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Jul 21, 2016 7:52 am
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Engineer Tim Onderko explains plan for future U-Haul site.
Plans to turn the former C. Cowles & Co. factory on Water Street in to a U‑Haul storage facility moved closer to reality, while a developer pulled the plug for now on her own plans to provide boat storage along the Qunnipiac River.
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Aliyya Swaby |
Jul 19, 2016 7:41 am
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If pizza-heavy Wooster Street were laid with cobblestone and lined with a mix of Italian and non-Italian-Amiercan businesses — would it attract more pedestrians?
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Jul 11, 2016 7:25 am
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Opposition organizer Kerekes.
State officials scaled back plans for promoting historic preservation in Wooster Square after a small but vocal group of neighbors protested the proposal.
Barbara Iannaconne has spent thousands of dollars on renovations to bring 86 William St. to the modern age from 1870 over the last 29 years. Now she worries that if all of Wooster Square becomes “historic,” she’ll have to spend more money — money she doesn’t have.
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Jun 24, 2016 7:04 am
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Standing in front of hundreds, Marie Apicella carefully tugged on one side of a soft, red curtain. On the other side, Anthony Pisanelli did the same, the two unveiling the statue of Saint Andrew the Apostle, the patron saint of Amalfi, Italy.
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Allan Appel |
May 30, 2016 9:40 am
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Rhoda Zahler Samuel leads pilot walking tour.
The former settlement house site, where Cavaliere played as a boy.
A mission to develop New Haven’s rich ethnic history into structured neighborhood “walks” added some new data: Emiddio Cavaliere’s memories of how kindly old Mr. Gitlitz took care of Italian-American kids like him at the original Farnam Neighborhood House, in Wooster Memorial Park.
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May 18, 2016 7:28 am
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Kraus, Yagovane on site.
Clocks retail a buck fifty.
More than half a century after the New Haven Clock Factory closed, the images of long-gone workers on the factory floor and the artists who squatted there after the machines fell silent appeared on the crumbling walls.
In Connecticut campaigning for the Democratic presidential campaign of his wife Hillary, former President Bill Clinton surprised the patrons of Wooster Square’s Original Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana at just after 6 p.m. Thursday.
As transit officials prepare to test a “pop-up” temporary protected bike lane on Olive Street, some neighbors organized against them— while others signed up to help build it.
When the flowers did not bloom in time for the first Cherry Blossom Festival in 1974, “Queen of Wooster Square” Beverly Carbonella wired fake blossoms onto a Yoshino cherry tree for a newspaper photo op.
You might have only a month to pedal on New Haven’s first-ever protected bike lane — or it may become permanent. Either way, you can help build it and then decide if it should remain.
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Apr 12, 2016 7:15 am
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Without fanfare, the attractive benches have returned to Wooster Square Park, restored, plaqued, spiffy, and bolted into place.
They are there gleaming in the sunlight as if waiting for the hundreds of visitors expected at the upcoming Cherry Blossom Festival on April 24 to have comfortable places to rest and take in the history and beauty of one of the city’s most notable settings.
Guest takes helm of the “Toyota rather than the Cadillac.”
Donald Guest joked that he emerged with “no damaged equipment and no damaged people” after his first day of the season training to drive a street sweeper to clean winter’s gunk from the side of the curb.
Michael Smart was walking home on William Street in Wooster Square when a man who spoke little English asked for help: He had no running water in his apartment, he said, and his building was falling apart.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 17, 2016 12:04 pm
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The approved sites are directly north of the entryway at East and Ives in the picture; the proposed new piles of dry materials would be half as high as these salt piles.
Piles of steel, rebar, and other heavy industrial materials are about to grow higher along the banks of the Mill River, despite fears of neighbors about what’s in the dust that gets kicked up in the process.
The medical prognosis called for Wooster Square’s “officer of the year” to turn in his badge and pass quietly into the night.
Instead, he beat that prognosis, survived five years of grueling radiation and chemotherapy treatments for a brain tumor, got married, kept coming to work, and continued living a full life.
Brand-new heiress Wendy Hamilton said that she wants to donate a million inherited dollars to the city’s poor, black and homeless — a process that’s at times is proving more complicated than she expected.
Salvatore presents Cowles plan to Wooster Square neighbors.
The potential sale of an abandoned old Wooster Square factory has been put on hold not because pollution was found there —- but because it wasn’t found there.
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Feb 10, 2016 4:38 pm
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At St. Paul and St. James Church on Wooster Street, the band was already swinging through some New Orleans classics and the food was out, a rich spread of gumbo, jambalaya, and rice and beans, complemented by a stack of pies from Pepe’s and a salad.
“Did you get a plate?” a parishioner asked. “It’s Fat Tuesday. You’re supposed to indulge a little.”
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Allan Appel |
Jan 21, 2016 5:05 pm
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Layne & DeGray cart away the benches, en route to repairs.
If you want to have a seat or enjoy a siesta in Wooster Square on one of these fine, brisk, winter afternoons, you’ll have to settle for the grass, or a rock, or one of the limited places at the DeLauro Family Table on the northern end of the stately park.
Tenant Vincenti: Giving up on management, moving out.
It turns out that the Strouse, Adler apartment complex by the State Street train station has far bigger problems than a busted water-heater — and the city has issued an emergency demand for immediate action.
Wooster Square got in the holiday spirit, dunking old-fashioned donuts in warm cider, exchanging warm wishes, and wassailing — ye olde English word for caroling — with the help of the New Haven Oratorio Choir.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Dec 3, 2015 9:08 am
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Salvatore with neighbors Wednesday night.
Bring in people who will value the neighborhood. Make it affordable, but not too “affordable.” And for the good of all, create enough parking to avoid disrupting the neighborhood.