by | Mar 27, 2023 2:25 pm | Comments (3)
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Clemente sixth-grader Luis with oily oyster science experiment.
With science fair judge Robin Querker.
Will oysters survive if submerged in motor oil?
Roberto Clemente sixth-grader Luis set out to answer that question — as he crafted a locally relevant science fair project focused on environmental harms to New Haven bivalves.
by | Mar 21, 2023 9:00 am | Comments (16)
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Ivana Lewis paints beside her mom, Shauniqua Davis, at a Wilson Library event.
The Wilson Library branch is a “second home” to Helen and her children — especially to 7‑year-old Eli, who devours every animal-themed book he can find.
In spare moments, Wilson staff members set aside volumes they think Eli will like. But most days, they’re kept busy with adults needing job applications or a place to rest their head while inebriated.
So Wilson staff, regulars, and allies are calling on the city to fund a full-time children’s librarian at Wilson — the only branch in the city to lack the funding for one.
by | Mar 17, 2023 9:11 am | Comments (6)
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Katelyn Giusti: "Thank you for your thinking."
“Secure your thinking caps tightly,” Barnard teacher Katelyn Giusti advised her classroom full of kindergartners — as they prepared to dive into a chimpanzee-focused reading assignment and test out a new school district approach to literacy.
Continue reading ‘Books In Hand, Teachers Test Reading Pilot’
by and | Mar 16, 2023 9:10 am | Comments (59)
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Cops swarm into Tent City, under supervision of Sgt Justin Cole (center right) and Lt. Nicholas Marcusio (walking away at right).
Last to leave: Paul C packs up after police evict him Thursday from Tent City.
Police swarmed onto the tent city off the Boulevard early Thursday morning to clear the holdout campers and bulldoze the site — and make sure the press and public couldn’t watch what they were doing.
by | Mar 9, 2023 9:04 am | Comments (2)
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Career office clerk Shirley Love joins school choir in "Lift Every Voice and Sing," performed at Black History assembly and celebration.
Hill Regional Career High School’s auditorium rang like a rolling sea as students lifted their voices to sing the Black National Anthem alongside school staffer Shirley Love, whose voice left the school full of the hope.
Continue reading ‘Career High School Lifts Every Voice & Sings’
by | Mar 7, 2023 3:41 pm | Comments (19)
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Democratic mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg: "This is an inappropriate place" for a methadone clinic.
APT patient Jeffrey Culp: "What happens to the people where this place saved their lives?"
A Democratic mayoral candidate traveled to Congress Avenue to call for the immediate closure and relocation of a controversial methadone clinic.
One of the clinic’s patients posed the candidate a question: What about the many lives that have been saved from the depths of heroin addiction by the APT Foundation’s treatments? One saved life, he continued, is his own.
Continue reading ‘Patient Presses Politician On APT Critique’
by | Mar 7, 2023 12:25 pm | Comments (3)
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The APT Foundation's 495 Congress Ave. building and parking lot.
The following writeup was submitted by Democratic mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg chronicling his five days of traveling around to different methadone clinics in and near New Haven.
Click here to read Goldenberg’s recent opinion essay in the Register laying out various proposals for how the city should handle local methadone clinics. Click here to read a recent Independent article about how the Elicker Administration and the APT Foundation are looking to move the clinic’s main Congress Avenue location to a new building on Long Wharf.
Goldenberg plans on holding a press conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday outside APT’s Congress Avenue site to talk about his methadone clinic policy proposals.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: My Week Visiting Methadone Clinics’
by | Feb 24, 2023 10:42 am | Comments (1)
The Mandy-controlled two-story house at 698 Dixwell.
An affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management is looking to add one more apartment to a two-story Newhallville house — rather than build six new rental units or bring in a commercial tenant.
Continue reading ‘Mandy Eyes New Groundfloor Apartment On Dixwell’
by | Feb 23, 2023 3:32 pm | Comments (10)
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Tased & Defused: 2 a.m. foot chase on Daggett Street.
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Next-gen cops Nick Samartino, Trevor Canace, Daniel Smith, Thomas Brunski.
The fleeing man probably has a gun, the police officers chasing him figured.
One officer chased him with his own gun out. The other ran while pointing a taser.
If they needed to fire, they were hoping the latter weapon would do the trick.
by | Feb 23, 2023 11:29 am | Comments (31)
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Congress/Davenport apartment plan, slated to replace to-be-demolished properties like 326 and 348 Davenport (below).
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A California-based developer has purchased nine Hill properties for a combined $4.35 million — advancing plans to construct 194 new apartments on Congress and Davenport Avenues.
by | Feb 9, 2023 4:02 pm | Comments (45)
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The former Church Street South property, above and below.
Elicker (at bottom left): "Disappointed & frustrated." Northland's Gottesdiener (bottom right): City's version "inaccurate at best, a lie at worst."
Five years after bulldozers demolished the 30-building Church Street South community across from Union Station, the land remains a fenced-off wasteland of prime real estate with no signs of progress on plans to rebuild.
by | Feb 9, 2023 3:05 pm | Comments (21)
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Rendering of a proposed new "Gateway District" on Long Wharf.
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Community members hear a presentation at the Betsy Ross School Parish Hall.
A park and pedestrian-friendly walkway where cars now roar down Long Wharf Drive.
An automotive trade school where the former Gateway Community College building is starting to crumble.
A new home base for all of the APT Foundation’s New Haven substance-use treatment programs in a building specifically designed to address neighbors’ concerns.
Those ideas stand at the center of a new plan put together by top city officials on how to transform Long Wharf — a waterfront neighborhood currently dominated by big-box stores, parking lots, and the highway — into a mixed-use district bustling with education, healthcare, and outdoor recreation.
by | Feb 6, 2023 5:04 pm | Comments (13)
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Drew Ramsey and Javon Hailey clear Kimberly Park's invasive vines.
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Dayton Death Row.
Five towering trees were sentenced to death on a crowded west side street. Meanwhile, across town, stewards whacked at vines in a reclaimed park to enable other trees to survive and thrive.
Continue reading ‘Street Trees Condemned; Park Trees Preserved’
by | Feb 6, 2023 3:02 pm | Comments (3)
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History teacher Pete Chase talking hydroponics as a way to keep students present and paying attention in the classroom. “I want to get them off those phones and playing in dirt.”
A trio of 3D printers worked at lightning speed making hydroponic-friendly pots in Riverside teacher Camar Graves’ classroom — as the alternative-public-academy educator worked just as diligently finding novel ways to connect with his students at a time when many remain glued to their phones and struggling to focus.
by | Feb 1, 2023 3:23 pm | Comments (4)
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Gladys Mwilelo reading to Clemente 6th graders Wednesday.
Jeremiah Pierce and classmates listen to Mwilelo's story.
After reciting a verse she composed herself, Gladys Mwilelo asked the class of curious Roberto Clemente sixth-graders peering back at her: “Do any of you write poems?”
“I share them with my little brother,” answered Yulianisse Féliciano with a wry smile. “He laughs at me.”
Mwilelo knows what it means to offer a voice that no one seems to know how to hear. When she first arrived in New Haven as a refugee, she didn’t know a word of English — and none of her classmates could speak Swahili.
So she responded to Féliciano with encouragement: “I promise you, one day I will be glad to read your poem.”
by | Jan 24, 2023 11:02 am | Comments (23)
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Two-families on the rise: A construction worker on the job on Downing St.
The only contractor to respond to a city bid to build a new two-family house in the Hill won the contract at a price of $690,000 — or roughly $246 per square foot — raising questions about just how much it costs to construct small-scale residential developments in New Haven in 2023.
by | Jan 23, 2023 1:30 pm | Comments (15)
An off-duty Board of Ed security officer detained a teen allegedly in the act of breaking into his car — then found himself detained by the police, and arrested.
Continue reading ‘Security Guard Arrested After Confronting Alleged Thief At His Home’
by | Jan 19, 2023 5:54 pm | Comments (3)
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Krikko Obbott: “We’ve been wanting to do this for years."
The "warehouse" at 212 West St. Obbott is looking to convert into apartments.
A Hill illustrator and museum owner is moving ahead with plans to attract more creative talent to West Street, after winning a first slate of approvals needed for turning part of his property into artist apartments.
by | Jan 19, 2023 9:45 am | Comments (33)
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Sandra's owners Miguel and Sandra Pittman: Planning to push back on zoning board rejection.
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The contested outdoor refrigeration containers on Arch St.
City zoners turned down a Congress Avenue culinary institution’s bid to store five outdoor fridges in a residentially zoned area — following testimony from the restaurant’s neighbor that the restaurant’s expansion has resulted not just in nationally renowned chicken wings, but also pesky rodents and stenches.
The restaurant’s owners now plan to contest that decision so that they can continue to keep corn, sugar, flour and plenty of perishables nearby as they look to continue serving the neighborhood they’ve long called home.
by | Jan 18, 2023 11:17 am | Comments (9)
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The view down South Frontage from York Street, where the sidewalk ends.
Proposed changes to South Frontage Rd. from York to College St.
What will it take for South Frontage Road to be a safe street for pedestrians and cyclists?
The city is betting on raised crosswalks, a bike lane, and an extension of York Street’s two-way stretch.
by | Jan 17, 2023 12:28 pm | Comments (23)
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Hannah Srajer and Emmett Santisi (right) make their rent-cap-bill pitch to Hill resident Johnna Davis during Saturday's canvass.
Hitting the doors in the Hill.
Tenants rights advocates from across Connecticut descended on the Hill to knock on nearly 100 doors in their bid to win local renter support for a new rent-hike-stifling legislative campaign.
by | Jan 16, 2023 2:04 pm | Comments (3)
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Scrap metal ready for recycling at 808 Washington.
An international metal recycling company has purchased a Hill scrapyard that it has run and leased for the past nearly two decades, in one of the city’s latest property deals.
Continue reading ‘Real Estate Roundup: Hill Metal Scrapyard Sold For $1.3M’
by | Jan 11, 2023 3:52 pm | Comments (14)
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Hill South neighbors and city officials break ground.
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A rendering of the future house.
Clustered atop a long-barren Howard Avenue lot, Hill neighbors and city officials grabbed their shovels and scooped up piles of dirt that will soon sit beneath a two-family, owner-occupied house.
by | Jan 9, 2023 8:35 am | Comments (1)
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At Saturday's Three Kings Day celebration at 148 Sylvan Ave.
Toys were abundant this Saturday at the annual Three Kings Day celebration held at Casa Otoñal Community Center on Sylvan Avenue.
by | Jan 6, 2023 9:58 am | Comments (1)
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Movimiento Cultural drummers and dancers liven up Wilson Library.
Kids making crowns for themselves, with and without parental aid.
As Movimiento Cultural Afro-Continental’s drummers played driving rhythms and singers instructed families in the traditions of bomba, one young dancer learned fast about the ways that she could converse with lead drummer Kevin Diaz during the ongoing library-hosted Three Kings Day fest.
She made a gesture, and Diaz, fully attentive, responded with a crack from his drum. She gestured again, and he responded in kind on his instrument. The smiles that passed between them needed no words to convey their meaning.