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Allan Appel |
Oct 30, 2018 4:29 pm
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Bysiewicz encounters … could it be? … another Natalino!
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Guide Natalino with the candidate;house at rear belonged to Natalino’s father Michael.
If you’re a candidate door-knocking on a particular street in Fair Haven Heights with someone named Natalino whose family has been there for 60 years … and if at least four houses on said street have Natalinos still in them and another half dozen get their driveways plowed by a Natalino during heavy snowstorms when the city is slow arriving … well, you’re fairly guaranteed a warm reception.
A three-family East Rock house sold for over double what it cost 30 years ago, and a major local property management company picked up four new units in two adjoining Fair Haven Heights homes, in some of the latest recorded land transactions in town.
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.
Weary of years of hearing screeching brakes and metal crashing on metal all along the northern portion of the busy Fair Haven thoroughfare, the neighbors demanded more.
With an urgent slogan of “no more blood in our neighborhood,” they have formed a new organization to get city hall’s attention to provide not just a temporary solution at this one intersection. They want a comprehensive approach, involving traffic calming measures for speed suppression, fixing sight line, signage, and parking problems, and other issues all along the avenue north of Grand.
At the same time they were grateful for the temporary measure, they called for grassroots action to get city hall’s attention
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 7, 2018 1:11 pm
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Feray Gokcek with statue of his hero, Ataturk.
Alders decided not to dip their toes into one well of international controversy on Monday night when they formally turned down a bid to rename a Middletown Avenue streetcorner after modern Turkey’s founding president.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 28, 2018 12:17 pm
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Justys Graham, right, with his brother Jazz Grant waiting their turn to check out the police cruiser gadgets.
The only time Justys Graham wants to be in a police car is in the front seat, where Lt. Jason Minardi let him for a few seconds operate the sirens,the loudspeaker, and the flashing lights.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 27, 2018 1:21 pm
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The Bobcat picks up around a storm drain.
Dave Lawlor wants you to understand that a road is like your roof: When it gets old and tired enough, you have take off the various crumbling or degraded layers, get down to the plywood, that is the surface below.
Then you tack on a whole new roof — or in the case of Quinnipiac Avenue, a fresh hot new layer of asphalt.
As the 212 bus left Downtown for Grand Avenue, Skyler Shepard told Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Ned Lamont about his recent struggles with homelessness.
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Carly Wanna |
Jun 8, 2018 12:34 pm
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Feray Gokcek, with statue of his hero, Ataturk.
Feray Gokcek has enough signatures to legally ask the government to name the corner of Scarboro Street and Middletown Avenue “Ataturk Corner” in honor of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the father of modern-day Turkey. But he is missing one key piece — a letter of support from an alder in favor of the change.
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Isis Davis-Marks |
Jun 8, 2018 8:04 am
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An early rendering of the proposed New Heights development.
The builder of a proposed new mini-village on the banks of the Quinnipiac River agreed to delay asking for zoning help from the city until neighbors get more of a chance to vet the plans.
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Allison Park |
May 31, 2018 12:00 pm
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Patricia Kane didn’t need modern technology to organize her neighbors: She planted a sign advertising a neighborhood cleanup to restore the Quinnipiac River’s weed-ridden waterfront, and they showed up ready to work.
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Thomas Breen |
May 28, 2018 9:19 am
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Joe Ganim with Bella Vista residents Anita Walters (left) and BJ.
Joe Ganim didn’t convince Anita Walters that he learned any lessons from his time behind bars. But he swayed her with the first argument he needed to press — that state Democrats will only benefit by having more candidates to pick between on the gubernatorial primary ballot this summer.
With the help of 50 students, parents and community partners, Quinnipiac Real World Math STEM School unveiled a new schoolyard habitat and outdoor classroom Friday morning.
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Markeshia Ricks |
May 8, 2018 8:37 am
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Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola, who spoke against the Tweed expansion resolution.
With just 48 hours left to get a bill that would expand Tweed-New Haven’s runway out of this year’s state legislative session, alders threw a Hail Mary, passing a resolution in support of the airport’s future growth.
Sean O’Brien and five other Morris Covers walked out of a city-organized workshop on proposed airport improvements and a “community benefits package” to accompany a proposed expanded runway at Tweed Airport. They called the “workshop” a poor substitute for democracy.
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Christopher Peak |
Apr 20, 2018 1:09 pm
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City notice at 18 Clinton Ave., where five children still live.
Legal aid’s Shelley White and Amy Marx: City should do more.
A young mom vacated a Fair Haven apartment where flaking lead paint poisoned her 3‑year-old. Then she found out that her new apartment across the river in Fair Haven Heights is also covered with the heavy metal, and her child is at risk again.
Officers Matt Stevens and Jocelyn Lavandier: Restrain & detain.
The man ran from the cops, through traffic, to the edge of the bridge. He was out of control. He turned, grabbed a dark object from his waist, pointed it directly at an officer.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 13, 2018 2:16 pm
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Red marks indicate recent crashes.
Rubber duckies — known professionally by traffic calmers as “temporary, flexible lane delineators” — are expected to arrive soon at a problematical intersection in Fair Haven Heights.
The developer of a planned mixed-use project to transform the east-side gateway to New Haven at the Grand Avenue Bridge got an initial warm and positive reaction from Fair Haven Neighbors neighbors along with some concerns about — you guessed it! — parking.
A city developer plans to create a mini-neighborhood of middle-income apartments and local stores done in the architectural style of the historical oystering village along the East Grand Avenue side of the Quinnipiac River — an idea a previous builder tried and failed to carry out.
