grandmother’s house — to its new location, well out of residential earshot.
by | Jul 10, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (0)
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After spending more than a year out of work to relocate their Jamaican style food restaurant, owner, Norma Parks and family celebrated the grand reopening of Whalley Avenue’s Caribbean Connection on Tuesday.
by | Jul 8, 2019 7:59 am | Comments (2)
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Rabbi Hyman, Rabbi Bistritzky, and members of the Rosenberg family at Sunday’s reopening.
Thirty people gathered in an Edgewood back yard Sunday to mark the reopening of a communal mikvah, which allows observant Jews to perform religious obligations.
by | Jul 4, 2019 9:09 am | Comments (3)
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Teo Baldwin with assistant coach (and son) Roger. Top: Undefeated Edgewood NHYS team.
Whether commanding firefighters at a blazing building or coaching middle schoolers on the field, Teo Baldwin emphasizes the same two principles: Respect your teammates. And know the unique role you play in helping your group succeed.
by | Jun 12, 2019 1:29 pm | Comments (30)
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Before and after: Plan for Winthrop-Edgewood stretch.
The city has finally gone out to bid to build a 2.1‑mile cycletrack along Edgewood Avenue after receiving all necessary project sign-offs from the state Department of Transportation.
by | Jun 7, 2019 1:14 pm | Comments (24)
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Officers Kyle Listro and Joseph Perrotti.
Tinted windows? Looked suspicious.
Wafting weed smell? Not necessarily a problem.
The driver’s hands start trembling? Now this looked like more than a run-of-the-mill traffic stop.
by | Jun 5, 2019 8:39 am | Comments (4)
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An overnight fire on Elm Street injured three firefighters and displaced seven adults after spreading to a next-door house.
by | May 20, 2019 5:26 pm | Comments (11)
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Another Greer-controlled rental property.
Lawyers argue they now have enough evidence to wrest control of nearly 50 rental properties in the Edgewood neighborhood from Rabbi Daniel Greer as payback for the tens of millions of dollars owed to a former yeshiva student who accused the rabbi of molesting him.
by | Mar 15, 2019 12:11 pm | Comments (4)
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Install good lighting inside and around your store.
Have a high-quality camera security system.
And clear out all of the clutter from storefront windows so you can see out and the police can see in.
Top cops brought suggestions like those to Whalley Avenue business owners looking to thwart burglars and robbers.
Continue reading ‘Whalley Biz Owners Schooled In Target Hardening 101’
by | Feb 22, 2019 2:19 pm | Comments (2)
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Officers Jacob Cedeno and Lindsey Nesto at scene of May 20 assault.
The alleged rapes took place on or near Norton Street. The suspect would target a sex worker, brandish a gun, and, more often than not, steal her cellphone after the assault. He rarely used a condom, and always threatened his victims.
That pattern emerges from reports filed against an alleged serial rapist of prostitutes, who now stands accused of committing at least five sexual assaults (and possibly more) on the west side of town.
by | Feb 19, 2019 8:51 am | Comments (6)
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Determined special victims cops Lt. Renee Dominguez, Detective Leonardo Soto, Sgt. Mary Helland.
A serial rapist was preying on prostitutes on New Haven’s west end. The cops couldn’t get any leads on him. Until one of his alleged victims turned on her new phone — and saw her attacker’s face pop up in her Google Cloud photos.
by | Feb 15, 2019 8:59 am | Comments (17)
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Boxcutter-wielding landlord Xie Meiqiang flees a reporter Thursday outside his Orchard Street property.
68 Mechanic St.: Condemned.
The city condemned a two-family home that two Guilford-based landlords had illegally converted into a five-unit rooming house. Four tenants were displaced.
The landlords’ — and their citywide tenants’ — problems may have just begun.
by | Feb 14, 2019 8:39 am | Comments (46)
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Officers Jacob Cedeno and Lindsey Nesto on May 20, as captured by body camera — when it was turned on.
A police internal investigation has concluded that three city cops broke the rules when they failed to arrest a suspected serial rapist during a traffic stop.
They let the alleged rapist go free though a woman at the scene said she had just been assaulted at gunpoint. Even though the man had a bb gun under his seat. Even though there was a warrant out for his arrest.
The officers also turned off their body cameras during part of the encounter. One threw a knife over a bridge into the West River. The suspect would go on to allegedly rape two more women before he was finally arrested.
by | Feb 7, 2019 1:17 pm | Comments (1)
Edgewood, Martinez, ESUMS, Nathan Hale: Parents invited in.
Moms and dads, alders, social-service providers and neighborhood fixtures will be walking through eight schools over the coming months, giving school principals and teachers a lesson on how to make them feel welcome.
Continue reading ‘Want A Tour? Schools Seek Parent Feedback’
by | Feb 6, 2019 2:47 pm | Comments (12)
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Rabbi Daniel Greer, with his bail bondsman.
Nearly two years after a federal jury found that Rabbi Daniel Greer had inflicted $15 million in emotional damages by allegedly molesting a former student, and 18 months after police arrested him for alleged sexual crimes, he hasn’t paid up more than a couple thousand bucks or served any time behind bars.
by | Dec 13, 2018 4:22 pm | Comments (23)
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Tenant Williams after his electricity was cut: “Now I got no meat.”
A ground floor window at 202-208 Sherman.
A local mega-landlord continued buying the block on Sherman Avenue — leaving tenants wary about what comes next, and in some cases making plans to move as quickly as possible.
by | Dec 13, 2018 8:34 am | Comments (4)
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Signs like these are up in New Haven, West Haven and Woodbridge.
The West River Greenway is getting a little more advertising in the towns that it meanders through thanks to some new signage \going up in the watershed.
by | Nov 20, 2018 4:55 pm | Comments (3)
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66 Norton St.: Scene of one alleged rape.
A man suspected of attacking prostitutes has been charged with two separate cases of assaulting women he believed to be sex workers, including one incident in the basement of a notorious, condemned West River apartment complex
Continue reading ‘Alleged Serial Rapist Charged In 2 Assaults’
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 | Oct 2, 2018 1:59 pm | Comments (10)
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Eroded support beam in basement of 66 Norton. Rot and declay caused a large hole.
The city’s anti-blight agency has placed an open-ended lien on a century-old, 41-unit apartment complex to cover relocation expenses for the dozens of tenants displaced from the Edgewood building that was condemned in February.
by | Sep 24, 2018 12:02 pm | Comments (14)
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City Engineer Zinn, left, with Deputy Director of Transportation, Traffic & Parking Mike Pinto.
After years of waiting for a roundabout at the intersection of Crescent and Munson Streets, neighbors got a date: July 1, 2019.
That’s when the city plans to start the work that neighbors hope will finally slow down speeders.
by | Sep 20, 2018 2:07 pm | Comments (2)
DeGale Field, better known in the city as Goffe Street Park, is headed for a makeover thanks to about $217,597 in grant money that is expected to come from the state.
by | Sep 7, 2018 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
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Jovon Ladson navigates skate park’s new concrete quarter pipe.
As hot, humid sunlight poured in, skaters whirred across the old asphalt and new concrete. They pivoted atop the quarter pipe and hopped over the lower ramps and obstacles. Some wrapped their T‑shirts around their foreheads to protect their eyes from the sun. Almost everyone sported ornate tattoos up and down their arms, legs, and backs.
This sometimes skeptical crowd had nothing but props to offer for the now-completed renovation of the Edgewood Skate Park, which will be celebrated with a formal dedication Sunday.
by | Jul 6, 2018 8:00 am | Comments (5)
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Legal aid’s Amy Marx with lead safety brochures in court Thursday.
Latesha Jones with baby Tramar after exiting courthouse.
No more excuses: Get in the building. Get out the lead. Protect poisoned kids.
Superior Court Judge Walter Spader Jr. issued those marching orders to the city Thursday.
Spader specifically ordered the city Health Department to take over removing lead paint from a flaking-paint-filled 969 Elm St. apartment where two little boys have been found to have high lead levels in their blood.
by | Jun 22, 2018 8:28 am | Comments (5)
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Two children in this apartment are poisoned with lead.
A mom whose 3‑year-old son is sick with lead-poisoning called the New Haven Health Department more than 20 times, begging for someone to enforce the laws and clean up the cracked and flaking paint at her Edgewood apartment.
After a month of messages, an inspector finally came out and confirmed the walls were coated with lead. But for the next five months, the property remained largely unabated. During that time, her 11-month-old son was poisoned too.
Continue reading ‘2nd Kid Poisoned After City Ordered Repairs’