2018 protest unofficially renames Columbus Family Academy, with blood on hands of papier maché Columbus.
The Board of Education voted overwhelmingly in support of removing Christopher Columbus’s name from a Fair Haven K‑8 school — as well as from an October holiday on the district’s calendar — in the city’s latest reckoning with the 15th-century explorer’s violent legacy.
Townhouse-style apartments planned for the corner of Mill River and Humphrey Streets.
Twelve new homes may sprout near the Mill River where an empty brick garage now stands.
Developer Eric O’Brien of Urbane NewHaven presented his plan for 156 – 158 Humphrey St. to the Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team on Tuesday to praise from neighbors. Four of the 12 homes would be deed-restricted to be affordable.
Two Dwight-based groups have received money from Yale to address the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic with food assistance, face masks and menstrual supplies.
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Jun 1, 2020 1:27 pm
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The Covid-19 pandemic has not stopped West Hills Alder Honda Smith from connecting with residents, keeping her neighborhood cleaned up, and from going outside for a healthy walk around the neighborhood.
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May 16, 2020 10:12 pm
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A donation from The New Haven Chapter of The Links Inc. helped Ward 30 Alder Honda Smith provide 50 West Hills families with $100 gift cards to Stop & Shop along with 500 masks, which Smith began distributing on Friday.
Rendering of project’s riverine bike path and pedestrian plaza.
Building new apartments on the grave of the old 500 Blake Street Cafe is a great idea. But what about the traffic? And what kinds of stores will go on the first floor?
Westville neighbors offered that support and unleashed those questions Wednesday night in a virtual gathering with a prominent developer about his plan to build on the lot that used to house the storied restaurant-bar-banquet hall.
Renter Herminio Rivera: Looking forward to a new floor.
The owner of Dwight’s sprawling Kensington Square development has the money to start building new apartments in a park and to begin a second phase of rehabbing existing apartments.
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Apr 16, 2020 10:02 am
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Hill North management team regulars Lynda Faye Wilson, Hill Alder Ron Hurt, and Dora Lee Brown.
The Hill North Community Management Team wants to help their neighbors during the Covid-19 public health crisis by buying fask masks and food with extra neighborhood improvement dollars.
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New Haven newcomer Siiri Luukkonen scours the CVS shelves.
Siiri Luukkonen sheepishly grabbed a few bottles of hand sanitizer from a nearly empty shelf at the CVS Pharmacy downtown.
She was one of the lucky ones, as fretful shoppers cleared store shelves citywide of products that may — or, according to experts, may not — help them avoid coming down with the virus now called COVID-19, aka coronavirus.
City employee Arthur Natalino, Jr, Hill North chairman Howard Boyd, Sgt. Justin Marshall
As the New Haven Police Department quietly begins promoting a new information-sharing app called Neighbors, Hill North neighbors expressed support for using the platform.
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School CFO Penn: New Haven behind by an “awful lot of money.”
Dwight neighbors examine school district’s proposed plan.
Mark Griffin had a front-row seat at opening night of a new neighborhood road show starring local education officials — and left vowing to write to his representatives from New Haven to Hartford to Washington, seeking more money for public schools.
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Recent Mandy acquisitions, clockwise from top left: 185 Thompson St., 234 Starr St., 1495 Ella T. Grasso Blvd.,1599 Ella T. Grasso Blvd.
Affiliates of Mandy Management spent over $16 million in 2019 as the New Haven real estate empire of primarily low-income rental apartments expanded by 70 properties containing 186 different apartments citywide.
Long-in-the-works zoning changes designed to promote dense, sustainable, and affordable development along New Haven’s “commercial corridors” moved ahead for Whalley Avenue and Grand Avenue — and have been temporarily dropped for Dixwell Avenue, with neighbors thanking city staff for heeding their concerns about potential gentrification.
Zoning chief Jenna Montesano with neighbors, rezoning map.
The latest passionate neighborhood wrangling over the city’s planned rezoning of its three major commercial corridors — Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell avenues — focused on whether to limit new buildings to four stories rather than the proposed seven-story 75-foot height limit.
Aïcha Woods, Arlevia Samuel, Jonathan Hopkins at WNHH FM.
“C’mon already. Let’s fix this.”
New Haven has basically said that about the need for a long-overdue change in zoning rules — so that neighborhood commercial districts can come alive again and regain their former bustle.
Ellington (above): “I don’t want to speak for the residents.” Santiago (below): “You’re doing that right now!”
One side brought petitions. The other side brought petitions. One knocked on doors and held a protest. The other knocked on doors and ran two community meetings.
Both sides said they represented “the neighborhood.” And they urged decision-makers to heed that neighborhood voice.
