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A rendering of the future Valley Street memorial.
Over $1.1 million in state aid is on its way to help fix up and improve a host of parks throughout the city, including a new proposed homicide memorial park on Valley Street.
Continue reading ‘$1.1M In State Aid To Spruce Up City Parks’
by | Mar 4, 2019 3:18 pm | Comments (2)
Brian Slattery Photo
Ducks drifting in the current below the dam. Photographers out with their cameras. Joggers in bright orange jackets.
Even in winter after a snowstorm, East Rock Monday remained as much a part of the fabric of the city as ever.
by | Feb 7, 2019 3:36 pm | Comments (14)
Thomas Breen photo
Park’s northern wall, minus copper flashing.
Over $150,000 of lead-covered copper flashing was stolen from the north wall of Edgerton Park, leaving the century-old stone structure exposed to the destructive influence of freezing and thawing water for the remainder of the winter.
by | Dec 12, 2018 1:32 pm | Comments (11)
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A rendering of the future Valley Street memorial.
A memorial to remember those lost to gun violence has secured more than half of the money it needs to become a reality, thanks to the State Bond Commission and Gov. Dan Malloy.
by | Dec 10, 2018 8:32 am | Comments (0)
MOLLY MONTGOMERY PHOTO
Pastor Donald Morris was grinning Sunday as he stood in front of a tree he planted 15 years ago that has become a symbol of community in Goffe Street Park. Beside him stood Lt. Manmeet Colon, the neighborhood’s top cop, and its alder, Jill Marks, who organized a lighting of that tree as part of a neighborhood holiday celebration.
by | Dec 6, 2018 10:09 pm | Comments (3)
Allan Appel Photo
Welch and Malloy affix memorial wreath at Thursday’s dedication.
Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, 19-year-old Electrician’s Mate Floyd Welch was pulling together the microphone and other equipment for church services on his ship, the U.S.S. Maryland, anchored, with a sister ship, two by two, along one of the inlets at Pearl Harbor.
Within a half hour of noise, confusion, and alarms, he and his 1,000 shipmates were at battle stations. Where he stood through the smoke on the forecastle, he saw a battleship lying on her side.
by | Nov 30, 2018 8:35 am | Comments (1)
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A clear night and seasonal chill in the air brought the crowds for New Haven’s annual tree lighting on the Green Thursday night.
Continue reading ‘Elm City Bursts Into Song For Tree Lighting’
by | Nov 12, 2018 9:01 am | Comments (5)
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Crowd gathered Sunday for a communal prayer event on the Green.
Pastor Todd Foster.
Father, we hear the terms ‘One Nation Indivisible,’ and sadly acknowledge how torn and divided we as a nation are becoming. We sense the widening divide between red and blue, between black and white, between haves and have-nots …
by | Oct 25, 2018 2:52 pm | Comments (4)
Paul Bass Photo
Stanley Johnson squatted by a 9,000-pound Norway spruce he’d just hauled to the Green so that 30,000 colored lights can again cast a dreamy glow across the center of town.
by | Oct 15, 2018 12:26 pm | Comments (1)
Contributed Photos
Peter Schaller of United Way sent in this write-up and these photos:
Despite the cooler temperatures and morning rain, hundreds of hearty volunteers banded together to beautify parks and neighborhoods across seven different sites in New Haven Saturday.
by | Oct 10, 2018 2:45 pm | Comments (9)
Thomas Breen photo
Three of the 17 women represented in Kwadwo Adae’s new Women’s Empowerment Mural on the Farmington Canal trail.
Adae at Wednesday’s unveiling.
One day after a judge accused of sexual assault ascended to the nation’s highest court, a local painter unveiled a mural depicting 17 actual and imaginary New Haven women, all standing proud and strong and committed to a more equitable future.
by | Oct 5, 2018 2:17 pm | Comments (2)
Friends of Edgewood Park Photo
The six friendly goats who have been eating away invasive species in Edgewood Park since May get lots of visitors and daily buckets of fresh drinking water provided by their sponsors, the Friends of Edgewood Park (FOEP), and other neighboring humans.
Apart from that, the animals are fairly self sufficient and probably find humans, as we find them, curious, yet hardly indispensable.
That changed last week when intense rains turned Edgewood Park into a true flood plain, rising so high as to cover most of the knotweed and poison ivy the goats require to live.
When the rains wouldn’t let up, the goats needed humans to rescue them.
by | Oct 4, 2018 8:10 am | Comments (5)
Allan Appel Photo
Artie Natalino and his father before him have been active in sustaining the quality of life in Fair Haven Heights for more than half a century.
That includes helping to organize and sustain the little league headquartered at Fairmont Park, and even personally getting after the decades-long problem of illegal dumpers at Quarry Park Preserve on Russell Street at the top of Grand Avenue.
Natalie is about to get some help, as those two long neglected parks on the east side of the city are poised to get some municipal love.
by | Sep 22, 2018 10:31 pm | Comments (6)
Allison Park Photo
Hundreds gathered on the New Haven Green Saturday afternoon for an “Extravagant Cookout for the Homeless” that gave adults, children, and families a space to sing and dance while enjoying free access to clothing and food donations.
by | Sep 21, 2018 3:52 pm | Comments (35)
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Green proprietor Kica Matos (center) with Bregamos Healing Drummers Michael Mills and Rafael Ramos.
Dozens of city residents gathered on the New Haven Green to witness a spectacle that, if only for an hour, seemed to transform the historic park at the middle of Downtown.
But unlike the 100-plus synthetic-marijuana-related poisonings that drew local, state, and national attention to a public health crisis at the city center last month, Friday afternoon’s eye-catching activity at the corner of Church Street and Chapel Street was filled with dancing, music, and joy.
by | Sep 20, 2018 11:55 am | Comments (7)
Pamela Kelley photo
A proposed new welcome sign for the Hill North neighborhood.
The new leaders of the Hill North management team is proud of their neighborhood. And with a rush of new development in the neighborhood in the works, they want visitors and residents alike to know exactly when and where they are stepping foot in the Hill.
Continue reading ‘“Welcome to The Hill North” Signs Pitched’
by | Sep 10, 2018 3:12 pm | Comments (14)
Peak, Bass Photos
Fasano (at right): You listened to me. Harp: “B.S.”
Mayor Toni Harp did something smart, according to the state’s top elected Republican: She listened to him.
by | Sep 7, 2018 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
Thomas Breen photo
Jovon Ladson navigates skate park’s new concrete quarter pipe.
As hot, humid sunlight poured in, skaters whirred across the old asphalt and new concrete. They pivoted atop the quarter pipe and hopped over the lower ramps and obstacles. Some wrapped their T‑shirts around their foreheads to protect their eyes from the sun. Almost everyone sported ornate tattoos up and down their arms, legs, and backs.
This sometimes skeptical crowd had nothing but props to offer for the now-completed renovation of the Edgewood Skate Park, which will be celebrated with a formal dedication Sunday.
by | Aug 26, 2018 9:49 am | Comments (24)
Paul Bass photo
Town Green ambassador patrols near, but not on, the Green.
When the New Haven Green was hit by over 100 K2-related overdoses, downtown’s “ambassadors” — whose mission is to help keep the center of town clean and safe — could only stand by across the street.
by | Aug 6, 2018 12:44 pm | Comments (5)
Allan Appel Photo
Park goat joins Uhl for morning coffee.
Yes, we have four stomachs making us thoughtful. Well, that makes us ruminative creatures.
We particularly like the unlimited buffet of Japanese Knotweed but we are fastidious to leave room for our favorite dessert, poison ivy. And we of course really enjoy meeting the hundreds of people who visit and care for us. New Haven water is pretty darn cool too.
Those were the highlights of an amusing (at least for me) interview with two of the six goats now busily eating the invasive species in a two-and-a-half acre fenced plot near the tennis courts in Edgewood Park.
by | Jul 4, 2018 10:21 am | Comments (1)
If you’re not already at Lighthouse Point Park — you’ll need to find somewhere else to spend Independence Day.
by | Jun 18, 2018 3:12 pm | Comments (4)
Christopher Peak Photo
Firefighter Bob Wright douses a burning trashcan on the Green.
In the wake of a rash of trashcan fires on the Green, cops have arrested an elderly man who confessed to some of the mayhem.
by | Jun 18, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (0)
Carly Wanna Photo
Jill Marks and Mary Brown at the banner event.
Mary Brown has lived across the street from Goffe Street Park for 60 years. She has watched the plot of land, currently including a baseball field, basketball court and playground, morph into “not being kept up like when I was a kid.
by | Jun 15, 2018 3:50 pm | Comments (14)
Officer Doug Pearse thought he and his partner still had a “50 – 50” chance to rescue a suicidal woman at East Rock’s summit. Then she stood up at the precipice of a rock and bent her knees above a deadly drop.
by | Apr 23, 2018 2:16 pm | Comments (16)
Thomas Breen photos
The new Fort Hale pier.
Officials cut the ribbon for the grand reopening of the pier.
Seven years after Hurricane Sandy destroyed a popular East Shore fishing pier, city and state officials celebrated the grand reopening of a reconstructed pier that includes new amenities for fishing and recreation, and that is structurally resilient enough to withstand higher sea levels and more frequent storms in an era of manmade climate change.