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Jericho pitching at 10 years old.
Baseball kept Fair Haven teen Jericho Scott out of trouble and out of harm’s way — until suddenly it didn’t.
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Dozens of Wooster Square neighbors gathered in Lenzi Park Sunday afternoon — drawn in by a chilly spring breeze, and an announcement.
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At the Davenport garden.
A first-ever spring citywide community-garden tour launches Saturday at 10 a.m.
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Diagram of Garden Town.
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Neighbors forced Randy Salvatore to change the six-story building he’s putting up at Chapel and Howe Street — making the project better, in his view.
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11-year old Sophie and 8‑year-old Jacob had a little more snow shoveling power left in the tank. Little sister Esther was ready to pack it in.
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The police are asking anyone interested in starting a block watch to let them know, so they can help.
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Newhallville Alders Foskey-Cyrus, Clyburn and Alfreda Edwards.
The Board of Alders approved a resolution that will allow Mayor Toni Harp to accept a $1 million federal grant aimed at making Newhallville safer, but not without passing a separate resolution that attaches caveats for city staff going forward.
by | Jan 12, 2015 4:09 pm | Comments (1)
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Neal-Sanjurjo, at center, checks out a Newhall Street restoration.
As Carmen Mendez drove down Winchester Avenue and turned left on Read Street, her boss, Serena Neal-Sanjurjo, proved that she was no stranger to Newhallville.
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Mayor Toni Harp, who has been urging New Haven to “buy New Haven” for the holidays, did some of her own local shopping in hiring a new chief for her neighborhoods anti-blight agency.
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The man who brought a detailed view of cities from around the world to the Hill neighborhood has a new mission: helping New Haveners bring their own city into view.
by | Oct 29, 2014 1:28 pm | Comments (12)
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Mayor Toni Harp Wednesday said she anticipates finding a local replacement for her departing neighborhoods development and anti-blight chief.
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by | Oct 15, 2014 12:16 pm | Comments (1)
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Opponents line up at zoning hearing.
The owner of a controversial former Westville bar found his request to open up elsewhere on Whalley denied by a zoning board – and roundly denounced by neighbors.
by | Oct 6, 2014 12:26 pm | Comments (3)
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Lena Largie showed a merry band of community-garden supporters something they’d never seen before: a melon cucumber.
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Mayor Toni Harp’s high heels have to be ready for anything — one minute she might be clicking her way through City Hall, the next minute navigating the construction site of the 13-story office tower. So it made sense that the first stop on a new shop-local initiative delivered her to Thom Brown.
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by | Sep 29, 2014 3:24 pm | Comments (12)
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NHS’s Paley (at right with a potential financial backer) outside one of the two Winchester Ave. houses he sought to buy.
The Harp administration has decided to sell five city-owned properties to five different kinds of buyers representing five different approaches to rebuilding neighborhoods.
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Educational Attainment of Young Adults (Greater New Haven Community Index 2013, p.29)
Old Story: New Haven provides high-paying jobs for the suburbs while housing and servicing the majority of the region’s low-income population.
New Story: The city’s high income areas are outperforming the suburbs in quality of life and inclusion of different social groups, and may serve as a new model for shared prosperity.
by | Aug 8, 2014 3:05 pm | Comments (13)
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Developers offered competing visions for 679 Winchester, above.
Michael Collins and Dee Johnson were glad to hear the city’s finding a buyer to rescue a vacant house on their block — and they hope the right kind of buyer ends up with it.
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Paolillo and Douglass review the new draft list.
From Elm Street downtown to Russell Street in the Heights, the city plans to spend up to $1.7 million rebuilding stretches of nine sidewalks, ranging from 75 to 2,400 feet long.
by | Jul 28, 2014 12:04 pm | Comments (9)
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“Allocation Committee” at work.
At least nine city streets will be repaved and another 12 patched in places under a plan drawn up by city public works and transit officials.
by | Jul 9, 2014 1:47 pm | Comments (9)
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Plow driver Ray Rivas navigates narrow Chestnut Street during one of February’s storms.
Adam Marchand’s neighbors had nowhere to park their cars except the street. But snow plows couldn’t get through.
by | Jun 6, 2014 5:18 pm | Comments (7)
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Employees of New Haven government’s neighborhood development and anti-blight agency went home for the weekend with the status of their boss still unresolved.
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Bright Big Wall.
That’s the name, at least for now, of the colorful, graffiti-esque collaborative mural that will enliven the Humphrey Street underpass beneath I‑91 and connect the Jocelyn Square and East Rock neighborhoods.
by | May 14, 2014 4:59 pm | Comments (9)
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Consultant Simone, far right, with neighbor Ann Boyd and city officials Jackie James and Steve Fontana on Congress Avenue this week.
Two months after they visited New Haven, two neighborhood revitalization experts came to the conclusion they promised they would: Form a task force. They threw in a second idea: Hire us to do more consulting.
Continue reading ‘“Main Street” Consultants Unveil Big Idea: Create A Task Force’
by | May 7, 2014 4:12 pm | Comments (36)
This man wants to sell you a house in New Haven — especially if you’re a city employee now living in the suburbs. And he’s offering an $80,000 discount.