Upper State Merchants Band Together
by | Apr 9, 2008 4:44 pm | Comments (14)
They moved here from New York following the buzz about New Haven. A break-in and several flower thefts later, they decided they needed to light a spark.
Neighborhoods
Ways Of The Cross
by | Mar 24, 2008 8:02 am | Comments (0)
Watch Thomas MacMillan’s slide show here of St. Rose members reenacting the Stations of The Cross throughout Fair Haven. Allan Appel reports here on Easter, Ukrainian style, on West River’s streets.
Park “Friends” Sought; GPS Updates Maps
by | Feb 21, 2008 8:10 am | Comments (11)
A New Haven conservancy group would like to see more neighborhood involvement in the care of city parks.
WEB’s Crime Drops Most
by | Jan 10, 2008 7:44 am | Comments (18)
Was it the guns and the Angels?
How The Truce Happened
by | Dec 13, 2007 12:06 pm | Comments (5)
Word was that trouble was brewing between Dixwell and the Ville. So when a car pulled up to the basketball court — and a gun appeared in window — Tyrone Weston was ready.
“Granite” Hits A Wall On State Street
by | Nov 14, 2007 11:47 am | Comments (9)
A man who wants to open a piano lounge on State Street came up against a wall of protest from those who live or own property nearby.
Boxer, & Old Neighborhood, Back Up For The Count
by | Oct 19, 2007 7:56 am | Comments (2)
Scene: The Old New Haven Arena. The place is packed with Jews, refugees from Eastern Europe. In the ring is the Great Yiddish Hope, Julie Kogon, a pugilist whose punch serves as a symbol of ethnic pride and aspirations in a new land.
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Consiglio: 1 Plan Forward, 1 Cut Short
by | May 17, 2007 10:28 am | Comments (0)
This man’s smiling because he got the go-ahead to build a new 9,000 industrial space in Fair Haven — although he has shelved plans for a separate rehab on River Street.
Back To The Hood
by | May 4, 2007 9:28 am | Comments (5)
Gemma Joseph Lumpkin (pictured) grew up in Newhallville. She was in for a surprise — about what makes a neighborhood — when she and her family moved back there from Westville. Read on for an installment of her Sheffield Avenue diary.
The “Intensity of Neighborhood” Goes On Display
by | May 3, 2007 2:23 pm | Comments (2)
When Erna Caron told Ying-Ying Ma about living in Chatham Square, a lasting story was born — about a meat freezer, about a family named Finnegan, about a river and oysters, about a multiracial urban “village,” about community most of all.
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Finally, A Big Day for Big Daddy’s Plowmen
by | Feb 15, 2007 9:28 am | Comments (7)
As sleet and snow turned the city into a big slush pile, “Big Daddy” and a team of snowplow drivers hit the roads for their first big storm of the season.
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Who’s Buying What, Where
by | Feb 6, 2007 11:07 am | Comments (0)
Following are the latest home sales around town, according to deeds filed in the City/ Town Clerk’s Office.
Who’s Buying What, Where
by | Jan 29, 2007 2:09 pm | Comments (0)
Following are details of home sales that took place in the city from Jan. 22, 2007, through Jan. 28, 2007, according to land records on file at the City/Town Clerk’s Office.
Who Bought What, Where
by | Jan 18, 2007 2:07 pm | Comments (0)
Here are some of the latest home sales just recorded in the City Clerk’s Office:
Who Got Hit
by | Dec 11, 2006 9:11 am | Comments (8)
People who live in Newhallville, the north Hill area and downtown/Wooster Square condos have one thing in common this season: They’ve all been hit hardest by the latest round of property revaluations. Read on for a neighborhood breakdown.
Winchester Avenue Poised For a Fix-up
by | Sep 21, 2006 3:20 pm | Comments (0)
Movers rolled a new oven into this recently spiffed-up duplex on Winchester Avenue this week. A deal’s in the works to fix up four nearby homes, which neighbors say have been boarded up for over a decade. Said a woman on a nearby porch, surveying empty lots once filled with factory workers’ homes: “I would like to see the neighborhood back like it used to be.”
WEB Embraces New Beat Cops
by | Sep 20, 2006 12:01 pm | Comments (3)
The spike in crime has startled Edgewood and Beaver Hills as much as any neighborhoods in town, with some people questioning whether community policing is dying. But the cops received nothing but love at a meeting with the area’s management team, and these two officers were part of the reason why. Meanwhile, Police Chief Cisco Ortiz announced that more cops would soon be on the street.
Courtland Wilson’s Legacy: A New Beacon in the Hill
by | Sep 15, 2006 9:13 am | Comments (3)
For the first time in 20 years, people in the Hill, like these kids, have their own library. Click here and here to listen to some of the initial reaction to the state-of-the-art building named after a late civil-rights leader. And read on for a tour.
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Surprise! 65 Cats Lived Next Door
by | Jul 13, 2006 8:02 am | Comments (0)
Commotion subsided Wednesday afternoon on this quiet East Shore street, where 65 cats were rescued from the feces-covered, trash-heaped rooms in this house. The cats were safely purring in the New Haven Animal Shelter Wednesday, but a pungent smell still drifted down Girard Avenue.
Fans Cheer Bridge Over Troubled Roadway
by | Jul 11, 2006 10:08 am | Comments (0)
This woman stayed up way past midnight to watch white trusses swing into the air, forming a long-awaited pedestrian bridge over the Ella T. Grasso Boulevard to the Barnard School. The suspense-filled bridge-erecting show shut down traffic for over four hours Monday evening and filled bleachers with cheering fans.
Dwight Teens Get A Summer Oasis
by | Jul 6, 2006 1:17 pm | Comments (0)
The city’s teens just got a new place to hang out this summer as part of the city’s Open Schools initiative: The Dwight neighborhood YMCA.
“All They Had Was Crayons”
by | Jul 3, 2006 9:03 am | Comments (3)
These Farnam Court kids explored the newest addition to their Grand Avenue housing project: The once-dilapidated community center has been revived with computers, a pool table, and plans for plenty of classes.
East Rock Block Takeback
by | Jun 29, 2006 9:44 am | Comments (12)
After a couple was held up at gunpoint while taking a nighttime stroll on East Rock’s Lawrence Street, they decided not to slip away as lone victims of a random crime. The result: A crowd of 60 neighbors gathered at a block party Wednesday to share stories, talk to police and revive dormant block watches near where the mugging occurred.
A Reprieve for Goatville’s Tomatoes
by | Jun 23, 2006 4:02 pm | Comments (3)
To gardeners like David Rossi (pictured), this hidden plot of land in East Rock has long been a soil-rich haven for tomatoes and summer herbs. When the woman who owned the garden passed away, local developers jumped in to buy the plot: Not to erect a money-making house, but to keep it as what they consider a greater asset —” a community garden.
“You’re Taking Neighborhoods”
by | Jun 21, 2006 5:28 pm | Comments (4)
In more tree trouble in Beaver Hills, a UI tree-trimmer (pictured) came under the fire of angry neighbors who didn’t want to hear justifications for the power company pruning. They wanted a “moratorium” on the “hacking.”