by | Jun 26, 2017 8:00 am | Comments (9)
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The four candidates in Trowbridge Park Sunday.
Four candidates are running together for the Hill’s Board of Alders seats, pledging to work together to bring jobs to the neighborhood and more neighborhood input into future development.
by | Jun 22, 2017 11:19 am | Comments (1)
Yale evacuated its winding six-floor Anlyan Center at Congress Avenue and Cedar Street Thursday morning as crews worked to clean a penthouse antifreeze spill that flooded the complex.
by | Jun 9, 2017 2:18 pm | Comments (8)
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Underwood presents platform to DTC Thursday night.
DTC Chair Mauro: “This party knows what it is.”
Candidates seeking the backing of Connecticut’s most influential local Democratic Party are on notice: They have some policy questions to answer.
by | Jun 8, 2017 8:30 am | Comments (0)
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Prom king and queen share a dance.
At 92, Herbie Mermelstein finally made it to the prom. And he made the most of it.
In fact, he was the prom king at an annual “senior prom” for elderly residents of the Tower One Tower East complex.
by | Jun 5, 2017 7:56 am | Comments (8)
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Students Brianna Wilson, Janeece Harrison, and Darrien Wilson: We like the stop where it is.
Bus at the intersection.
Students’ alleged shenanigans at a school bus stop in the Hill have one neighbor on edge — and seeking to get the bus to pick up kids elsewhere.
Continue reading ‘On 4th Street, It’s Neighbor Vs. Bus Stop’
by | Jun 2, 2017 12:12 pm | Comments (22)
Rendering of city’s plan for Union Station.
The Harp administration and the city’s parking authority unveiled a 100-year plan for developing and maintaining Union Station and the area surrounding it — if the state will give the city control.
Continue reading ‘City Unveils 100-Year Plan For Union Station’
by | May 22, 2017 7:45 am | Comments (4)
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Leslie Radcliffe.
Leslie Radcliffe, whose family has a history of heart disease, started growing her own beans, peppers, kale, and tomatoes in 2013 after suffering three mild heart attacks over the course of 13 months.
by | May 22, 2017 7:18 am | Comments (0)
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Sgt. Manmeet Colon.
Sgt. Manmeet Colon has observed fewer and fewer local faces on the police force — so she showed up in the Hill to pitch prospective cops.
Continue reading ‘Cop Recruitment Drive Hits The Neighborhoods’
by | May 10, 2017 12:07 pm | Comments (2)
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Brown explains Albany’s LEAD program during Hill North CMT meeting.
The police get a call from Walmart that somebody has been caught shoplifting. The officers run the offender’s criminal history, and quickly find out that he has a 40-page rap sheet. Not 40 arrests; 40 pages.
Continue reading ‘Non-Jail Program For Low-Level Offenders Pitched In The Hill’
by | Apr 26, 2017 12:06 pm | Comments (1)
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Desmond, Gage, and Salgado onstage at CCA forum at Career.
After spending years interviewing tenants and landlords and reporting on urban evictions, Matthew Desmond reached a conclusion that surprised him: Conventional liberal and conservative explanations that heap blame on everything from deindustrialization to out-of-wedlock childbirth overlook the actual root causes of poverty in this country.
by | Apr 21, 2017 12:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Leslie Radcliffe: What about all those cars spewing pollution?
A developer got the OK to build a child daycare center on Legion Avenue, but not without dissent from a neighbor who sits on the City Plan Commission.
by | Apr 16, 2017 8:52 am | Comments (8)
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Salvatore’s envisioned project, with planters out front.
An OK to put planters closer than usually allowed to a curb means shovels could soon be in the ground for the long awaited remake of 11.6 acres of unused land in the Hill.
by | Apr 13, 2017 7:52 am | Comments (1)
Student Elizabeth Padilla susses out tonal differences.
Standing at the front of a small music classroom, David Perry rested his clarinet in his palms, glanced to colleagues Yevgeny Yontov and Bora Kim, and then uttered a word that seemingly had nothing to with the scales behind him or instrumental terms scrawled on a nearby wall.
“Hi,” he said.
by | Apr 13, 2017 7:48 am | Comments (0)
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Clockwise from top: Williams, Serena Anes, Dejesus, and emcee Elijah Vann.
Tyrese Dejesus ran onto the stage of Hill Central and lifted both hands in the air. He puffed out his chest and took a quick, deep breath. Then he looked out into a swelling audience, ready to make an announcement.
“I am not a poet!” he declared.
His peers raised their eyebrows and cocked their heads to listen closely. A few looked as though they were ready to call his bluff. Others waited to hear more.
by | Apr 10, 2017 1:55 pm | Comments (8)
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Lindo: Banking on promises.
Another developer is looking to buy a New Haven housing cooperative and then rebuild it, this time in the Hill.
by | Apr 10, 2017 7:43 am | Comments (0)
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Walter Stelkovis weeds his bed at ChapelSeed.
At the beginning of her career, Rachel Ziesk was a sculptor. Somewhere down the line, she became a master gardener too.
by | Mar 30, 2017 4:17 pm | Comments (4)
Key pieces of the city’s Hill to Downtown project are underway, and a dilapidated housing complex is closer to being empty and ready for redevelopment. Meanwhile, the city might start charging more to inspect landlords’ apartment buildings.
Continue reading ‘Hill Plans Proceed; License Fees May Rise’
by | Mar 24, 2017 1:52 pm | Comments (1)
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Moreno at overgrown, trash-filled state-owned Rosette St. lot.
When Jeff Moreno became a Livable City Initiative neighborhood specialist for the Hill, he tried to get someone to clean up a fenced lot near the end of Rosette Street. At first he didn’t know the identity of the nuisance landlord; it turned out to be the state Department of Transportation.
by | Mar 9, 2017 5:43 pm | Comments (2)
Feitelson: We can never forget the Shoah.
When he sees headlines about bomb threats at Jewish centers across the U.S., Norman Feitelson has a feeling that he’s read this story before.
He knows that it ends after a great battle. In a concentration camp. Where he’s fighting to save the few lives that are still left.
Continue reading ‘New Anti-Semitism Wave On Minds At Holocaust Remembrance Event’
by | Mar 9, 2017 8:38 am | Comments (2)
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Fiore with nearby braided cross similar to Annie’s.
Annie Winchester, granddaughter of the founder of the eponymous New Haven firearms company, died in 1866 at ten days old from the withering Marasmus disease. She was buried in Evergreen Cemetery beneath a sculpted marble cross braided with ivy.
Today the marble braided cross is missing. A visitor from Canada has started a campaign to replace it.
by | Mar 7, 2017 2:30 am | Comments (0)
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AMR crew arrives inside nursing home for another patient.
Patient wheeled to Hamden nursing home’s van at 11:40 p.m.
Emergency crews worked through the night to find beds for elderly patients at the former Jewish Home for the Aged on Davenport Avenue after a frozen sprinkler burst and water leaked into the facility’s main electrical panel.
Continue reading ‘Nursing Home Evacuated; 185 Elderly Moved’
by | Feb 21, 2017 9:05 am | Comments (12)
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Bassani pushes Perez; Winfield backs Ellison.
Looking to influence the future course of their party, New Haven’s Democratic Town Committee plans to endorse one of the leading candidates for national chairman in a battle that has revived the conflicting visions of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
by | Feb 20, 2017 8:53 am | Comments (1)
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Boyd, Largie.
A second attempt to elect new officers for the Hill North Community Management team went into overtime — with no winner named.
Continue reading ‘Hill Team Ties In Race For Management Team Chair’
by | Feb 15, 2017 4:02 pm | Comments (10)
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Zoners taking testimony on plan.
A plan to change a small Hill homeless shelter into a rent-subsidized residence for young people who have aged out of the foster care system is meeting with opposition from neighbors worried about parking and crime problems.
by | Feb 1, 2017 1:00 pm | Comments (3)
Northland’s Standish with a tenants Tuesday night.
Eighty-two guaranteed apartments for low-income families are staying in New Haven rather than moving out of town, thanks to the latest deal in the ongoing saga of Church Street South.
Continue reading ‘Church St. South Transfers 82 Section 8 Units’