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The beat crept into the room. Then it vanished.
Before the beat came words.
From Westville to the Hill
West Hills / Newhallville
From Goatville to Upper State
Our neighborhoods make us great …
by | Jul 26, 2019 1:11 pm | Comments (10)
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Miranda makes his civic engagement pitch on Davenport Avenue. Below: Broken sidewalks on Greenwood, Stevens, Vine, and Stevens.
Hector Miranda has an encyclopedic knowledge of every busted sidewalk and precarious tree limb in the upper Hill.
The loquacious apolitical Stevens Street resident has embarked on a new campaign to pressure City Hall to fix up his neighborhood — not by running for office, but by knocking doors and exhorting his neighbors to make their voices heard.
by | Jul 19, 2019 12:07 pm | Comments (2)
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Milling and paving on Quinnipiac Avenue.
The city Department of Public Works has announced the second phase of its summer milling and paving projects, which will start on July 22.
by | Jun 3, 2019 7:39 am | Comments (3)
Road paving crews on the job.
The city Department of Public Works plans to begin its first phase of summer milling and paving projects on Monday, June 10.
by | May 24, 2019 8:08 am | Comments (3)
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LCI’s Mark Stroud at an inspection.
The city sent civil citations to owners of seven properties in one day as part of stepped-up efforts to prevent another disaster like the May 5 fatal fire in the Hill.
by | Apr 29, 2019 7:06 am | Comments (26)
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At work on Audubon Square, downtown.
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LCI chief Serena Neal-Sanjurjo and deputy Rafael Ramos testify.
Don’t forget neighborhoods.
Alders issued that plea at a public hearing to the city’s economic development team as they pushed for a boom-era strategy for attracting new construction and jobs beyond Downtown.
At the same hearing, a city official made the first public pitch for a plan she said would do just that for Newhallville.
by | Apr 12, 2019 10:12 am | Comments (5)
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Bishop’s Gate Tavern owner Wilson Reyes makes his pitch at the BZA.
Longer hours and live entertainment will be on the menu of a State Street tavern.
Continue reading ‘Cedar Hill Tavern Gets OK For Late Nights, Music’
by | Apr 10, 2019 7:50 am | Comments (8)
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New Haven’s Opportunity Zones.
New City Plan Director Aïcha Woods on Tuesday morning.
New Haven has seen opportunity realized. That opportunity came in the form of outside investors pouring money into a new Wendy’s.
Through zoning reform and investor courtship, city officials hope that future such investments look less like fast food and more like dense, mixed-use developments and public infrastructure improvements.
by | Mar 14, 2019 3:05 pm | Comments (3)
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FHCMT board members David Weinreb, Michelle Rodriguez, Diane Ecton.
Should all city employees be prevented from serving on boards of the community management teams? Would that include, for example, both a clerk-typist eager to be part of her community as well as the head of a city department who makes policy and decisions?
Those suggestions for bylaw changes were duly noted by the corresponding secretary of the Fair Haven Community Management Team (FHCMT) … who is a city teacher.
Oh, and is a teacher a city employee?
by | Feb 22, 2019 8:58 am | Comments (30)
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Crowd Thursday night demanding Yale meet 1,000 local-jobs pledge.
For three years after graduating from Wilbur Cross, Carlos Hernandez has been trying to get a service job at Yale until he can afford to go back to school to study radiology. Though he has cooked in kitchens and cleaned in hospitals, Yale has rejected his applications.
by | Dec 23, 2018 10:08 am | Comments (10)
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Kim Harris (above); Amy Marx (below).
In 2018, Kim Harris and Amy Marx imagined a better New Haven. They teamed up with determined people. Then they made it happen.
And they’re just getting started.
by | Dec 20, 2018 9:02 am | Comments (2)
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Architect Boroson explains the new Mid Block Development on Chapel Street …
The City Plan Commission advanced plans that will bring more than 200 apartments to New Haven in the next three years and put a rental car and truck facility in Wooster Square.
by | Nov 30, 2018 8:26 am | Comments (3)
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Two of the three “Could Be Fund” co-chairs: Caroline Smith and Ben Berkowitz. Long Wharf Theatre’s Elizabeth Nearing is the third.
A new $152,000 fund from the city’s entrepreneurial incubator is looking for project proposals that will better connect three adjacent but economically and racially disparate city neighborhoods.
Continue reading ‘“Could Be Fund” Looks To Connect 3 Neighborhoods’
by | Nov 19, 2018 5:04 pm | Comments (21)
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Harp faces Westville-West Hills managment team.
You might see Mayor Toni Harp at your next management team meeting. She and the city’s budget officials are making the rounds to talk about the city’s finances … and to claw back a narrative that lays the blame for dire straits at her feet.
by | Oct 17, 2018 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Organizers at the library opening.
This article was submitted by Bob Caplan.
The New Haven Police substation at 329 Valley St. is sandwiched between the West Hills school and the community center. And when school is closed the newest Little Free Library at the substation will still be open.
Continue reading ‘Little Free Library Comes to Valley St. Substation’
by | Oct 3, 2018 1:40 pm | Comments (1)
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West Hills graffitied wall before and after.
The following was submitted by LCI Neighborhood Specialist Jillian Driscoll
Every fall, incoming freshman are expected to participate in a Day of Service at Southern Connecticut State University and this year about 200 fanned out over the city to make an impact.
by | Sep 20, 2018 2:07 pm | Comments (2)
DeGale Field, better known in the city as Goffe Street Park, is headed for a makeover thanks to about $217,597 in grant money that is expected to come from the state.
by | Sep 17, 2018 8:03 am | Comments (9)
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Banners promoting SCSU and Westville Village go up on Whalley Avenue.
The Whalley Avenue gateway to the heart of Westville just got a bit more eye-catching.
by | Sep 3, 2018 10:08 am | Comments (1)
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Bishop Woods fifth-grader Iyonna Heath, who can’t get enough science stuff on YouTube, gets the real thing — a lesson in astronomy — from Science Haven’s Nicholas Frattini at the closing event on the Green.
Kids in New Haven this summer learned how the electricity in their muscles, signalled by the brain, lifts things up — the power behind many prosthetic devices.
Just by using using a couple of light blue hand weights and a spinning chair, they took a fun lesson on why stars and planets at the center of a galaxy spin faster than those on the far reaches.
And, if their number came up, they could win a Connecticut (football) Cowboys Fan Club back pack in a raffle.
by | Aug 17, 2018 8:09 am | Comments (18)
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Broadway Civil War Memorial, where bike share plans are stalled.
Adam Marchand: Now we know what an 8x5 ad looks like.
What’s the purpose of a war memorial in a shopping district? To honor history? To protest future conflicts? To shade shoppers? Or to serve as the launch point for a bike ride home?
by | Jun 29, 2018 8:20 am | Comments (6)
Newhallvile management team’s Kim Harris with Westville’s Marjorie Wiener and Newhallville’s Jeanette Sykes at Thursday’s kick-off.
Travel to Newhallville for a basketball tournament. To Amity to learn about native pollinators and plants. To the Hill to eat brunch and talk financial literacy.
Hearing about those events took only a few steps and a conversation at an official kick-off Thursday of a summer-long flurry of family-friendly activities designed to bring all of New Haven’s neighborhoods together long-term.
by | Jun 14, 2018 5:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Marjorie Wiener and WVRA’s Lizzy Donius pitch for Westville/West Hills …
… while Lena Largie goes to bat for Hill North.
After months of planning, neighborhood leaders from all over town served up a sample of what you can expect from their efforts to create a summer of fun — affordable fun — all over the city.
by | Apr 27, 2018 8:05 am | Comments (0)
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The Little Free Library at Dwight Substation is installed and open for business.
The Dwight police substation at 130 Edgewood Ave. is sandwiched between a school and the “A Walk In Truth” bookstore — two places where a kids can find a good story. Now substation, too, will be a hub that encourages the love of reading.
by | Apr 13, 2018 1:06 pm | Comments (2)
Kim Harris’s cousin was among the New Haveners who overdosed on a fentanyl-laced batch of street drugs two summers ago. After he died, she made a determination: “We’ve got to turn this around.”
by | Apr 10, 2018 2:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Newhallville Co-Chair Kim Harris encourages teams to take a radio slot.
East Shore Chair Lisa Milone updates the team on the closing ceremony.
The One City Initiative website is live. The logo for the initiative continues to evolve. And ideas and plans for 60 days of summer adventures and the expo to kick things off are coming together.