by | Apr 4, 2018 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
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Kids rake leaves at Truman Community Garden.
From Fair Haven Heights to West Hills, New Haven’s community gardens will get a spring boost this Saturday, and be on display for interested cyclists.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Enlisted In Community Garden Clean-Ups’
by | Mar 7, 2018 3:44 pm | Comments (4)
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Newhallville’s Kim Harris leads citywide confab.
Courtesy Caroline Smith
Potential logo.
For the first time anyone could remember, neighbors from New Haven’s 12 community management teams came together to hatch a project they hope will bring the city together this summer.
by | Mar 6, 2018 8:37 am | Comments (1)
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Health Department’s Roslyn Hamilton and fellow crew members in Newhallville operation.
New Haven government rule-enforcers plan to “sweep” into Fair Haven next week.
Or “canvass.”
Or some other verb that they’re not telling us yet.
by | Jan 17, 2018 8:50 am | Comments (11)
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NHFD’s Keith Kerr treats man who overdosed on heroin.
For several minutes, the man stopped breathing. In a Beaver Hills apartment, he’d flooded his body with heroin.
by | Oct 31, 2017 7:54 am | Comments (12)
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Telephone-gobbling tree at Hazel and Shelton.
Day 2 of sweep: LCI’s Ramos with renter Goodson.
“Look at that!” Delphine Clyburn called out at Thompson Street and Shelton Avenue, pointing to one of Newhallville’s many overgrown trees. “Where’s parks?”
by | Oct 30, 2017 8:36 am | Comments (6)
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The scene on Howard Avenue.
Winds reached 56 miles per hour in town overnight, downing at least 15 trees citywide and plunging the City Point neighborhood into darkness.
Meanwhile, officials were scrambling past midnight to deal with two storm-unrelated matters: a busload of Hillhouse High students stranded off a Baltimore highway, and a piercing alarm in a bank-owned home that was keeping upper Westville awake.
by | Oct 18, 2017 4:16 pm | Comments (6)
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Quattlebaum planting grass in front of his house.
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Alberta Nelson and Marshall Curry on their front porch.
When dozens of government workers swarm into Newhallville next week on a new “Clean City” quest for clues about what makes blocks thrive or decay, they might want to pop in on Levon Quattlebaum and Alberta Nelson on Bassett Street.
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 2, 2017 7:42 am | Comments (7)
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Angelique Quiñones, whose grandmother “lives between New Haven and Farjado, Puerto Rico.”
Angelique Quiñones hadn’t planned to spend her Saturday fundraising for Puerto Rico. But when her mom Elizabeth Reyes spotted a social media post asking for volunteers, she and her sister Alexandra signed on, donning new Puerto Rico themed jerseys and heading at full speed toward Grand Avenue.
by | Sep 26, 2017 10:46 am | Comments (28)
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Deb Rossi: It comes down to 17.5 inches.
For months, Ryan Taylor has been trying to expand his East Rock coffee shop into an after-hours wine bar. If his East and State Street neighbors have their say, that may not happen anytime soon.
by | Aug 30, 2017 2:56 pm | Comments (36)
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A popular East Street coffee shop is seeking to branch out to evening wine sales — with some neighbors preparing to fight rather than sip.
by | Aug 21, 2017 12:42 pm | Comments (7)
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Hopkins describes some of the architectural details of Church Street South.
Concrete quoining at the corner of one of the end walls of Church Street South.
Jonathan Hopkins stood on a grassy hill overlooking a nearly vacant housing complex and pointed out some of its buildings’ distinguishing architectural characteristics.
by | Aug 20, 2017 1:50 pm | Comments (5)
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Mavi Sanchez-Skakle of New HYTEs working with children on their stances.
Could the next tennis phenom be growing up in Newhallville or Dixwell? Maybe, if the neighborhoods had tennis courts.
by | Aug 1, 2017 2:45 pm | Comments (7)
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LCI’s Arthur Natalino at the Rosette lots Monday.
Rosette Street’s Ruth Cordero: How about a butterfly garden?
Neighbors gave thumbs down to a dog park. But a butterfly garden? That might work on vacant property near the intersection of Rosette and Cedar streets.
by | Jul 31, 2017 12:11 pm | Comments (2)
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The older crowd at the celebration …
… and the younger.
The Stetson branch of the New Haven Free Public Library celebrated a century of providing a haven for learning and community to the Dixwell and Newhallville neighborhoods with fanfare befitting the beloved fixture.
by | Jun 20, 2017 2:30 pm | Comments (8)
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Jadah Moore receives her scholarship at the graduation.
Jadah Moore encountered an unexpected pregnancy and the need to get a job before she could finish high school — and she still made it on time joining 13 fellow students Tuesday in completing her studies at New Light High School.
by | Jun 19, 2017 12:26 pm | Comments (2)
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Pasticiotti di ricotta, or little cakes with ricotta in the center.
Pressing his face close to a glass case, Fordham student David Cappetta zeroed in on his first subject: trays of cannoli and pasticiotti di ricotta, covered with powdered sugar. He took a deep breath in and steadied his camera. Click.
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At the top of East Rock.
Just a mile away in East Rock Park, Corey Hudson pointed out how light hit the branches early in the day. In Wooster Square, Chris Randall was documenting the stillness that comes each Saturday before a 9 a.m. farmer’s market. A few hours later, he would be marching down Congress Avenue, trailed by the smell of collard greens and macaroni and cheese.
by | Jun 12, 2017 12:22 pm | Comments (10)
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Ansley with Hausladen at problem-solving happy hour.
A dark East Rock underpass is about to get brighter, thanks to a few rounds of happy hour drinks.
by | Jun 8, 2017 12:26 pm | Comments (7)
Robyn Porter on state House floor Wednesday night.
Headed our way: City inspector Jeff Moreno at overgrown, trash-filled state-owned Rosette St. lot.
As the state legislature’s adjournment clock approached midnight:
• Lawmakers voted to turn over 15 neglected state-owned properties to the city.
• Robyn Porter’s police-misconduct bill didn’t make the cut.
by | Jun 5, 2017 7:56 am | Comments (8)
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Students Brianna Wilson, Janeece Harrison, and Darrien Wilson: We like the stop where it is.
Bus at the intersection.
Students’ alleged shenanigans at a school bus stop in the Hill have one neighbor on edge — and seeking to get the bus to pick up kids elsewhere.
Continue reading ‘On 4th Street, It’s Neighbor Vs. Bus Stop’
by | May 30, 2017 12:22 pm | Comments (5)
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Ansley (below) keeps tabs on streetlights (above).
Five streetlights were out on Rock Street in Cedar Hill for months until this weekend — with neighbors staying off the street and asking the city to shed some light on the issue.
Continue reading ‘After 6 Months, Streetlights Come Back On’
by | May 24, 2017 3:44 pm | Comments (6)
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Andrea Konetchy with picture of recent tire dump in East Rock Park.
The city can fine you for not shoveling your sidewalk or for dumping bulk trash outside your property. But until now, there has been little it can do to enforce those fines.
by | May 24, 2017 7:42 am | Comments (1)
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A group of green-thumbed high school students will make a little extra cash this summer with unexpected tools — lettuce, tomato and daikon seedlings, and a greenhouse in Fair Haven to grow them in, courtesy of the New Haven Land Trust.
by | May 19, 2017 7:33 am | Comments (6)
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“Rapid flash” LED lights installed on Olive in 2015 in response to neighborhood speeding concerns.
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Webster: Olive is literally a street of death.
Olive Street will be the beneficiary of a new mobile, radar speed sign next year as the result of an annual exercise in “participatory budgeting”: a democratic decision-making process that empowers a neighborhood to decide how to spend a small share of the city budget.
Continue reading ‘“Participatory Budgeting” Takes On Olive Street Speeding’
by | May 16, 2017 2:13 pm | Comments (8)
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Ansley, near proposed wall: Let’s help them take it somewhere else.
Cedar Hill’s graffiti vandals may get an unexpected summer gift — four sprawling, concrete slabs they can decorate under a highway.
There’s only one catch. They’ll have to spell out, in paint, what it means to be a good neighbor.