Robinson leads a junior class book talk Tuesday ...
... about Stamped, a "present book" about race and America.
Should former presidents like Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson have their faces on America’s paper currency?
Sayvion Saley asked himself that question for the first time in English class as he and his Career High School classmates grappled with this country’s long, painful, sordid and complicated history of racism — with the help of a “present” book that seeks to set the record straight.
The deadly Ella T. Graso-Columbus-Davenport-Orange Avenue intersection.
As another pedestrian death reminded New Haven of the perils of walking on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, plans to make that state-owned roadway safer have been pushed back yet again.
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Artist Arizona Taylor.
On Friday evening, the small park between Shelton Avenue, the Farmington Canal Trail, and Hazel Street bloomed into a small arts festival that warmed the cool evening with an explosion of color, sound, and good conversation. It was the beginning of the Artspace-organized Open Source Festival’s weekend of making visual art appear across New Haven, not only from downtown, Westville, and East Rock, but from Newhallville and Dixwell to the Hill and Mill River.
A 68-year-old New Havener named Damaso Rosario Luna was struck and killed by a car on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard Saturday night, marking just the latest pedestrian fatality on one of the city’s most dangerous roads for walkers.
SYREN Dance members Rivkins Christopher and Lynn Peterson coordinating an improvised dance.
Two dance crews collaborated to create improvised choreography in front of a live audience and towering pencil-drawn cityscapes — and in turn brought new energy to a West Street arts gallery.
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Oct 24, 2022 8:51 am
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Erika Zelocuatecatl: "When we get together as diverse as we are, we come as a united chorus."
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Career students perform "Latino Moves" at Friday's fest.
The sounds of salsa, bachata and merengue filled Hill Regional Career High School alongside a host of Spanish-language pride as staff and students celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month.
Congress/Davenport apartment plan, now OK'd by City Plan.
Make way for 194 new apartments on Congress and Davenport Avenues, now that a California-based developer has won a key — and hotly contested — city approval.
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Oct 20, 2022 11:19 am
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From top left: Eddy Rosa, Jose Rosa, Wildaliz Bermudez.
A pair of brothers will each have to pay an additional $150 for housing each month after the Fair Rent Commission approved their landlords’ proposed rent increases — raising questions about what the appropriate market price is for a three-bedroom rental in the Hill.
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Oct 19, 2022 3:09 pm
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This empty Newhall St. church will remain an empty church, for now.
One planned convenience store won’t be coming to a former Newhallville church any time soon — while another convenience store might be on the way to the ground floor of a Hill house.
That was the upshot of two contentious Board of Zoning Appeals hearings at which two sets of neighbors pushed back hard on corner stores coming to their blocks.
Elmer Rivera Bello at Tuesday's presser on Davenport.
A dozen Hill neighborhood leaders and residents pressed for more time — and more affordable housing — in a last-ditch effort to stall a 194-unit apartment complex planned for Davenport and Congress Avenues.
Dina and Angeley Guadalupe: "Everything is so expensive."
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326 and 348 Davenport, slated for demolition.
Dina and Angeley Guadalupe aren’t opposed to a California-based developer knocking down their Davenport Avenue home and replacing the block with 194 mostly high-end apartments.
But they are worried about rushing to find a new place to live where they can afford to pay the rent.
Vacant Grant St. factory building: Future home of 140 apts?
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McCollum (right): Looking to "reposition" derelict industrial property.
The city plans to sell the publicly owned portion of a vacant Grant Street factory building to a local developer who is looking to build up to 140 new apartments, mostly for renters over the age of 50.
Valerie F. Boyd: "Is $2,000 a month affordable for a child to get started?"
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New apartment design rendering, as seen from Davenport.
A California-based developer plans to knock down six industrial buildings and two houses on Congress and Davenport Avenues and build a 194-unit luxury apartment complex in their stead — prompting pushback from Hill residents concerned about rising rents.
City 911 director Joe Vitale: "Trying to repair what is happening."
The city’s director of public safety communications had a message for the Hill South community management team: in an emergency, call 911 — not the personal number of the neighborhood’s top cop.
“We did call 911,” responded Meghan Currey, who heads the neighborhood’s Wilson Library Branch. “Nobody ever answered.”
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At Thursday's groundbreaking on Minor St.
A community of healthcare partners and political backers gathered in the Hill to celebrate the groundbreaking of Cornell Scott Hill Health Center’s new hub for behavioral health and substance abuse services.
28 Thompson: Don't expect any megalandord "For Rent" signs here.
Two new two-family houses and a rehabbed single-family home should soon be coming to the Hill and Newhallville, thanks to a local affordable homeownership nonprofit’s recent purchases of three underused lots from the city.
City Engineer Zinn: This will help mitigate harms of the "absolutely existential crisis" of climate change.
Expect less flooding on the often-flooded Union Avenue in the years ahead, thanks to a $25 million federal grant that will help the city construct a roughly 3,000-foot drainage pipe and tunnel from West Water Street to the Harbor.
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Crowd celebrates groundbreaking on broken ground of basketball court
“L’dor v’dor.”
Gus Keach-Longo, president &CEO of The Towers at Tower Lane invoked that Hebrew phrase meaning “from generation to generation” Sunday to sum up the purpose of a community garden groundbreaking and ground-floor kick-off ceremony.
The ceremony celebrated the latest expansion of the senior living facility on Tower Lane.
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Sep 14, 2022 12:33 pm
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150 Wooster St: Former Tony & Lucille's, future new Italian eatery.
Make way for gelato and cocktails on Wooster Street, empanadas on Spring Street, and truffles and cheeses and Neapolitan-style dishes near Broadway.
Those culinary ventures are each one big step closer to coming New Haven’s way, after winning requested land-use relief from the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA).
After hours of heated debate, a divided Board of Education voted to move its adult education center from the Boulevard to the former state social-services building on Bassett Street.
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Aug 24, 2022 8:10 am
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U.S. Attorney Avery on Tuesday: "Full circle moment."
Thirty years after graduating from Hill Regional Career High School, Vanessa Avery returned to the Legion Avenue public school’s auditorium to be sworn in as the state’s next top federal prosecutor.
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Aug 2, 2022 2:48 pm
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New Haven youth join New Haven, Wallingford, and North Haven Boys and Girls Clubs leaders.
The Boys and Girls Club (BGC) of New Haven and the Ulbrich BGC of Wallingford and North Haven announced Tuesday that they will merge in order to expand services to youth recovering from the impacts of the Covid pandemic while also bridging the three towns’ “cultural boundaries.”
