by | Aug 19, 2021 12:13 pm | Comments (5)
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Avi Meer, right, attorney Ben Trachten at management team meeting.
After butting heads with neighbors over a collapsed wall and a failed request for zoning relief, a landlord logged onto Zoom in a peace quest.
Continue reading ‘Landlord, Neighbors Hash Out Wall Collapse’
by | Aug 11, 2021 11:12 am | Comments (15)
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St. Mary Street, in neighborhood where remediation took place.
Hamden is expanding a decades-old plan to “clean-up” the Newhall neighborhood — a reminder that the town’s long road towards environmental justice remains in need of new paving.
Continue reading ‘Deeper Dive OK’d Into Polluted Newhall Soil’
by | Aug 3, 2021 2:13 pm | Comments (20)
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Kensington Playground (for now).
New Haven’s Republican mayoral candidate Tuesday came out in support of neighbors organizing to save a neighborhood playground and to kill a deal to expand Tweed New Haven Airport.
Continue reading ‘Carlson Backs Neighbors On Parks, Airport’
by | Jul 6, 2021 2:17 pm | Comments (5)
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At Kensington Playground.
A proposal is making the rounds of New Haven neighborhood meetings. Its pitch: The Board of Parks Commissioners should never give up the only public park in a neighborhood, and it should always ensure each neighborhood has at least one playground with a playscape and a splash pad or water element.
Continue reading ‘Grassroots Quest Aims To Save Playgrounds’
by | May 26, 2021 10:18 am | Comments (12)
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Break-out at Tuesday night’s brainstorming session.
New Haveners urged the mayor to use the city’s upcoming once-in-a-generation federal aid windfall to decrease crime, add youth programing for all ages, and invest in more community centers.
Continue reading ‘Community’s “Rescue” Priorities: Pre-Schoolers, Job-Seekers’
by | May 12, 2021 7:44 pm | Comments (4)
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Nydia Jimenez knocks on neighbors’ doors for “Vaccinate Fair Haven” campaign.
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And set a statewide standard in the process.
by | Apr 12, 2021 4:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Al Proto: Grand was the Avenue of the Americas.
A vaudeville theater becomes a church. A church becomes a parole office. An integrated boys’ swim club becomes a swim-focused nonprofit.
A group of dedicated ethnic historians sketched out these transformations and more neighborhood lore in what will eventually become an official Grand Avenue tour.
by | Apr 7, 2021 2:06 pm | Comments (6)
Yevgeniya (Jane) Rivers.
(Opinion.) The results of the New Haven school choice system are out. It’s a good time for our city’s most privileged families to think about how we talk about our “wins” and “losses” in this lottery.
Continue reading ‘Parents: Disrupt The “Good School” Narrative’
by | Mar 29, 2021 9:00 am | Comments (14)
Alder Ellen Cupo, Hunter Ian Cupo Dunn and Alli Warshaw at Saturday’s cleanup.
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Dominic Warshaw wanted to meet their neighbors.
Roughly 30 people came out Saturday to Lyon Street and William Street for a “gayborhood” cleanup, with a dual focus on beautifying the blocks and meeting fellow LGBTQ neighbors.
by | Mar 11, 2021 10:55 am | Comments (7)
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The murals would cover the beige walls on both sides of Five Star Laundromat on Washington Avenue.
Hill neighbors can submit names and faces of civil rights icons from their neighborhood to join Coretta Scott King on a new mural scheduled to go up across from the Wilson Library in May.
by | Mar 10, 2021 7:55 pm | Comments (2)
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A CT Transit bus with an Our Humanity ad.
New Haveners looking for information about Covid testing and vaccination sites can now stop by any of the New Haven Fire Department’s (NHFD) ten firehouses for help.
Continue reading ‘Firefighters, Activists Spread Covid Vaccination Word’
by | Mar 1, 2021 11:05 am | Comments (16)
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Patricia Kane: Tell the neighbors.
Newhallville residents expressed their support for a citywide proposal to require that all nearby residents receive mandatory notice of pending public regulatory decisions that could affect them.
by | Feb 18, 2021 11:13 am | Comments (24)
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To the barricades: Schema for dividing lot into 20 smaller properties.
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Paul Wessel: We have nothing to lose but our soulless monoliths.
How can New Haven’s downtown look more like Wooster Square and less like Stamford?
The answer could start with a one-acre parking lot at the corner of Wall and State streets.
Continue reading ‘Wall Street (Building) Revolution Advocated’
by | Feb 17, 2021 12:08 pm | Comments (0)
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The pole and its new support system, which tower 40 feet.
A 40-foot utility support pole plunked in the flowerbed at the corner of Wooster and Olive streets will return to its original location across the street, on a block being transformed into a six-story apartment complex.
The developer who first moved the pole made this promise to Wooster Square neighbors Tuesday evening.
by | Feb 11, 2021 5:52 pm | Comments (15)
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A New Haven drag race.
Around 1 a.m. on weekends, Hill neighbors often hear what sound like gunshots — which actually come from the pipes of souped-up cars.
by | Jan 12, 2021 2:16 pm | Comments (6)
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Neighbors return to now-demolished site of their childhood homes.
While the old Church Street South housing project was being demolished, Tiffany Jackson returned to capture photos of the stripped and crumbling complex. She felt as if she were “grieving a slow death.”
by | Jan 11, 2021 2:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Kuro Shiro owner Kenny Kim prepares vegan tantanmen.
The broth was creamy, savory, almost nutty. And it was vegan.
Kuro Shiro owner Dohyuan “Kenny” Kim created his recipe for vegan tantanmen with his younger brother. It was a twist on the meat-based, Japanese noodle soups that were just getting popular in the U.S. at the time.
by | Dec 24, 2020 2:22 pm | Comments (11)
One of Stacy Attenberg’s colony cats.
by | Dec 24, 2020 10:48 am | Comments (28)
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Recent Mandy purchases, clockwise from top left: 139 Beacon Ave., 22 Allen Pl., 239 Fitch St., 197 Exchange St.
Ex- staffer Jacob Miller: Growth is the mantra.
2020 proved a banner year for Mandy Management, as its affiliates spent over $37.2 million buying roughly 390 apartments citywide, more than double the amount it spent in its 2019 spree.
A housing and job-creation success story? Worrisome concentration of low-income housing? Or business as usual in New Haven?
by | Dec 23, 2020 5:58 pm | Comments (2)
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Rodney Williams on Nov. 5 in Fair Haven, at one of a half-dozen neighborhood mask giveaways he led across the city.
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Phi Beta Sigma fraternity members outside Stop & Shop in September, preparing for door-to-door food delivery.
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YNHH nurses and medical personnel celebrated on April 9 in a honk-a-thon led by firefighters and police.
During a year of unprecedented hardship, New Haveners stepped up to help their neighbors survive — with packets of masks, with boxes of food, with backpacks and cash and emergency healthcare.
Thanks to their efforts, 2020 will be remembered not just as a time of great suffering, but as a time of generosity and support as well.
by | Dec 18, 2020 4:28 pm | Comments (16)
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Nicole Beverley, Natima, Marlou: Disconnected.
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Elsa Holahan and her mother, Erica: Web working just fine.
In a house in Fair Haven, Natima Adote dropped out of her virtual social studies classroom at Edgewood School as her internet failed.
In a house in Westville, Elsa Holahan finished her virtual class at James Hillhouse High School without interruptions.
by | Dec 8, 2020 1:24 pm | Comments (1)
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Te Amo Tequila co-owner Sonia Salazar.
As Georgina Iglesia’s chicken soup simmered in the kitchen of Te Amo Tequila, Iglesia herself was 2,096 miles away in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Her granddaughter Sonia Salazar was the one stirring the soup and adding onions, jalapeños, cilantro and avocado on top.
by | Nov 16, 2020 11:23 am | Comments (0)
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The Boys and Girls Club of New Haven on Columbus Avenue.
Yale New Haven Health has set up a weekly Covid-19 testing site in the Hill neighborhood at the Boys and Girls Club of New Haven, open every Monday through December.
Continue reading ‘Free Covid Tests Weekly Through December At Boys & Girls Club’
by | Nov 11, 2020 6:23 pm | Comments (4)
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New Haven Public Schools comes knocking.
Gemma Joseph-Lumpkin and Kermit Carolina were ready to give an Augusta Lewis Troup School student everything he needed to connect with his remote classes.
There was just one problem. They had to find him.
by | Nov 10, 2020 6:00 pm | Comments (7)
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Dwight neighbor Pat Wallace posts flyer at Pizza House on Howe.
Pat Wallace and Jane Comins have been walking the rescue beat, going address by address to save historic houses in the Dwight neighborhood before developers buy them and knock them down.