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.
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.
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Thousands Of Tests, Masks Distributed As Statewide Positivity Rate Hits 21.5%’
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.
Continue reading ‘Sisterhood & Scholarship & Service On Display At Clemente Holiday Food Giveaway’
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.
by | Dec 16, 2021 9:52 am | Comments (20)
Design for Salvatore's next project, on Lafayette St.
Stamford developer Randy Salvatore won permission to convert yet another Hill parking lot into 112 new apartments, along with 178 underground and ground-level parking garage spaces.
by | Dec 2, 2021 3:43 pm | Comments (6)
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YNHH’s West Pavilion turnaround at Park and Howard, soon to be a temporary emergency room.
Yale New Haven Hospital won city permission to build a temporary 35-bed emergency room to accommodate a coming spike in Covid and flu cases — pending aldermanic approval that the six-month project won’t affect parking in the medical district.
Continue reading ‘Plans OK’d For 35-Bed Temporary Emergency Room For Anticipated Covid/Flu Spike’
by | Nov 24, 2021 3:42 pm | Comments (12)
Police Thursday arrested a 46-year-old Truman School teacher who allegedly assaulted a student.
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by | Nov 22, 2021 5:02 pm | Comments (6)
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Teresa Fernandez outside her soon-to-be-former home.
Teresa Fernandez and her two young kids plan on moving across the Hill to an apartment on Congress Avenue next month, now that the bank has foreclosed on their rented single-family home in City Point.
by | Nov 22, 2021 9:50 am | Comments (1)
Carl Dixon waits in line to receive Thanksgiving donations.
Carl Dixon once lived on the streets. Today he resides on Salem Street right next to the Hill’s Howard Avenue police substation, where he picked up one of 56 free turkeys being handed out by NICE (New Haven Inner City Enrichment) Center on Saturday morning.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Distribute Hundreds Of Turkeys To Needy In Time For Thanksgiving’
by | Nov 19, 2021 1:44 pm | Comments (4)
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Angel Hubbard gets job offer from bike shop owner and neighbor John Brehon.
Mother of six Angel Hubbard thought she had no other options to keep her 13 year-old son out of trouble. Then a neighbor offered him a job.
Continue reading ‘Hill Crime-Strategy Session Ends With A Job Offer’
by | Nov 19, 2021 9:58 am | Comments (8)
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Supt. Tracey: Pressure’s on, even amid flow of money.
One big challenge: Competing with higher-paying districts to recruit teachers.
Another big challenge: The shortage of school bus drivers.
Another challenge: Finding qualified people to staff the after-school programs funded by American Rescue Plan dollars.
Another challenge: Mental health challenges complicating kids’ efforts to catch up with learning time lost through Covid-caused remote learning.
Continue reading ‘“I Consider Myself A Covid Superintendent”’
by | Nov 18, 2021 11:50 am | Comments (1)
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Mayor Elicker checks in with Ayden Hasaan and Brandon Exinor on the wifi work at Boys & Girls Club.
The Boys & Girls Club has received a $25,000 grant from Comcast to boost its efforts to connect members to the internet.
by | Nov 16, 2021 9:59 am | Comments (3)
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Rendering of redeveloped Union Station.
On the same day that President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill targeted at improving the country’s transportation networks, the Board of Alder granted final approval to a three-part plan to redevelop Union Station to include 600 new parking spaces, an “intermodal center” for bus riders, and improved retail options.
Continue reading ‘Alders Approve 55-Year Union Station Deal’
by | Nov 10, 2021 4:21 pm | Comments (10)
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Rendering of redeveloped Union Station.
What’s the timeline for Union Station’s planned redevelopment?
Will local businesses get preferential treatment in the transit hub’s new retail spaces?
And how will the massive new federal infrastructure bill help make Union Station a better place to travel to and from?
by | Oct 29, 2021 3:17 pm | Comments (1)
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Chief Dominguez reads aloud Friday at Lulac Center.
A new tradition began at Lulac Head Start’s three locations Friday honoring the trailblazing early-childhood educator Sandra “Sandy” Malmquist.
Continue reading ‘Chief Bonds With Preschoolers At First “Sandy” Read-Aloud Day’
by | Oct 19, 2021 2:59 pm | Comments (1)
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Union Station: Slated to be managed by the city’s parking authority for at least another five years.
Parking commissioners unanimously signed off on three separate agreements designed to lay the groundwork for redeveloping Union Station.
Continue reading ‘Parking Authority Approves 3 Pacts, Paving Way To Redevelop Union Station’
by | Oct 18, 2021 1:16 pm | Comments (9)
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A rendering of a redeveloped Union Station.
Alders unanimously advanced a proposed new city-state accord that would provide a 55-year roadmap for the operation and redevelopment of Union Station.
by | Oct 15, 2021 2:46 pm | Comments (9)
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Judge Cirello: Gives tenants another chance.
A judge ruled that a Hill family can stay in their rented home for another month — as they try to avoid falling through the cracks of a state Covid-era program designed to help people like them avoid eviction.
Continue reading ‘Reprieve Tests Eviction-Prevention Effort’
by | Oct 13, 2021 11:36 am | Comments (21)
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Pedestrian, bike infrastructure at almost-done Orange intersection.
Donna Hall (right) leads Wednesday morning’s site visit.
Painted crosswalks, protected bike lanes, sculptural light fixtures, and pedestrian crossing signals now line a new almost-finished Orange Street intersection that — when it opens in a few weeks — will mark the culmination of the city’s latest efforts to stitch together downtown and the Hill.
by | Oct 7, 2021 2:43 pm | Comments (28)
Tenant Maritza Ostolaza outside her first-floor apartment: “They were interested in money. They were not interested in us.”
Tenants of a three-family “lemon” of a house on Liberty Street are wondering how two landlords managed to walk away with $180,000 by double-selling a property that they say remains a dump.
by | Sep 21, 2021 8:16 am | Comments (13)
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Demolition underway at 276 Howard Ave…
… fire-damaged homes at 25 and 21 Sheffield Ave…
… and a partially collapsed rear wall at 133 Hamilton St.
A Howard Avenue barbershop has been reduced to a dusty pile of wood and bricks.
Two fire-damaged Sheffield Avenue homes are boarded up and awaiting repairs.
And the old clock factory on Hamilton Street has a collapsed rear wall, 20 leaking oil drums, a corner apron of fallen bricks — and no construction workers in sight.
City building inspectors have their eyes on those derelict properties and more, according to a half dozen newly issued “unsafe structure” notices filed by the Building Department on the city land records database.
by | Sep 15, 2021 9:17 am | Comments (2)
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New Haven Free Public Library Deputy Director Luis Chavez-Brumell.
As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, Luis Chavez-Brumell saw evidence that Courtland S. Wilson Branch Library was meeting its mission.
Continue reading ‘Wilson Branch Library, A Community Treasure, Turns 15’
by | Sep 2, 2021 3:43 pm | Comments (14)
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346 Norton St., one of Mandy Management’s latest acquisitions.
An affiliate of the local mega-landlord Mandy Management spent more than $1.1 million adding another 11 apartments to its local rental housing portfolio — and a Hill redeveloper pulled a 10-year, $22.5 million mortgage for a newly built and leased up apartment building on Lafayette Street.
Continue reading ‘Latest Land Transactions, LLC Mortgages: Mandy Buys 11 Apts. For $1.1M+’