Columbus House CEO Margaret Middleton: "Unsheltered homelessness is absolutely a crisis in our community."
Some of the 50 new emergency beds at 209 Terminal Ln.
Fifty new emergency shelter beds came online in the Hill Friday to help provide a safe, clean, indoors place to sleep for the city’s — and the region’s — rising number of people without a home.
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Jun 23, 2023 2:15 pm
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At the Greenwich Ave. C-Town, now a Key Food.
A Kimberly Square supermarket won its final needed city approval to construct a roughly 3,300 square foot addition — as part of an expansion project that will also see a larger parking lot and a knocked-down house.
Joel Davis (right) at Columbus House: "We all just want to feel safe.”
Pencils scratched against paper and voices intertwined as clients and staff at Columbus House came together in the shelter’s sleeping quarters to reimagine its Ella T. Grasso Boulevard location — which is projected to add as many as 96 single rooms in a construction project to begin later this year.
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Jun 22, 2023 3:56 pm
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Hill North CMT Secretary Maxine Harris-Branham & Hill South CMT Chair Sarah McIver at Wednesday's joint meeting.
City-planned improvements to Kimberly Square.
Energized by the summer solstice sunshine on the longest day of the year, Hill neighbors brought a bit of good-natured heat and opposition to a preliminary city proposal to close off a section of Greenwich Avenue to make a little plaza or “public realm” — as part of a broader street-scape redo of Kimberly Square.
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Jun 13, 2023 9:04 am
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Martin Chamberlin, Amanda Levi, and Sai work to fix Sai's bike's busted brakes.
Crouched over a broken bike trading wrenches and conversation, two Bradley Street Bicycle Co-Op volunteers helped a library-visiting Hill teenager fix his two-wheeler — and taught him how to make his own repairs the next time his brakes and wheels are busted.
Firefighter Nathaniel Peragallo accompanies rescued construction worker on aerial rescue.
Capt. Ryan Almeida looked down into a 30-foot hole where a concrete deck had collapsed and a construction worker was now buried in rubble. He and his crew had to figure out a way to pull the man out. Fast.
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Jun 2, 2023 10:07 am
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Josh Burgess, Alex Alvarado, Erick Russell, and Leila Ayers at Career pride celebration.
Career High School sophomore Alex Alvarado struggled to hold back tears as he listened to the country’s first openly gay Black statewide elected official — and a fellow New Havener — advocate on behalf of transgender students like himself.
Yale New Haven Hospital spent more than $101 million buying a Rubik’s Cube-patterned medical-district building that it has used for more than a decade for clinical laboratories, a pharmacy, a lecture auditorium, and patient and visitor access to the nearby Smilow Cancer Hospital and Air Rights Garage.
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APT patients Tito Cabrera and Tanya: Methadone clinic saves lives.
Daniels School security guard Al Heard: All the people hanging out, selling and using drugs in the area is not good for the kids.
John C. Daniels School teacher Jane Roth pleaded to the Board of Education to help save her school’s students and staff from having to see overdoses on the school’s property, used syringes scattered around the campus, and drug-users shooting up just outside the Congress Avenue bounds of where children learn and play.
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May 19, 2023 3:30 pm
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Abdussabur and Fernandez shake hands before the ambulance heads out.
Shafiq Abdussabur pulled up to Union Station to make his latest campaign pitch — and found himself calling an ambulance for a man seeking shelter inside the train stop rather than crusading for votes.
Wait a minute. That's not a 74-year-old man, right? Video surveillance footage of "State Marshall Brian Hobart" delivering an eviction notice in February at 167 West St.
State Marshal Brian Hobart showed up to a West Street three-family house on Feb. 23 to deliver an eviction notice to a family of renters with an expired lease.
At least, that’s what Hobart attested had happened in a court-filed document.
Surveillance images from a first-floor camera at that Hill property tell a different story.
Co-op demo, apartment construction in the works on Howard.
A rendering of the to-be-redeveloped ex-Hill Co-Op.
The Board of Alders approved two tax breaks for two different affordable housing projects across town — including at a former Hill co-op, which will see 32 apartments knocked down and 64 built up as part of a first phase of redevelopment.
... at Saturday's Hill housing fundraiser in Guilford.
It might seem incongruous for a wealthy shoreline suburban community to pull out all the stops for a radical Catholic homelessness rights activist from the Hill.
Not at all, said Mark Colville, leader of the Amistad Catholic Worker House, as roughly 100 attendees enjoyed vegetable terrine and fruit salad drizzled with raspberry rose at a “Breaking Bread” fundraiser in the brightly lit basement of Guilford First Congregational Church.
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May 15, 2023 11:45 am
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FAD Mechanical's Henry Smith III and Lawrence Jay McLaurin (center), with State Sen. Paul Cicarella and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, honored as the Minority-Owned Small Biz of the Year ...
... for their plumbing and HVAC work on new apartment buildings like 9 Tower Ln.'s "Pierpont."
Two city-raised HVAC contractors took a step out of the shadows of New Haven’s building boom and into the limelight to be honored for their ground-up-construction plumbing work — including at hundreds of new Yale medical campus-adjacent apartments that continue to spring up across the Hill.
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May 12, 2023 10:17 am
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NICU Family Support Specialist Michelle Gray with AnneMarie Rivera Berrios and her son Joshua ...
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... dropping off Mother's Day gift bags for NICU moms, with friend Lisa Milone.
AnneMarie Rivera Berrios pulled up to the front entrance of Yale New Haven’s York Street hospital campus with a trunk full of gift bags, a son on the cusp of turning 3, and still-vivid memories of the kind gestures that helped her through her own time as a NICU mom.
Gov. Lamont, YNHH's Chris O'Connor, and Yale epidemiologist Albert Ko on Wednesday.
Gov. Ned Lamont joined hospital officials in New Haven to declare an official end to the Covid-19 public health emergency — and reflect on lessons for the next one.
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Apr 27, 2023 12:26 pm
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(Updated) A mid-afternoon drive-by shooting on Baldwin Street saw 13 bullets fired near a middle school’s playground — and has prompted police to conduct more frequent patrols in and around the area during school hours.
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Encampment residents unfolding their egg and cheeses Tuesday morning.
A view of the tents around Amistad House's backyard.
Refugees from a bulldozed West River encampment are taking shelter at an alternative, mission-based outdoor site in the Hill as they plan next steps to get back on their feet — while amping up their commitment to addressing the roots of housing injustice.
URI's Micael Freiburger and EMERGE's Michael Byrd set tree into its new home Monday afternoon.
Gov. Ned Lamont watched a linden tree take root on Asylum Street, and promised to help New Haven plant more shade in its heat-hampered “environmental injustice neighborhoods.”
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Mar 27, 2023 2:25 pm
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Clemente sixth-grader Luis with oily oyster science experiment.
With science fair judge Robin Querker.
Will oysters survive if submerged in motor oil?
Roberto Clemente sixth-grader Luis set out to answer that question — as he crafted a locally relevant science fair project focused on environmental harms to New Haven bivalves.
Ivana Lewis paints beside her mom, Shauniqua Davis, at a Wilson Library event.
The Wilson Library branch is a “second home” to Helen and her children — especially to 7‑year-old Eli, who devours every animal-themed book he can find.
In spare moments, Wilson staff members set aside volumes they think Eli will like. But most days, they’re kept busy with adults needing job applications or a place to rest their head while inebriated.
So Wilson staff, regulars, and allies are calling on the city to fund a full-time children’s librarian at Wilson — the only branch in the city to lack the funding for one.
