Boomer Rescued
by | May 25, 2022 4:40 pm | Comments (3)
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Hamden firefighters on scene Wednesday on Colonial Drive.
Boomer, safe from harm.
Thanks to firefighter Nelson Hwang, Boomer the pit bull mix is fine.
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Rent Trumps Repairs In Elliot Street Eviction
by | May 18, 2022 4:05 pm | Comments (1)
The three-family house at 14 Elliot.
A judge noted that he wouldn’t want to live in a rented room with a leaky ceiling, loose stairs, and a perennially clogged bathroom sink — and then OK’d the eviction of a tenant who cited those conditions when explaining why she stopped paying rent.
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Gridiron Star Fires Up Hill Central
by | May 6, 2022 3:56 pm | Comments (5)
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Students gasp at Renfrow's two football rings ...
... then notice the size of his hands.
After discovering a motivational Instagram page run by Hill Central School students, pro footballer Justin Renfrow popped into town to offer some real-life inspiration.
City Raids Illegal Rooming Houses
by | Apr 27, 2022 4:54 pm | Comments (32)
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"Don't come into New Haven and shit it up": City Building Official Jim Turcio (right) lays down the building-safety law for landlord Bart Salyga.
Fire Marshall Scott Dillon checks in on two second-floor tenants.
A team of city building, housing, and fire safety inspectors descended on rooming houses in the Hill illegally crammed with nearly 100 tenants — and left the buildings’ New York-based landlord with orders to reduce occupancies, fix code violations, and treat New Haven’s immigrant and college-student tenants with more respect.
Fire Displaces 11
by | Apr 18, 2022 1:42 pm | Comments (2)
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The scene of the fire on Sunday night.
Next-door neighbor Angel Ojeda surveys the damage on Monday.
Forty-five New Haven Firefighters responded to a call at 9:22 p.m. on Sunday to extinguish a blaze at 150 Columbus Ave. that left 11 people homeless.
Orange Intersection Ready; Temple Bridge Next
by | Apr 13, 2022 2:03 pm | Comments (14)
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New Orange Street intersection, slated to open on Monday.
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Donna Hall and Development Commissioner David Valentino on Sept. 2021 walking tour.
Goodbye, flashing lights and detours. Hello, new protected and signalized intersection: Starting next week, a long-in-the-works Orange Street crossroads connecting the Hill and downtown will finally open — and officials will begin pursuing the next step of “Downtown Crossing.”
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Reggie Gibson Makes A Clean Sweep
by | Apr 8, 2022 11:25 am | Comments (18)
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Reggie Gibson cleaning "the bridge."
Nip bottles, candy wrappers and cigarette butts cluttered the road. Until Reggie Gibson showed up with his broom.
Demons Stalk Methadone Run
by | Apr 1, 2022 4:00 pm | Comments (13)
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Amid ghosts, Jason Buddington hangs out on Congress after APT visit.
Jason Buddington had just picked up his bottles of methadone for the week, and kept an eye out for temptations that could threaten to return him to a life on the streets.
Boys & Girls Club Opens An Art Hub
by | Apr 1, 2022 3:21 pm | Comments (1)
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Students get to creating in new art space.
A new home for student art making, self-expression, and relaxation opened Thursday at the Boys and Girls Club of New Haven.
Hill Native Comes Home -- & Signs Up For Duty
by | Mar 31, 2022 5:38 pm | Comments (2)
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Common Ground alum Crystal Fernandez at Kimberly Field planning gathering.
When Crystal Fernandez returned to the Hill with her four sons three years ago, she decided she would be a part of the change she wanted to see in her neighborhood by starting with Kimberly Field.
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City, State Shutter 5 Hill Corner Stores
by | Mar 29, 2022 5:10 pm | Comments (21)
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Four of the five Hill corner stores that city and state shuttered.
Ned Woods: Still "a lot of choices" in the neighborhood.
Walking home on Sylvan Avenue, Ned Woods saw that the corner store where he “plays the numbers” was closed — with a large red “Stop-Work Order” sign taped across the front door.
Thanks to a city-state sweep of problem businesses in the Hill Tuesday, Woods would have to seek out another spot in the neighborhood to place his daily bet.
New "Vlock" House Previewed In The Hill
by | Mar 18, 2022 11:27 am | Comments (0)
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At 2019 opening for the first iteration of 169 Plymouth student-built home.
The newest addition to New Haven’s affordable housing stock will be a 400 square-foot dwelling cheek by jowl to the railroad tracks in the Hill.
If innovative plans go right, it’ll be just as quiet, or noisy, as if it were 20 feet farther away.
Schools Ready "Day of Healing"
by | Mar 15, 2022 2:33 pm | Comments (11)
New Haven Public School’s (NHPS) will focus attention on its students’, educators’, and parents’ wellbeing for a “day of healing.”
Used-Auto Dealer Looks To Expand In Hill's Car-Shop Cluster
by | Mar 10, 2022 4:37 pm | Comments (1)
Garcia, at right, makes her pitch.
On the corner of Adeline Street and the Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, Angela Garcia is looking to transform a vacant industrial building into a used car dealership, adding to a hub of nearby car sales and repair shops.
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Love Conquers Kimberly Square
by | Feb 10, 2022 4:17 pm | Comments (0)
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Thursday's ribbon cutting.
New Haveners can now find love — and gift baskets — in Kimberly Square, at the newly opened Angela’s Unique Creations.
Kimberly Park Awaits Upgrades, & "Friends"
by | Feb 9, 2022 12:54 pm | Comments (6)
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Kimberly Field basketball court.
Llieira Martinez (pictured) doesn't feel safe sending son Carlos across the street at this point.
Neighbors heard about plans to fix up Kimberly Field — and threw in their own plan: To ensure that people power makes it safe to use.
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Clemente Helps Afghan Families Adjust
by | Feb 7, 2022 4:29 pm | Comments (7)
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Parent Dilawar Shamshad at Clemente, where more than 10 percent of the student body is now Afghan.
When mother of four Zarghoona immigrated to New Haven from Afghanistan five years ago, she did not know any English.
She learned it with the help of her daughter, who was picking it up at Clemente Leadership Academy. Then Zarghoona returned to the school helping newer arrivals from her native land adjust to a new country, as an interpreter.
Union Station Goal: Rezoning, Less Parking
by | Jan 26, 2022 9:24 am | Comments (11)
When rezoning for “transit-oriented development” — particularly at spots like Union Station, currently gobbled up by surface parking lots — be aggressive.
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10 Hill Apts OK'd After Backstairs, Dumpster Debate
by | Jan 20, 2022 4:13 pm | Comments (7)
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Designs for 10 new apartments planned for 232-238 Columbus Ave. (pictured below.)
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A local developer won permission to construct 10 new apartments atop city-owned land in the Hill — even as land-use commissioners lamented that most of that building’s future tenants will have only one way in and out of their apartments, and will have to walk around the block when taking out their trash.
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150 Bid Farewell To A Fallen Officer
by | Jan 19, 2022 5:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Officers and loved ones gather at Wednesday's funeral.
Ofc. Gonzalez.
The death of Police Officer Diane Gonzalez “changed all of our lives in some way,” one of her former colleagues recalled at an emotional funeral ceremony held Wednesday.
The Three Kings Arrive In The Hill
by | Jan 7, 2022 9:39 am | Comments (2)
Librarians Jeffrey Panettiere, Arthur Volanth, and Mercedes MacAlpine dressed as the Three Kings, with Alfredo Rosa, Victoria Rosa, Keisy Rosa, and Luis David Espinal Peralta.
Biblical royalty appeared on Washington Avenue Thursday bearing gifts — and hope for hard times.
Courtside, Mr. A Gets His Due
by | Jan 5, 2022 2:17 pm | Comments (3)
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Crowd at Career honors Anastasio with moment of silence.
The memory of the legendary New Haven coach Tom “Mr. A” Anastasio was channeled at halftime Tuesday night on the basketball court at Hill Regional Career High School.
Thousands Of Tests, Masks Distributed As Statewide Positivity Rate Hits 21.5%
by | Jan 3, 2022 4:28 pm | Comments (12)
City staffer Shaunette James- Marquis with Covid tests and N95 masks to be distributed to the homeless on Monday.
City officials distributed thousands more Covid rapid tests and N95 masks Monday in the race to outmaneuver the Omicron variant.
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Sisterhood & Scholarship & Service On Display At Clemente Holiday Food Giveaway
by | Dec 20, 2021 1:38 pm | Comments (2)
On a mission: Sisters of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority's New Haven chapter with volunteers at Clemente School holiday food giveaway.
A holiday meal drive-by giveaway took place Saturday at Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy. It was sponsored by a sorority. Each member was clad in gold and blue. But this was no ordinary sorority, and no ordinary holiday event.
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Riverside Steps Up For Student-Parents
by | Dec 20, 2021 9:36 am | Comments (2)
Riverside's toy drive on Saturday.
Neither rain nor a resurgence in Covid-19 could stop Riverside Academy’s annual holiday toy drive for students working to make it through high school while raising young children.