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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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by | Aug 30, 2021 10:19 am | Comments (2)
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Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman.
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Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman are ready for the new school year to begin Monday: They have their vaccine shots, they’re even OK with wearing masks. And, after experiencing remote learning, they much prefer the idea of being back in class in person.
by | Aug 22, 2021 1:16 pm | Comments (2)
Inside the emergency shelter Sunday.
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Magro at Career Sunday.
Ginnette Magro and her husband normally sleep on the New Haven Green. With a tropical storm predicted to be on its way, they made other plans. Quick.
by | Aug 18, 2021 3:52 pm | Comments (8)
Rendering of new campus plan.
An historic church and an historic school building will be renovated, and a crumbling former rectory and convent will come down to make room for new athletic fields and a basketball court, under a plan to build a new campus for St. Martin de Porres Academy.
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by | Aug 16, 2021 8:13 am | Comments (8)
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Duke Dennis (center left), Amari Caple (left), Kai Cenat (right), and Sirraya Pratt.
Duke Dennis scored a few baskets and scored new friends Saturday afternoon in the first Gone But Not Forgotten Memorial Basketball Invitational.
Continue reading ‘Basketball Tournament In The Hill Honors Lost Lives’
by | Aug 13, 2021 8:28 am | Comments (0)
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Campers show off art master pieces.
The Hill’s Trowbridge Square Park has been filled this week with aspiring artists, mathematicians, and athletes.
by | Aug 3, 2021 9:57 am | Comments (6)
Board Prez Tyisha Walker-Myers: Vaccinated, back in the chair.
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That’s not Zoom: Alders in City Hall Monday night.
New Haven’s Board of Alders returned to in-person public meetings for the first time since the outbreak of a life-threatening pandemic — then voted to protect lives of pedestrians on “Death Boulevard” and to push D.C. lawmakers to save lives with universal health insurance.
by | Jul 30, 2021 11:14 am | Comments (13)
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Donna Thompson at Wednesday’s event.
Donna Thompson — along with several dozen fellow New Haveners currently working part-time, short-term jobs — showed up at Career High School with a goal in mind: To find a new career.
by | Jul 28, 2021 10:00 am | Comments (10)
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Outside the Democratic Town Convention Tuesday night.
Karen DuBois-Walton’s sudden departure from the mayoral race left supporters crestfallen, critics relieved, and many local Democratic Party stalwarts dismayed at the effective end to a hotly contested bid for the city’s top elected office.
by | Jul 27, 2021 6:20 pm | Comments (10)
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Mayor Elicker, accepting the endorsement Tuesday.
Elicker supporters outside Betsy Ross.
(Updated at 8:58 p.m.) Mayor Justin Elicker unanimously won the local Democratic Party’s endorsement at Tuesday’s town convention — a key step on his path to reelection for another two-year term.
by | Jul 27, 2021 6:06 pm | Comments (28)
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Karen DuBois-Walton, on her way into the Democratic Town Convention.
(Updated at 10:14 p.m.) Karen DuBois-Walton has ended her campaign for mayor, leaving the path to reelection all but assured for first-term incumbent Justin Elicker.
by | Jul 26, 2021 4:56 pm | Comments (7)
City police are investigating a nonfatal shooting and a nonfatal stabbing that took place on back to back days in the Hill this weekend.
In a separate incident, police arrested an 18-year-old New Havener in the East Shore for allegedly stealing a car and possessing a semi-automatic handgun without a permit.
Continue reading ‘32-Year-Old Shot, 43-Year-Old Stabbed In The Hill’
by | Jul 20, 2021 1:08 pm | Comments (13)
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Union Station: Final details of next iteration being hammered out.
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Hausladen at Monday meeting: Details ready by September.
A planned new 55-year accord between the city and the state over the future of Union Station is in the final stages of negotiation, with formal submission of a detailed “lease and funding” document expected within two months.
by | Jul 16, 2021 3:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Ciera Jones’s mother Darlene Galberth, with floral gift: “I’m going to name it CeCe.”
Truman Street grew just a little bit greener Friday — as neighbors gathered to weed out the trauma from a recent homicide on the block, and plant new life.
by | Jul 16, 2021 3:03 pm | Comments (9)
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Here’s a clue: Her feet know how to pray.
Here’s another possible clue: She once pointed a .357 magnum at a cop — who had a gun pointed back at her — and survived.
by | Jul 14, 2021 9:18 am | Comments (0)
In her new video for “Paradise,” New Haven-based rapper Snowsa — formerly Snowprah — stares down an adversary over the mysterious contents of a duffel bag. Her antagonist accosts her. There’s an argument. He throws a punch. Snowsa ducks it and throws a punch back. She makes contact, and he staggers. She grabs the bag and runs, out into the streets of the Hill, toward friends, toward safety.
by | Jul 7, 2021 9:53 pm | Comments (13)
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Ciera Jones, at right, with brother Carl Jones and mentor/teacher Demetria McMillan at the siblings’ 2017 Hillhouse graduation.
A 22-year-old woman shot Monday on Truman Street, named Ciera Jones, has died from her injuries.
“CeeCee” Jones had been shot in the head Monday between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. while gathered with a group of young adults on a walkway at the side of her family’s house across the street from a neighborhood community garden. Jones lived in the house with her mother and brother. She was also a close relative of a young man shot to death last year in Hamden.