by | Jul 14, 2021 9:18 am | Comments (0)
In her new video for “Paradise,” New Haven-based rapper Snowsa — formerly Snowprah — stares down an adversary over the mysterious contents of a duffel bag. Her antagonist accosts her. There’s an argument. He throws a punch. Snowsa ducks it and throws a punch back. She makes contact, and he staggers. She grabs the bag and runs, out into the streets of the Hill, toward friends, toward safety.
by | Jul 7, 2021 9:53 pm | Comments (13)
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Ciera Jones, at right, with brother Carl Jones and mentor/teacher Demetria McMillan at the siblings’ 2017 Hillhouse graduation.
A 22-year-old woman shot Monday on Truman Street, named Ciera Jones, has died from her injuries.
“CeeCee” Jones had been shot in the head Monday between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. while gathered with a group of young adults on a walkway at the side of her family’s house across the street from a neighborhood community garden. Jones lived in the house with her mother and brother. She was also a close relative of a young man shot to death last year in Hamden.
by | Jul 6, 2021 3:17 pm | Comments (4)
When the cops kicked in his front door just before dawn Friday morning, a 30-year-old New Haven man allegedly threw a loaded semi-automatic handgun out of a third-story window.
The police found the weapon anyway — along with two other loaded guns hidden in his apartment.
Continue reading ‘Warrant: Window-Tossed Gun Led To Hill Arrest’
by | Jul 5, 2021 9:06 pm | Comments (2)
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Police Monday at shooting scene.
A daylight shooting in the Hill Monday sent a woman to the hospital with serious injuries.
by | Jul 1, 2021 10:58 am | Comments (27)
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City Plan Director Aicha Woods (left) with neighbors on Greenwich Ave.
Parking problem on Howard Ave. sidewalk.
Cars, cars, cars, houses, and cars, on Howard.
City Plan Director Aïcha Woods walked past a car parked in the middle of the sidewalk on Howard Avenue.
She paused, turned around, pulled out her phone, and took a picture.
“This,” she declared, “is what I call a parking problem.”
by | Jun 22, 2021 9:40 am | Comments (1)
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The Huneebee Project — a regional beekeeping project maintains beehives in a community garden on Arthur Street in the Hill — was part of the experience tours connected to the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, which runs through June 27
For those who participated in the visit to the Huneebee Project Saturday and Sunday, it was a fascinating dive into bee biology, plant sex, and the big wonders that can come from small green spaces in a city.
by | Jun 19, 2021 10:43 pm | Comments (9)
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Solar Power and community at Dixwell festival’s dance party.
Tracey Massey at Hill fest: “We’re building another Wall Street.”
From the Hill to Dixwell, New Haveners celebrated Juneteenth with dance, soul food, and investments in Black businesses.
by | Jun 17, 2021 3:22 pm | Comments (2)
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Hill South CMT, back in person outside Betsy Ross School.
Team stalwart Angela Hatley: “Getting back to life.”
The wind whipped. Flyers scattered. A generator roared from Lucky’s Star Bus Cafe. Passing engines vroomed.
Some news under discussion was good news. Some, like rising gun violence, cause for concern.
None of it could dampen the mood of celebration Tuesday night as 40 people gathered on the grounds of Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School. They were doing something they hadn’t done in more than a year of Covid-19: hold a Hill South Committee Management Team meeting in person. Not on Zoom.
Continue reading ‘Quality Of Life Tackled Back In Real Life’
by | Jun 16, 2021 4:32 pm | Comments (18)
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Mayor Elicker, LCI Director Samuel, Randy Salvatore, and DECD Commissioner Lehman cut the ribbon on more Hill housing.
The newly renovated “49 Prince St.” apartments.
An empty school building is about to fill up again on Prince Street — this time with tenants, not students, in one the fastest-changing blocks in town.
by | Jun 16, 2021 9:47 am | Comments (8)
Dayshon Smith and Richard Whitaker at Richard’s Eli Whitney graduation; Tuesday Richard became city’s 15th homicide victim in 2021.
Richard Whitaker Jr. watched a gunman shoot his brother dead in the Hill. Tuesday night, he, too, was shot dead on the neighborhood streets.
Continue reading ‘Slain Boxer’s Brother Shot Dead In The Hill’
by | Jun 13, 2021 12:30 pm | Comments (3)
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Painting by numbers is no longer the home crafts fad that it once was, but two New Haven artists dusted off and rejuvenated the practice for a socially-conscious mural project in the Hill neighborhood on Saturday.
by and | Jun 11, 2021 5:13 pm | Comments (5)
Superintendent Tracey at Friday’s commencement.
After balancing school work, a custody battle for her 7‑month old son, and a job as a manager at KFC, 18-year-old Kayla Folk walked side by side with her best friend Rea’gean Oakley, bright smiles on both their faces. Together, they picked up their high school diplomas.
by | Jun 10, 2021 4:00 pm | Comments (19)
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Fire Union prez Pat Cannon with busted hydrant in the Hill.
Fire Chief Alston responds at dueling presser.
One hundred and twenty six fire hydrants across the city are currently out of service.
Does it matter?
by | Jun 7, 2021 4:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Take 1: Developer Carter Winstanley, Alder Carmen Rodriguez, Mayor Justin Elicker, Alder Ron Hurt, Alder Evelyn Rodriguez, Yale President Peter Salovey, Gov. Ned Lamont, SCSU BioPath student Therese Ziaks.
Take 2: SCSU President Joe Bertolino, Gateway CEO William T. Brown, Salovey, Elicker, Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey, Biolabs President Johannes Fruehauf, Arvinas CEO John G. Houston, Winstanley, SCSU BioPath student Apple Pham, SCSU physics Professor Christine Broadbridge, Ziaks.
History had a chuckle Monday as government and business leaders grabbed shovels near the border of the vanishing Route 34 Connector.
Continue reading ‘101 College, Route 34 Fill-in Ground Broken’
by | Jun 7, 2021 9:17 am | Comments (1)
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Refugees receive vaccines.
On Saturday, in a small park to the side of the Yale Physicians Building, bubbles and pizza welcomed local refugee families as part of a Covid-19 vaccination pop-up.
by | Jun 6, 2021 4:53 pm | Comments (4)
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Dreamcatcher Green, second from left, makes fish pitch to mayor.
Mayor Justin Elicker stopped at 486 Howard Ave. to pitch neighbors on getting their Covid-19 vaccines. He received another pitch in return — for a giant, freshly-caught fish.
by | May 28, 2021 3:15 pm | Comments (11)
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It’s June 1, and you’re at the corner of College Street and South Frontage Road. You were going to take South Frontage to I‑95 or I‑91 — but it’s blocked off with road construction signs. What now?
Take a deep breath and follow along. You can get there from here.
Continue reading ‘Don’t Panic! This Article Will Get You To I-95’
by | May 27, 2021 5:04 pm | Comments (4)
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Thanks to lucky timing, the lumber’s arriving at Tower Lane construction site, where Carlos Rivera (below) was hard at work this week.
The money’s still flowing to fuel New Haven’s building boom — but builders are scrambling to meet soaring lumber prices and find materials disappearing in a backed-up international supply chain.
Continue reading ‘Builders Tackle Supply Snags, Price Hikes’
by | May 26, 2021 12:55 pm | Comments (1)
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Convener Leslie Radcliffe: No more Band-aids.
Fence off Daniels School’s syringe-strewn playground.
Hold an “Awareness Day” on services for the homeless and/or drug-addicted.
Have dealers face neighbors, including kids, at a “drug market intervention” version of Project Longevity.
Neighbors brainstormed those and other “stitches” in the quality-of-life wound that plagues the Hill.
Continue reading ‘Hill Brainstorms Quality-Of-Life Strategy’
by | May 24, 2021 5:14 pm | Comments (4)
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Lt. Manmeet Colon (second from right) gathers with neighbors at West and Congress.
Sgt. Marshall preps canvassers.
At a corner where two men were shot last Thursday, 10 Hill neighbors and cops gathered to go door to door to offer people reassurance and seek some sort of solution to the current wave of violence.
Continue reading ‘Cops, Neighbors Canvass Hill In Wake Of Shootings’
by | May 24, 2021 1:11 pm | Comments (26)
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Johnny Dye: “There will be holy hell around here.”
Parking is so scarce in parts of the Hill that neighbors put trash bins out on the street to try to preserve coveted parking spots. Homes are so close together that people hear toilets flushing next door.
So neighbors expressed skepticism about proposals to update the city’s zoning rules — including allowing smaller lots sizes and “accessory dwelling units” (or “ADUs,” like garage or mother-in-law apartments) with no parking requirements.
Continue reading ‘Crowded Hill Neighbors Blast Zone Changes’
by | May 19, 2021 11:34 am | Comments (0)
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Xiaona Lu picks up lunch from Healthy Way’s Melissa Chang.
It was a few minutes past 11 on a recent Wednesday on Cedar Street, and Christopher Chialastri was digging into an aluminum container of spicy fried shrimp.
Continue reading ‘Today’s Special: Melissa’s Eggplant With Tofu’
by | May 13, 2021 2:58 pm | Comments (4)
New Haven’s kiosk model with Gar Waterman design.
Hill neighbors heard a plea for addressing a public nuisance plaguing kids on Minor Street, while debating whether a “syringe tree” will create a new threat to kids at a playground near the John C. Daniels School.
Continue reading ‘Hill Neighbors Eye Community Approach To Drug-Related Problems’
by | May 12, 2021 4:26 pm | Comments (16)
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• A new road!
• Where an old one used to be.
• This one has a cycletrack, as well.
• Alder Carmen Rodriguez (pictured above): “This is a big deal!”
by | May 10, 2021 8:51 am | Comments (0)
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“Old Early Morning.”
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Hill Regional Career student writer Amelia Stefanovics.
The following is a short story written by Hill Regional Career High School student Amelia Stefanovics and republished from the student magazine Elm City Sage.