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May 2, 2014 1:04 pm
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For over a year, lawmakers have been asking city anti-blight chief Erik Johnson why his department doesn’t issue fines when people don’t shovel their sidewalks. This week Johnson offered a new answer: It’s the DPW’s fault.
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Thomas MacMillan |
Feb 19, 2014 5:45 pm
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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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Melissa Bailey & Paul Bass |
Feb 16, 2014 2:16 pm
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You’ll need to read about all this again to find out when your car might get towed, and when your street might get plowed. That’s because officials worked around the clock this weekend to revise a plan for clearing streets from the past few storms.
The Neighborhood Leadership Program is looking for people with ideas for improving their neighborhoods, who want to learn how to put those ideas into action.
(Updated: 2:18 p.m.) Battling to keep up with fast-falling snow projected to continue on and off into the weekend, Mayor Toni Harp declared a winter storm emergency Thursday afternoon.
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Kendra Baker |
Dec 13, 2013 12:11 pm
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Rabbi Daniel Greer recalled passing regularly by a stretch of “miserable, miserable houses” on Whalley Avenue right past Ella Grasso Boulevard. Then a not-for-profit builder transformed the houses into a tasteful, solid complex called Fairlawn Manor.
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David Sepulveda
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Oct 9, 2013 1:20 pm
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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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Melissa Bailey
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Aug 15, 2013 8:16 am
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(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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Thomas MacMillan
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Jun 6, 2013 12:47 pm
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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?
Andy Ross found an alternative to moaning about how people don’t show up for neighborhood meetings: Offer them short meetings — and a shot at winning a free three-figure meal at Zinc.
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Joshua Mamis
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May 17, 2013 12:03 pm
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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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Allan Appel
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Apr 15, 2013 12:16 pm
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When the power went out on Upper Whalley during a recent storm, the city had no go-to contact info for the businesses there. Next time they plan to — as officials, prompted by the storm, prepare to map and collect data on all neighborhood commercial districts.
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Melissa Bailey
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Feb 18, 2013 5:36 pm
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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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Melissa Bailey
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Feb 11, 2013 5:04 pm
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When piles of snow from Winter Storm Nemo blocked the vents on Jessica Bergman’s Willow Street home, shutting off her heat Monday, David Streever and an emergency shovel team swung into action.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Dec 10, 2012 12:47 pm
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This spring, a bright white light began shining in Newhallville. With a new approval from city lawmakers, the light is spreading, and may one day engulf nighttime streets all over New Haven.
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Allan Appel
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Oct 15, 2012 12:10 pm
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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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Allan Appel
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Sep 10, 2012 12:10 pm
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Say goodbye to The Newhallville, The Dwight, and even the nearby Wooster Square. But Dixwell — also known as pulled pork, red onion, coleslaw, cheddar cheese on a ciabatta — survives. For now.
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Melissa Bailey
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Jun 14, 2012 8:03 am
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Ginger Nash and her new pooch Jawa won’t flee East Rock for Hamden, now that she became one of 306 homeowners who won some relief from soaring property tax assessments.