by | May 26, 2023 12:56 pm | Comments (25)
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55 Park St.: Long leased, now owned, by YNHH.
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.
by and | May 24, 2023 3:41 pm | Comments (29)
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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.
by | May 19, 2023 3:30 pm | Comments (38)
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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.
by | May 19, 2023 12:49 pm | Comments (12)
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.
Continue reading ‘Eviction Notice Served -- By Whom, Exactly?’
by | May 17, 2023 9:04 am | Comments (14)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Ex-Hill Co-op, McConaughy Tax Breaks OK'd’
by | May 15, 2023 1:35 pm | Comments (33)
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Tent City exiles Suki and Todd Godek ...
... 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.
Continue reading ‘City Housing Plight Brought To The 'Burbs’
by | May 15, 2023 11:45 am | Comments (4)
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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.
by | May 12, 2023 10:17 am | Comments (3)
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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.
by | May 10, 2023 4:45 pm | Comments (15)
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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.
by | May 5, 2023 12:52 pm | Comments (3)
(Updated) An apparent dispute led to the shooting death of 45-year-old Ji’Tu Garrett at Congress Avenue and Vernon Street early Friday morning.
by | Apr 27, 2023 12:26 pm | Comments (2)
(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.
Continue reading ‘Drive-by Shots Fired Near Hill School Playground’
by | Apr 19, 2023 10:52 am | Comments (45)
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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.
by | Apr 17, 2023 8:34 pm | Comments (12)
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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.”
by | Apr 14, 2023 5:28 pm | Comments (12)
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City inspector Javier Ortiz examines loose tiles and "compromised" subfloor at 23 Vernon, Apt. 2.
A full house for Friday's inspection: Legal aid attorneys Amy Marx and Richard Hine, city attorney Mike Pinto, and LCI's Ortiz and Mark Stroud.
Javier Ortiz leaned over and picked up a triangular shard of cracked ceramic tile from the bathroom floor of a second-story Vernon Street apartment.
The city housing code inspector now had two questions to ask.
by | Mar 27, 2023 2:25 pm | Comments (3)
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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.
by | Mar 21, 2023 9:00 am | Comments (16)
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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.
by | Mar 17, 2023 9:11 am | Comments (6)
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Katelyn Giusti: "Thank you for your thinking."
“Secure your thinking caps tightly,” Barnard teacher Katelyn Giusti advised her classroom full of kindergartners — as they prepared to dive into a chimpanzee-focused reading assignment and test out a new school district approach to literacy.
Continue reading ‘Books In Hand, Teachers Test Reading Pilot’
by and | Mar 16, 2023 9:10 am | Comments (59)
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Cops swarm into Tent City, under supervision of Sgt Justin Cole (center right) and Lt. Nicholas Marcusio (walking away at right).
Last to leave: Paul C packs up after police evict him Thursday from Tent City.
Police swarmed onto the tent city off the Boulevard early Thursday morning to clear the holdout campers and bulldoze the site — and make sure the press and public couldn’t watch what they were doing.
by | Mar 9, 2023 9:04 am | Comments (2)
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Career office clerk Shirley Love joins school choir in "Lift Every Voice and Sing," performed at Black History assembly and celebration.
Hill Regional Career High School’s auditorium rang like a rolling sea as students lifted their voices to sing the Black National Anthem alongside school staffer Shirley Love, whose voice left the school full of the hope.
Continue reading ‘Career High School Lifts Every Voice & Sings’
by | Mar 7, 2023 3:41 pm | Comments (19)
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Democratic mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg: "This is an inappropriate place" for a methadone clinic.
APT patient Jeffrey Culp: "What happens to the people where this place saved their lives?"
A Democratic mayoral candidate traveled to Congress Avenue to call for the immediate closure and relocation of a controversial methadone clinic.
One of the clinic’s patients posed the candidate a question: What about the many lives that have been saved from the depths of heroin addiction by the APT Foundation’s treatments? One saved life, he continued, is his own.
Continue reading ‘Patient Presses Politician On APT Critique’
by | Mar 7, 2023 12:25 pm | Comments (3)
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The APT Foundation's 495 Congress Ave. building and parking lot.
The following writeup was submitted by Democratic mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg chronicling his five days of traveling around to different methadone clinics in and near New Haven.
Click here to read Goldenberg’s recent opinion essay in the Register laying out various proposals for how the city should handle local methadone clinics. Click here to read a recent Independent article about how the Elicker Administration and the APT Foundation are looking to move the clinic’s main Congress Avenue location to a new building on Long Wharf.
Goldenberg plans on holding a press conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday outside APT’s Congress Avenue site to talk about his methadone clinic policy proposals.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: My Week Visiting Methadone Clinics’
by | Feb 24, 2023 10:42 am | Comments (1)
The Mandy-controlled two-story house at 698 Dixwell.
An affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management is looking to add one more apartment to a two-story Newhallville house — rather than build six new rental units or bring in a commercial tenant.
Continue reading ‘Mandy Eyes New Groundfloor Apartment On Dixwell’
by | Feb 23, 2023 3:32 pm | Comments (10)
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Tased & Defused: 2 a.m. foot chase on Daggett Street.
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Next-gen cops Nick Samartino, Trevor Canace, Daniel Smith, Thomas Brunski.
The fleeing man probably has a gun, the police officers chasing him figured.
One officer chased him with his own gun out. The other ran while pointing a taser.
If they needed to fire, they were hoping the latter weapon would do the trick.
by | Feb 23, 2023 11:29 am | Comments (31)
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Congress/Davenport apartment plan, slated to replace to-be-demolished properties like 326 and 348 Davenport (below).
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A California-based developer has purchased nine Hill properties for a combined $4.35 million — advancing plans to construct 194 new apartments on Congress and Davenport Avenues.
by | Feb 9, 2023 4:02 pm | Comments (45)
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The former Church Street South property, above and below.
Elicker (at bottom left): "Disappointed & frustrated." Northland's Gottesdiener (bottom right): City's version "inaccurate at best, a lie at worst."
Five years after bulldozers demolished the 30-building Church Street South community across from Union Station, the land remains a fenced-off wasteland of prime real estate with no signs of progress on plans to rebuild.