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Retail Gurus’ Conclusion: Neighborhood Districts Need A Task Force

by | Mar 14, 2014 5:45 pm | Comments (11)

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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.

After touring four of New Haven’s neighborhood commercial districts this week, two out-of-town experts unveiled their main suggestion Friday afternoon: Form a task force.

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The Ice-Breaker Cometh

by | Feb 19, 2014 5:45 pm | Comments (9)

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Payloaders and dump trucks finally descended on the Hill’s Wilson Street Wednesday, bringing relief from snow-clogged streets— and a $100 ticket for Erivaldo Souza.

Meanwhile, lawmakers in other neighborhoods offered a report card for the city’s street-clearing effort, with grades ranging from Bs to Fs.

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Bus Tour “Reveals” Flourishing Community Gardens

by | Oct 9, 2013 1:20 pm | Comments (6)

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A coach bus arrives at Westville’s Stone Hearth Restaurant to begin the tour.

A sparkling white coach bus from New Haven Land Trust’s Habitat, Harvest, and Happy Hour Benefit Bus Tour” ambled down Newhallville streets. At the head of the bus, Stacy Spell, a former New Haven homicide detective with microphone in hand, described how some of the streets and corners were once breeding grounds for crime, consumed in drugs and violence.

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Crackdown: 1,221 Properties’ Owners Face Fines

by | Aug 15, 2013 8:16 am | Comments (22)

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Kids’ moldy, broken ceiling where landlord has ducked inspection.

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LCI chief Johnson: “If you’re a landlord, you’re a business.”

(Updated with link to list) Because their Wooster Square landlord has ducked the city’s inspection program, two young kids have been forced to sleep on the couch for two years due to a broken, moldy ceiling in their bedroom.

Now the city is cracking down on that landlord, and hundreds of others.

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Block-Watchers Join Forces

by | Jun 6, 2013 12:47 pm | Comments (1)

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Veteran Dixwell block-watcher Ruth Henderson speaks up at Wednesday’s citywide gathering.

If a Burton Street block watch captain sees a suspected bike thief headed toward West Elm Street, how can she warn that area’s neighborhood crime-fighting group? Is there even a block watch there?

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There Goes The Neighborhood

by | May 17, 2013 12:03 pm | Comments (0)

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LeRoy McClain and Jimmy Davis in Clybourne Park.

Natalie Holder-Winfield: “We don’t question ourselves.”

Fifty years after white flight, a white couple has returned to build a home in a newly gentrifying neighborhood — and lands in a tense scene with neighbors. It’s race,” the husband blurts out. Isn’t it?”

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“They’re Done?”

by | Feb 18, 2013 5:36 pm | Comments (32)

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Alderwoman Robinson-Thorpe: “It’s unacceptable.”

In order to carry passengers down Goffe Terrace Monday, the Z3 bus had to swerve around a bank of unplowed snow, crossing the yellow lines into oncoming traffic.

The tight spot was one of dozens neighbors flagged as they called in complaints about narrow streets and high snow piles — questioning the city’s assertion that the post-blizzard cleanup is largely done.

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"Big Stink Tour"
Plants Hope In City Farms

by | Oct 15, 2012 12:10 pm | Comments (1)

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Michelle Streater: When you eat what you grow, it always tastes better.

Keep the interns out of the salad greens. Rely on compost, not raised beds, to deal with contaminated soil And shoot to become an urban farmer, not a guard on the hoops court.

It’s more important to be a farmer than a basketball player.”

A former pro basketball player and current star of the sustainable urban agriculture movement gave that advice to a young gardener in Fair Haven while shining a light on — and offering advice to — New Haven’s legion of hidden neighborhood farmers.

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Plants Hope In City Farms’

Will Free Food Help?

by | Jul 26, 2012 1:34 pm | Comments (4)

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Harold Ellis of Newhallville brought twin sons Charles (left) and Ray (right) to Wednesday’s meeting.

It took a gift-card giveaway to lure people to respond to emails about Wooster Square’s management team meetings — and still not many showed up.

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