by | Jun 2, 2023 12:15 pm | Comments (2)
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The Elks' new home to-be at 329 Dixwell.
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Gary Hogan: "We opted to remain in the Dixwell area on Dixwell Avenue.”
Noise and parking.
Those were the two main issues in a lively, sometimes heated, community meeting at the Q House about the Elks Club’s planned new Dixwell Avenue home.
by | May 31, 2023 1:14 pm | Comments (19)
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Neighbors gather at Nicoll-Eagle to process the block's most recent car collision.
A car-dented fence at the corner of Nicoll and Willow.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall: the cars that race down Willow Street and crash into neighbors’ fences.
Continue reading ‘Goatville Seeks Slowdown Help After Fatal Crash’
by | Apr 17, 2023 3:33 pm | Comments (7)
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A shower of pink, for 50th straight year.
Valentina Simon doing her thing at Sunday's fest.
Amid a riot of pink blossoms, the scent of spring in the air, and the sounds of Airborne’s “Groovin’ on a Sunday Afternoon,” Valentina Simon leapt and spun and twirled in front of the bandstand, prompting others to join her.
Continue reading ‘Wooster Square Blooms At 50th Blossom Fest’
by and | Mar 24, 2023 3:23 pm | Comments (37)
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Police cars on Lewis Street after Thursday evening's shooting.
When seven gunshots popped from a car outside a Lewis Street rental home, the children next door wailed and trembled, and their parents scrambled to explain away the sounds as fireworks.
Continue reading ‘Drive-By Shooting Spotlights Problem House’
by | Mar 10, 2023 11:23 am | Comments (34)
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Edward Bouchet, as painted on Henry St. by artist Kwadwo Adae.
Robert Lucas: "My main point is rethinking Eli Whitney."
Should Whitney Avenue hold onto the name of the cotton-gin inventor who played a key role in the expansion of slavery?
Not according to a Yale business student, who’s pointed to the university’s first African American doctorate holder as an alternative namesake for the East Rock corridor.
by | Feb 22, 2023 9:22 am | Comments (8)
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Fair Haven Alders Sarah Miller and Claudia Herrera (right) talking with Alexis Cruz on a recent neighborhood walk.
Caroline Smith at the triangular island at Monroe and Alton.
Litter on Monroe Street — and a perilously crash-prone intersection at Blatchley and Peck — led two Fair Haven alders and a handful of neighbors to knock on doors and talk with residents about how to improve the area’s quality of life.
Continue reading ‘Alders Walk, Knock For Fair Haven's Future’
by | Feb 1, 2023 12:30 pm | Comments (8)
At Tuesday's presser: KeyBank's Analisha Michanczyk, ConnCORP COO Paul McCraven, KeyBank's Matthew Hummel, ConnCORP Board Chair Carlton Highsmith; ConnCorp CEO Erik Clemons, Lab Executive Director Aya Beckles Swanson, and ConnCORP Chief Investment Officer Anna Blanding.
A vegan baker, a mobile notary, and a professional organizer were among the 20 hand-picked Greater New Haven minority business owners to embark on a rigorous entrepreneurial boot camp — and to benefit from a new $1 million grant designed in part to help that program and its participants thrive.
by | Jan 19, 2023 9:45 am | Comments (33)
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Sandra's owners Miguel and Sandra Pittman: Planning to push back on zoning board rejection.
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The contested outdoor refrigeration containers on Arch St.
City zoners turned down a Congress Avenue culinary institution’s bid to store five outdoor fridges in a residentially zoned area — following testimony from the restaurant’s neighbor that the restaurant’s expansion has resulted not just in nationally renowned chicken wings, but also pesky rodents and stenches.
The restaurant’s owners now plan to contest that decision so that they can continue to keep corn, sugar, flour and plenty of perishables nearby as they look to continue serving the neighborhood they’ve long called home.
by | Jan 10, 2023 9:01 am | Comments (2)
A Sunday walk in the Fair Haven Heights woods.
Talk about a geological, paleontological, and historical marvel.
That’s Quarry Park Preserve, which was the site on Sunday of an hour-long walking tour that began at the Friends Meeting House at 225 East Grand Ave. in Fair Haven Heights. It was led by the New Haven Bioregional Group’s Aaron Goode and Friends of Quarry Park Founder Tracy Blanford.
by | Dec 21, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (2)
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Ann Swain and Kim Harris at management team holiday party.
Ann Swain wiped tears from her eyes as Newhallville Community Management Team Chair Kim Harris listed all of the little reasons that make her a neighborhood hero — from returning trash cans to neighbors’ homes after the garbage truck comes to going door-to-door to making sure every kid on the street gets treats from block parties they couldn’t attend.
by | Dec 19, 2022 11:03 am | Comments (3)
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Ready to judge Newhallville's finest holiday lights and decorations.
A Thompson Street highlight.
On one of the shortest, darkest days of the year, 25 Newhallville residents set out in a coach bus in search of holiday lights.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Holiday Contest Turns On Lights’
by | Dec 7, 2022 8:51 am | Comments (1)
Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A Fair Haven community healthcare center has won a key city approval needed to expand its parking lot — and, eventually, its Grand Avenue headquarters.
by | Nov 28, 2022 3:11 pm | Comments (8)
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Sabrina Gibbs with daughters Xora and Nova.
Alder Smith greets Stetson Librarian Diane Brown.
Sabrina Gibbs and her two daughters Xora and Nova got a slice of their new neighborhood — and a slice or two of pumpkin pie — at a reborn West Hills community center’s inaugural “Our Table” Thanksgiving dinner.
Continue reading ‘Shack Sets "Our Table" For Thanksgiving Feast’
by and | Nov 21, 2022 11:00 am | Comments (0)
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Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde and attorney Meaghan Miles at Thursday's Board of Alders Legislation Committee meeting.
Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) is on its way to getting new city approvals to bring more cars to its grounds — as the nonprofit advances towards executing a broader vision of expanding its community healthcare campus on Grand Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Clinic's Parking, Expansion Plan Advances’
by | Nov 1, 2022 4:00 pm | Comments (9)
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Sandra and her four kids stop by Trunk or Treat for second year.
Five year old Thiago Arichabala dressed as Chucky.
The light at the end of a spooky spider- and cobweb-filled tunnel at Edgewood Park was a hefty bag of Halloween treats.
Continue reading ‘Edgewood Park Transformed By Halloween Haunted Ride’
by | Nov 1, 2022 11:11 am | Comments (2)
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At Monday's trunk-or-treat on Ashmun St.
Baby Savannah practices candy crawling her own way Monday night.
Little mermaids, Minions and monsters gathered outside of the Connecticut Violence Intervention Program’s headquarters Monday — to take turns “trunk or treating” within a web of safety-minded community members and their cars.
Continue reading ‘Safety, Candy Abound At Ashmun Trunk-Or-Treat’
by | Oct 26, 2022 3:45 pm | Comments (5)
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Grand Cafe plaza regular Curt Duarte (at left): We're being targeted.
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A protest/sit-in/"occupation" of the Grand Cafe parking lot in Sept. 2021.
The parking lot outside of the Grand Cafe swelled last fall with live music, poetry, and pizza as activists gathered to “reclaim” a Fair Haven corner known for attracting violence.
A year later the bar is closed, shootings are down, and a new set of neighbors fills the lot with cannabis smoke and stereo tunes.
Continue reading ‘Violence Down, Tensions Persist At Grand Plaza’
by | Oct 25, 2022 1:10 pm | Comments (5)
Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A health center’s plan to rezone a Fair Haven block to allow for more parking, and eventually a larger medical campus, moved ahead — despite city staff’s initial recommendation of denial.
by | Oct 20, 2022 2:56 pm | Comments (26)
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Congress/Davenport apartment plan, now OK'd by City Plan.
Make way for 194 new apartments on Congress and Davenport Avenues, now that a California-based developer has won a key — and hotly contested — city approval.
by | Sep 28, 2022 8:41 am | Comments (15)
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City 911 director Joe Vitale: "Trying to repair what is happening."
The city’s director of public safety communications had a message for the Hill South community management team: in an emergency, call 911 — not the personal number of the neighborhood’s top cop.
“We did call 911,” responded Meghan Currey, who heads the neighborhood’s Wilson Library Branch. “Nobody ever answered.”
by | Sep 23, 2022 6:01 pm | Comments (8)
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Town Engineer Stephen White with pup Diamond on Davis St. ...
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... which is one of four Hamden Streets slated for sidewalk repairs and additions.
New sidewalks are en route to Southern Hamden as part of a revived effort to protect pedestrians — leading some neighbors to question whether safer places to stroll are needed where not many people currently walk.
by | Sep 6, 2022 8:47 am | Comments (16)
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Map of New Haven areas vulnerable to increased flooding.
Floods in City Point. Heat waves in tree-sparse, lot-heavy Newhallville. More storms that require evacuation. More periods of drought.
As climate change progresses, those conditions will become the new normal for New Haven, especially for the heat- and flood-vulnerable neighborhood of Fair Haven, reported officials tracking the trends.
An environmental transformation is already in motion. But, the officials said, the city can adapt its current infrastructure and prevent carbon emissions from making the problem worse.
Continue reading ‘Maps Show Climate Change's Neighborhood Impacts’
by | Aug 23, 2022 9:44 am | Comments (3)
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Tamya celebrates new back-to-school hairstyle on Middletown Ave ...
... as Tanya Solomon's grandsons pick up books on Valley St. Monday.
Tamia Massey usually spends more than $200 getting her two daughters’ hair braided at the start of every back-to-school season.
This year was different — thanks to one of a host of community-led events focused on helping families cut costs as students prepare to return to the classroom.
by | Aug 10, 2022 11:49 am | Comments (7)
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Developers and officials break Beulah ground.
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Sustainable, affordable housing envisioned for 340 Dixwell.
Faith leaders, politicians, and investors shoveled a pile of ceremonial dirt, breaking ground on a soon-to-rise apartment complex that will be sustainable not only for the earth, but for low-income families.
by | Aug 8, 2022 2:37 pm | Comments (5)
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Greenspace outside Mitchell Library.
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URI Intern Justine Phillips-Gallucci at the tour's new Valley Street stop.
Dozens of New Haveners peeled off of yellow school buses and down a pathway toward the Botanical Garden of Healing, nestled in the shadow of West Rock on Valley Street. They were grandmothers, grad students, kindergarteners, actual gardeners, high school friend groups, and everyone in between, who braved the thick August heat for a tour of New Haven’s ever-growing roster of community greenspace sites, including this new one on Valley.
Continue reading ‘Bus Tour Highlights Community Greenspaces Citywide’