by | May 26, 2017 2:07 pm | Comments (4)
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Fishing chairs sit empty at a “Shantytown” that’s fallen into disrepair.
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Brothers Daniel, Pedro Alvarado: It’s never coming back.
A wonderland created by fishermen, gardeners and scrap collectors on the Quinnipiac River’s banks has given way to weeds, trash and drug use.
by | Apr 24, 2017 7:27 am | Comments (2)
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Cherry blossoms were in full splendor in time for Sunday’s fest.
St. Luke’s Steel Band performs at the event.
Both the old and the new Wooster Square were on display at this year’s Cherry Blossom Festival, where octogenarian ladies from the Amalfi Coast chatted with old friends they hadn’t seen in years, couples danced to salsa music, women in saris made paper flowers, and families lined up for La Carreta’s tacos.
by | Apr 7, 2017 1:28 pm | Comments (8)
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Edgewood basketball court, among those slated for resealing.
Carone, Bombero, and Dixon detail projects at hearing.
New Haven basketball players can look forward to smoother surfaces and clearer three-point lines at courts throughout the city. Wooster Square will be better lit at night. And more security cameras may pop up in city parks.
Continue reading ‘Lights, Cameras ... Action! Eyed For Parks’
by | Mar 10, 2017 1:11 pm | Comments (6)
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The new pier design.
A belated silver lining benefit from the destructive rage of Hurricane Sandy was delivered to neighbors in Morris Cove Thursday night: The design for the pier to replace the Fort Hale Pier, which that red-letter storm battered and destroyed back in 2012.
by | Mar 10, 2017 8:52 am | Comments (4)
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Matos at February Cahoun College protest.
A prominent immigrant rights organizer, Kica Matos, has just joined New Haven’s most exclusive club — with a mission of making New Haven’s communal core more inclusive.
by | Feb 13, 2017 8:50 am | Comments (6)
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Bombero testifying in Hartford.
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Hartford — After noticing 72 reports of illegal tire dumping around town in just six months, Rebecca Bombero decided to head to the state legislature to seek some help.
by | Jan 30, 2017 1:53 pm | Comments (4)
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State DEEP calls Criscuolo “a green jewel of a waterfront park.”
The kids suggested adding a water slide and a trampoline.
Not to be outdone, the adults added: How about a kayak/canoe launch where the park meets the Mill River by the Chapel Street Bridge?
by | Jan 25, 2017 9:06 am | Comments (7)
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Grooving at Edgewood’s skate park.
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Moser and local skaters mark up map with new design.
David Moser offered a simple choice to the group of skaters and bikers and rollerbladers gathered in a circle before him Tuesday night: “Concrete vs. asphalt.”
“Falling on asphalt,” one skateboarder responded, “is like falling on sandpaper.”
by | Jan 23, 2017 2:28 pm | Comments (0)
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Saniyah, 6, left, Deonna, 7, help in a Cherry Ann volunter clean-up.
Neighbors who reclaimed a park in Newhallville got a $40,000 assist to make it even better.
by | Jan 20, 2017 3:00 pm | Comments (23)
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Kanae Kumamoto, 2, visiting the Green with her family.
Hass: A new day looms.
The self-perpetuating quintet that has owned the New Haven Green for centuries is coming out of the shadows — at least on the internet — and promising to light up the center of town on dark winter nights.
by | Dec 19, 2016 8:35 am | Comments (3)
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Several women racers are all mud and smiles.
Specks and spatters of mud became badges of honor for the nearly 300 Cyclo-cross (CX) racers who competed in the in the finale of the Connecticut series of cyclo-cross races, Elm City CX, held Sunday in New Haven’s Edgewood Park for the benefit of the Parks and Recreation department.
Continue reading ‘Snow, Mud, No Match For Determined Cyclo-Cross Racers’
by | Dec 6, 2016 9:08 am | Comments (22)
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Bombero with Beaver Hills Alder Jill Marks Monday.
The Board of Alders said yes to the city hosting a temporary ice rink in the East Shore this winter, but Mother Nature will make the final decision.
by | Nov 1, 2016 8:18 am | Comments (3)
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Parks department heavy equipment operator Don Iannuzzi and arborist Jeff Ryan Monday tighten guy wires supporting the tree.
New Haven’s chosen holiday tree this year turned out too dessicated to transport to the Green — so the city turned to Plan B.
by | Oct 31, 2016 11:57 am | Comments (0)
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Wilson and Krushnic go eye-to-eye.
Sname Wilson sat across from Sasha Krushnic on the New Haven Green, and they stared into each other’s eyes until an iPhone buzzed 60 seconds later.
by | Sep 21, 2016 3:57 pm | Comments (3)
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Michael Favaloro picked up a sledgehammer and crowbar rather than a phone or computer mouse to do his job Wednesday.
by | Sep 21, 2016 1:28 pm | Comments (0)
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Yale Peabody’s Jim Sirch helps unveil student-made sign to mark the habitat entrance.
Students serenade audience before unveiling.
Julie Peterman said the most difficult part of building a habitat behind Conte West Hills School was preparing the ground — given that a 1964 factory burning left pieces of brick and concrete hidden under the soil.
by | Jun 27, 2016 3:22 pm | Comments (1)
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Brown fills the pitcher’s box with dirt.
For the first time in years, Jacob Tyson, a frequent horseshoe player at DeGale Field, could make a throw on an even concrete surface.
by | Apr 25, 2016 12:08 pm | Comments (3)
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Urban Resources Initiative truck ready for action.
A phalanx of mud-caked, spade shovels Saturday leaned against an Urban Resources Initiative (URI) truck, tools in a war to reclaim a parcel of land that lies between one end of Beaver Pond in New Haven, and the end of a residential cul-de-sac on Cherry Ann Street bordering the Hamden town line.
by | Apr 15, 2016 5:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Wooster Square’s spring riot has sprung.
When the flowers did not bloom in time for the first Cherry Blossom Festival in 1974, “Queen of Wooster Square” Beverly Carbonella wired fake blossoms onto a Yoshino cherry tree for a newspaper photo op.
by | Apr 12, 2016 7:15 am | Comments (0)
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Without fanfare, the attractive benches have returned to Wooster Square Park, restored, plaqued, spiffy, and bolted into place.
They are there gleaming in the sunlight as if waiting for the hundreds of visitors expected at the upcoming Cherry Blossom Festival on April 24 to have comfortable places to rest and take in the history and beauty of one of the city’s most notable settings.
by | Apr 7, 2016 7:33 am | Comments (7)
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Dixwell’s “ambassadors” at work last summer.
Bombero in WNHH’s studio.
New Haven’s whittled-down parks crews are doing their best to keep up with wrappers, cigarette butts, and other litter. But they can’t do it without citizens changing their ways.
Continue reading ‘Parks Chief: We Need YOU To Stop Littering’
by | Jan 21, 2016 5:05 pm | Comments (1)
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Layne & DeGray cart away the benches, en route to repairs.
If you want to have a seat or enjoy a siesta in Wooster Square on one of these fine, brisk, winter afternoons, you’ll have to settle for the grass, or a rock, or one of the limited places at the DeLauro Family Table on the northern end of the stately park.
by | Jan 19, 2016 4:18 pm | Comments (2)
How about Donald Trump Hammonassett Beach State Park?
by | Jan 15, 2016 5:20 pm | Comments (9)
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Hass is stepping down as deputy city parks chief.
When “Mr. Christy Hass” showed up for an interview for a man’s job, it was too late to send her home.
by | Jan 13, 2016 3:04 pm | Comments (3)
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The Green during last year’s tree lighting.
The New Haven Green wasn’t one of the factors that first drew Chris Stedman to New Haven. But as a certain spatial — and spiritual — anchor of the city, it’s part of what has kept him here.