Jogger Wondered Whether To Call The Cops
by | Mar 11, 2014 4:14 pm | Comments (93)
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The man lurking under the bridge pressed his body up against a concrete wall.
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Ralliers Rally For Rallying
by | Feb 11, 2014 3:11 pm | Comments (6)
Fifteen or so advocates for the homeless exercised their legal right to gather on the Green to make a point — about gathering on the Green.
Urban Farmers Shelve English Mall Idea
by | Jan 15, 2014 2:01 pm | Comments (0)
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Rebecca Kline and Wanda Albandoz at a thriving NH Farms site.
After resistance from neighbors, a local environmental group has decided not to pursue a plan to convert an acre of Fair Haven open space into urban farmland.
Activists Set New Haven Green Proposal On Fire
by | Jan 10, 2014 1:40 pm | Comments (15)
Decrying a “war on the poor,” Sarah Raven set fire to a proposed new law that would make it illegal to sleep on the Green or to set foot on it after 10 p.m.
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Before New Year’s Plunge, Polar Bear Follows His Nose
by | Dec 31, 2013 1:20 pm | Comments (2)
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In town for the holiday, a polar bear who calls himself “Al Nonymous” said he looked forward to devouring a New Haven pizza pie, or two or three, or four — or something other than fish.
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“Trash Talkers” Take On Edgewood Park
by | Dec 5, 2013 2:10 pm | Comments (3)
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“Trash Talkers” Diezi and Kwak and their little helpers at the Whalley Avenue bridge.
A new band of energized west-siders have set out make their park safer and more beauitful by picking up one cigarette butt, one can of soda — and one discarded tire and bicycle — at a time.
Prof Blasts “Murky” Proposed Rules For Green
by | Nov 21, 2013 1:11 pm | Comments (10)
Bolden: The professor is wrong.
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Occupy New Haven erects pre-eviction barricades.
As the city considers how to clear up “troubling” laws about the New Haven Green, a law professor present for the legal wrangling over Occupy New Haven argued that the proposed fix would violate people’s First Amendment rights.
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Urban Farm Idea Sparks Fair Haven Culture Clash
by | Nov 20, 2013 6:14 pm | Comments (13)
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Dumping now occurs on the English Mall.
Robert Roberts listened to visitors talk about big plans for a one-acre farm right by his house — and wondered where the cookouts and Easter eggs will go.
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Farnam Courts Playground Closer To Demolition
by | Nov 15, 2013 1:11 pm | Comments (3)
Farnam Courts’ roadside play and hang-out area is one step closer to becoming new housing instead.
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Next “Occupy” May Be Easier To Evict
by | Nov 12, 2013 9:16 am | Comments (28)
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Occupy New Haven in its heyday.
Under proposed new rules, the next time a ragtag band of political protesters wants to “occupy” the New Haven Green, they’d have to get written permission, pay for cops and porta-potties, and secure a bond for any damage they might cause.
Commute Home Ends With Gunpoint Bike-Grab
by | Nov 1, 2013 5:07 pm | Comments (20)
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Dusk was settling in as Bela rode her bike home from work through Edgewood Park on Halloween night. A gunman hid in the shadows.
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DeLauro Park To Disappear
by | Oct 17, 2013 8:19 am | Comments (3)
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Have you heard of DeLauro Park?
Then you probably won’t again: It will soon be gone.
The rectangular swath of fenced-in park on at 657 Grand Ave. fronting the Farnam Courts public housing project was voted out of existence Wednesday night.
Edgewood Park “Take-Back” Begins
by | Oct 2, 2013 12:07 pm | Comments (16)
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Willie Hoffman lays out the plan.
Edgewood Park’s natural splendor helped draw Juliet Avelin’s family to leave Vermont’s green mountains and relocate in New Haven’s Westville neighborhood. Then the news of an assault made her family start avoiding the park.
On Tuesday, she and her neighbors began the process of taking the park back.
120 Bags Of Garbage Is Just The Beginning
by | Sep 26, 2013 10:42 am | Comments (4)
SCSU students who worked on the Edgewood Park clean-up, along with Sgt. Renee Forte, Officers Elizabeth White and Allyn Wright, and LCI Specialist Nick Licatta.
Friends of Edgewood Park’s Jon Miller sent in the following write-up about a clean-up in Edgewood Park:
In small amounts litter is a nuisance, but when it accumulates into the kind of massive eyesore that recently developed in Edgewood Park, it becomes a serious threat. The mounds of garbage along Chapel Street had become a blight that was turning people away from the park. And fewer people means more problems, which means still fewer people — a vicious cycle.
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Stark Raven Takes On Mad Mike
by | Sep 25, 2013 1:58 pm | Comments (0)
CAANH’s mascot, Miss Hot Chili Pepper, aka Executive Assistant Caren Lang, with Board of Directors Chairman Larry Stewart.
Jill Dotlo sent in this write-up and these photos from an event her agency held on the East Shore:
Two Directors Helm One Caesar
by | Aug 15, 2013 10:13 am | Comments (4)
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Mark Zeisler as Cassius, Jim Andreassi as Brutus, and Paul Pryce as Mark Antony.
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The two directors, Andreassi and Epstein.
The director Alvin Epstein says to Metellus Cimber: “Do this whole greeting thing again. Keep it light. Give it only the weight it deserves.”
To Artemidorus the soothsayer he says, “I need to hear what you’re thinking.”
To Caesar he says: “You’re dropping down instead of keeping the urgency going. Your idea is ‘I am the One.’”
Then he comes to Brutus “‘Cicero is dead.’ You need to give that line a certain irony.”
“Right,” replies Brutus. “There’s a neat thing I do with the staging [of it].”
Brutus is played by Jim Andreassi — not just another actor in the production, but another director as well.
A Garden Grows On Truman Street
by | Aug 5, 2013 1:17 pm | Comments (2)
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Volunteers hold a pizza party at the Truman Street Garden.
Kids who helped turn a downtrodden Truman Street lot into a budding garden look forward to plucking their own pumpkins to carve for Halloween. They celebrated their work-in-progress with gardeners from across the city, at the latest outpost of a growing network of community greenspaces.
Rip-Rap To Next Hurricane: We’re Not Budging
by | Aug 5, 2013 12:01 pm | Comments (0)
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When Hurricane Irene struck two years ago, she badly damaged fencing at panoramic Criscuolo Park in Fair Haven and destroyed protective rip-rap all along the section of shoreline that extends deepest into the harbor.
All that has finally just now been repaired, and with stones big enough to say to the next storm: Try to move this.
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Quaint Bridge Will Return
by | Aug 5, 2013 11:00 am | Comments (2)
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A storybook pedestrian bridge across the West River just upstream from the Blake Street crossing has seen no pedestrians or wide-eyed kids in strollers in a long time.
That’s because it’s so deteriorated, with the hand rails separating from the deck, that the city has had to close it. It is hidden under brush near a playground just off the road.
Cops Probe String Of Teens-On-Bikes Assaults
by | Aug 2, 2013 1:12 pm | Comments (48)
Police are investigating three possibly related attacks on people by teens on bikes in and around Edgewood Park.
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Teens Attack Jogger In Edgewood Park
by | Aug 2, 2013 9:47 am | Comments (36)
In the wake of a group attack on a jogger by Edgewood Park, a top cop is urging people to take precautions while exercising in public.
A Cell Tower May Grow In Fairmont Park
by | Jul 18, 2013 12:40 pm | Comments (3)
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Jason Dorsey and Pasquaretta discover a bench grown over by invasives on the park’s north side.
As the city considers permitting a first-time ever use of park land for a cell phone tower in Fair Haven Heights, neighbors have banded together to raise questions about forest destruction, community-building, and government responsiveness.
Pyrotech Wizards Wow Thousands
by | Jul 5, 2013 8:20 am | Comments (2)
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5-inch shell featuring “brocade with green crackling pistol.”
From a rocky knoll high above New Haven, a squad of explosives experts carefully set their charges. At the signal, they unleashed a barrage of artillery that sent explosions cascading through the sky toward the city below.
Why The Turtle Didn’t Cross The Road
by | Jun 4, 2013 2:50 pm | Comments (5)
A good Samaritan hit the brakes when he saw a turtle ambulating on Whalley Avenue — and then braved traffic, as well as some head snaps, to coax it to safety.
New Rip Rap Arriving
by | May 23, 2013 3:08 pm | Comments (5)
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It’s not an earth work or otherwise a piece of public art. It’s not a series of well coordinated meteorite landings.
It’s tons of rock recently delivered to Criscuolo Park in Fair Haven to be used for new rip rap to replace the stones damaged or washed away at the riverine location during Hurricane Irene.