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Firefighters cheer on YNHH healthcare providers Thursday morning.
With lights flashing and sirens blaring, fire engines from throughout the region lined up along Howard Avenue for a celebratory procession in honor of Yale New Haven Hospital healthcare workers at the front lines of the city’s Covid-19 crisis.
by | Apr 6, 2020 9:06 pm | Comments (2)
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Hill Career Regional High School.
(Updated) The shelter at Career High School for homeless people who test positive for Covid-19 but do not need to be hospitalized will have a maximum of 50 beds, will be staffed by nurses, medical reserve corps volunteers, and police officers, and will be cleaned by an “aeroclave” atomizing device when the pandemic is all through.
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by | Apr 6, 2020 9:03 pm | Comments (3)
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K&J Tree Service showed its support for health workers at the Yale New Haven Hospital Emergency Room with a handmade thank-you sign recognizing their support for ailing residents amidst the Covid-19.
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by | Apr 6, 2020 2:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Construction continues at 87 Union St. and at the intersection of Lafayette and Congress Ave. (below).
Even as much of the city’s economy has ground to a halt amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, construction workers are still donning their hardhats every morning and heading out to New Haven’s many construction sites — which busy city developers are furnishing with extra hand sanitizer, social distancing mandates, and more frequent porta potty cleanings.
by | Mar 31, 2020 12:02 pm | Comments (1)
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Lunch this week on the patio at the Amistad Catholic Worker House, where inside dining is limited to eight people at a time while others get grab-to-go meals.
Mark Colville, who with Luz Catarineau operates the Amistad Catholic Worker House on Rosette Street, sent the following open letter to Mayor Justin Elicker.
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by | Mar 24, 2020 1:06 pm | Comments (18)
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CEO Taylor: Precautions taken.
Cornell Scott Hill Health Center has removed all patients from its Grant Street inpatient addiction-recovery facility after two people there tested positive for Covid-19. It has also taken steps at all its facilities to enable people to get health care without getting sick.
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by | Mar 23, 2020 10:16 pm | Comments (11)
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Some 120 people joined the Board of Education on Zoom for the Monday meeting.
The majority of the members of the New Haven Board of Education voted Monday to support Mayor Justin Elicker’s decision to use Career High School to house homeless people who come down with mild versions of Covid-19.
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by | Mar 19, 2020 10:38 am | Comments (73)
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Hill management team’s Leslie Radcliffe and Alder Carmen Rodriguez at Thursday’s dawn press conference.
All four Hill alders, two former Hill alders, and a small group of neighborhood community management team leaders gathered in the pouring rain outside Career High School Thursday to slam Mayor Justin Elicker for choosing the Legion Avenue high school to host a 75-bed facility for homeless people who test positive for COVID-19 but do not need hospitalization.
The mayor defended the decision by pointing out that Career is already a federally designated regional emergency shelter site, and that it will have “round-the-clock” security preventing people from coming and going as they please. He also pleaded for patience at a time when his administration has to move quickly to stay one step ahead of the ever-evolving public health crisis.
by | Mar 18, 2020 8:28 am | Comments (3)
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Justine Stephan and Betty Alford at John C. Daniels Tuesday.
Justine Stephan and Betty Alford are stepping up as providers in a world turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic, where schools are no longer places of learning but rather places to prepare and pick-up much needed food for hungry families.
Continue reading ‘Day 2: New Routines At School Food Centers’
by | Mar 17, 2020 10:12 pm | Comments (1)
Vegan Ahava owner Poreyah Benton prepares tofu wraps in her truck.
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Sandra’s Next Generation co-owners Miguel and Sandra Pittman.
How restaurant owners are adjusting to the COVID-19 sit-down shutdown.
by | Mar 11, 2020 1:49 pm | Comments (2)
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Michael Taylor, Shawn Galligan, and Cornell Scott’s Ece Tek Tuesday night at zoning board.
What a difference four months and attending community management team meetings can make.
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by | Mar 2, 2020 1:13 pm | Comments (2)
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Deborah Elmore at Saturday’s event.
As over 50 people gathered on the floor at Wilson Branch Library, Deborah Elmore acted out a skit in which she played the role of a hospital doctor and a television news reporter.
by | Feb 26, 2020 2:25 pm | Comments (0)
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The current dirt pile at 87 Union St.: Soon to transform into nearly 300 apartments (below).
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The New York City-based developers of a planned new 299-unit, mixed-use Wooster Square apartment complex recently closed on a $50 million construction loan that should allow them to resume work at the site later this week.
by | Feb 21, 2020 8:59 am | Comments (4)
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Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey listens to the Hill South Community Management Team.
Angela Hatley heard Board of Education representatives make the case for supporting a bigger budget. And she had a question.
“The state said don’t look for extra,” Hill South Management Team Secretary Angela Hatley pressed them. “So what’s your Plan B?”
Continue reading ‘Hill To School Board: “What’s Your Plan B?”’
by | Feb 18, 2020 9:20 pm | Comments (1)
(Update) Forty-four year-old Gilberto Molina of New Haven died Tuesday from injuries suffered when a hit-and-run driver hit him the night before.
by | Feb 14, 2020 1:07 pm | Comments (13)
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One of the statues in Broadway Triangle’s Civil War monument.
Sarah Adams walked between Elm Street and Broadway hundreds of times before she first realized that the unassuming triangular plot of grassy lawns and brick walkways between the two streets is a park.
by | Feb 13, 2020 4:47 pm | Comments (0)
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City employee Arthur Natalino, Jr, Hill North chairman Howard Boyd, Sgt. Justin Marshall
As the New Haven Police Department quietly begins promoting a new information-sharing app called Neighbors, Hill North neighbors expressed support for using the platform.
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by | Feb 7, 2020 2:38 pm | Comments (2)
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The dean of Democratic ward chairs, at a Hill meeting.
Johnny Dye, known in the Hill as “Mr. Dye,” was reluctant at first to serve another two-year term as his neighborhood’s Democratic Ward Committee co-chair, a thankless party position he has filled for over two decades.
The 79-year-old Arthur Street stalwart ultimately agreed to sign up for another go — not out of a yearning to attend more late-night meetings, but because the community needed someone to step up.
by | Feb 7, 2020 9:03 am | Comments (0)
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Former Alder Andrea Jackson-Brooks.
Alders enthusiastically supported renaming the corner of Spring Street and Dewitt Street “Andrea Jackson-Brooks Way” after family, friends, former and current city officials, and even the former state lieutenant governor turned out to heap praise on the longtime former Hill alder and state representative.
by | Jan 31, 2020 8:51 am | Comments (16)
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47 Ward. Below: Larry Brown, with flashlight used to search the derelict houses before demolition.
Larry Brown was back in the Hill not far from the Washington Avenue house he grew up in 60 years ago. He came not to visit old haunts, but to oversee the demolition of two derelict Ward Street houses where squatters continued to live until earlier this week.
by | Jan 29, 2020 4:18 pm | Comments (22)
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Dora Lee Brown at meeting with transit chief Doug Hausladen.
Chapel-College intersection.
Roads aren’t designed safely. Cops don’t enforce traffic laws. The laws are unclear. Traffic culture is broken.
New Haveners confronted officials with that withering assessment of the city’s streets, where drivers struck and killed nine pedestrians last year and another two so far this year.
by | Jan 27, 2020 1:21 pm | Comments (6)
601 Sherman Parkway.
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Rebuilder Ferdinand Escoffery.
The city had two properties to sell. They were so rundown that even investors snapping up properties around town were uninterested. Two teardowns loomed.
Enter a homegrown rebuilder who rescues precarious properties. The city plans to sell him the two properties — at Sherman Parkway and Rosette Street — so he can rehab the buildings into owner-occupied single-family homes.
by | Jan 23, 2020 8:59 am | Comments (29)
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City Plan’s Leslie Radcliffe: It will take “one failure to be a tragedy.”
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Driverless shuttles: Coming soon to a hospital near you?
A plan to test driverless shuttles on New Haven streets advanced Wednesday night — with dissenters raising fears about public safety and the loss of human drivers’ jobs.
by | Jan 20, 2020 10:02 pm | Comments (5)
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487 East St. (center) and 485 East St. (right), two recent acquisitions by Ocean Management.
An affiliate company of the local mega-landlord Ocean Management spent $1.45 million buying seven different two- and three-family houses in Jocelyn Square, Fair Haven, the Hill, and Newhallville, in the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Jan 20, 2020 9:41 pm | Comments (0)
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Yousufu Sheriff and Mikiri Sheriff.
Hill residents Yousufu and Mikiri Sheriff received a helping hand from the Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a community service project of fixing up the family’s basement.