by | May 13, 2016 7:36 am | Comments (11)
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Sign that appeared this week across from Alexion HQ.
Mayor Dick Lee in Life Magazine amid rubble in 1958.
Few people can be seen these days walking around the last remaining vestige of the Oak Street Connector mini-highway separating the Hill neighborhood from downtown. Sixty years ago, the area was home to a thriving immigrant neighborhood full of local shops and multi-family homes.
by | May 10, 2016 7:03 am | Comments (2)
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Rodriguez takes oath of office.
The Hill is once again fully represented with four alders.
by | May 6, 2016 7:47 am | Comments (32)
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Protesters in front of 333 Cedar St.
Elia Vollano marched to work Thursday evening with 1,000 fellow union members, in the hope that she and her colleagues will still have jobs.
by | Apr 26, 2016 8:12 am | Comments (0)
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A fire in the Hill Monday evening displaced three families and damaged a building’s rear and attic.
by | Apr 24, 2016 11:22 pm | Comments (6)
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Clinton, at center, with Rep. DeLauro and Williams on her left, and Rodriguez and Sandra Wincze at left.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign spent the weekend in New Haven leading with strong suits — an appeal to feminism from America’s potential first female president, and trying to shore up support from black voters, particularly black women voters. It also sought to strenghten a weak spot — the candidate’s position on the minimum wage.
Continue reading ‘Clinton Campaign Hits Feminist, Wage Themes In Busy Weekend In Town’
by | Apr 22, 2016 7:25 am | Comments (2)
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Deliverance Church’s Ron Hurt.
Churches pay taxes on commercial activities, so Yale should, too.
Continue reading ‘Clergy Back Bill To Clarify Special Yale Tax Exemption’
by | Apr 19, 2016 7:46 am | Comments (9)
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McBath (above), Nance-Holt (below) at Clinton event.
Thanks to a competitive race for president, Annette Nance-Holt was on Kimberly Avenue Monday telling the story of how a gang member’s stray bullet killed her 16-year-old son Blair on a Chicago city bus. Lucia McBath was there, too, recalling how a 47-year-old man shot dead her unarmed 17-year-old son Jordan after starting an argument about Jordan’s loud music.
by | Apr 18, 2016 7:40 am | Comments (2)
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Refugees prepare family plots at MLK Peace Garden in the Hill, one of 17 community gardens swept clean this weekend.
Eileen O’Donnell, 72, fixes Chapelseed’s compost bin.
“I’m glad to be here — and lucky,” Walter said as he busily screened compost into a wheelbarrow. “My father did gardening for a living. He worked on estates; I work on community.”
by | Apr 13, 2016 7:39 am | Comments (2)
Karen DuBois- Walton speaks with a tenant.
Church Street South families could be out looking for new places to live as early as mid-May.
Continue reading ‘Church Street South Tenants’ Tickets Have Arrived’
by | Apr 8, 2016 7:42 am | Comments (6)
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Sanders surrogate Turner brings down the house.
While Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders wrestled in the mud in New York State, two of their highest-profile surrogates swooped into New Haven for a passionate forum of their own — that ended with a kumbaya moment.
by | Apr 7, 2016 7:34 am | Comments (0)
Today’s broadcasts on WNHH radio explore how eminent domain can be a fundamental civil rights issue, why New Haveners past and present eat oysters with such verve, and more.
by | Mar 25, 2016 2:03 pm | Comments (3)
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Angela Watley.
The man called 911 to say that he was on the side of a bridge and ready to jump.
“I gotta go,” the man said.
“You can’t go right now. I’m talking to you,” responded the voice on the other line.
by | Mar 21, 2016 1:45 pm | Comments (9)
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The claw of the excavator reached to the second-story roof of the laundromat of the Church Street South housing complex across from Union Station Monday — and begin what will be a long process of demolishing a symbol of failure of subsidized housing.
“You can just smell the mold,” Building Official Jim Turcio said as he surveyed the work. He looked at the shell of the building again. “It’s the beginning of the end.”
by | Mar 18, 2016 2:05 pm | Comments (3)
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Officers Bryce and McMorris.
New Haven cop Steve McMorris once climbed a pole and rescued three people trapped in a fire. This week he was the one needing help escaping deadly flames and smoke.
by | Mar 16, 2016 5:10 pm | Comments (0)
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The Boys & Girls Club hosted a panel discussion on the “ART of Mentoring.”
by | Mar 15, 2016 8:11 am | Comments (4)
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Carmen Maldonado before Monday’s move.
When Frank Correa, 13, bounded down the stairs of the Church Street South apartment he shares with his mom and three siblings Sunday morning, he was expecting to get ready for church with his family.
He found the floors soaking wet, and getting wetter. He could hear water rushing from the living room, drenching the clothes and belongings in its path. Rousing his mom and older sister from upstairs, he identified the culprit: The boiler had busted, sending a deluge into his family’s apartment and the unit below.
by | Mar 14, 2016 7:40 am | Comments (4)
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Fekieta pitches his plan.
Joe Fekieta offered an idea for how he and his Hill neighbors can spend a $10,000 windfall from City Hall. The idea starts with a little R‑E-S-P-E-C‑T.
by | Mar 11, 2016 1:19 pm | Comments (3)
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The new Legion Avenue Rite Aid.
Police are looking for a man who celebrated the opening of a Rite Aid Pharmacy on Legion Avenue with a brick through one of the store’s windows not once, but twice.
by | Mar 9, 2016 5:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Williams (at right) with police Sgt. Albert McFadden at “Choose 2 Live” initiative announcement at the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
On a warm summer night, then-FBI agent Quentin Williams found himself arrested, handcuffed and surrounded by 12 police cars, because he was black. He knew his next move could land him in jail, get him killed, or send him home safe.
Williams lived to tell the tale of how he survived that night. Now he is back in New Haven to make sure that others survive too.
Continue reading ‘Cop-Stop Black “Survival” Effort Launched’
by | Mar 4, 2016 1:05 pm | Comments (6)
Proposed project area.
City officials and a developer are exploring where to find the public dough to make 30 percent of the housing “affordable” in a planned new project for the Hill neighborhood.
by | Feb 25, 2016 8:32 am | Comments (1)
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You could choose any document to read aloud, like this one from July 26, 1946.
Josephine Baker offering her impassioned political advice to Martin Luther King back in 1964. Actress Viola Davis’s Emmy acceptance speech last year, bemoaning the lack of good roles for African-American women.
Eleanor Roosevelt protesting the Daughters of the American Revolution’s decision to bar singer Marion Anderson from performing at its Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 26, 1936.
And the official letter of incorporation that was read aloud on the dedication of the first Dixwell Community House back in November 1924.
by | Feb 24, 2016 3:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Sendak session rivets little listeners.
Two dozen firefighters thronged the Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy Wednesday morning.
Their apparatus, Engine 11 and Truck Two from the Howard Street station, were parked outside the school’s main door.
The firefighters huddled up, and then spread out along the corridors and into the classrooms of the neighborhood K‑8 school.
They carried not axes and oxygen, but books.
by | Feb 18, 2016 8:40 am | Comments (2)
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Keith Churchwell at Hill South Wednesday night.
Keith Churchwell came to the Hill South police substation Wednesday night to warn neighbors about a killer that preys particularly on the black community.
This killer doesn’t carry a gun. It’s cardiovascular disease, and it’s the leading cause of death in the United States.
by | Feb 13, 2016 8:27 pm | Comments (3)
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Salvatore presents Cowles plan to Wooster Square neighbors.
The potential sale of an abandoned old Wooster Square factory has been put on hold not because pollution was found there —- but because it wasn’t found there.
Continue reading ‘Enviromental Snag Puts C. Cowles Talks On Hold’
by | Feb 12, 2016 8:31 am | Comments (0)
A fire on one of the year’s coldest nights killed a 90-year-old man and left close to two dozen elderly people needing other places to sleep.