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Students get to creating in new art space.
A new home for student art making, self-expression, and relaxation opened Thursday at the Boys and Girls Club of New Haven.
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Common Ground alum Crystal Fernandez at Kimberly Field planning gathering.
When Crystal Fernandez returned to the Hill with her four sons three years ago, she decided she would be a part of the change she wanted to see in her neighborhood by starting with Kimberly Field.
Continue reading ‘Hill Native Comes Home -- & Signs Up For Duty’
by | Mar 29, 2022 5:10 pm | Comments (21)
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Four of the five Hill corner stores that city and state shuttered.
Ned Woods: Still "a lot of choices" in the neighborhood.
Walking home on Sylvan Avenue, Ned Woods saw that the corner store where he “plays the numbers” was closed — with a large red “Stop-Work Order” sign taped across the front door.
Thanks to a city-state sweep of problem businesses in the Hill Tuesday, Woods would have to seek out another spot in the neighborhood to place his daily bet.
by | Mar 18, 2022 11:27 am | Comments (0)
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At 2019 opening for the first iteration of 169 Plymouth student-built home.
The newest addition to New Haven’s affordable housing stock will be a 400 square-foot dwelling cheek by jowl to the railroad tracks in the Hill.
If innovative plans go right, it’ll be just as quiet, or noisy, as if it were 20 feet farther away.
by | Mar 15, 2022 2:33 pm | Comments (11)
New Haven Public School’s (NHPS) will focus attention on its students’, educators’, and parents’ wellbeing for a “day of healing.”
by | Mar 10, 2022 4:37 pm | Comments (1)
Garcia, at right, makes her pitch.
On the corner of Adeline Street and the Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, Angela Garcia is looking to transform a vacant industrial building into a used car dealership, adding to a hub of nearby car sales and repair shops.
Continue reading ‘Used-Auto Dealer Looks To Expand In Hill's Car-Shop Cluster’
by | Feb 10, 2022 4:17 pm | Comments (0)
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Thursday's ribbon cutting.
New Haveners can now find love — and gift baskets — in Kimberly Square, at the newly opened Angela’s Unique Creations.
by | Feb 9, 2022 12:54 pm | Comments (6)
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Kimberly Field basketball court.
Llieira Martinez (pictured) doesn't feel safe sending son Carlos across the street at this point.
Neighbors heard about plans to fix up Kimberly Field — and threw in their own plan: To ensure that people power makes it safe to use.
Continue reading ‘Kimberly Park Awaits Upgrades, & "Friends"’
by | Feb 7, 2022 4:29 pm | Comments (7)
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Parent Dilawar Shamshad at Clemente, where more than 10 percent of the student body is now Afghan.
When mother of four Zarghoona immigrated to New Haven from Afghanistan five years ago, she did not know any English.
She learned it with the help of her daughter, who was picking it up at Clemente Leadership Academy. Then Zarghoona returned to the school helping newer arrivals from her native land adjust to a new country, as an interpreter.
by | Jan 26, 2022 9:24 am | Comments (11)
When rezoning for “transit-oriented development” — particularly at spots like Union Station, currently gobbled up by surface parking lots — be aggressive.
Continue reading ‘Union Station Goal: Rezoning, Less Parking’
by | Jan 20, 2022 4:13 pm | Comments (7)
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Designs for 10 new apartments planned for 232-238 Columbus Ave. (pictured below.)
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A local developer won permission to construct 10 new apartments atop city-owned land in the Hill — even as land-use commissioners lamented that most of that building’s future tenants will have only one way in and out of their apartments, and will have to walk around the block when taking out their trash.
Continue reading ‘10 Hill Apts OK'd After Backstairs, Dumpster Debate’
by | Jan 19, 2022 5:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Officers and loved ones gather at Wednesday's funeral.
Ofc. Gonzalez.
The death of Police Officer Diane Gonzalez “changed all of our lives in some way,” one of her former colleagues recalled at an emotional funeral ceremony held Wednesday.
by | Jan 7, 2022 9:39 am | Comments (2)
Librarians Jeffrey Panettiere, Arthur Volanth, and Mercedes MacAlpine dressed as the Three Kings, with Alfredo Rosa, Victoria Rosa, Keisy Rosa, and Luis David Espinal Peralta.
Biblical royalty appeared on Washington Avenue Thursday bearing gifts — and hope for hard times.
by | Jan 5, 2022 2:17 pm | Comments (3)
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Crowd at Career honors Anastasio with moment of silence.
The memory of the legendary New Haven coach Tom “Mr. A” Anastasio was channeled at halftime Tuesday night on the basketball court at Hill Regional Career High School.
by | Jan 3, 2022 4:28 pm | Comments (12)
City staffer Shaunette James- Marquis with Covid tests and N95 masks to be distributed to the homeless on Monday.
City officials distributed thousands more Covid rapid tests and N95 masks Monday in the race to outmaneuver the Omicron variant.
Continue reading ‘Thousands Of Tests, Masks Distributed As Statewide Positivity Rate Hits 21.5%’
by | Dec 20, 2021 1:38 pm | Comments (2)
On a mission: Sisters of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority's New Haven chapter with volunteers at Clemente School holiday food giveaway.
A holiday meal drive-by giveaway took place Saturday at Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy. It was sponsored by a sorority. Each member was clad in gold and blue. But this was no ordinary sorority, and no ordinary holiday event.
Continue reading ‘Sisterhood & Scholarship & Service On Display At Clemente Holiday Food Giveaway’
by | Dec 20, 2021 9:36 am | Comments (2)
Riverside's toy drive on Saturday.
Neither rain nor a resurgence in Covid-19 could stop Riverside Academy’s annual holiday toy drive for students working to make it through high school while raising young children.
by | Dec 16, 2021 9:52 am | Comments (20)
Design for Salvatore's next project, on Lafayette St.
Stamford developer Randy Salvatore won permission to convert yet another Hill parking lot into 112 new apartments, along with 178 underground and ground-level parking garage spaces.
by | Dec 2, 2021 3:43 pm | Comments (6)
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YNHH’s West Pavilion turnaround at Park and Howard, soon to be a temporary emergency room.
Yale New Haven Hospital won city permission to build a temporary 35-bed emergency room to accommodate a coming spike in Covid and flu cases — pending aldermanic approval that the six-month project won’t affect parking in the medical district.
Continue reading ‘Plans OK’d For 35-Bed Temporary Emergency Room For Anticipated Covid/Flu Spike’
by | Nov 24, 2021 3:42 pm | Comments (12)
Police Thursday arrested a 46-year-old Truman School teacher who allegedly assaulted a student.
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by | Nov 22, 2021 5:02 pm | Comments (6)
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Teresa Fernandez outside her soon-to-be-former home.
Teresa Fernandez and her two young kids plan on moving across the Hill to an apartment on Congress Avenue next month, now that the bank has foreclosed on their rented single-family home in City Point.
by | Nov 22, 2021 9:50 am | Comments (1)
Carl Dixon waits in line to receive Thanksgiving donations.
Carl Dixon once lived on the streets. Today he resides on Salem Street right next to the Hill’s Howard Avenue police substation, where he picked up one of 56 free turkeys being handed out by NICE (New Haven Inner City Enrichment) Center on Saturday morning.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Distribute Hundreds Of Turkeys To Needy In Time For Thanksgiving’
by | Nov 19, 2021 1:44 pm | Comments (4)
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Angel Hubbard gets job offer from bike shop owner and neighbor John Brehon.
Mother of six Angel Hubbard thought she had no other options to keep her 13 year-old son out of trouble. Then a neighbor offered him a job.
Continue reading ‘Hill Crime-Strategy Session Ends With A Job Offer’
by | Nov 19, 2021 9:58 am | Comments (8)
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Supt. Tracey: Pressure’s on, even amid flow of money.
One big challenge: Competing with higher-paying districts to recruit teachers.
Another big challenge: The shortage of school bus drivers.
Another challenge: Finding qualified people to staff the after-school programs funded by American Rescue Plan dollars.
Another challenge: Mental health challenges complicating kids’ efforts to catch up with learning time lost through Covid-caused remote learning.
Continue reading ‘“I Consider Myself A Covid Superintendent”’
by | Nov 18, 2021 11:50 am | Comments (1)
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Mayor Elicker checks in with Ayden Hasaan and Brandon Exinor on the wifi work at Boys & Girls Club.
The Boys & Girls Club has received a $25,000 grant from Comcast to boost its efforts to connect members to the internet.