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Neighbor Shawn: Affordable apartments needed to combat high rent.
10 Liberty St.
An abandoned lighting manufacturing hub will soon transform into 150 below-market apartments a block from Union Station, if a development plan comes to fruition.
by | Jan 29, 2024 12:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Jamilah Rasheed at the Hill pop-up food pantry.
By the time I arrived at the pop-up New Haven Inner City Enrichment (NICE) Center Food Pantry, 40 people were standing in line on a blustery Saturday morning.
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A rough sketch of what the building could look like.
A local developer is planning to build an affordable housing complex designed for seniors atop a vacant city lot in the Hill — with the hope that she could someday move in.
Continue reading ‘New Affordable Housing Slated For Congress Ave.’
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KaNai Goodwin-Kellman prepares for a rebound as teammate Harmoni Thomas shoots a free throw.
In a neck-and-neck 11th game of the season, the Wilbur Cross Lady Governors eked out their first win Monday night thanks to a final free throw.
by | Jan 22, 2024 3:14 pm | Comments (4)
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Monique Ricks on her Healthy Homes-funded porch: Don't forget to remember about radon. The city is distributing 50 free test kits this week.
Monique Ricks can breathe easy — now that she’s sure her home is radon free.
by | Jan 18, 2024 3:18 pm | Comments (12)
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Daniels band hits "Misty" at citywide attendance event.
Seven students showed up to school Thursday and brought clarinets and flutes to their lips — to help New Haven celebrate the fact that more kids are showing up in school.
Continue reading ‘Student Absenteeism Dips; Student Brass Swings’
by | Jan 16, 2024 9:30 am | Comments (5)
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New Haven nursing home patients may fret less about flu season next year — if a Bronx-based assisted living company gets the green light to build 150 beds, pave half as many parking spaces and bring ultraviolet disinfection tech to the Hill neighborhood.
by | Jan 15, 2024 11:55 am | Comments (18)
The heat’s turned on inside six tiny emergency shelters outside Amistad House.
Continue reading ‘Heat Goes On At Tiny Shelters In The Hill’
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Huggins helps a Cross student scan in for a summer job.
Ronald Huggins made his way through the Wilbur Cross High School hallways greeting students with handshakes and a “What’s up bro?”
And a pitch to enter the summer jobs pipeline.
by | Jan 11, 2024 10:29 am | Comments (1)
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Executive producer Jeff Bell with actors Ethan Timothy and Ernest Richard.
Jeff Bell wanted animosity.
“I want to feel it,” he told actor Ernest Richard. “I want it coming out of your pores. I want you to be showing him ‘I can’t stand you. You’re just a social media punk out for likes and girls.’”
The scene was a clandestine meeting in a dank, dimly lit basement reached by a flight of rickety stairs from Madeline’s Empanaderia on Spring Street. Ernest Richard was District Attorney Calvin Tubbs. His object of scorn: Tim the Truthteller, the social media influencer played by Ethan Timothy.
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A rendering of what a denser development (at left) could look like on the current "east lot" next to Union Station.
A Union Station rezoning proposal got a thumbs down — for now — from City Plan commissioners, amid concerns that it might not make sense to build so many new apartments next door to an active railyard.
by | Dec 15, 2023 5:34 pm | Comments (17)
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The "tiny homes" currently standing in 203 Rosette's backyard.
The city has joined forces with human rights activists in the Hill to try to convince the state to recognize prefabricated shelters in a Rosette Street backyard as “single-family homes” — at least, sort of — so that the heat and the lights can be turned on as winter approaches.
Continue reading ‘City, Activists Ask State To OK Tiny Homes. For Now’
by | Dec 5, 2023 1:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Orchard St. shelter client Tony Briggs: "Whether it's mats, pads, or the floor, it's better than freezing your ass off."
Career student Aleika Pizarro: The new shelter is "actually a good thing."
Just before sunrise, Tony Briggs stepped out of the city’s newest overnight “warming center” at a former school on Orchard Street — roughly half an hour before Career High School senior Aleika Pizarro arrived early for classes right across the street.
Briggs left the shelter grateful for a warm place to spend a cold New Haven night. Pizarro arrived at school with compassion and understanding that all city dwellers deserve a safe place to lay their heads.
Continue reading ‘On Orchard, Shelter Night Ends, Then School Day Begins’
by | Dec 5, 2023 12:19 pm | Comments (7)
May 2001 article in the New Haven Advocate.
On May 31, 2001, an article, headlined “The Predator on the Hill,” appeared in the now-defunct New Haven Advocate. The predator: Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Continue reading ‘Medical Debt Book Talk Reckons With Aggressive Collection's Consequences’
by | Dec 4, 2023 8:34 am | Comments (16)
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Officers Dan Smith and Paul Prusinski.
On a recent Thursday morning, Hill beat cops Paul Prusinski and Daniel Smith followed up with a car that had been parked for an hour outside of a known drug-dealing hotspot — and wound up making a gun arrest.
The following Tuesday, the pair followed up with a car connected to a previous robbery and shooting — and wound up making a gun arrest.
Just one day later, they followed up with still another car that had been hanging around still another drug-dealing hotspot — and wound up making still another gun arrest.
by | Dec 1, 2023 3:46 pm | Comments (11)
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Inside the new warming center at the former Strong School on Orchard.
Forty-seven sleeping mats laid out in a shuttered school’s auditorium are now available to lie down on at night for those without a home, as the city opened a new overnight “warming center” at the former Strong School on Orchard Street.
Continue reading ‘Ex-School Reopens As Winter Overnight Shelter’
by | Nov 29, 2023 3:38 pm | Comments (9)
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"School Closed," for now, at 540 Ella T. Grasso.
A flood resulting from a failed HVAC valve and gasket has ended on-site and in-person programming at the city’s Adult & Continuing Education Center in the Hill for the remainder of the calendar year.
by | Nov 28, 2023 5:13 pm | Comments (21)
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Hill residents Thomasine Shaw, former Hill Alder Dolores Colon, and former Newhallville Alder Delphine Clyburn.
A plan to rebuild at the site of the old Church Street South apartments will bring a new start not only for the neighbors still living in the Hill, but also for the people who lived there until hazardous conditions forced them out.
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270 Foxon Blvd., newly acquired by the city ...
... ex-Church Street South land, newly bought by the housing authority.
The city has officially purchased a Foxon Boulevard hotel for $6.9 million, and is now busy converting it into a non-congregate homeless shelter that the Elicker administration said it hopes to open before Christmas.
And the housing authority has closed on its $21 million acquisition of more than eight acres of Union Station-facing vacant land that used to house the Church Street South apartment complex, and is about to embark on a year-long planning process to determine how best to transform that empty expanse.
by | Nov 22, 2023 8:40 am | Comments (0)
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Maxine Harris and her student sound out "seahorse."
“Mr. and Mrs… Sandwich?” puzzled a first-grader over a vibrant book in the basement of the Wilson Branch Library.
“Oh, Mr. and Mrs. Seahorse!” she corrected herself, before flipping to the next page of Eric Carle’s Mister Seahorse.
Continue reading ‘Literacy Workshop "Elevates" Early Childhood Educators’
by | Nov 20, 2023 4:23 pm | Comments (19)
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Columbus House CEO Margaret Middleton: Bracing for “silver tsunami of people experiencing homelessness.”
A leading provider of local homelessness services is tearing down its one-story office space — and building 80 bedrooms in its place in order to better accommodate a changing landscape of unhoused New Haveners.
Continue reading ‘Columbus House To Build New 80-Room Shelter’
by | Nov 20, 2023 2:36 pm | Comments (7)
A 19-year-old New Havener named Jovani Ortiz died on Monday from injuries he sustained after getting shot Sunday night on Downes Street in the Hill.
by | Nov 20, 2023 9:10 am | Comments (21)
Church to Elicker: "Turn on the heat"
Sixty tiny-home supporters at a church in North Branford lifted their voices in song. It was about electricity and housing affordability, and aimed at New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker.
Continue reading ‘Suburban Fundraisers Sing For Hill's Tiny Homes’
by | Nov 14, 2023 9:16 am | Comments (8)
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Hill youngsters and Crystal Fernandez install signage at Kimberly Park.
Ten-year-old Cristian Estrada and his brothers Joshua, 9, and Jeremiah, 5, took turns plunging a shovel into the dirt on Kimberly Avenue to bring more beauty to their neighborhood park — this time in the form of installing a Friends of Kimberly Park sign.
Continue reading ‘Sign Installed As Kimberly Park "Friends" Keep Cleaning’
by | Nov 13, 2023 10:21 pm | Comments (56)
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Dealmakers: Housing authority's Karen DuBois-Walton and Northland's Larry Gottesdiener.
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Future looks a bit brighter for Church St. South wasteland (pictured).
The city’s public housing authority has reached an agreement with the Massachusetts-based owners of the former Church Street South site to purchase the vacant expanse across from Union Station and build it up into a new mixed-income housing complex.
Continue reading ‘Housing Authority To Buy Ex-Church Street South Site For $21M’