City Plan OKs Anti-Blight “Concept”
by | Jul 23, 2009 8:26 am | Comments (8)
The City Plan Commission Wednesday night approved the idea behind adding a proposed new property maintenance ordinance to the city’s existing anti-blight ordinance.
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From Horseshoes To Planes, Scavengers Do The Town
by | Jul 20, 2009 7:32 am | Comments (6)
Armed with maps, running shoes and some outlandish costumes, 300 people hit the streets Saturday for the seventh annual citywide scavenger hunt, Cluefest.
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Neighbors Give Thumbs Up To Signal Work
by | Jul 2, 2009 7:33 am | Comments (12)
“People come flying through this intersection,” Marty Feldman was saying. Just then a dozen cars zoomed through the intersection, oblivious to the flashing yellow light.
City Plan Fair To Fowl
by | May 21, 2009 8:49 am | Comments (13)
Backers of equal protection under the law for all hens got eggsactly what they came for from the City Plan Commission. Well, they got within a feather of it anyway.
Real Estate Transactions: April 1-8, 2009
by | Apr 20, 2009 4:04 pm | Comments (0)
40 Donna Drive Unit C6 $46,500 Mark Louis Ferrotti to Joseph C. Atkinson.
208 – 210 English Street $179,450 Rodolfo Lopez to Maximo Pena
Unit 901 Condominiums at Center Court $136,000 Marybeth Keating to Zachary Straussburger
634 Prospect Street $272,000 Daniel S. Lovins & Keiko Suzuki to Xidorong Wang & Henan Cheng
136 Vista Terrace $325,000 Joelle Musante to Michael J. Tocci & Jody Tocci
37 – 39 Truman Street $76,250 Residential Funding LLC to Wade Beecher
194 – 196 Cedar Street $91,000 Bank of America to Michael Steinbach
147 – 149 Livingston Street Unit 149 – 3 $317,000 147 Livingston LLC to Claire L. Bowens & William B. Hawkins
157 Olive Street $320,000 Bartholomew Amendola to Robert Nichols
107 – 109 Rock Creed Road $70,000 DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc. to Wayne R. Ricks
242 Division Street $50,000 US Bank National Assoc. to Richard P.
Vandermaelen
54 Dewitt Street $225,000 Regional Housing of CT, Inc to Kecia D. Ricks
229 Exchange Street $53,600 Deutsche Bank National Trust Company to Janet Dawson
180 – 182 Peck Street $78,000 Deutsche Bank National Trust Company to Janet Dawson & Cindy Ruiz
Recession Can’t Kill The Flowers
by | Mar 31, 2009 6:27 pm | Comments (4)
There was no city money to plant thousands of flowers around New Haven this year. So Betty Thompson and Valerie Lehtonen got to work.
LCI Gets Interim Chief
by | Mar 17, 2009 11:27 am | Comments (6)
After a national search failed to produce a candidate to head City Hall’s neighborhood anti-blight agency, the mayor put A. Walter Esdaile (pictured) at the helm.
Mystery Donors Endow A Neighborhood
by | Feb 19, 2009 11:32 am | Comments (3)
As Chatham Squarers like Daniel Butler and daughter Evie gathered for sweet potato pie and a new potluck dinner tradition, they launched an effort to become the city’s first “endowed neighborhood.”
Millard Who?
by | Feb 17, 2009 7:19 am | Comments (8)
On Washington Avenue, Alex Curbelo knew that the man whose face adorns the dollar bill had given him the day off from school.
Sliver Lots Up For Grabs
by | Dec 23, 2008 9:08 am | Comments (12)
New Haven is contemplating a “giveaway” of troublesome vacant lots that it can’t sell cheap.
Laundromat OK’d; Dominos Dumped
by | Nov 20, 2008 2:48 pm | Comments (2)
Two neighborhood controversies landed in front of the City Plan Commission on Wednesday night. The board voted in favor of the Whalley laundromat and against the dominos club.
Community Loan Fund Celebrates Two Decades
by | Oct 23, 2008 7:45 am | Comments (0)
The Greater New Haven Community Loan Fund has a deal for you: lend money to help build affordable housing, and get a 3 percent return on your investment — better than many other financial institutions are offering these days.
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Whelley Meets Whalley
by | Sep 24, 2008 4:28 pm | Comments (10)
Michele Whelley is looking beyond downtown in her bid to boost business.
Habitat Builds 29th Newhallvile Home
by | Sep 15, 2008 2:22 pm | Comments (3)
Habitat for Humanity was chased off of Winchester Avenue, but not out of the neighborhood.
Whalley Sidewalk Vendors Under Fire
by | Aug 22, 2008 9:16 am | Comments (29)
Whalley property owner John Vuoso says street vendors make the avenue look “sloppy” and attract “riff-raff.” Sneaker seller Danielle Legrand says she’s trying to make a living like any other business person.
The True New Haven “Grassroots” Tour
by | Aug 8, 2008 9:05 am | Comments (3)
These young gardeners hopped a bus to see a dozen neighborhood spots where people have brought beauty, and nature, to city streets.
Soul Food Elevates Whalley
by | Jul 30, 2008 8:38 am | Comments (19)
Business is booming at Mama Mary’s Soul Food Restaurant, which opened two weeks ago on Whalley Avenue. No one was enjoying the collard greens and corn bread more than loyal customer Miss Daisy Jones.
Condo Owners Fight To Stay Put
by | Jul 28, 2008 2:21 pm | Comments (3)
Shanda Roberts — a single mom who grew up in foster care — stands on the brink of losing her dream home, as two condo-owners struggle with their neighbors in an atypical foreclosure.
Hill-Trey Truce Struck
by | Jul 10, 2008 4:30 pm | Comments (35)
The feud began when one group called the other “punks” and “faggots” on MySpace. School brawls ensued. The kids shot at each other in the street. Bystanders started getting hit: three shot one day, a murder another. It may have ended this week with a movie-like nighttime mass pow-wow on Winthrop Avenue.
Tree Falls, House Nixed; Suit Looms
by | Jul 9, 2008 8:33 am | Comments (2)
New Haven’s zoning commissioners would have liked to put this tulip tree back together. Since they are less than gods, they did the next best thing: They denied the developer who cut it down the right to continue to construct a house on the site.
A Tree Grows (Many Trees!) In “SoHu”
by | Jun 26, 2008 2:46 pm | Comments (11)
East Rock newcomers joined longtime residents of a dwindling Polish enclave as a new group — nicknamed SoHu — stitched together a neighborhood with a new canopy of trees.
Whalley Gas-Conveniece Plan Grounded
by | Jun 19, 2008 8:26 am | Comments (8)
Tales from neighbors like George Rose — who saw “a kid, hanging out at [a convenience store], kill a man because he was eating a certain sandwich” — convinced City Plan commissioners to put a brake on a businessman’s plans for Whalley Avenue.
Write Your Own Caption
by | May 16, 2008 12:01 pm | Comments (7)
But first check out the caption written by the author of a new book about New Haven’s grassroots struggles against urban renewal.
See, Click, Fix
by | May 7, 2008 10:09 am | Comments (4)
A new web site lets you track neighborhood problems on an interactive map.
Say: Quinnipiac Meadows
by | Apr 16, 2008 8:42 am | Comments (0)
Gerald Antunes has a name for his neighborhood — and a mission for the neighbors.