by | May 15, 2017 3:20 pm | Comments (6)
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Westvilians make their top picks.
Before Westville and West Hills neighbors decided on how to spend an annual allotment of $10,000 from the city, they asked themselves a bigger question: Should they even accept the money?
by | May 8, 2017 7:56 am | Comments (1)
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Smith-Holness christens new salon at the former G Cafe.
Never known to do things the traditional way, Karaine “Kay” Smith-Holness cut a ceremonial ribbon that was, in fact, a brightly colored track of red weaving hair.
by | May 3, 2017 11:52 am | Comments (4)
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New SoHU beat cops Scott Shumway with Bernard Soliwoda.
When a white car came speeding down Eld Street, Officer Scott Shumway stepped cautiously into the street and caught the driver’s eye.
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.
by | Apr 21, 2017 1:55 pm | Comments (1)
Who built Long Wharf? Where did Booker T. Washington give his last sermon?
You can find the answers by walking around New Haven’s neighborhoods with the help of new interactive local-history guides. And you can find them in this week’s Elm City Crossword.
Continue reading ‘This Week’s Crossword: Our Walking History’
by | Apr 20, 2017 1:45 pm | Comments (6)
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Wies, Alpha Phi International’s Valerie Eisenhardt at BZA.
The house at 33 Edgewood Ave.
Neighbors in the Dwight Historic District said they don’t want another raucous sorority in their neighborhood. That’s fine by the members of a sorority that is looking to move in: They don’t plan to be raucous.
by | Apr 10, 2017 7:43 am | Comments (0)
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Walter Stelkovis weeds his bed at ChapelSeed.
At the beginning of her career, Rachel Ziesk was a sculptor. Somewhere down the line, she became a master gardener too.
by | Apr 7, 2017 1:22 pm | Comments (0)
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Silvestri, Wolcheski and Caplan near where the little library could be mounted.
Get one, give one.
A budding center of the Whalley Avenue-Edgewood-Beaver Hills community will have one more reason for neighbors, particularly the tiniest ones, to stop by — a Little Free Library
Continue reading ‘Little Free Library Comes To WEB Substation’
by | Apr 5, 2017 7:57 am | Comments (0)
LCI’s Jeff Moreno at a state-owned lot on Rosette Street.
New Haven might have to pay more than $1 to gain control of 15 neglected state-owned lots around town. But it’s closer to obtaining them.
by | Dec 23, 2016 1:25 pm | Comments (7)
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Game Day on Chapel Street.
Two communal Chapel Street businesses are preparing to pack up, reassess, and move on by the end of the month. But a new round is in the cards for downtown’s game-playing scene.
by | Nov 8, 2016 11:00 am | Comments (0)
Poster for the film.
A new New Haven-based film, I Am Shakespeare (The Henry Green Story), not yet in its premiere phase, is slated to be screened at a Nov. 19 fundraiser.
The audience will not only get to see the film and participate in a talk-back with the film’s subject, Henry Green, and director, Stephen Dest; it will also be contributing to an exciting light installation project in New Haven by world-renowned artist Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.
by | Sep 19, 2016 8:18 am | Comments (5)
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Payne (at left) at free breakfast gathering.
Xavier Payne walked by a clearing on Shelton Avenue and saw a small group of people preparing food under a canvas awning.
He wandered over for a short stack of pancakes — and entered a new weekly communal happening, inspired by the Black Panthers, that nourishes Newhallville with free food, clothes, and chess and sewing lessons.
by | Aug 31, 2016 12:14 pm | Comments (6)
Courtesy Duo Dickinson
The Yale Building Project has a relatively new name: The Jim Vlock First Year Building Project. Don’t let the new branding fool you: not too much has changed about it, except a widening and progressively hyperlocal focus. And that’s a good thing.
by | Aug 30, 2016 8:14 am | Comments (20)
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Tour hits George Street.
A commercial building instead of a police station in at 1 Union Ave. Another one in the historic former New Haven Railroad building. A now half-empty Church Street South razed and reborn as a 900-unit, mixed-use and ‑income development.
City officials asked U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal to envision all those changes — and to help them make them happen — on a one-mile walking tour from Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ 100 College St. headquarters to Amistad Park.
by | Jul 21, 2016 7:52 am | Comments (18)
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Engineer Tim Onderko explains plan for future U-Haul site.
Plans to turn the former C. Cowles & Co. factory on Water Street in to a U‑Haul storage facility moved closer to reality, while a developer pulled the plug for now on her own plans to provide boat storage along the Qunnipiac River.
Continue reading ‘Bid Fails To Stop U-Haul Storage Facility’
by | Jul 14, 2016 12:19 pm | Comments (1)
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Alder Santana at Tuesday’s meeting.
New Haveners can now obtain resident parking permits and book first-time bulk trash collections each year for no cost.
Continue reading ‘City Spreads The Word: Park & Dump For Free’
by | Jul 12, 2016 12:30 pm | Comments (1)
Pearl.
A kitten caught in car engine was saved from a grisly fate, thanks to a fast-acting East Rocker and the neighborhood association that rallied behind her.
by | Jun 27, 2016 7:37 am | Comments (14)
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Kerekes: A gateway to more restrictions.
Soto: Opportunity, not risk.
Barbara Iannaconne has spent thousands of dollars on renovations to bring 86 William St. to the modern age from 1870 over the last 29 years. Now she worries that if all of Wooster Square becomes “historic,” she’ll have to spend more money — money she doesn’t have.
by | Jun 23, 2016 7:23 am | Comments (1)
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Quanisha and her son, Chase, at WNHH.
The last four words Quanisha Cole heard her older sister Jajuana say were: “Don’t let me die.”
Then she was rushed to hospital, where Quanisha remembers hearing her mother ask for updates until doctors delivered terrible news: Jajuana, caught in gang crossfire, had died at the age of 13.
Quanisha, who was 11 at the time, shut down. For almost a year, she rarely spoke. She struggled with disciplinary problems in school, found herself quick to anger with her mother and siblings. She didn’t know, she said later, how she could go on.
by | Jun 16, 2016 7:57 am | Comments (1)
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Bekhrad pitches revised plan Wednesday night.
A riverfront developer who wants to turn her vacant Front Street lot into storage space for boats has won over some of her neighbors — but still needs to convince some others as well as the City Plan Commission.
by | Jun 15, 2016 7:46 am | Comments (1)
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Children helped release the bugs.
Kate Bradley kept some unusual items stocked in her fridge: thousands of live ladybugs.
by | Jun 13, 2016 12:06 pm | Comments (1)
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Tivon Edwards during group activity
Less than one minute into his workshop, Tivon Edwards found himself in trouble.
“You want a fight?” His angry peer in jeans, Perry Frazier, dashed into the room. Before anyone else could react, Edwards wrestled his challenger to the ground. Soon the pair was embroiled in an intense brawl, an irony given that Edwards was at a workshop on curbing youth violence.
by | May 30, 2016 1:36 pm | Comments (5)
Newhallville substation at 596 Winchester.
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Rose Center at 101 Ashmun: Model for the future?
by | May 23, 2016 3:29 pm | Comments (15)
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Mark Barros with Alder Clyburn at community meeting.
Brown, 83, addresses Harp.
Octagenarian Mert Brown asked the mayor to grant him one wish: Repair the sidewalks near his Newhallville home before he dies.
by | May 20, 2016 12:47 pm | Comments (4)
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Bekhrad.
Chatham Square neighbors filled a City Hall meeting room to protest a developer’s plan to put RV and boat storage on riverfront property on Front Street.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Form Front Against Riverfront Developer’