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Diane Brown at entrance to new Stetson Branch Library.
Diane Brown swung open the door Monday morning to a long-awaited new, enhanced neighborhood library and community anchor at the corner of Dixwell Avenue and Foote Street, with lots more room, more books, and more to do.
by | Mar 21, 2022 12:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Dominiq Oti, left, helps Nylee Williams with her signature.
In careful penmanship, 8‑year-old Nylee Williams signed her name, title, and “company” at the bottom of a page outlining her responsibilities in the planning process for a new community center in Newhallville.
by | Mar 14, 2022 9:37 am | Comments (5)
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Matt Goldenberg and Sara Zuba.
Matt Goldenberg returned to New Haven after running a half marathon on Halloween, picked up Sara Zuba — who was dressed in a garden gnome costume– and drove to Sleepy Hollow Circle. They ran the .3 mile-long street in Fair Haven Heights and returned to their homes across town in Westville to celebrate the holiday.
by | Mar 9, 2022 12:19 pm | Comments (8)
Tentative sketch of Elena's On Orange.
An ice cream shop — with alcoholic offerings on tap — is one step closer to materializing on Orange Street, after the Board of Zoning Appeals Tuesday night unanimously approved a parking and alcohol variance.
Continue reading ‘Zoning Board Approves Ice Cream Shop, With Ale’
by | Mar 9, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (5)
Eli Westerman, Darlene Casella protest before planned zoning vote.
Planet Venus won’t be landing by Jocelyn Square any time soon.
by | Mar 7, 2022 9:02 pm | Comments (9)
Nesta Allen: "Who are we, nothing?"
Residents gathered in Jocelyn Square Park and then walked surrounding blocks on the eve of a zoning vote to demonstrate that they live in a neighborhood — not in “Las Vegas” or an “industrial wasteland” befitting a midnight-to-dawn BYOB strip club.
by | Mar 7, 2022 2:52 pm | Comments (13)
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Ethel Berger, Jeanette Sykes, and Robyn Porter divvy up streets.
Sadie Flowers has seen her block of Hazel Street address crime and grow more peaceful as community connections tightened.
“We don’t want to go back,” Flowers, who has lived on the street for 35 years, said as she signed a petition against the APT Foundation’s plans to move offices and a methadone clinic nearby on Dixwell Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Petitioners Hit Doors To Fight APT Clinic’
by | Mar 2, 2022 2:45 pm | Comments (7)
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The proposed zone change.
The Board of Alders’ legislation committee unanimously supported a request to rezone the lot at 78 Olive St. on Tuesday evening, inching one step closer to a 13-story apartment building at the site.
by | Feb 22, 2022 9:43 am | Comments (26)
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Project design.
A Wooster Square developer’s altered plans for a 13-story apartment complex include more affordable housing and sidewalk improvements — drawing a mix of praise and criticism in its quest for support.
by | Feb 15, 2022 4:22 pm | Comments (18)
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Books & Co.'s suggestion: Community first.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité? More like, community, diversity, & … femininity?
Those are some of the values Hamden residents say define their town — and suggest buzzwords the town may use to market itself to future residents and business owners.
by | Feb 11, 2022 10:42 am | Comments (3)
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Kensington Park: decidedly not the subject of Thursday night's meeting, despite efforts of some attendees
A second set of Kensington Square subsidized apartments is one step closer to renovations, as the city reviews the project’s effects on the Dwight neighborhood’s historical memory.
Continue reading ‘TCB Pressed On Preserving History In Kensington Redo Phase 2’
by | Feb 5, 2022 6:00 pm | Comments (15)
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Imam Saladin Hasan at Saturday's rally: "We are pro-help."
“You don’t set up trauma sites in communities that are already traumatized.”
Imam Saladin Hasan offered those words Saturday to a crowd of roughly 100 Newhallville residents and neighbors protesting the APT Foundation’s planned move of a methadone clinic to a former middle school building on Dixwell Avenue.
by | Jan 27, 2022 8:50 am | Comments (9)
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Kim Harris and Barbara Vereen speak out against the APT Foundation's planned move to Newhallville.
Four hundred and fifty people have signed their names in opposition to a methadone clinic’s planned move to Newhallville, with organizers just getting started.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Petition to Stop Methadone Clinic’
by | Jan 24, 2022 2:33 pm | Comments (5)
Rafael Ramos, Martiza Bond, Richard Blumenthal, and Justin Elicker at Monday's event.
Two hundred low income households can expect to get assistance from the city to tackle causes of asthma, lead poisoning, and exposure to radon, thanks to the latest infusion of federal cash into New Haven.
by | Jan 24, 2022 8:52 am | Comments (6)
Make room for newbies: Current Wooster Square residents at dog park.
With new apartment complexes rising along and near Olive Street, Wooster Square is planning ahead of an anticipated influx of new neighbors — and the dogs they’re sure to bring with them.
by | Jan 11, 2022 4:20 pm | Comments (2)
Driver Daniel Pizarro, Junta's volunteer Art Director, and Bruni Pizarro, Junta's executive director, delivering Covid tests.
Taina Cintron began to come down with a sore throat, stuffy nose, and cough. Cintron, a 20-year-old college student, was unsure about what to do with her grandmother coming home the next day from the holidays. Results from the PCR test she took would not come back for “another eight days”; her boss wanted a test result before returning to work.
Continue reading ‘Junta Connects Latinos To Covid Tests, Masks’
by | Jan 11, 2022 4:17 pm | Comments (0)
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Image : Distribución de Junta.
La estudiante universitaria Taina Cintron comenzó a sufrir dolor de garganta, congestión nasal y tos. Cintron, una estudiante universitaria de 20 años, no estaba segura de qué hacer con su abuela que regresaba a casa al día siguiente de las vacaciones. Los resultados de la prueba de PCR que tomó no volverían por “otros ocho días”; su jefe quería un resultado antes de volver al trabajo.
Continue reading ‘Junta conecta a latinos con pruebas de Covid y máscaras’
by | Nov 16, 2021 1:13 pm | Comments (6)
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Monday night’s full Board of Alders meeting.
Alders unanimously approved a recommendation that the city’s community management teams use parliamentary procedure when running their meetings and that they develop standardized training — without giving any specific guidance on what that training should consist of.
Continue reading ‘Alders “Recommend” Management Team “Training”’
by | Nov 12, 2021 11:36 am | Comments (7)
Alders-Elect (clockwise from top left) Sal Punzo, Alex Guzhnay, Devin Avshalom-Smith, Sarah Miller, Shafiq Abdussabur.
(Analysis) A power vacuum is opening in New Haven. Will newly elected alders help fill it?
by | Oct 13, 2021 8:15 am | Comments (2)
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Assistant Town Planner Matthew Davis reviews the ELUR on Tuesday night.
Hamden’s Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday evening voted in favor of adopting a series of land-use restrictions for the town’s abandoned middle school.
Continue reading ‘20-Year Newhall Soil Remediation One Step Closer to Conclusion’
by | Sep 9, 2021 1:34 pm | Comments (2)
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A protest sign at Kensington Playground.
The Dwight Community Management Team tabled a proposal to prohibit the city from ever giving up the only public park in a neighborhood — out of a concern that such a policy might interfere with the city’s legally-contested sale of Kensington Playground to an affordable housing developer.
Continue reading ‘Playground Protection Quest Stalls In Dwight’
by | Sep 2, 2021 1:03 pm | Comments (29)
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Leslie Radcliffe: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
A new training program for community management team leaders is in the works, as a group of alders aims to offer centralized guidance to the grassroots neighborhood teams.
by | Aug 24, 2021 2:43 pm | Comments (2)
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Luis Pintado: Family now has place to pray in town.
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2020 census data breakdown.
Some of the faces behind the fastest-changing census numbers in New Haven could be found Monday night in the basement of a Circular Avenue church.
by | Aug 20, 2021 10:55 am | Comments (3)
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Wednesday’s pop-up event at Criscuolo Park.
On a normal day Criscuolo Park is filled with chess players, basketball games, and fishers. On Wednesday, dozens of neighborhood kids joined in on the park fun, for a family pop-up event.
Continue reading ‘City “Fun Bus” Brings “Community Back After Covid”’
by | Aug 19, 2021 1:52 pm | Comments (23)
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Note: In September 2021, the authors updated this report with a more accurate methodology for calculating neighborhood changes. The new version is posted at DataHaven.