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Cherry blossoms were in full splendor in time for Sunday’s fest.
St. Luke’s Steel Band performs at the event.
Both the old and the new Wooster Square were on display at this year’s Cherry Blossom Festival, where octogenarian ladies from the Amalfi Coast chatted with old friends they hadn’t seen in years, couples danced to salsa music, women in saris made paper flowers, and families lined up for La Carreta’s tacos.
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Apr 7, 2017 1:28 pm
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Edgewood basketball court, among those slated for resealing.
Carone, Bombero, and Dixon detail projects at hearing.
New Haven basketball players can look forward to smoother surfaces and clearer three-point lines at courts throughout the city. Wooster Square will be better lit at night. And more security cameras may pop up in city parks.
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Apr 3, 2017 8:03 am
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McBride: Our clients need a place to go.
New Haven’s top economic development official has promised to help a Grand Avenue homeless shelter find a new home now that the zoning board has denied its request for permission to move to an empty building on an industrial strip around the corner.
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Lawyer Erskine McIntosh (center), with ESMS’s Arnold Johnson (left) and Curtis McBride (right) at hearing.
Operators of a Grand Avenue homeless shelter looking to move around the block will have to wait at least another month before the zoning board can vote on its relocating request. The reason for the delay: missing paperwork, and an incomplete application.
Carlos Alvarado, who sleeps on the back seat of a Honda Civic, picks up his new bag Tuesday.
In addition to eggs, oatmeal, orange juice, yogurt, and granola bars, a special pre-Thanksgiving item appeared on the menu for homeless diners at Wooster Square’s Sunrise Cafe: sleeping bags that can keep them warm when it’s as cold as zero degrees out.
The first delivery of water came even before Williams Tisdale, Donald Williams and Jamal Watts finished planting a new cherry tree on Artizan Street Wednesday.
The following was submitted by LEAP Executive Director Henry Fernandez about the organization’s Oct. 28. Halloween festivities.
LEAP’s annual Halloween Party was a blast. Hundreds of children, parents, grandparents and volunteers joined for a magical and spooky night complete with games, pumpkin painting, trick-or-treating, movies and a “haunted house” that was in fact a haunted locker room. Here are some highlights.
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Oct 20, 2016 7:53 am
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Harris at groundbreaking.
Brenda Harris is becoming a minor celebrity at Farnam Courts redevelopment groundbreakings.
The lifelong tenant — shovel in hand and hard hat atop her head — wielded a shovel at the groundbreaking for the now almost-done first phase of the redevelopment at the 75-year-old public-housing complex on Grand Avenue. And she was there again with a shovel Wednesday as phase two of its rebuilding got underway.
If you are looking for a fun and safe way to celebrate Halloween with your kids, LEAP has the perfect answer! Join LEAP and our neighbors on Lyon and William Streets for the organization’s annual Community Halloween Festival for children. The Festival will be held Friday, Oct. 28, at LEAP’s community center at 31 Jefferson Street in New Haven from 4:30 to 7:30 pm.
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Wooster Square neighbors with Holly Parker of Nelson Nygaard.
Imagine State Street handling the same volume of traffic as now, but running straight and in two directions all the way from Grand Avenue to Water Street. Imagine narrower lanes slowing traffic for pedestrians, plus “cycletracks” on either side of the boulevard that divides downtown and Wooster Square.
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Sep 25, 2016 10:44 am
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The late Officer Krause.
One night in 2004, Officer Peter Krause was on duty when he noticed an inebriated young man stumbling through Wooster Square. Instead of arresting the man, Krause — or “Officer Pete” to the neighbors — sat him down on a nearby bench to chat about his night.
When an ambulance arrived, Krause escorted him to the hospital, where the young man was detoxed, and told him that he was free to talk anytime.
Yale Peabody’s Jim Sirch helps unveil student-made sign to mark the habitat entrance.
Students serenade audience before unveiling.
Julie Peterman said the most difficult part of building a habitat behind Conte West Hills School was preparing the ground — given that a 1964 factory burning left pieces of brick and concrete hidden under the soil.
A Philadelphia developer appears to have reached the end of the line in its efforts to stop competitors from building hundreds of new market-rate apartments at the edge of Wooster Square, connecting the neighborhood to downtown.
Ben Berkowitz shows summiteers the Union Street dog park.
Hausladen on traffic-calmed Olive Street.
Ross Whitsett walked by a crowd of visitors from across the country as he navigated Olive Street on his way downtown for a sandwich. He noticed a man with a suit telling the visitors about traffic-calming.
“There are no crosswalks anywhere around [Wooster] Square!” Whitsett called out to the suited man.
The suited man explained that the state had just paved the neighborhood’s main roads, that restriping will follow soon.
“When’s it going to be painted?” Whitsett pressed.
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Jul 26, 2016 7:44 am
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U-Haul’s Scioritino: Sky’s not falling.
An historic building transformed into a corporate warehouse. A line of noisy trucks speeding through the neighborhood day and night. An opportunity for growth foiled by a chain of broken promises.
