Dwight neighbors gather in Kensington Park to testify at virtual hearing against land swap for new apartments (below).
The Community Builders, Inc.
City plans to trade Kensington Playground for 15 new affordable apartments won a key aldermanic approval — but not before over a dozen Dwight neighbors gathered in the public greenspace to voice their live-streamed, virtual opposition to replacing urban parkland with housing.
Jenny Berkett: “A park without benches doesn’t make sense.”
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The Lenzi Park benches.
Neighbors succeeded in getting two wooden benches installed in a Wooster Square mini-park — and now in some cases are expressing second thoughts, because of who sits on them.
Kensington Park, as a park. Below: Soon to become apartments?
THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS, INC.
An affordable housing developer’s plans to build 15 apartments atop Kensington Park moved ahead — on the condition that the developer invest $80,000 in improving a nearby park in Dwight, and that the city set aside a comparable amount of new public park space in Newhallville.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 31, 2020 8:27 am
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Salwa Abdussabor teaches Gia and Alana Ciuitello to skate.
Thursday’s ribbon cutting at the new park.
Teenage sisters Gia and Alana Ciuitello can now join in on the fun at Dixwell’s new Scantlebury Skate Park, after picking up free boards of their own at the park’s official ribbon cutting.
Steve Roberts (above right, below with co-creator J. Joseph) checks out the contours of the new Scantlebury skatepark.
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Steve Roberts found the flow just where he’d always pictured it — at a new skatepark in the neighborhood where he grew up, and where he can now teach other young people to hone their moves.
City tree trimmer Adam Wambolt heaved a limb up and tossed it into the pile next to the yellow payloader. The rustling pile of wood and leaves was all that was left of a tree that had blocked almost two lanes of traffic on Prospect Street.
Prospect’s felled giant was one of over 200 trees broken and blown by Tropical Storm Isaias on Tuesday. And it was one more tree cleared from Wambolt and crew’s to-do list for Wednesday.
Navigating post-storm Orange Street near East Rock.
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Power out at home, Shayna Reeves, Madison Dortche and Lawrence Grayson feed the the Edgewood Park ducks after the storm.
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Lynwood Place.
New Haven emerged from shuttered homes in the last hours of daylight Tuesday to survey the wreckage wrought by Tropical Storm Isaias’s 63 mile-per-hour winds — and to begin the work of cleaning up.
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Gustavo Requena Santos |
Aug 4, 2020 3:23 pm
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Picnic tables set on school ground to serve as outdoor classrooms.
(Opinion) Very early into discussions about how to reopen schools during the Covid-19 pandemic, we were presented with a choice — either continue distance learning, despite its possibility of worsening achievement gaps, or risk the lives of students and staff by bringing them back into school buildings. But are those really the only two options?
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Sophie Sonnenfeld |
Jul 5, 2020 12:15 pm
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On Independence Day, 15 indigenous people gathered in Wooster Square Park by the stone pedestal that until 11 days earlier had supported a statue of Christopher Columbus.
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Thomas Breen & Ko Lyn Cheang |
Jun 26, 2020 6:49 pm
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Los Fidel and Mayor Elicker talk it out in Wooster Square Park.
Towards the end of Friday’s group conversation.
Two days after getting attacked at the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue, Los Fidel returned to Wooster Square Park — and ended up face to face with Mayor Justin Elicker for a heated two hour-long discussion.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 26, 2020 12:22 pm
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On Friday morning a display appeared in front of the pedestal that until two days earlier held up the statue of Christopher Columbus in Wooster Square
It was put there shortly after 10 a.m. by Malcolm Welfare, Ricquel Pratt, and Steve Nardini of the Lineage Group. Within minutes of the display appearing, passersby stopped to check it out. There, they learned about William Lanson, a Black engineer and entrepreneur who, in the 19th century, escaped from slavery to become a pioneer in the city’s development.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Jun 24, 2020 4:32 pm
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The playground at Hamden Plains Recreation Field.
On a normal Tuesday afternoon in June, there might be something other than browning grass, two lonely baseball diamonds, a hoop-less basketball court, and an empty bleacher on Pine Rock Field in Hamden.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 22, 2020 1:10 pm
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The Parks Commission gave approval for Common Ground High School to build a a secure, permanent out-of-doors structure, with fresh air blowing through, and large enough for a class all to be under the roof.
In an emotional three-to-three vote, city parks commissioners deadlocked on whether to OK a land swap turning over Kensington Park for 15 affordable housing units, or to preserve an under-used small oasis with 100-year-old trees.
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Courtney Luciana |
May 24, 2020 6:07 pm
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Jose Resto was fishing alone on the breakwater at Lighthouse Point Park at 8 a.m. Sunday. He was the first one out of approximately 20 people to show up by noon for the park’s official reopening in honor of celebrating Memorial Day weekend.
