Valerie F. Boyd: "Is $2,000 a month affordable for a child to get started?"
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New apartment design rendering, as seen from Davenport.
A California-based developer plans to knock down six industrial buildings and two houses on Congress and Davenport Avenues and build a 194-unit luxury apartment complex in their stead — prompting pushback from Hill residents concerned about rising rents.
City 911 director Joe Vitale: "Trying to repair what is happening."
The city’s director of public safety communications had a message for the Hill South community management team: in an emergency, call 911 — not the personal number of the neighborhood’s top cop.
“We did call 911,” responded Meghan Currey, who heads the neighborhood’s Wilson Library Branch. “Nobody ever answered.”
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Sep 23, 2022 9:00 am
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At Thursday's groundbreaking on Minor St.
A community of healthcare partners and political backers gathered in the Hill to celebrate the groundbreaking of Cornell Scott Hill Health Center’s new hub for behavioral health and substance abuse services.
28 Thompson: Don't expect any megalandord "For Rent" signs here.
Two new two-family houses and a rehabbed single-family home should soon be coming to the Hill and Newhallville, thanks to a local affordable homeownership nonprofit’s recent purchases of three underused lots from the city.
City Engineer Zinn: This will help mitigate harms of the "absolutely existential crisis" of climate change.
Expect less flooding on the often-flooded Union Avenue in the years ahead, thanks to a $25 million federal grant that will help the city construct a roughly 3,000-foot drainage pipe and tunnel from West Water Street to the Harbor.
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Sep 19, 2022 2:11 pm
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Crowd celebrates groundbreaking on broken ground of basketball court
“L’dor v’dor.”
Gus Keach-Longo, president &CEO of The Towers at Tower Lane invoked that Hebrew phrase meaning “from generation to generation” Sunday to sum up the purpose of a community garden groundbreaking and ground-floor kick-off ceremony.
The ceremony celebrated the latest expansion of the senior living facility on Tower Lane.
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Sep 14, 2022 12:33 pm
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150 Wooster St: Former Tony & Lucille's, future new Italian eatery.
Make way for gelato and cocktails on Wooster Street, empanadas on Spring Street, and truffles and cheeses and Neapolitan-style dishes near Broadway.
Those culinary ventures are each one big step closer to coming New Haven’s way, after winning requested land-use relief from the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA).
After hours of heated debate, a divided Board of Education voted to move its adult education center from the Boulevard to the former state social-services building on Bassett Street.
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Aug 24, 2022 8:10 am
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U.S. Attorney Avery on Tuesday: "Full circle moment."
Thirty years after graduating from Hill Regional Career High School, Vanessa Avery returned to the Legion Avenue public school’s auditorium to be sworn in as the state’s next top federal prosecutor.
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Aug 2, 2022 2:48 pm
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New Haven youth join New Haven, Wallingford, and North Haven Boys and Girls Clubs leaders.
The Boys and Girls Club (BGC) of New Haven and the Ulbrich BGC of Wallingford and North Haven announced Tuesday that they will merge in order to expand services to youth recovering from the impacts of the Covid pandemic while also bridging the three towns’ “cultural boundaries.”
Alston, Mata and Bombero during Hill problem-solving canvass
Here’s what the latest city “Clean and Safe Sweep” encountered on Arthur, Hurlburt and Wilson Street in the Hill: Tangled utility wires, raised sidewalks, illegal driveways, trees blocking traffic signs, sagging roofs, and potholes the size of small children.
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Jul 28, 2022 8:22 pm
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The former and future Barbell Club.
(Updated Friday 2:12 PM) 160 Carlisle St. will once again buzz with learning and community, thanks to $1.5 million in state funding allocated to revive the shuttered home of the former Barbell Club.
Make sure city police officers are well trained in how to provide basic medical care to detainees in distress — as well as compassion to everyone they interact with on their beat.
Police Chief Karl Jacobson heard those recommendations, and many more, during one of his first community meetings since becoming the city’s top cop.
Youssef Zaimsassi in his first-floor condo's bathroom: "Can't tell you how many times we changed the ceiling."
Dripping water in the basement of 3 Cassius St.
Drip. Drip. Drip … is the sound that Youssef Zaimsassi hears in his Cassius Street condo’s bathroom and basement every time his upstairs neighbor takes a shower.
From that leak, he claimed, have come mold, rotted wood, a busted ceiling, a stubbornly empty rental unit — and endless frustration that he can’t get the second-floor property owner, or the city, to do anything about it.
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Jul 11, 2022 8:56 am
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Darrisha McIver outside the Barbell, where she competed in double dutch, acted in plays, and got her first job.
Visions for a revived community center glimmered in Trowbridge Square alongside the fireflies, as alders, city officials, and Hill neighbors discussed the future of the building that once housed the Barbell Club.
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Jul 6, 2022 11:35 am
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Leslie Radcliffe: "We need more people like you" on the police force.
“Did the lieutenant convince you?” Leslie Radcliffe called out to Tiemarcie Ramos, who’d walked past the Hill North police substation in search of his mother’s stolen garbage can.
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Jun 29, 2022 4:51 pm
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Darrisha McIver outside Trowbrdge Square's former -- and future? -- Barbell Club.
When Darrisha McIver walks by the abandoned city building that once housed Hill Youth Cooperative Services (HCYS), she remembers jumping double dutch as a kid, staffing “The Store” full of after-school snacks, and growing up to become a camp counselor kids looked up to.
She also sees a hope for the future: a rebuilt community center where neighborhood kids can build confidence and learn life skills, the way she once did.
Elicker bikes across Orange while U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Alder Carmen Rodriguez, neighbor Thomasine Shaw, and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz walk down the pedestrian crosswalk.
A Congresswoman, a mayor, an alder, a lieutenant governor, and a longtime Hill resident crossed Orange Street Monday morning — because, after a half-century, they finally could.
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Jun 21, 2022 11:29 am
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Empty storefront at 846 Congress, now approved for residential conversion.
A New Jersey-based landlord won permission to convert two vacant Congress Avenue storefronts into two two-bedroom apartments, in the latest example of property owners around the city seeking to change empty groundfloor places to shop into occupied groundfloor places to live.
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Jun 16, 2022 8:19 pm
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Gov. Lamont (center) at Brazi's lunch with local clergy.
At reelection campaign stops with local faith leaders and elderly residents, Gov. Ned Lamont faced a flurry of questions about how best to keep New Haveners safe — from gun violence and reckless drivers alike.
