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Germano Kimbro on his front porch on Spring Street.
Germano Kimbro envisions a New Haven in which neighborhoods grow their own food and kids learn how to fly drones at school. He promises to fight for this vision as an alder if his Hill neighbors send him to the Board of Alders.
by | Aug 14, 2019 7:38 am | Comments (9)
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Professors from Puerto Rico Tuesday by soldier’s grave.
Lt. Augusto Rodriguez.
A Civil War veteran’s severed thigh bone is headed on an overseas journey from New Haven to San Juan, where it will be enshrined as a century-old reminder of the American democracy that Puerto Ricans have fought to defend but are still barred from fully participating in.
Continue reading ‘Bones Unearth City’s Puerto Rican History’
by | Aug 13, 2019 3:09 pm | Comments (22)
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Union Station’s Dunkin’ Donuts. Below: Local and state officials and biz owners tour the station’s second floor.
A new boutique hotel is being courted for New Haven’s Union Station as part of a planned comprehensive redo of the downtown transit hub’s commercial, office, and retail space.
by | Aug 12, 2019 1:53 pm | Comments (3)
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206 Wallace St.
Mandy Management purchased a Mill River warehouse to store boilers, washing machines, refrigerators, and other household appliances needed for its local property management empire.
Meanwhile, four homes sold on Livingston Street home, totaling almost $3.7 million, in the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Aug 8, 2019 4:26 pm | Comments (26)
“You cannot hand out a union paper on state property,” a city parking authority staffer lied to a local Uber driver as he booted him off a Union Station sidewalk.
by | Aug 6, 2019 4:36 pm | Comments (5)
City police seized four pounds of marijuana, $11,000 in cash, and 1,000 bags of heroin in various drug and gun busts in the Hill.
by | Aug 6, 2019 4:01 pm | Comments (6)
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Firefighters putting out the May 5 blaze at 150 West.
The city began hearing that 150 West St. was an unauthorized rooming house over two years before a fire there killed two tenants, newly released documents reveal.
And it turns out that just three months before the deadly blaze, a city fire inspector and a city housing code inspector visited the building and discovered that it lacked functioning smoke detectors.
by | Jul 26, 2019 1:11 pm | Comments (10)
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Miranda makes his civic engagement pitch on Davenport Avenue. Below: Broken sidewalks on Greenwood, Stevens, Vine, and Stevens.
Hector Miranda has an encyclopedic knowledge of every busted sidewalk and precarious tree limb in the upper Hill.
The loquacious apolitical Stevens Street resident has embarked on a new campaign to pressure City Hall to fix up his neighborhood — not by running for office, but by knocking doors and exhorting his neighbors to make their voices heard.
by | Jul 22, 2019 4:13 pm | Comments (26)
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Planned new intersection. Below: Honchos break ground.
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“Let’s dig some dirt!” declared Mike Piscitelli — and New Haven took a step out of its urban renewal past into its New Urbanist future.
by | Jul 18, 2019 2:40 pm | Comments (9)
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Local engineer David Sacco and architect David Thompson.
The former convent at 208 Columbus, slated for demolition.
A Hill faith-based middle school’s bid to knock down three derelict, historic structures and replace them with a new parking lot, a basketball court, and a publicly accessible athletic field won a key city sign-off, with the help of neighborhood support for the demolition project.
by | Jul 8, 2019 8:13 am | Comments (11)
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Elicker at Ann Boyd’s Hill (left) and Jack Hitt’s East Rock homes.
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Elicker and the Sampedro family outside Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker speaks of New Haven as a “tale of two cities.” He saw that firsthand when he brought one message to supporters’ homes in the Hill and East Rock neighborhoods and to Fair Haven churches — and heard back different sets of concerns.
by | Jul 3, 2019 8:03 am | Comments (10)
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The Ward 5 Democratic Ward Committee hears from City Clerk Michael Smart.
The Ward 5 Democratic Ward Committee in the Hill endorsed a familiar face for alder on Tuesday evening, in addition to backing the incumbent for mayor.
by | Jun 28, 2019 1:13 pm | Comments (1)
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SWAN members Sally and John at a rally in December.
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Evelyn Frisco.
As a New Canaan woman’s disappearance continues to dominate statewide public attention, a New Haven sex worker advocate is quietly working to revive the search for a Fair Haven woman who first went missing 15 years ago Saturday.
Continue reading ‘After 15 Years, Still Missing, Still Missed’
by | Jun 26, 2019 12:17 pm | Comments (0)
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Historical society President Rob Forbes at the brunch with Mayor Toni Harp, who brought proclamations for the honorees.
Stan Saxe grew up in the Oak Street neighborhood, traveled the world — and is again living blocks from his childhood.
by | Jun 21, 2019 3:25 pm | Comments (0)
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Greenwich Avenue the day after the Jan. 8 shooting in the Hill.
State investigators have found that a New Haven police detective was justified in shooting and injuring a wanted man in the Hill in January after the suspect pointed a gun at the detective and ultimately fired.
by | Jun 12, 2019 1:02 pm | Comments (1)
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Local engineer Katy Gagnon and Cornell Scott Director of Purchasing & Facility Development Shawn Galligan.
Cornell Scott Hill Health Center plans to build a new 52-bed substance abuse treatment center on Cedar Street to replace its current 40-bed offerings on Grant Street.
by | Jun 10, 2019 1:06 pm | Comments (4)
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Riverside students, in their newly built Adirondack chair, bound for their next home.
It took a few splinters.
by | Jun 10, 2019 7:37 am | Comments (4)
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Board of Ethics member Roger Wilkins, counsel Kathleen Foster, and chair Leslie Arthur.
The sister of a city employee has no conflict buying a city-built two-family house, since that family relationship appears to have no bearing on the pending transaction.
Same goes for the husband of a city employee who has applied for a city architectural contract unrelated to his wife’s work.
by | Jun 9, 2019 3:06 pm | Comments (3)
A 29-year-old New Havener died Sunday afternoon after being shot in the Hill late the night before.
Continue reading ‘29-Yr-Old Killed In Hill; Plymouth St Fire Displaces 7’
by | Jun 5, 2019 6:55 pm | Comments (46)
More than a hundred students walked out of Hill Regional Career High School with pleas to save their history and music instructors from planned transfers, while ministers defended the school superintendent’s decisions and called out protesters’ “agendas” and “privilege.”
by | May 31, 2019 7:35 am | Comments (3)
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John Farrar lunges at a reporter outside 121 Elm St.
The landlord of an illegal Hill rooming house where two tenants died in a May 5 fire got a continuance for a case involving his alleged assault of a tenant three nights before the lethal blaze.
While the landlord wound up not having to appear before a state judge Thursday, he did lunge at this reporter on the sidewalk outside of court while threatening to “break your fucking camera” in response to follow up questions about the night of the fire.
Continue reading ‘Violent Slumlord: “I’ll Break Your Fucking Camera”’
by | May 29, 2019 7:32 pm | Comments (10)
A suburban pizzeria owner drove to New Haven’s Hill neighborhood with the hope of scoring a quarter ounce of marijuana.
He instead wound up murdering a friend-turned-dealer while shooting from the window of his truck at a group of men after the prospective drug deal turned into a hold up.
by | May 24, 2019 12:26 pm | Comments (5)
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Greenwich Avenue near Second Street, a line of homes owned by Mandy Management, one of the major buyers of properties in New Haven.
Developers and real estate management companies are buying up at a frenetic pace the dwindling number of privately owned homes that give the neighborhood its character.
Nonprofits too are increasing the number of units they own in the area.
Meanwhile the city is poised to make a push to create more affordable housing, with a new proposal to create an affordable housing commission.
In the face of all these changes, some of the last Hill South homeowners have banded together to resist new real estate pressures and to have more of a say in how their neighborhood changes.
by | May 23, 2019 3:13 pm | Comments (17)
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City and state officials join Salvatore to cut the ribbon.
Salvatore shows off rooftop view to the mayor.
City and state officials joined Randy Salvatore to cut the ribbon — and to enjoy the view from a tricked-out rooftop — on his latest completed project, an upscale development in the Hill.
by | May 19, 2019 9:21 pm | Comments (0)
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Dozens of people thronged the lot across from the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center on Columbus Avenue on Saturday for Hillfest, a neighborhood festival organized by the Hill community under the auspices of International Festival of Arts & Ideas. The event brought food, music, and a host of activities and kept the crowds out for a full sunny afternoon.