by | Nov 17, 2017 2:20 pm | Comments (0)
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The scene at 425 Howard.
Smoke was filling the apartment. The man inside seemed confused about what to do — until Sgt. Yessennia Agosto appeared at his door and declared: “Viste el fuego! Tenemos que salir ahora!”
by | Nov 17, 2017 8:58 am | Comments (8)
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Does this intersection look familiar?
That’s Orange Street and MLK Jr. Boulevard South — as it’s designed to be reborn soon as a 21st century pedestrian and bike-friendly crossroads knitting the Hill and Downtown back together from the effects of last century’s urban “renewal.”
by | Oct 27, 2017 1:00 pm | Comments (4)
Footpaths along the Boulevard could get real sidewalks.
A foot path could become a real sidewalk and bus riders would get a new shelter if the city succeeds in a request to “connect” Ella T. Grasso Boulevard to the rest of the Hill.
by | Oct 20, 2017 2:09 pm | Comments (11)
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Carlson: on the hunt for busted sidewalks and streets.
Colon emceeing Hispanic Heritage event.
Walking the Hill with John Carlson, you can get the impression that his campaign for city alder is largely about fixing sidewalks and paving streets.
by | Oct 17, 2017 1:24 pm | Comments (10)
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Out of security guard’s sight, drugs are offered near Vernon Street.
Ashley Stillwell and Cheri Stannard: mourning Wylie’s death.
On a recent morning in the Hill, dozens of recovering drug addicts waiting for methadone at a clinic spotted a man with purple latex gloves on, waiting with a knife. Days later, the man returned and fatally stabbed his target 16 times.
by | Oct 11, 2017 3:33 pm | Comments (11)
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LEAD’s Minardi and Murphy at Hill North meeting.
Rasheen Murphy grew up in the Hill in the early 1990s. She saw friends and family struggle with drug addiction and fall victim to violent crime and incarceration. She had her first child at age 15, while still a student at Wilbur Cross High School.
by | Oct 3, 2017 8:17 am | Comments (8)
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54 Adeline, unveiled Monday night.
Menghi Li, who worked on the terrace.
A homeless family will be able to look out onto Adeline Street while cooking dinner and also find privacy in a rock garden, thanks to the design of the latest house Yale architecture students built in New Haven.
by | Oct 2, 2017 3:20 pm | Comments (5)
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BZA’s Trachten (inset, at left) rescues gas station’s buyers.
New Haven’s zoners offered a Solomonic solution for a debate between neighbors and developers over whether to allow a convenience store in an industrial zone: How about a kiosk instead?
by | Sep 14, 2017 8:03 am | Comments (2)
The new Ronald McDonald House on Howard Avenue.
Families with very sick kids now have a home away from home at the Ronald McDonald House right across the street from Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital.
by | Aug 28, 2017 12:27 pm | Comments (0)
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Squad greets Lincoln-Bassett students with cheers.
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Kids arrive for day one at John C. Daniels.
The little boy in the dark blue polo and khaki pants looked stoic and also a little perplexed as a line of adults cheered and smiled to welcome him to his first day of school Monday morning. at Lincoln-Bassett Community School.
by | Aug 25, 2017 8:10 am | Comments (2)
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After receiving the endorsement of the Connecticut Hispanic Democratic Caucus, Mayor Toni Harp went door-knocking with Hill alders and scored a lawn sign and a commitment of about half a dozen voters to cast their ballots for her on election day.
by | Aug 21, 2017 12:43 pm | Comments (4)
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The fish run thickest often near the piers of bridges. That’s why several fishermen recently were casting their lines from above the newly finished seawall on the newly repaired promenade at Brewery Square in Fair Haven.
As part of that nearly $1 million state-funded project, there’s a broad new pedestrian walkway and even a crescent of concrete where anglers can set up a circle of chairs to bide the time until there’s a bite.
Continue reading ‘Brewery Square Seawall Repaired; Fishermen Rejoice’
by | Aug 10, 2017 1:11 pm | Comments (5)
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Former Santa Fleet station; attorney Tim Yolen (inset).
If no one lives near a convenience store, can it truly be considered convenient?
New Haven planning boards are mulling over that Zen-like koan as they consider the merits of allowing a gas station and convenience store to open at 670 Ella T. Grasso Blvd., near the thoroughfare’s intersection with Boston Post Road.
by | Aug 1, 2017 2:45 pm | Comments (7)
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LCI’s Arthur Natalino at the Rosette lots Monday.
Rosette Street’s Ruth Cordero: How about a butterfly garden?
Neighbors gave thumbs down to a dog park. But a butterfly garden? That might work on vacant property near the intersection of Rosette and Cedar streets.
by | Jul 28, 2017 12:01 pm | Comments (0)
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When Frank Street resident Henry Brockenberry lost his retail job last month, he started coming to the Courtland Wilson Branch Library in the Hill to use the computers and Internet to job search.
But you have to take a break every once in a while from sending out your resume. That’s how Brockenberry discovered the branch’s up-to-date and extensive collection of DVDs.
Now, he takes out two a day — “religion, Bible, comedy, everything.”
by | Jul 28, 2017 8:13 am | Comments (12)
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CEO Kellyann Day at New Reach headquarters.
A shelter for homeless families will close next month, as its parent agency struggles to balance its books — and meet the need for emergency beds even as industrywide policy shifts towards longer-term supportive housing.
by | Jul 26, 2017 4:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Michael Taylor and Dr. Meredith Williams cut the ribbon for the new pediatrics wing.
The Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, which services just about 38,000 New Haveners a year, is about to be able to service a whole lot more.
by | Jul 21, 2017 7:51 am | Comments (6)
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Renderings for the proposed, student-built apartments at 54 Adeline St.
Yale architecture students are teaming up with Columbus House on a pre-fab house, the 50th annual such project for low-income families, now that the zoning board has blessed the project with a needed variance.
Continue reading ‘Columbus House, Architecture Students Team Up’
by | Jul 17, 2017 12:10 pm | Comments (41)
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78 Lancraft St., target of one of 158 foreclosure suits filed in the city over 12 months.
The sewer authority attached a foreclosure sign to the chain-link fence outside Destiny Roldan’s white, two-story house in Fair Haven Heights. In block letters, it announced an upcoming auction to sell the $150,100 home to recoup her unpaid bills — which totaled just $3,436.
The scheduled foreclosure sale was part of the sewer utility’s latest wave of threatened property grabs, in an attempt to recoup debts that are worth a fraction of the homes’ value.
by | Jul 15, 2017 9:34 pm | Comments (11)
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Paca lambastes Harp administration at DTC candidate forum on Saturday.
Is New Haven a stable city that has become safer, more responsibly governed, and more attuned to the needs of its students and workers over the past four years? Or is it barely treading water, rife with violence and unemployment, led by a mayoral administration bent on political retaliation and deceit?
by | Jul 13, 2017 12:10 pm | Comments (1)
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Ron Hurt, Jeanette Morrison, Evelyn Rodriguez, and David Reyes at WNHH radio.
Incumbent Alders Jeanette Morrison (Dixwell), Evelyn Rodriguez and David Reyes (the Hill) and alder candidate Ron Hurt Thursday talked about why they’re running for reelection and election this year on the latest edition of WNHH radio’s “Dateline New Haven” program.
by | Jul 12, 2017 8:47 am | Comments (14)
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Before Tuesday night’s meeting, tenants grilled up dinner.
Across from Union Station, the once busy Church Street South apartment complex feels like an eerie maze. Bugs swirl around illegally dumped heaps of garbage and rubber tires; weeds attempt to break through the asphalt. On the outskirts, by the cinderblock walls, youngsters sit on corner stoops smoking marijuana and catcalling at passersby. Inside the labyrinth, a group of scuffed-up guys carrying backpacks and rolling suitcases dodged into entryways, trying to remain out of sight.
The trashed complex.
Most of the 301 families who once lived there are gone, chased out by dangerous living conditions festering under the management of a government-subsidized private owner. But, long after the place was supposed to be empty of humans and torn down to make way for a bigger mixed-use complex, 20 families remain in the partially demolished, mold-ridden crumbling old version — and officials are urging them to hurry up and find new homes elsewhere.
by | Jul 11, 2017 3:21 pm | Comments (5)
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Xavier Milling makes it across killer intersection.
Each time Xavier Milling crosses Ella T. Grasso Boulevard at Columbus Avenue, he doesn’t know whether he’s going to make it to the other side of the street before getting hit by a car. A year from now, he and the hundreds of New Haveners who cross that intersection every week could have less cause for concern.
by | Jun 28, 2017 7:42 am | Comments (1)
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Daleska Zeas with her mom and younger sister: up to the challenge.
Daleska Zeas worked hard not to miss a day of school this year. Now she’s trying to teach her friend Alexa to do the same.
Zeas, a student at Bishop Woods School, was one of several students honored Tuesday night at the Betsy Ross Parish Hall, where New Haven’s Office of Youth, Family and Community Engagement hosted its third annual “Attendance Matters” spring celebration.
by | Jun 26, 2017 8:04 am | Comments (8)
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City’s Jeff Moreno at neglected state-owned Rosette Street lot.
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Harris and McKnight review potential new uses for a vacant lot on Rosette Street.
When Lisa McKnight first moved to Rosette Street almost 50 years ago, her family’s and her neighbors’ yards were lush with grapevines, apple trees, pear trees, and rose bushes. Now she may get to see such splendor reappear on the long-vacant, overgrown lawn across the street from her home.