by | Aug 3, 2017 12:29 pm | Comments (5)
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A student in one of the yeshiva dorm buildings.
Under investigation by the state, the Yeshiva of New Haven has promised that no students under 18 years old will attend classes when school resumes this fall.
Continue reading ‘Yeshiva’s Promise: No More Minor Students’
by | Aug 2, 2017 4:03 pm | Comments (17)
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Marcus Paca pitches Jane Knight of Casa Otonal.
“Ain’t gonna change,” West Rock’s Earlana Mundy told the candidate.
“Nothing changes?” he responded. “Well, that’s why I’m running.”
by | Jul 27, 2017 2:38 pm | Comments (34)
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Daniel Greer leaves police headquarters Wednesday with bail bondsman Anthony Constantinople.
A one-to-three-inch scar, and the way he pulled his pants over his shoes, helped seal Rabbi Daniel Greer’s fate with police investigating whether he repeatedly sexually assaulted yeshiva students over a period of years.
by | Jul 18, 2017 12:03 pm | Comments (19)
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Mothers of gun violence victims Monday evening.
A proposed memorial in honor of New Haveners lost to gun violence could be headed to the outskirts of Edgewood Park. But organizers need to win over some neighbors first.
by | Jul 17, 2017 12:13 pm | Comments (60)
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Proposed redesigned Winthrop-Edgewood intersection.
City traffic commissioners held off on clearing the way for the proposed west side two-way bike track along Edgewood from Forest Road to Park Street until they hear that the neighborhood’s alders are on board.
by | Jun 28, 2017 2:28 pm | Comments (4)
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Hamilton, Douglass and Walker at the announcement.
They’ve worked together to fight blight and slumlords and to plan for development on Route 34. Now the three alders — dubbed “Three the Hard Way” and the “Three Musketeers” — representing Dwight, Edgewood and West River are seeking another term to focus in on jobs for their constituents.
Continue reading ‘“3 Musketeers” Run Jointly For Reelection’
by | Jun 28, 2017 10:42 am | Comments (30)
An off-duty CT Transit bus driver was stopped at a light in the Edgewood neighborhood early Tuesday evening when three young men dragged him from his car and beat him bloody.
by | Jun 23, 2017 2:05 pm | Comments (46)
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Leron Stone riding in Fair Haven.
(Advisory: Above video includes disturbing footage.)
Doctors worked on reconstructing the face of a 24-year-old veteran of New Haven’s “bike life” Thursday as he struggles to regain brain function and a normal life after crashing on Grand Avenue — at the onset of another summer of two-wheeled chaos that has neighbors clamoring for help from the cops.
by | Jun 22, 2017 4:36 pm | Comments (28)
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Proposed redesigned Winthrop-Edgewood intersection.
Wharton: Can you help sell GOP curmudgeons?
After nearly three years spent convincing Westville, Edgewood and Dwight neighbors of the benefits of a two-way cycle track stretching from Forest Road to Park Street, city planners found one group left to convince: Republicans.
by | Jun 7, 2017 12:25 pm | Comments (6)
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A student in one of the two yeshiva dorm buildings.
Three weeks after losing a $20 million sexual abuse lawsuit, Rabbi Daniel Greer and the yeshiva he started in the Edgewood neighborhood may have new troubles at their doorstep.
The Yeshiva of New Haven, which the state accused of operating without proper certifications.
Continue reading ‘State Investigates Greer Yeshiva’s Licensing’
by | May 15, 2017 1:52 pm | Comments (1)
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Victorious Edgewood neighbors, with Alder Evette Hamilton in blue in back and Lauren Anderson bottom left.
Edgewood traffic-calmers got one of the three all-way stops they sought on Elm Street — and claimed a victory for neighborhood safety.
by | Apr 24, 2017 12:29 pm | Comments (4)
Fire union web campaign against Engine 9 plan.
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Chief John Alston Jr. testifies at City Hall.
A plan to remove Engine 9 from the Ellsworth Avenue firehouse is dead, but the new fire chief has other plans to beef up the department’s response to medical calls, restructure its organization, and save the city money.
by | Apr 16, 2017 3:00 pm | Comments (16)
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Rabbi Daniel Greer.
Their families had built a school together, a house of prayer, an entire neighborhood. The rabbi was his mentor, his “religious guidepost.” The rabbi’s son was his best friend.
So when the rabbi allegedly started sexually abusing him, he felt both scared and “special.” For more than a decade he told no one — lest he “destroy” the two families’ dream.
by | Apr 13, 2017 12:58 pm | Comments (5)
Neighbors like Cora Upshaw, front, and Lauren Anderson and Ward 24 Alder Evette Hamilton jamming the commission meeting.
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Hobart and Elm.
A simple-sounding question before New Haven’s Traffic Commission is a matter of life and death for neighbors looking to slow down speeders: Should there be an all-way stop at Hobart and Elm Streets?
by | Apr 10, 2017 7:43 am | Comments (0)
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Walter Stelkovis weeds his bed at ChapelSeed.
At the beginning of her career, Rachel Ziesk was a sculptor. Somewhere down the line, she became a master gardener too.
by | Apr 7, 2017 1:22 pm | Comments (0)
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Silvestri, Wolcheski and Caplan near where the little library could be mounted.
Get one, give one.
A budding center of the Whalley Avenue-Edgewood-Beaver Hills community will have one more reason for neighbors, particularly the tiniest ones, to stop by — a Little Free Library
Continue reading ‘Little Free Library Comes To WEB Substation’
by | Mar 15, 2017 7:34 am | Comments (4)
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Martin and Smith take to the streets.
John Martin thought being a New Haven “Yeti” had something to do with Episode Five of Star Wars. In the latest snowstorm, he learned that snow boots and shovels are involved, too.
by | Mar 13, 2017 7:44 am | Comments (1)
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St. Patrick’s Parade on Whitney.
The 25-degree temperature and chilly wind didn’t stop Myran Darden from grabbing his drum kit and Nation Drill Squad and Drum Corps sweatshirt, and heading downtown Sunday.
by | Feb 10, 2017 2:56 pm | Comments (2)
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Johnson at tenants meeting: “Leaving is a great loss.”
Longtime tenants at New Haven’s rundown Beechwood Gardens complex will soon have newly renovated apartments — if they can remain there.
by | Jan 25, 2017 9:06 am | Comments (7)
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Grooving at Edgewood’s skate park.
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Moser and local skaters mark up map with new design.
David Moser offered a simple choice to the group of skaters and bikers and rollerbladers gathered in a circle before him Tuesday night: “Concrete vs. asphalt.”
“Falling on asphalt,” one skateboarder responded, “is like falling on sandpaper.”
by | Dec 22, 2016 2:11 pm | Comments (0)
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Volunteers building a hoop house at ChapelSeed.
One of the longest-standing examples of New Haven’s community-garden movement is now in the hands of the New Haven Land Trust.
Continue reading ‘Land Trust Buys ChapelSeed Community Garden’
by | Dec 19, 2016 1:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Wolcheski with NHPD photo gallery at District 10 substation.
Standing alongside a dozen framed black-and-white photographs from the New Haven police department’s past and present, Sgt. John Wolcheski paused with a smile as he recalled the story behind each picture.
by | Dec 19, 2016 8:35 am | Comments (3)
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Several women racers are all mud and smiles.
Specks and spatters of mud became badges of honor for the nearly 300 Cyclo-cross (CX) racers who competed in the in the finale of the Connecticut series of cyclo-cross races, Elm City CX, held Sunday in New Haven’s Edgewood Park for the benefit of the Parks and Recreation department.
Continue reading ‘Snow, Mud, No Match For Determined Cyclo-Cross Racers’
by | Dec 8, 2016 3:36 pm | Comments (11)
Officer, soon-to-be-Detective, Conklin.
A police officer who allegedly seized an arrestee’s cellphone — and never returned the video of the arrest or the phone itself — is scheduled to receive his detective’s badge Friday.
The officer, Daniel Conklin, is one of four cops in line for a promotion to detective at a 5 p.m. ceremony at City Hall.
by | Oct 28, 2016 2:22 pm | Comments (18)
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Rabbi Greer.
A second former student of a prominent New Haven rabbi has asserted under oath that the rabbi “sexually molested” him “many dozens of times” then continued the sexual relationship when he returned to the rabbi’s school to work as an adult.
Continue reading ‘2nd Ex-Student Accuses Rabbi Of Sex Assault’