Joel Nieves, next to his CPAP machine: “I feel safe right here."
Joel Nieves woke up in his tiny backyard home on Rosette Street Thursday morning and noticed the air was warm — too warm.
At 9:24 a.m., at the Elicker administration’s behest, United Illuminating (UI) shut off the power to six pre-fab shelters, including the one that Nieves has been living out of.
With the temperature rising and his air conditioner now off, Nieves immediately thought about his CPAP machine, which he uses to sleep at night.
Tiny home resident Joel Nieves at Rosette St. press conference: “Mr. Mayor, I say to you, am I not human? ”
Nieves, Godek, and Colville return city's cease-and-desist letter to City Hall.
(Updated) As a group of unhoused activists on Rosette Street held a press conference denouncing the city’s bid to shut down their backyard tiny homes, a state marshal arrived with a cease-and-desist letter from the Elicker administration — ordering the group to vacate the “illegal” dwelling units in 24 hours.
The Elicker administration has asked United Illuminating to turn off the power at six backyard emergency shelters in the Hill now that a 180-day state permit has expired, rendering the tiny homes “illegal dwelling units.”
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Wilson Children's Librarian Michelle Ziogas: "I hope they come home from kindergarten and ask, ‘Can we go to the library?’”
“And that’s Michelle,” said Wilson Library Branch Manager Meghan Currey. “As you can see, she’s shaking out her sillies.”
Surrounded by six moms and their toddlers, Michelle Ziogas opened the Wilson Library’s weekly “Stay and Play” in-person storytime in the same way she has since starting last July as the branch’s first children’s librarian in years.
That is, by singing along to a song, this week’s selection being “Shake My Sillies Out” by children’s artist Raffi.
The Elicker administration took a step closer to paying $14.5 million to the estates of two men who died during a fatal fire at an illegal rooming house, as a key city committee approved a multiple-lawsuit-resolving proposed settlement.
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Stacey Cannon: Working to "overcome lack of trust" as a community health worker ...
... at New Haven's new mobile pharmacy-clinic.
A National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded mobile pharmacy van is taking to the streets of New Haven to provide clinical testing, prescriptions, and medical treatment to underserved communities — i.e. “healthcare for everyone.”
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Family gathered to celebrate library dedication honoring Hazel Pappas (pictured below).
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A mother, grandmother, sister, and advocate for thousands of young New Haveners — and for the broader public school community — will live on, through the newly dedicated Hazel B. Pappas Media Center at Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy.
Hill resident Aura Soto showed up with her two children to the latest planning meeting for the future of the former Church Street South site with concerns about neighborhood safety, and ideas about educational programs to “keep the kids busy and out of trouble.”
She left feeling optimistic. “With the help of the people,” Soto said, looking around at those gathered in the cafeteria of High School in the Community, “we will make it a better place.”
Facility boss Jarel Gallman: "Some financial struggles" came to light.
One of the city’s largest in-patient drug-rehab facilities abruptly closed its doors this weekend, with questions lingering about why and what comes next for its employees and recovering substance abusers.
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Dev chief Piscitelli (right) with developer Winstanley: NHPS part of "ecosystem of growth."
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Laboratory and classroom space in 101 College designed for NHPS students.
Fifteen high school juniors from Hillhouse, Wilbur Cross, and Career have been selected to join cancer researchers and vaccine developers this fall in bringing to life a long-awaited College Street biotech hub.
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Theodosia Ross (center) with foster mother Arlene Wright, biological mother Tara Wills, and grandmother Christina Bradley.
Families swarm Parish Hall to watch Riverside students cross the stage.
Riverside Academy senior Theodosia Ross walked the stage to receive her high school diploma that, less than a week ago, she didn’t think she’d get — but she did, despite a long journey through foster care, not being motivated to attend school, losing her father, and battling depression.
Ross was one of Riverside’s 12 graduating seniors who received their diplomas Tuesday afternoon. The class of 2024’s graduation, held at Betsy Ross’s Parish Hall on Kimberly Avenue, was a small but mighty one for New Haven’s last remaining alternative high school.
Hill Health CEO Taylor (center): "It really did take a village."
Shouts of joy erupted in the Hill as community healthcare leaders, philanthropists, and local and state politicians cut the ribbon on a new 52-bed, $38 million addiction recovery center on Minor Street.
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Inside Isabel Senes' ESL class Tuesday morning: NHPS's English language learner student enrollment has increased from 4,199 to 4,626 since October.
Career High School freshman Cecilia translated the sentence, “The horse is under the desk,” from Spanish to English in her head before saying the words out loud to her classroom conversation partner Enmerl — as part of a playful exercise in an English as a Second Language (ESL) class designed to help city public school students from a variety of linguistic backgrounds get up to speed in English.
10 Liberty (top) and 48 Grant, soon to become housing?
Two abandoned factory buildings in the Hill are each a step closer to revival as housing, after alders approved a tax break and a zoning change on Monday night.
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May 31, 2024 11:50 am
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Truman sixth graders Jovanni Sanchez, Julian Torres, and Kayden Williams.
Twins Marin and Kana are left behind on a dystopian island that alternates between 14 years of sunlight and 14 years of nightfall.
The long sun is about to set — and Marin and Kana are not alone.
What happens next? Pulitzer Prize-winning local author Jake Halpern wouldn’t say. Truman School sixth graders Jovanni Sanchez, Julian Torres, and Kayden Williams had some ideas of their own.
Steve Winter: "Neighborhood-scale platform for decarbonization."
The city hopes to draw clean energy directly from the earth to heat and cool a train station, a thousand or so apartments, and maybe one day an entire neighborhood.
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Imani Bryan and Alexis Aguirre unpacking first AP African American Studies class.
After learning about everything from Africa’s Mali Empire to Black rebellion during Reconstruction to the history of slave codes and slave ships and convict leasing — and with coursework still to come on the Black Panther Party and the Black Arts Movement — Career High School senior Eliana Brito Castillo praised her school’s inaugural Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies class as opening her eyes to “a huge part of history that isn’t taught.”
“Now,” she said, “I feel I have a more complete view of how America came to be.”
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One of many Bishop Woods student awardees Seth Middleton ...
... at crowded Florence Caldwell Title I Award ceremony.
Students, parents, teachers, and administrators packed Career High School’s auditorium to celebrate middle schoolers for their academic growth this year in such areas as reading, math and science — and to honor the many adults who work tirelessly to make that learning possible.
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Juniors Josh, Radwaa, and A'Mere map out the Salvadoran Civil War.
Hill Regional Career High School junior Josh Burgess wrote the words “causes and effects of Salvadoran Civil War 1980s” inside a circle, and then drew lines connecting the words “historic inequality,” “murder,” and “oligarchs” to that circle.
He did so as part of an African American and Latino studies course that encourages students to understand how different parts of world history relate to one another — and that builds off of recent state legislation designed to boost the diversity of topics covered in Connecticut social studies classrooms.
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Planned new adult ed center on Bassett St., to open in June 2026.
More than 120 students are expected to graduate next month from New Haven’s Adult & Continuing Education Center — which is back open for in-person classes on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, after flooding caused the school’s now-repaired main building to close for nearly three months at the end of last year.
The Teklehaimanot family (center) hears their name called at Tuesday's housing lottery.
Seven-year-old Meklit and five-year-old Bethlehem ran around the empty rooms of 455 Howard Ave., dodging the legs of parents and realtors and city workers. This two-family home would soon be theirs.
“We always wanted a big house,” Meklit said, minutes after her father won the Livable City Initiative’s (LCI’s) latest affordable housing lottery. “I always wanted this to happen.”
Yale has purchased a vacant former rubber factory in the Hill that was once home to vibrant, illegal live-work artist studios for more than $2.5 million.
Big buildings, not empty lots, envisioned for Union Station area.
With climate change in mind, an aldermanic committee advanced a zoning proposal that would allow as-of-right restaurants, supermarkets, and offices — but not housing — along the Union Station railroad tracks.
Ed Zack clears litter from a headstone overtaken by a tree.
Gravestone partially uncovered by Zack, apparently commemorating someone who fought in Company D.
Ed Zack spotted a slight indent in the grass. He kicked away a layer of soil and weeds to find the gravestone of a veteran in St. Bernard’s Cemetery in the Hill.
He found another indent. And another. And another.
Eventually he uncovered several rows of hidden graves — along with a mystery about what happened to the funding designated for their upkeep.
