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Steve Winter: "Neighborhood-scale platform for decarbonization."
The city hopes to draw clean energy directly from the earth to heat and cool a train station, a thousand or so apartments, and maybe one day an entire neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Geothermal Energy Sought For "Union Square"’
by | Feb 26, 2024 2:23 pm | Comments (32)
Candidates Dolores Colon and Doris Doward at Trowbridge Square Park rally.
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Jason Bartlett addresses challenge candidates at the Hill Museum.
(Updated Feb. 29) In a park and then in a pencil museum, separate groups of politicos gathered in the Hill on the same day to rally voters to show up for one of the most obscure, historically least competitive elected positions in town: Democratic Party ward co-chair.
by | Nov 14, 2022 12:41 pm | Comments (6)
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The soon-to-be-resurrected Hill Cooperative Youth Services Building.
Plans to bring a former Trowbridge Square community center back to life took a big step forward as the Board of Alders formally accepted $1.5 million in state funds to renovate and reopen the Hill Cooperative Youth Services community center, formerly known as the Barbell.
Continue reading ‘Alders Accept State $ For Barbell Revival’
by | Jul 28, 2022 8:22 pm | Comments (5)
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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.
Continue reading ‘State OKs $1.5M To Rebuild Trowbridge Square's Barbell Club’
by | Jul 11, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (4)
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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.
by | Jun 29, 2022 4:51 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
by | Jan 20, 2022 4:13 pm | Comments (7)
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Designs for 10 new apartments planned for 232-238 Columbus Ave. (pictured below.)
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A local developer won permission to construct 10 new apartments atop city-owned land in the Hill — even as land-use commissioners lamented that most of that building’s future tenants will have only one way in and out of their apartments, and will have to walk around the block when taking out their trash.
Continue reading ‘10 Hill Apts OK'd After Backstairs, Dumpster Debate’
by | Aug 13, 2021 8:28 am | Comments (0)
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Campers show off art master pieces.
The Hill’s Trowbridge Square Park has been filled this week with aspiring artists, mathematicians, and athletes.
by | Aug 31, 2020 8:36 am | Comments (11)
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The latest “Meet the Mayor” community conversation with Justin Elicker, in Trowbridge Square Park.
A small but outspoken crowd of Hill residents gathered with Mayor Justin Elicker to talk about how to fix neighborhood violence.
One proposed solution: The Hill needs more residents to apply to become police officers.
by | Sep 25, 2019 1:31 pm | Comments (1)
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LCI Acquisition and Disposition Coordinator Evan Trachten.
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232-240 Columbus Ave.
City plans to sell two publicly-owned vacant lots on Columbus Avenue to a developer who has promised to build five market-rate and five affordable apartments won a key regulatory approval, and glowing praise from the commissioners who granted it.
by | Jun 26, 2017 8:00 am | Comments (9)
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The four candidates in Trowbridge Park Sunday.
Four candidates are running together for the Hill’s Board of Alders seats, pledging to work together to bring jobs to the neighborhood and more neighborhood input into future development.
by | Feb 15, 2017 4:02 pm | Comments (10)
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Zoners taking testimony on plan.
A plan to change a small Hill homeless shelter into a rent-subsidized residence for young people who have aged out of the foster care system is meeting with opposition from neighbors worried about parking and crime problems.
by | Aug 19, 2016 8:11 am | Comments (15)
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Lemar: Thanks, but no thanks to 1950s suburban-style garage.
Community activists, bicycle advocates and New Haven politicians vowed Thursday night to fight Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s demand that the city accept his old-urbanist design for a 1,000-car garage at Union Station.
by | Jun 29, 2015 1:14 pm | Comments (3)
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Former Alders James and Perez with newcomer Reyes.
Two alders representing the Hill neighborhood kicked off their bids for reelection at Trowbridge Square Park, while the nephew of a former longstanding alder sought to follow in his footsteps.
Continue reading ‘2 Incumbents, 1 Newcomer Announce Hill Candidacies’
by | Jun 1, 2015 1:42 pm | Comments (3)
When the opening bars of Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” rang through speakers at Trowbridge Square Park at 3 p.m. Sunday, Hill neighbors stopped what they were doing to dance together.