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West Hills graffitied wall before and after.
The following was submitted by LCI Neighborhood Specialist Jillian Driscoll
Every fall, incoming freshman are expected to participate in a Day of Service at Southern Connecticut State University and this year about 200 fanned out over the city to make an impact.
by | Sep 24, 2018 12:02 pm | Comments (14)
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City Engineer Zinn, left, with Deputy Director of Transportation, Traffic & Parking Mike Pinto.
After years of waiting for a roundabout at the intersection of Crescent and Munson Streets, neighbors got a date: July 1, 2019.
That’s when the city plans to start the work that neighbors hope will finally slow down speeders.
by | Sep 20, 2018 2:07 pm | Comments (2)
DeGale Field, better known in the city as Goffe Street Park, is headed for a makeover thanks to about $217,597 in grant money that is expected to come from the state.
by | Jul 23, 2018 3:24 pm | Comments (15)
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Project manager Matt Bruton at City Plan.
A four-block stretch of Whalley Avenue that already has a McDonald’s, a Burger King, a Subway, and a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen will soon add a Wendy’s to the mix, solidifying the area just west of Downtown as the city’s fast food row.
by | Jun 28, 2018 2:19 pm | Comments (84)
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Residents fill the Whalley substation for tax meeting.
Organizer Jacob Newell.
Some expressed helpless frustration. Some shouted at alders. Others called for government transparency and more money from Yale.
After an hour, everyone agreed the city’s 11 percent tax increase is an outrage. Few specific ideas emerged on how to cut government instead.
by | May 29, 2018 7:17 am | Comments (17)
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Delroy May: “We just plant vegetables.”
The back lot of 74 Porter, subject of LCI order.
Come back next month, Delroy May and Sylvia Stephens promise, and you’ll see organic vegetables starting to grow.
Right now, a city inspector ruled, he sees a blighted mess and a potential safe haven for rodents — and has ordered it cleaned up.
by | May 3, 2018 7:44 am | Comments (4)
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The General Assembly’s legit electronic billboard shows the House vote on the billboard bill.
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The new Whalley billboard.
Spurred by public opposition to a blinding blinking billboard on New Haven’s Whalley Avenue, state legislators voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would allow cities and towns to regulate the illumination of public advertisements, so long as those signs have the technological ability to calibrate their own brightness.
by | Apr 30, 2018 5:23 pm | Comments (51)
Dirt bikers fleeing cops Sunday in Edgewood Park.
The daredevil dirt bike season began with a vroom as renegade riders surrounded a driver’s car, then surrounded a cop car, before zooming away through a park.
by | Apr 20, 2018 7:51 am | Comments (6)
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The approved new home for an “orphan” ad panel, outside the CVS on Whalley Avenue.
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The bike share station, and ad panel, on Grove Street.
The greenbelt outside of the CVS on Whalley Avenue will soon be home to the new city bike share program’s first “orphan” ad panel: an eight-by-five-foot, double-sided advertisement that will not stand immediately alongside a group of lime-green bicycles available for short-term rental.
Continue reading ‘Bike Share “Orphan” Ad Panel Set For Whalley’
by | Mar 8, 2018 1:35 pm | Comments (10)
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Stop & Shop Supermarket signed a lease to remain at 150 Whalley Ave.r for another decade.
Continue reading ‘Stop & Shop Signs Lease For Another Decade’
by | Jan 19, 2018 2:04 pm | Comments (3)
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Engineer David Sacco details site improvements.
The old Whalley Avenue CVS will get a new parking lot and cosmetic improvements — and still, despite some neighborhood opposition, become a Family Dollar in the end.
by | Jan 15, 2018 3:13 pm | Comments (15)
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Recco, Toma, Anthony, and Jennifer D’Amato from left to right, front row with the kitchen crew Timothy Davidovich, Adam Kelshall, Vivian Kledaras and Deborah Appleby. Below: The Combo #1.
For the first time in 85 years of feeding New Haveners fresh fried seafood, the D’Amatos have invited them to sit down.
by | Dec 22, 2017 1:52 pm | Comments (58)
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Confrontation begins inside Whalley Market.
(Caution: Above video contains footage that might disturb some viewers.)
“What did I do?” an unarmed man with his hands in the air — and believed to be high on PCP — asked police officers as they repeatedly fired taser shots at him inside a Whalley Avenue convenience store, in a scene captured by one of the police department’s new body cameras.
by | Dec 21, 2017 8:50 am | Comments (6)
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Team Zinn-Hausladen presents plan to neighbors.
For years, residents of Beaver Hills have been complaining about speeds at Crescent and Munson Streets. Now officials have put together a plan for a traffic-calming roundabout — if the city can find the money to pay for it.
by | Dec 15, 2017 1:46 pm | Comments (8)
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The scene of the incident.
Elmarzouk: “Craziest” night in 11 years.
Police brass has ordered retraining for three officers who tased a criminal suspect four times in a store and then pepper-sprayed him — and the department has opened an internal investigation into the handling of body camera footage of the event.
by | Dec 14, 2017 4:31 pm | Comments (8)
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Nemerson breaks news to riled neighbors.
After months of debate of what kind of retail belongs in Westville — and how much government can and cannot exert its will on private property owners — a Family Dollar is likely coming to a vacant building on upper Whalley Avenue.
by | Oct 27, 2017 5:26 pm | Comments (7)
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Officers escort arrestee into cruiser.
A man in his late teens who pulled into a McDonald’s parking lot Friday afternoon never got a chance to order a Happy Meal.
by | Oct 18, 2017 12:29 pm | Comments (1)
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Horton and Tuozzoli Tuesday night.
Whalley, Edgewood and Beaver Hills neighbors have a new top cop, who promised to address neighborhood crime with increased cross-district communication and policing.
by | Oct 3, 2017 12:04 pm | Comments (5)
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St. Luke’s and the commercial complex it’s been working to transform for more than five years.
St. Luke’s Development Corp. got a step closer to making a long-awaited mixed-income housing near the intersection of Whalley Avenue, Sperry, and Dickerman streets a reality.
Continue reading ‘$492K Clean-Up Grant App OK’d For St. Luke’s Development’
by | Sep 20, 2017 1:55 pm | Comments (12)
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WEB Chair Nadine Horton questions District Manager Steve Torquati.
Beaver Hill neighbors pressed their new top cop for quicker action on a recent spate of gun shots — while the top cop pleaded for patience as he gets to know a new neighborhood.
by | Sep 7, 2017 3:51 pm | Comments (0)
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Unique Jones interviews Catherine Moore, whose senior group is at Bethel AME.
In a white-walled room at the New Haven Correctional Center (NHCC), Daniel Watts was preparing a month early for his first City-Wide Open Studios. In one hand, he held a small microphone to his mouth, checking his p’s to make sure that they weren’t popping too hard. Seated inches away, artist Maria Gaspar clutched a recorder.
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Groomes crosses Whalley.
A section of Whalley Avenue is in the running to get safer for pedestrians. All the city has to do is find some money to make that happen.
by | Jun 20, 2017 2:36 pm | Comments (0)
After the clock struck midnight, the B bus was cruising west down Whalley Avenue past the Boulevard when riders started noticing a foul smell.
by | May 1, 2017 7:30 am | Comments (30)
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Blight in Wooster Square.
Be a good neighbor and not a nuisance, or the city’s Redevelopment Agency might look for a developer to take your property — at fair market value — and tell you to kick rocks.
Or at least that’s what its chairman would like to do.