by | Apr 12, 2024 1:16 pm | Comments (25)
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Erick Gonzalez, Annette Genovese, and Rosa at Martinez-hosted meetup.
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One possibility: a Mill River boardwalk?
To revitalize a neighborhood known for its warehouses and abandoned factories, focus on nature.
Residents and business owners offered that advice to city officials planning a more walkable, community-oriented Mill River district.
by | Apr 9, 2024 9:15 am | Comments (26)
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ADU examples, as pictured by the AARP.
A city proposal to let landlords build extra apartments on their properties met resistance from an aldermanic committee wary of removing an existing owner-occupant restriction.
by | Apr 4, 2024 11:34 am | Comments (29)
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Big buildings, not empty lots, envisioned for Union Station area.
With climate change in mind, an aldermanic committee advanced a zoning proposal that would allow as-of-right restaurants, supermarkets, and offices — but not housing — along the Union Station railroad tracks.
Continue reading ‘Extra Step Added For Transit-Oriented Housing’
by | Apr 3, 2024 3:57 pm | Comments (0)
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Dr. Ann Garrett Robinson, the future namesake of Dixwell & Argyle?
The corner of Dixwell and Argyle might soon bear Dr. Ann Garrett Robinson’s name, in honor of a beloved champion of local Black history who, in 89 years of life so far, has made a mark on history herself.
Continue reading ‘Won't You Be My Neighbor, "Dr. Robinson Way"?’
by | Mar 22, 2024 3:14 pm | Comments (2)
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Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op volunteer Julia Nojeim fixing Alfred Wicker's flat tire.
Angus Lamont, Mayor Justin Elicker, Catherine Lindsay, and Steve Winter look on as Doreen Abubakar cuts the ribbon.
Agitating the atmosphere: That’s what Doreen Abubakar called the opening of the Newhallville Bike Box, a new free bike repair station on Shelton Avenue and Hazel Street.
“We live in a place where there is no library, no medical institution, and no community space where people can gather,” Abubakar, founder of the Community Placemaking Engagement Network, told the spirited group of 30 at a festive, if wind-buffeted, ribbon-cutting ceremony.
by | Mar 22, 2024 11:08 am | Comments (10)
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Lincoln-Bassett parent Stacy Leslie: school pick-up is hectic.
Speed bumps are on the way to Newhallville. What, neighbors asked, about the schools?
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Presses Zinn On Speed Bumps, School Traffic Safety’
by | Mar 15, 2024 2:03 pm | Comments (3)
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State Rep. Robyn Porter helps serve food to neighbors and fellow politicians.
An all-boys charter school is gearing up to open this fall in a stately Dixwell Avenue building that neighbors stopped from becoming a methadone clinic two years ago.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Celebrates Community Organizing Win’
by | Mar 6, 2024 4:26 pm | Comments (5)
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The fire at 390 Orchard.
A two-alarm fire interrupted renovations at Dwight’s Kensington Square apartments while sending two firefighters to the hospital.
by | Feb 28, 2024 12:14 pm | Comments (2)
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CMT Chair Kim Harris: How does the neighborhood benefit?
How will local bids for geothermal and political power translate into a more empowered Newhallville community?
That question arose repeatedly at the latest gathering of the Newhallville Community Management Team.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Turn Up Political, Geothermal Heat’
by | Feb 8, 2024 4:02 pm | Comments (14)
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You may stay? Musicians at 91 Shelton.
Developers returned to the City Plan Commission with a promise: If they get permission to transform a Shelton Avenue industrial building into self-storage units, the artists currently working there can stay.
by | Feb 5, 2024 2:10 pm | Comments (1)
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fREsh-taurant crew at Pitts Chapel; Marcus Harvin, in yellow shirt, left center.
(Updated) You can speak all you want into somebody’s ear. If their stomach is growling, they can’t hear it.
Those were the words of Marcus Harvin, the visionary founder of Newhallville fREshSTARTs, at Pitts Chapel Unified Free Will Baptist Church on Friday night. The occasion was the grand opening of the fREsh-taurant, a food recovery initiative that will provide free hot, nutritious meals for the community, either eat-in or take-out, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening. Everyone is welcome.
by | Feb 2, 2024 3:34 pm | Comments (23)
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Jorge and Jorge (who declined to provide their last names) deconstructing the plaza flower beds Friday.
At sunrise, a pair of construction workers grabbed both ends of a flat stone atop a Pitkin Plaza planter, ready to heave it off.
by | Feb 1, 2024 4:09 pm | Comments (29)
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Neighbor Shawn: Affordable apartments needed to combat high rent.
10 Liberty St.
An abandoned lighting manufacturing hub will soon transform into 150 below-market apartments a block from Union Station, if a development plan comes to fruition.
by | Feb 1, 2024 12:46 pm | Comments (53)
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Carlota Clark at Wednesday evening's open house at Science Park.
A rendering from Pine's presentation: Apartments up to $4,500 a month on Winchester Ave.
As Science Park developers presented renderings of a housing complex soon to rise on Winchester Ave., Carlota Clark wondered if one of the 283 apartments would someday be hers.
by | Jan 30, 2024 3:13 pm | Comments (8)
X'Nique suggests to City Engineer Giovanni Zinn that city prioritize shade and sensory play.
A tire swing. A skate park. “A lot of butterflies.” And toys promoting “sensory play.”
Neighborhood children eagerly offered those visions for a planned redesign of Kensington Playground, following years of adult-dominated debates over the future of the park.
by | Dec 13, 2023 3:22 pm | Comments (32)
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Carl Ferris at Ninth Square community meeting: "Feces all over the place" in portable restrooms on the Green. "It all gets blamed on homeless people."
Formerly unhoused activists, Ninth Square business owners, and city officials agree: New Haven needs a downtown public restroom that actually gets cleaned.
by | Nov 22, 2023 8:32 am | Comments (4)
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Alder Troy Streater, who petitioned for Geneva Pollock Way, on the block between the two renamed corners.
Geneva Pollock and Pearlie Napoleon were friends who both dedicated their lives to their students and their Newhallville community. So it’s fitting that the street corners soon to be named after them will be located just one block apart.
by | Nov 15, 2023 7:30 am | Comments (4)
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Kwadwo Adae (center) with friends at Grand-Blatchley mural unveiling.
For nine weeks, they painted, enduring darkness of night, thick humidity, and driving rain.
The result: Las Flores de Esperanza, a mural color-saturated with flowers that spans 50 feet of concrete wall at the corner of Blatchley and Grand, and the latest street-beautifying creation of the Ghanaian-American visual artist and muralist Kwadwo Adae.
by | Nov 14, 2023 9:16 am | Comments (8)
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Hill youngsters and Crystal Fernandez install signage at Kimberly Park.
Ten-year-old Cristian Estrada and his brothers Joshua, 9, and Jeremiah, 5, took turns plunging a shovel into the dirt on Kimberly Avenue to bring more beauty to their neighborhood park — this time in the form of installing a Friends of Kimberly Park sign.
Continue reading ‘Sign Installed As Kimberly Park "Friends" Keep Cleaning’
by | Nov 9, 2023 4:25 pm | Comments (48)
A rendering of the new apartment building at 873-897 Grand.
Prospective builders of 112 new apartments have gotten the go-ahead to help fill a blighted stretch of western Grand Avenue — despite opposition from neighbors convinced that a six-story complex would wreck the corridor’s character rather than revitalize it.
Continue reading ‘Grand Ave. Housing Transformation Gets Green Light’
by | Nov 3, 2023 2:31 pm | Comments (1)
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Toni Thorpe, Royce Hatfield, Richard Cowes, Sara Gonzalez, Latoya Armstrong, and Stephanie Paris-Cooper.
Every day last spring, Latoya Armstrong dropped her daughter off for camp at the Q House.
One day in April, on her way out she scanned a flyer QR code to learn about the programs at the Dixwell community center and found a perfect fit for herself: GED classes by the New Haven Adult & Continuing Education Center.
by | Sep 27, 2023 10:35 am | Comments (19)
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A rendering of a proposed "walkable" Long Wharf.
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Cannabis dispensary, now under construction at ex-Long Wharf Theatre site.
“Given the increasing likelihood of more frequent and severe storms, should we as a city pull back from the shoreline, or should we allow more development in coastal areas?”
Westville Alder Adam Marchand posed that question to his fellow local legislators — and successfully urged his colleagues to choose the latter vision and rezone Long Wharf to become more walkable and densely built.
by | Aug 22, 2023 4:45 pm | Comments (1)
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Chef Marc Ramirez at the grill.
On a picture-perfect Sunday afternoon, kids moon-bounced, Fats Domino crooned, and Barbara Montalvo was dancing in the middle of Glen Road.
Barbara Montalvo.
“This is a fun, joyous event, neighbors loving neighbors, this is the community coming out embracing everybody, regardless of age, gender, color, creed, background,” she said, mid-swivel, amid the aroma of grilled hotdogs and burgers and the air of late-summer revelry in the tree-lined shade.
Continue reading ‘3rd Annual Beaver Hills Block Party Pulls Out All The Stops’
by | Jul 21, 2023 11:45 am | Comments (47)
Travelers react to latest Tweed flood.
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Elicker, Abdussabur offer different takeaways at Jepsen mayoral forum.
Days after a rainstorm flooded Tweed airport and left passengers temporarily stranded, mayoral candidates conveyed varying takes on the airport’s economic value and environmental impact to its neighbors.
Continue reading ‘Sunday Storm Sparks Thursday Tweed Debate’
by | Jul 13, 2023 9:28 am | Comments (11)
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Attendees at Wednesday's Grand Avenue Special Services District board meeting.
The Grand Avenue Special Services District voted to partner with a sister business improvement organization downtown to try to raise funds to cover the costs of everything from cleaning graffiti off of buildings to power-washing sidewalks to improving the area’s trash collection, all with the goal of making Fair Haven a safer and cleaner place to shop.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven, Downtown Biz Boosters Team Up’