What We Lose, & Gain, In U-Haul Season
by | Aug 2, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (8)
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A young couple held a tag sale in East Rock that stopped this bargain hunter in his tracks.
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Neighbors, New Top Hill Cop Talk Strategy
by | Jul 29, 2022 5:55 pm | Comments (16)
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New District Manager Jasmine Sanders: "The Hill is like my home."
Hill residents welcomed a new top neighborhood cop — and presented her with a familiar set problems to address.
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Historic District Commission Approves Revised Columbus Statue Replacement
by | Jul 14, 2022 4:44 pm | Comments (28)
The proposed configuration of the old plinth next to the new statue.
Now that the statue of Christopher Columbus is gone from Wooster Square Park, what should happen to the pedestal that once held it up?
The Historic District Commission weighed that question on Wednesday evening. It voted to keep the pedestal in place without a statue atop it, a few feet behind the new sculpture slated for the park.
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Anti-Violence Crews Summit, Look Ahead
by | Jul 1, 2022 10:07 am | Comments (9)
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At Newhallville anti-violence parley. Top row: State Rep. Robyn Porter, city resilience chief Carlos Sosa-Lombardo, youth worker Ron Huggins. Bottom: District Manager Lt. Dana Smith, State Sen. Gary Winfield, and Ice The Beef's Chaz Carmon.
As summer set in, grassroots gun-violence prevention leaders compared notes about ongoing efforts to keep people safe in Newhallville, and heard a plea to step up their game in conjunction with a broader anti-poverty strategy.
Long Wharf Building Moratorium Advances
by | Jun 30, 2022 1:01 pm | Comments (9)
City rendering of a new vision for Long Wharf.
City Plan Commissioners unanimously advanced a proposed one-year building moratorium on Long Wharf, as one developer accelerated a truck maintenance facility application before the deadline.
Weed Dispensary Eyes Long Wharf
by | Jun 8, 2022 3:21 pm | Comments (15)
Up next at Long Wharf Theatre (clockwise from top left)?: Model smoking INSA pre-rolled joint; theater's sign on Sargent Dr.; INSA cannabis chocolates; theater's current home in the Food Terminal.
Could the Long Wharf stage that hosted performances by Sam Waterston and Anna Deavere Smith become a spot to purchase “Mellow Bar” cannabis chocolates and “Infused Rocket” pre-rolled joints?
That possible future won a vote of support from an aldermanic committee that greenlit the legal sale of marijuana on Long Wharf — including on an industrial stretch of Sargent Drive where a Massachusetts-based cannabis dispensary hopes to move in to the longtime, soon-to-be-former home of Long Wharf Theatre.
Fair Haven Flourishes At Quinnipiac Riverfest
by | Jun 6, 2022 3:01 pm | Comments (7)
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Azucena Rojas with her mom and business partner, Angeles Romero.
At the 10th annual Quinnipiac Riverfest on Saturday.
Fair Haven businesswoman Azucena Rojas moved her Mexican grocery outdoors for the day — and further connected with the neighborhood she calls home — during a festive, sun-dappled 10th annual Quinnipiac Riverfest.
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Stetson Library Celebrated At Dixwell Fest
by | Jun 6, 2022 12:30 pm | Comments (1)
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Families hula hooping at Saturday's festivities.
Members of the Concerned Citizens for the Greater New Haven Dixwell Community House.
Lance Legion looked out on a Dixwell Avenue bustling with dance, music, art, and laughter — all in front of a reborn “Q” House community center and a relocated and expanded Stetson Library.
“I’m really happy about the changes they made,” he said with a smile, holding his son in the afternoon sunshine. “Growing up, I’ve always wanted to come to the ‘Q’ House, so it’s nice to see it’s open and that they’re finally giving back to the community.”
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Block Party Brings Students, Cyclists To The Sound
by | Jun 6, 2022 10:50 am | Comments (1)
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Sound School students Jacob Smith and Jenae Epps at Sunday's block party.
Fifty neighbors gathered in the sun on Sunday to celebrate the City Point and Hill communities with popsicles, bikes, and boats.
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Tenant Leader's Work Pays Off
by | May 31, 2022 4:43 pm | Comments (6)
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Brenda Harris celebrates results of a decade-long process.
Tuesday's Mill River Phase 2 ribbon-cutting.
Brenda Harris fought for safer, higher-quality homes throughout her 50 years living in the once-dilapidated housing complex known as Farnam Courts. On Tuesday, she helped unveil the results of her advocacy: about 200 gleaming new townhouse-style apartments and community spaces in the second phase of a complex reborn as “Mill River Crossing.”
Students March For Justice
by | May 26, 2022 5:28 pm | Comments (27)
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Participants in Thursday's "Children's March" to Edgewood Park.
One hundred and fifty New Haven middle and high school students put their pencils down and posters up Thursday to give the city a lesson on solidarity, passion, and leading through action.
New Ward Map Wins Final Approval
by | May 24, 2022 1:19 pm | Comments (6)
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Monday night's full Board of Alders meeting.
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Newly approved redistricting map.
New district lines for the city’s 30 wards are now locked in for the next decade, now that the Board of Alders has voted unanimously to approve a redrawn map that accommodates New Haven’s recent Census-counted population growth.
URI Plants 10,000th City Tree
by | May 13, 2022 4:32 pm | Comments (20)
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A shingle oak with star-like leaves was planted Friday just feet from the Quinnipiac River — marking a milestone in New Haven’s ongoing efforts to make the Elm City a tree city once more with deeply connected grass roots.
Forgotten Neighborhood's History Springs To Life
by | May 9, 2022 4:41 pm | Comments (4)
Italian-American Historical Society's Laura Parisi at Monday's "Walk New Haven" event in Lenzi Park.
“Anybody have a guess?” Laura Parisi asked, brandishing a a metal artifiact of the old Grand Avenue.
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Ward Redistricting Committee Publishes Draft Map
by | May 3, 2022 7:53 pm | Comments (3)
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Proposed new ward lines.
Westville’s Ward 25 would dip down into West River.
Morris Cove’s Ward 18 would stretch up to the city’s industrial port.
Dwight’s Ward 2 would take over an apartment-rich stretch of Goffe Street.
While Ward 14 would remain straddling one river and three neighborhoods.
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Battle Of The Chefs Promotes Community In Dwight
by | May 2, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (2)
Eat Up's Isaiah Pinion, Bryan Burkett-Thompson, and Kristen Threatt.
It was a battle of Afrotina’s Latin-flavored southern cuisine versus Eat Up’s Italian-inspired soul food cuisine: Chef Ohioma Odihirin’s Sazon chicken took on Chef Bryan Burkett-Thompson’s mumbo chicken, and Chef O’s homemade Voodoo sauce vied with Chef BB’s pineapple salsa.
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Adventures In Redistricting: Chapel Trade Supported; Fair Haven Shifts Rebuffed
by | Apr 27, 2022 8:33 am | Comments (6)
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Redistricting in action, clockwise from top left: Fair Haven Alder Jose Crespo and Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers; Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez; city map whiz Jacob Conshick with West Hills Alder Honda Smith and Majority Leader Richard Furlow; Fair Haven Alder Sarah Miller.
Potential new ward lines -- and population breakdowns.
Ward 6 is on the move — as Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez eyes a likely expansion north to an apartment-rich stretch of Chapel Street.
While Ward 14 appears stuck — as Fair Haven Alder Sarah Miller tries and tries, so far in vain, to negotiate a more coherent shape to her three-neighborhood, river-straddling district.
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Hamden Dumps Affordable Housing Developer
by | Apr 26, 2022 4:08 pm | Comments (4)
Abandoned 560 Newhall St. property ...
... will continue to look like this for foreseeable future.
After ten months of delaying a decision on whether to solidify a seven-year contract with a nonprofit affordable housing developer, Hamden’s Legislative Council has officially axed a plan to have a nonprofit turn an abandoned Newhall Street middle school into apartments.
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Adventures In Redistricting: Annex Slice Annexed
by | Apr 13, 2022 4:00 pm | Comments (6)
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Fair Haven Alders Jose Crespo and Sarah Miller, at right, pore over drafted ward map with new city map whiz Jacob Conshick.
Sarah Miller arrived at the Board of Alders chamber with a mission: to reallocate the six blocks of the Annex neighborhood that she represents along with a portion of Fair Haven so that residents don’t have to cross a bridge in order to vote on election day.
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"Resilience Academy" Proposers Embark On "Listening Tour"
by | Apr 8, 2022 10:23 am | Comments (3)
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Rev. Boise Kimber at 2020 Newhallville Management Team meeting.
Throughout the first of six planned “listening sessions,” Newhallville residents shared cautious optimism about about the general concept — and questions about the details — of an effort to replace a planned methadone clinic with a mental health center in a former school building at 794 Dixwell Ave.
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Cannabis Zoning Q: What About Long Wharf?
by | Apr 6, 2022 1:05 pm | Comments (15)
Cannabis zoning map proposal; legal sales districts shaded in purple.
Should the city allow for the legal sale of cannabis on Long Wharf? Or is recreational pot not a good part of the plan for that to-be-developed waterfront district?
Local legislators grappled with those questions — among many others — as they worked through a first draft of the city’s proposed zoning regulations for where marijuana sales may and may not take place in town.
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Planners Zone In On Selling Weed
by | Mar 31, 2022 1:37 pm | Comments (13)
Cannabis could be sold within the purple areas of this map.
Planners passed forward a map of suggested places to allow cannabis sales in town — while recommending that alders mellow out rather than rush to finalize rules, and that they redo the math calculating distances from dispensaries to public schools.
The City Plan Commission offered those recommendations after an hours-long debate Wednesday night.
Zoning Application Denied For Controversial Whitney-Trumbull Project
by | Mar 29, 2022 4:41 pm | Comments (8)
Scratch that: Rendering of the originally proposed Whitney-Trumbull development.
A controversial application to build 150 apartments at Trumbull and Whitney has stalled after the City Plan Department rejected the developer’s application and removed it from an upcoming zoning meeting agenda.
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East Rock Backs "Stop APT" Drive After Debate
by | Mar 29, 2022 9:47 am | Comments (13)
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Imam Saladin Hasan at anti-APT-plan rally: "We are pro-help."
The East Rock Community Management Team voted to oppose a proposed methadone clinic in the next-door Newhallville neighborhood, after passionate discussion over whether such a stance would further stigmatize people with opioid use disorder.
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Apartment Plan Resurfaces, Minus Seniors
by | Mar 25, 2022 4:45 pm | Comments (18)
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Rendering of Canal Trail-side apartment complex plan.
Developer Yves Joseph.
Dixwell residents gathered in the Q House gym to hear about a revived and changed plan to build 176 new apartments on the vacant city lot where Henry meets Ashmun and Canal Streets by the Farmington Canal Trail — and some emerged mulling whether to apply for a new home or a job.