by | Feb 9, 2016 2:43 pm | Comments (1)
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Porto searches the “feelings sheet” for an adjective.
Antonio Porto is learning how to play Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” with two hands instead of just one, a process teaching him how to calm himself down when he feels overwhelmed.
by | Feb 3, 2016 1:36 pm | Comments (13)
Proposed project area.
Narrow the zoning change.
Guarantee a buffer of smaller buildings so as not to dwarf existing homes.
Add three and maybe four-bedroom apartments so refugee families from the Church Street South debacle can stay in the neighborhood.
by | Jan 26, 2016 2:47 pm | Comments (0)
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The soon-to-open Friendship House.
The calls would come in on Friday, sometimes just two hours before the start of the Jewish Sabbath at sundown.
“They need a place to stay they need food, they need this, they need that,” Eli Greer said recently during a tour of a light blue, two-story house on Vernon Street. “They don’t know where they are, or the community.”
Continue reading ‘Hospital Visitors To Get Cozy Shabbes Digs’
by | Jan 22, 2016 5:05 pm | Comments (49)
“Excuse me,” Janice Parker said to the woman walking purposefully up Howard Avenue with her cell phone in her hand. “Which car is your car?”
“It’s the silver Nissan,” she said without any hesitation.
“That’s what, I thought,” Parker said. “It’s been there all day. I believe I’ve told you before that you’re taking parking from residents.”
by | Jan 21, 2016 8:18 am | Comments (11)
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Marx: Questions need to be asked “at the highest levels.”
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Harp: This “heartache could have been avoided.”
How did federal inspectors offer a rosy inspection of the crumbling Church Street South housing complex — and then a year later give it a score of only 20 out of 100?
That question arises from a newly released federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report on conditions at the 301-unit subsidized complex across from the train station.
And it adds fuel to a call issued by Mayor Toni Harp for Congressional hearings into how HUD looks after — or doesn’t look after — conditions at low-income housing developments where it pays millions of dollars a year in rents.
Continue reading ‘Surprise! Now HUD Flunks Church St. South’
by | Jan 19, 2016 12:57 pm | Comments (3)
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Erika Moye and Regina Santana at Saturday school.
Regina Santana spent Saturday morning speeding through a series of online reading exercises — instead of her usual routine of cleaning her room and watching movies on her phone.
by | Jan 11, 2016 12:28 pm | Comments (12)
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Randy Salvatore has decided to keep trying to build new apartments and offices and labs on a long-undeveloped stretch of the Hill neighborhood.
by | Jan 8, 2016 8:38 am | Comments (7)
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Tenant Thomas: Any real places to show me?
Hundreds of Church Street South families still living in limbo heard about a sped-up housing-rescue plan — which might land them permanent new homes sooner, but could leave New Haven with less low-income housing in the long term.
by | Jan 7, 2016 4:32 pm | Comments (3)
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Foskey-Cyrus with son Ivan Wednesday night at the nursing home.
Patients and staff at a nursing home in the Hill got the shivers, as city inspectors rushed to order repairs to a heating system.
by | Dec 22, 2015 4:15 pm | Comments (7)
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Boyd and Krikko pitch the dream.
A world-renowned Nigerian pencil artist working in the Hill is thinking big again.
by | Dec 20, 2015 9:46 pm | Comments (2)
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A candle lit by a praying woman Sunday morning may have caused a fire that destroyed a two-family house in the Hill.
by | Dec 18, 2015 1:52 am | Comments (5)
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Former Church Street South neighbors Jessica Rivera and Bettie Byrd, an original tenant, at Thursday night’s holiday party.
Santa promised Desiree Brown a new home for her family for Christmas. He gave her a cookie instead.
by | Dec 14, 2015 2:44 pm | Comments (9)
Mayor Toni Harp Monday called on alders to “show leadership” and un-block progress on a plan to transform 20 acres of the Hill.
by | Dec 11, 2015 1:56 am | Comments (47)
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Holmes (at left): What about that 9th “whereas”?
Salvatore: I don’t want to fight to build.
Jessica Holmes had a gun — a figurative gun — pointed to her head Thursday night.
She didn’t blink.
by | Dec 1, 2015 9:03 am | Comments (12)
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Salvatore, Cowan, Neal-Sanjurjo, City Plan chief Karyn Gilvarg made the case for the plan Monday night.
New Haven’s hurtling development train paused, at least momentarily, as neighbors forced a delay in a vote on key elements of a plan to build new apartments, stores, offices, and labs in a stretch of the Hill neighborhood.
by | Nov 25, 2015 12:57 pm | Comments (2)
They won’t all be in new homes by Thanksgiving — but all of the families fleeing the crumbling Church Street South apartment complex will have the right to take their government subsidies wherever they’d like.
by | Nov 19, 2015 4:28 pm | Comments (17)
Farwell and Zucker at Wednesday’s hearing.
Who gets to park or build where? And who gets to decide?
Those broad questions about New Haven’s building boom — with the city’s main political power bases on different sides — are tucked into three legalistic land-use proposals headed for the Board of Alders following yes votes from a city commission.
by | Nov 17, 2015 3:50 pm | Comments (0)
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Clendenen at WNHH Tuesday.
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Today’s programs aired on WNHH radio covered those in need of legal assistance, a local musician’s career, and what New Haveners can do to support those who may be cold or hungry come winter.
by | Nov 16, 2015 2:24 pm | Comments (1)
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A fire badly burned a construction worker and engulfed a trailer parked in a Hill parking lot Monday morning.
by | Nov 10, 2015 8:51 am | Comments (0)
The city’s deputy zoning director is recommending that the zoning board OK a plan to put a 75-bed overflow homeless shelter on Cedar Street this winter.
Continue reading ‘Homeless Overflow Plan Wins Zoning Staff Support’
by | Nov 10, 2015 8:03 am | Comments (13)
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Marx, center, with colleague Amy Eppler-Epstein and Del Hoyo, pitches alders Monday night.
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Blumenthal: On board with Harp.
The head of the Board of Alders Black and Hispanic Caucus vowed to monitor the future of affordable housing at Church Street South, while Connecticut’s two U.S. senators said they’re open to the idea of Congressional hearings into why a federal housing agency allowed a crisis to develop there.
by | Nov 3, 2015 2:02 pm | Comments (15)
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Wasilewski, who’s retiring from the force this week.
The Hardy Boys started young Holly Wasilewski on the path to a police career, a path that came to feature human interaction more than baby powder and scotch tape.
by | Oct 30, 2015 2:28 pm | Comments (32)
Scene of a May 2010 homicide investigation at Church Street South (left), frozen drainage pipes (top right), illegal dirt bike riding in a publicly-accessible courtyard (center right), and broken apartment furnace (bottom right).
When a Boston not-for-profit this week suggested buying and perhaps preserving the troubled Church Street South apartment complex, critics from many corners called tearing it all down instead. It turns out that a third, hybrid option may make the most sense.
by | Oct 27, 2015 4:41 pm | Comments (18)
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Tenants outside overflowing Church St. South emergency meeting.
A Boston-based not-for-profit builder is interested in buying the crumbling Church Street South complex with the goal of keeping all 301 subsidized apartments there.
by | Oct 20, 2015 5:45 pm | Comments (5)
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Staffers moving out of their short-lived intake center Tuesday.
Marx records new damage.
Families stuck at the decrepit Church Street South housing complex came to an intake center for help in finding new homes — until the intake center abruptly closed.
The problem: It was set up in a condemned apartment.