by | Jan 31, 2017 4:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Some wise members of the Monk Council: Olivia, with siblings Pamela and Garry in back.
Jacqueline Monk Roberts remembered when stores and markets lined Washington Avenue, a vibrant spine of the Hill neighborhood.
by | Jan 30, 2017 3:02 pm | Comments (0)
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Inside Star of Jacob Sunday.
A cold wind was blowing outside, but inside a church in the Hill, ev’ry voice rose to the rafters with hope.
by | Jan 20, 2017 11:31 am | Comments (11)
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Hausladen and Zinn before the alders.
With car crashes up in the city, the duo who try to make the streets safer say more needs to be done at an intersection where two pedestrians have died in less than a decade.
Continue reading ‘City Seeks Solutions To Car-Crash “Disease”’
by | Jan 17, 2017 6:36 pm | Comments (15)
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The crash scene.
(Updated) For the second time in nine years, a car crash has killed a pedestrian at the intersection of York Street and South Frontage Road.
by | Jan 9, 2017 8:30 am | Comments (1)
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Gisi Rodriguez and her daughter, Nayani Lopez, went on a mission: find the one post-holiday gift that Nayani, 8, would cherish for the following year.
by | Jan 3, 2017 9:24 am | Comments (6)
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A City Point condominium complex association is awaiting results from asbestos testing before it can demolish 13 units destroyed last week by a three-alarm fire.
Continue reading ‘Harbour Landing Demolition Waiting On Asbestos Results’
by | Dec 23, 2016 11:41 am | Comments (0)
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The Ferry/Saltonstall lot looking east.
The city plans to sell four vacant lots to a not-for-profit in town at $1,000 a pop so affordable houses can be erected on three of them and an open community space maintained on the fourth.
The city turned around and became a purchaser, buying yet another vacant lot, for a buck. The plan is to sell it for a modest amount so another affordable house can be erected on it in the not too distant future.
by | Dec 20, 2016 4:50 am | Comments (8)
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Murphy at Monday night’s town hall at Daniels School.
Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy lifted two fingers to count out the tests he’ll be using when Congress is asked to vote on each of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees.
Continue reading ‘Murphy: I’ll Vote Yes On Some Trump Picks’
by | Dec 5, 2016 5:09 pm | Comments (20)
Meet the new boss: Harp, Carson.
Mayor Toni Harp Monday began honing a personal pitch to Donald Trump’s newly-announced pick for housing secretary — in order to salvage an endangered plan to rebuild Church Street South.
by | Dec 5, 2016 2:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Flashing lights accompanySanta to Shell and Bones.
A train, a doll house, an iPhone 6, an iPhone7, an American Girl doll, and a happy city.
Those were some of the wishes made by the kids of City Point along with their mayor.
by | Nov 1, 2016 3:51 pm | Comments (0)
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Antinozzi applies the magic Vaseline at Hill Central.
As the school day began, school nurse E.J. Antinozzi’s office was buzzing.
by | Oct 20, 2016 5:05 pm | Comments (5)
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Lead named plaintiff Personna Noble, at right, with fellow former Church Street South tenant Leeza Skovinski.
The quest for justice for hundreds of families who lost their health, their belongings, and ultimately their homes in New Haven’s worst housing disaster in a generation took a new turn Thursday with the filing of a federal class-action lawsuit.
by | Oct 19, 2016 12:08 pm | Comments (13)
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Joyner, Rader Harp at town hall meeting.
The overthrow of New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries has shaken up not just the Board of Education — but also a number of parents and teachers who now demand answers.
Continue reading ‘In Wake of Harries Exit, Parents Demand Answers’
by | Oct 19, 2016 8:23 am | Comments (25)
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Exterior of 69-75 Daggett.
After nearly 18 months of vacancy, the former Daggett Street Square artists’ outpost could soon be home to doctors, nurses and other medical professionals at nearby Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Continue reading ‘Gentrification Eyed For Ex-Artists’ Haven’
by | Oct 13, 2016 8:15 am | Comments (2)
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Gibson-Brehon: Somebody … please .. run.
There was only one item on the Hill North community management team meeting agenda: electing new officers.
That proved more than enough to occupy the group for hours, after members alleged voter disenfranchisement by way of poorly-worded bylaws.
by | Oct 11, 2016 8:15 am | Comments (6)
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Dropout Prevention Specialist Flores on the case.
The slightly built eighth-grader had seven unexplained absences already in just the first 20 days of school.
This was a case for “Inspector Gadget” and her team of attendance-trackers.
by | Oct 5, 2016 5:38 pm | Comments (6)
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Harp, Salvatore ink the deal; LCI chief Serena Neal-Sanjurjo, Hill Alder David Reyes look on.
3-way Hill intersection: What’s wrong with angles?
A decision not to reconfigure a three-street intersection saved five years and $50-$80 million — and led to a signing Wednesday of a deal to resurrect a vanished stretch of the Hill.
A similar decision has proved elusive in the Ninth Square, potentially delaying for years the resurrection of the old New Haven Coliseum property.
by | Sep 29, 2016 4:39 pm | Comments (0)
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Ta da!
A New Havener turned musical torch-bearer is finally getting her due.
by | Sep 28, 2016 8:46 am | Comments (1)
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Parents pack Hill Central for bilingual ed session.
Veronica Perez raised her hand to ask the teacher a question: Should she help her second-grader with homework, even though she learned math differently in school in Mexico?
by | Sep 26, 2016 1:29 pm | Comments (3)
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Rasheed directs immigrants to available food.
Having lived in the Hill neighborhood of New Haven for 27 years, Jamilah Rasheed grew tired of seeing crumbling buildings, poor education and people who couldn’t afford to feed themselves.
Continue reading ‘New Hill Food Pantry Draws Muslim Immigrants’
by | Sep 26, 2016 12:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Spyros Condos at the construction site.
Mary Zafiris and Tina Karatzas at the festival.
The 1,000 people who attended this past weekend’s 13th annual St. Basil’s Church Greek Orthodox Cultural Fair were celebrating not just a rich tradition, but a commitment to continue building that tradition in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Greek Fest Celebrates A Church’s Roots & Growth’
by | Sep 23, 2016 1:59 pm | Comments (1)
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Parrish, Wallace.
Miles Wallace was worried about Career High School getting a new principal just as he started his senior year.
But the transition has been “smooth,” and he is expects to finish the year strong.
by | Sep 20, 2016 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Chris Forslund, Jennifer Forslund, Santora pose at ceremony.
Jennifer Forslund was encouraged by her father to avoid his firefighting lineage and go into another field after graduation.
Tuesday, her decision to press ahead in the family business earned its rewards, as she was promoted from firefighter to fire investigator and inspector after more than 20 years in New Haven’s fire department.
by | Sep 19, 2016 12:39 pm | Comments (6)
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Audience assembles at Bradley Street Bike Co-op.
Halfway through a presentation on the many ways that the Hill neighborhood has changed over the past 100 years, architect-in-training Jonathan Hopkins paused to ask the question that everyone in the audience had been considering for the past hour and a half.
by | Sep 16, 2016 2:01 pm | Comments (7)
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Ryan (at left) leads early-morning meeting on reading.
An hour before students arrived at Hill Central School, seventh- and eighth-grade teachers were inside debating how to ensure letters about an upcoming open house actually reach parents instead of remaining in students’ backpacks.