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Four of the city’s nine pedestrian fatalities in 2020 took place on a single, 0.4‑mile stretch of Ella T. Grasso Boulevard — making the state-owned blocks between Columbus Avenue and Adeline Street by far the city’s deadliest stretch for people on foot.
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Cops out delivering turkeys Tuesday before shifting gears and joining chase.
Police officers in the midst of serving turkeys to hungry families ended up helping make arrests in the latest incident involving teens, stolen cars, and guns.
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by | Nov 24, 2020 4:51 pm | Comments (3)
At Thanksgiving giveaways in Dixwell, West River, the Hill; hunger rampant amid pandemic.
by | Oct 31, 2020 8:52 pm | Comments (1)
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Despite heavy rain, the show went on for families in need and volunteers at a pop-up food distribution at Troup School.
by | Oct 23, 2020 10:52 am | Comments (5)
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Kyasia Parker shows her new face shield to her mom, Nikki.
The masks had arrived. So Kyasia Parker sprinted door to door, rounding up her neighbors and friends — and keeping up the momentum in a grassroots pandemic-survival effort.
by | Oct 22, 2020 3:47 pm | Comments (1)
There’s a stretch of hillside and wetlands running down from Whalley Avenue into the West River in the shadow of West Rock, roughly between Emerson and Dayton streets.
You drive by it quickly because it’s on a curve right by the Hess gas station, and a stout knee-high wall keeps the occasional pedestrian passerby from toppling over and tumbling down the wooded incline into the river
You’d be forgiven quite easily for not knowing that someone’s been trying to build on that hard-to-build steeply sloping lot for going on 20 years.
Continue reading ‘Senior-Housing Site Plan Gets 5-Year Extension’
by | Oct 13, 2020 12:37 pm | Comments (13)
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The grassy triangle at the corner of MLK and Orchard Street.
What if the city subdivided a vacant six-acre stretch at the intersection of Orchard Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard and let neighbors purchase lots to build their own townhomes there?
by | Sep 14, 2020 9:39 am | Comments (9)
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The planned new Cambria hotel at 20 Dwight St.
A Maryland-based hotel chain plans to break ground this November on a 130-room upscale hotel atop a surface parking lot on Dwight Street — ushering in the final development currently slated for the “Route 34 West” superblock.
by | Sep 8, 2020 10:23 am | Comments (4)
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Davis and Calhoun set out on mission. Below: Their haul.
After almost two hours combing through the West River, Peter Davis held up his prize catch — not a fish, but a plastic chair.
by | Sep 2, 2020 8:43 am | Comments (1)
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Julie Penn and her son Kaiden Cooper meet with teacher Gina Impronto.
Barnard School’s “Family Meet And Greet” on Tuesday.
Students, families, and staff of Barnard Magnet Elementary School went back to school Tuesday — not for in-person classes, but rather as part of a two-day, outdoor “Family Meet and Greet” to kick off the remote school year.
Continue reading ‘Barnard Preps Families For Remote Learning’
by | Sep 1, 2020 8:57 am | Comments (8)
(Updated)—A 52-year-old Hamden man named Eric Joseph Pechalonis was struck and killed Monday night at the intersection of Ella T. Grasso Boulevard and Orange Avenue.
Police have arrested the 39-year-old driver and charged him with driving under the influence, with more charges set to come.
by | Sep 1, 2020 7:28 am | Comments (1)
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Nazareth Vyraven: I like to give students something of their own.
Nazareth Vyraven is on a mission: To give a new backpack and two new face masks to every student in the schools that surround her Dwight church.
Continue reading ‘Free Backpacks, Masks Ready For Dwight Schools’
by | Aug 3, 2020 10:11 am | Comments (15)
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Kyasia Parker with aunt and youth advisor, Tynicha Drummond.
Kyasia Parker is a wanderer who loves Justin Bieber music, dancing, and is dyslexic. She likes to sing her math problems and has a hard time focusing when other students are around. But the biggest challenge she faced when she had to take online classes during the pandemic was the unstable internet at home.
by | Jul 27, 2020 10:04 am | Comments (2)
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In the parking lot behind the Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School, members of the New Haven Lions Club teamed up with Barnard Principal Bob McCain for a first-time “Shred Event” fundraiser.
by | Jul 17, 2020 11:08 am | Comments (3)
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Sidewalk stormwater art on Chapel Street. Design by fifth-grade artist Nick Ruiz.
Student artists Assata Johnson and Trinity Ford.
A half-dozen high school student artists brightened up a West River corner with painted sunflowers and swirling waves of water as part of an eco-friendly summer work project.
Continue reading ‘“Runoff Art” Flows Thru West River Corner’
by | Jun 22, 2020 9:51 am | Comments (14)
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Possible autonomous vehicle models for the pilot program.
Driverless shuttle.
A plan to pilot self-driving shuttles that would circle between Yale New Haven Hospital buildings has stalled, hitting a roadblock of skeptical alders.
by | Apr 29, 2020 2:42 pm | Comments (2)
The crew of the Community Health Care Van, repurposed for post-partum visits during Covid-19 in the Sherman-Tyler lot.
Lindsie Cohen and newborn son, after visit to repurposed van for post-natal care.
Marlena Santos brought her newborn son to a 40-foot converted school bus occupying two spaces in the Sherman-Tyler Parking Lot near Ella T. Grasso Blvd. There, an advanced practice registered nurse weighed and measured him, checked his heart rate, and listened to his lungs.
by | Apr 16, 2020 10:15 am | Comments (6)
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The proposed new neuroscience center building. Below: The proposed expanded St. Raphael’s campus development.
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Wednesday night’s virtual City Plan Commission meeting.
(Updated) The City Plan Commission unanimously signed off on Yale New Haven Hospital’s plans to build a new neuroscience medical research and treatment center on an expanded St. Raphael’s hospital campus, that will have a total of nearly 2,500 on-site parking spaces by the time construction is complete.
When that might be? Well, no one knows for sure, as the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown out the window the hospital’s previous construction timeline.
Continue reading ‘Neuro Plan Approved; Construction Delayed’
by | Mar 19, 2020 7:49 pm | Comments (2)
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Chief Alston at the scene.
A two-alarm blaze in the West River neighborhood killed an elderly woman and injured a firefighter Thursday afternoon.
by | Mar 5, 2020 5:04 pm | Comments (6)
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Alder Evette Hamilton at Dwight meeting.
Dwight neighbors have fleshed out details of a plan to avoid growing pains with the Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned neuroscience center: smooth traffic flow and welcome more employees to the neighborhood
by | Feb 21, 2020 1:18 pm | Comments (6)
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Frank Cochran at work clearing invasive species in the park.
The mystery tree with red bark (center) hides behind a dead tree near the Edgewood Skate Park.
Frank Cochran looked up from clearing rose vines near the base of a large tree — and saw what looked like a California redwood.
An old one. Standing in Edgewood Park. In New Haven.
Could it be?
by | Feb 14, 2020 1:07 pm | Comments (13)
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One of the statues in Broadway Triangle’s Civil War monument.
Sarah Adams walked between Elm Street and Broadway hundreds of times before she first realized that the unassuming triangular plot of grassy lawns and brick walkways between the two streets is a park.
by | Jan 23, 2020 8:59 am | Comments (29)
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City Plan’s Leslie Radcliffe: It will take “one failure to be a tragedy.”
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Driverless shuttles: Coming soon to a hospital near you?
A plan to test driverless shuttles on New Haven streets advanced Wednesday night — with dissenters raising fears about public safety and the loss of human drivers’ jobs.
by | Jan 7, 2020 11:10 pm | Comments (4)
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Proposed garage at Chapel and Orchard looking south towards George.
Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned new neuroscience center, St. Raphael’s campus expansion, and associated parking garages earned a suite of unanimous aldermanic approvals, paving the way for construction of the nearly $1 billion project to begin later this spring.
by | Jan 7, 2020 6:11 pm | Comments (4)
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Peter Davis, Dennis Riordan, Jolene Woodard, Craig Repasz, Robin Ladouceur, Chris Howe, Jean Webber, Matt Mallon, Patrick Lynch, Lauren Chicoski, Ranger Harry Coyle (kneeling), and Sam Rubin.
We did it, and it was pretty amazing.