by | Jul 11, 2023 2:38 pm | Comments (15)
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City police found the dead body of a 19-year-old in the parking lot of Career High School on Sunday morning following an apparent fatal overdose.
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by | Jul 10, 2023 11:16 am | Comments (11)
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Daniel Marca (right) and fam: "We really just wanted a home in which our family can grow up and live for a long time.”
Looking forward to new memories to be made as new homeowners in the Hill, Daniel Marca and María González and their two young children explored the perimeter of an empty and partially boarded up house on Tyler Street that they won after ending on top of a crowded tax foreclosure auction.
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by | Jul 7, 2023 4:52 pm | Comments (14)
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Columbus House CEO Margaret Middleton: "Unsheltered homelessness is absolutely a crisis in our community."
Some of the 50 new emergency beds at 209 Terminal Ln.
Fifty new emergency shelter beds came online in the Hill Friday to help provide a safe, clean, indoors place to sleep for the city’s — and the region’s — rising number of people without a home.
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by | Jun 28, 2023 11:58 am | Comments (7)
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Peter Fousek helps lead post-TEA presentation discussion at Hill library.
Tenants pay more for less energy-efficient housing — and too often can’t reach the government assistance programs designed to help.
by | Jun 23, 2023 2:15 pm | Comments (1)
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At the Greenwich Ave. C-Town, now a Key Food.
A Kimberly Square supermarket won its final needed city approval to construct a roughly 3,300 square foot addition — as part of an expansion project that will also see a larger parking lot and a knocked-down house.
by | Jun 23, 2023 8:01 am | Comments (14)
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Joel Davis (right) at Columbus House: "We all just want to feel safe.”
Pencils scratched against paper and voices intertwined as clients and staff at Columbus House came together in the shelter’s sleeping quarters to reimagine its Ella T. Grasso Boulevard location — which is projected to add as many as 96 single rooms in a construction project to begin later this year.
by | Jun 22, 2023 3:56 pm | Comments (2)
Hill North CMT Secretary Maxine Harris-Branham & Hill South CMT Chair Sarah McIver at Wednesday's joint meeting.
City-planned improvements to Kimberly Square.
Energized by the summer solstice sunshine on the longest day of the year, Hill neighbors brought a bit of good-natured heat and opposition to a preliminary city proposal to close off a section of Greenwich Avenue to make a little plaza or “public realm” — as part of a broader street-scape redo of Kimberly Square.
by | Jun 13, 2023 9:04 am | Comments (1)
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Martin Chamberlin, Amanda Levi, and Sai work to fix Sai's bike's busted brakes.
Crouched over a broken bike trading wrenches and conversation, two Bradley Street Bicycle Co-Op volunteers helped a library-visiting Hill teenager fix his two-wheeler — and taught him how to make his own repairs the next time his brakes and wheels are busted.
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by | Jun 5, 2023 4:17 pm | Comments (8)
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Firefighter Nathaniel Peragallo accompanies rescued construction worker on aerial rescue.
Capt. Ryan Almeida looked down into a 30-foot hole where a concrete deck had collapsed and a construction worker was now buried in rubble. He and his crew had to figure out a way to pull the man out. Fast.
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by and | Jun 2, 2023 1:45 pm | Comments (7)
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Emergency workers on scene of partial building collapse.
Fire Chief Alston (center): "That building is still in a dangerous state."
Eight construction workers were injured, two critically, before firefighters rescued them Friday from a partial building collapse.
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by | Jun 2, 2023 10:07 am | Comments (4)
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Josh Burgess, Alex Alvarado, Erick Russell, and Leila Ayers at Career pride celebration.
Career High School sophomore Alex Alvarado struggled to hold back tears as he listened to the country’s first openly gay Black statewide elected official — and a fellow New Havener — advocate on behalf of transgender students like himself.
by | May 26, 2023 12:56 pm | Comments (25)
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55 Park St.: Long leased, now owned, by YNHH.
Yale New Haven Hospital spent more than $101 million buying a Rubik’s Cube-patterned medical-district building that it has used for more than a decade for clinical laboratories, a pharmacy, a lecture auditorium, and patient and visitor access to the nearby Smilow Cancer Hospital and Air Rights Garage.
by and | May 24, 2023 3:41 pm | Comments (29)
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APT patients Tito Cabrera and Tanya: Methadone clinic saves lives.
Daniels School security guard Al Heard: All the people hanging out, selling and using drugs in the area is not good for the kids.
John C. Daniels School teacher Jane Roth pleaded to the Board of Education to help save her school’s students and staff from having to see overdoses on the school’s property, used syringes scattered around the campus, and drug-users shooting up just outside the Congress Avenue bounds of where children learn and play.
by | May 19, 2023 3:30 pm | Comments (38)
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Abdussabur and Fernandez shake hands before the ambulance heads out.
Shafiq Abdussabur pulled up to Union Station to make his latest campaign pitch — and found himself calling an ambulance for a man seeking shelter inside the train stop rather than crusading for votes.
by | May 19, 2023 12:49 pm | Comments (12)
Wait a minute. That's not a 74-year-old man, right? Video surveillance footage of "State Marshall Brian Hobart" delivering an eviction notice in February at 167 West St.
State Marshal Brian Hobart showed up to a West Street three-family house on Feb. 23 to deliver an eviction notice to a family of renters with an expired lease.
At least, that’s what Hobart attested had happened in a court-filed document.
Surveillance images from a first-floor camera at that Hill property tell a different story.
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by | May 17, 2023 9:04 am | Comments (14)
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Co-op demo, apartment construction in the works on Howard.
A rendering of the to-be-redeveloped ex-Hill Co-Op.
The Board of Alders approved two tax breaks for two different affordable housing projects across town — including at a former Hill co-op, which will see 32 apartments knocked down and 64 built up as part of a first phase of redevelopment.
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by | May 15, 2023 1:35 pm | Comments (33)
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Tent City exiles Suki and Todd Godek ...
... at Saturday's Hill housing fundraiser in Guilford.
It might seem incongruous for a wealthy shoreline suburban community to pull out all the stops for a radical Catholic homelessness rights activist from the Hill.
Not at all, said Mark Colville, leader of the Amistad Catholic Worker House, as roughly 100 attendees enjoyed vegetable terrine and fruit salad drizzled with raspberry rose at a “Breaking Bread” fundraiser in the brightly lit basement of Guilford First Congregational Church.
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by | May 15, 2023 11:45 am | Comments (4)
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FAD Mechanical's Henry Smith III and Lawrence Jay McLaurin (center), with State Sen. Paul Cicarella and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, honored as the Minority-Owned Small Biz of the Year ...
... for their plumbing and HVAC work on new apartment buildings like 9 Tower Ln.'s "Pierpont."
Two city-raised HVAC contractors took a step out of the shadows of New Haven’s building boom and into the limelight to be honored for their ground-up-construction plumbing work — including at hundreds of new Yale medical campus-adjacent apartments that continue to spring up across the Hill.
by | May 12, 2023 10:17 am | Comments (3)
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NICU Family Support Specialist Michelle Gray with AnneMarie Rivera Berrios and her son Joshua ...
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... dropping off Mother's Day gift bags for NICU moms, with friend Lisa Milone.
AnneMarie Rivera Berrios pulled up to the front entrance of Yale New Haven’s York Street hospital campus with a trunk full of gift bags, a son on the cusp of turning 3, and still-vivid memories of the kind gestures that helped her through her own time as a NICU mom.
by | May 10, 2023 4:45 pm | Comments (15)
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Gov. Lamont, YNHH's Chris O'Connor, and Yale epidemiologist Albert Ko on Wednesday.
Gov. Ned Lamont joined hospital officials in New Haven to declare an official end to the Covid-19 public health emergency — and reflect on lessons for the next one.
by | May 5, 2023 12:52 pm | Comments (3)
(Updated) An apparent dispute led to the shooting death of 45-year-old Ji’Tu Garrett at Congress Avenue and Vernon Street early Friday morning.
by | Apr 27, 2023 12:26 pm | Comments (2)
(Updated) A mid-afternoon drive-by shooting on Baldwin Street saw 13 bullets fired near a middle school’s playground — and has prompted police to conduct more frequent patrols in and around the area during school hours.
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by | Apr 19, 2023 10:52 am | Comments (45)
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Encampment residents unfolding their egg and cheeses Tuesday morning.
A view of the tents around Amistad House's backyard.
Refugees from a bulldozed West River encampment are taking shelter at an alternative, mission-based outdoor site in the Hill as they plan next steps to get back on their feet — while amping up their commitment to addressing the roots of housing injustice.
by | Apr 17, 2023 8:34 pm | Comments (12)
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URI's Micael Freiburger and EMERGE's Michael Byrd set tree into its new home Monday afternoon.
Gov. Ned Lamont watched a linden tree take root on Asylum Street, and promised to help New Haven plant more shade in its heat-hampered “environmental injustice neighborhoods.”
by | Apr 14, 2023 5:28 pm | Comments (12)
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City inspector Javier Ortiz examines loose tiles and "compromised" subfloor at 23 Vernon, Apt. 2.
A full house for Friday's inspection: Legal aid attorneys Amy Marx and Richard Hine, city attorney Mike Pinto, and LCI's Ortiz and Mark Stroud.
Javier Ortiz leaned over and picked up a triangular shard of cracked ceramic tile from the bathroom floor of a second-story Vernon Street apartment.
The city housing code inspector now had two questions to ask.