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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.
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Salvatore, left, at Tuesday night’s meeting.
A factory that for almost two centuries turned out parts for horse-drawn carriages and then cars and trucks may now become the latest Wooster Square housing conversion, at the hands of one of New Haven’s busiest builders.
by | Nov 17, 2015 5:11 pm | Comments (17)
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Before crossing Olive at Greene Street to get to his car, Giovanni Zinn pressed a button at the intersection to flash a message to passing drivers.
Continue reading ‘“Rapid Flashes” Slow Olive Street Traffic’
by | Nov 10, 2015 8:49 am | Comments (15)
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Sharon Lewis said she wants her four grandchildren to ultimately have better educational options in New Haven, evening out the playing field instead of allowing for disparity.
Continue reading ‘Charter School Families Call For More Funding’
by | Oct 26, 2015 12:06 pm | Comments (8)
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Courtney Ciesla wasn’t sure she was ready to open. Then she took the curtain down off of the window of the new Fuel Coffee Shop, to reveal people waiting outside.
by | Oct 7, 2015 3:02 pm | Comments (20)
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Sgt. Roy Davis offered Wooster Square neighbors scared of increased crime a promise for more officers — and advice to keep their fear in check.
Continue reading ‘New Top Wooster Sq. Cop: Attack “Fear Of Crime”’
by | Oct 1, 2015 2:13 pm | Comments (1)
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Ross cleaning trash in Wooster Square.
Andy Ross, a realtor and Wooster Square activist who ran for alder on a good-government platform, appealed to his former neighbors for forgiveness in the wake of his guilty plea on a bribery charge.
by | Aug 27, 2015 3:57 pm | Comments (8)
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Cafe Sunrise’s three major amigos, Ragsdale, Gabriel, and Johnson
The people on line at Wooster Square’s remarkable new breakfast spot, most of them homeless, are asked these questions: Your name? Your table number? And would you like banana or pineapple for your homemade smoothie?
Continue reading ‘Sunrise Cafe Serves Oatmeal Topped With Dignity’
by | Aug 3, 2015 2:59 pm | Comments (4)
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Two buses pulled away from the steps of City Hall, carrying over 100 volunteers, gardeners, and scientists.
by | Jul 31, 2015 8:58 am | Comments (0)
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Uma Bhandaram directed a volunteer to pour a “mulch donut” around a newly planted dogwood tree on a Lyon Street sidewalk’s patch of earth.
by | Jul 27, 2015 12:16 pm | Comments (0)
Wanted: proposals from consultants interested in planning Wooster Square neighborhood’s transit-oriented development.
by | Jul 24, 2015 2:02 pm | Comments (10)
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“B” soliciting for change at Chapel and Temple: “I can understand why they feel the need” to rein in panhandlers.
Following people into restaurants. Going table-to-table asking for money. Pressuring people for spare change at parking meters. Tag-teaming high-traffic intersections.
Panhandlers are using those high-pressure tactics, according to downtown and Wooster Square neighbors. They’ve appealed for help.
by | Jul 20, 2015 1:05 pm | Comments (0)
Christmas came early for Lucy Sasso on Sunday, when she was invited to help reveal a new statue for the Santa Maria Maddalena Society (SSMM).
by | Jul 16, 2015 1:12 pm | Comments (8)
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New Haven still believes it can do better than having a strip club at a sprawling complex where more than 1,500 workers once turned out more than three million clocks a year. The state has agreed to help that quest.
Continue reading ‘State Approves $200K For Clock Factory Study’
by | Jul 10, 2015 12:06 pm | Comments (18)
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Mom Vega and daughter Kaira swing into action.
Litter-weary Grand Avenue neighbors took to the street — with rakes and brooms.
by | Jun 26, 2015 4:21 pm | Comments (1)
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Curtains were pulled aside, and the image of a saint emerged.
Continue reading ‘St. Andrew’s Spirit Lives On At 115th Festa’
by | Jun 22, 2015 4:19 pm | Comments (1)
Erik Good teared up at the end of his speech to the graduating class of 2015 — which he delivered days after the district suddenly removed him and two other administrators from their positions at High School in the Community.
by | Jun 3, 2015 10:12 am | Comments (0)
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Sullivan (left), a candidate in the first Board of Ed student election.
At a campaign event replete with free doughnuts and dancing to the Cupid Shuffle, a candidate for New Haven’s school board wanted voters to know her plans for reforming secondary education — and, just as importantly, that an election is taking place at all.
by | May 26, 2015 12:14 pm | Comments (2)
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The Queen of Wooster Square is gone.
by | May 25, 2015 2:46 pm | Comments (20)
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By the end of the summer Fuel Coffee Shop plans to say goodbye to the corner of Chapel and Chestnut streets.
by | May 19, 2015 3:34 pm | Comments (0)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s winding and cavernous Carceri, reimagined and rendered in bright watercolor for the year 2015. The late New Haven Coliseum, captured gracefully in stages of its demolition. Floating, torso-less anuses blooming into dahlias. A fantasy plane of strings and one blown-up, unattached molar, suspended in a universe that is not quite of this world or the next.
by | May 18, 2015 11:44 am | Comments (5)
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Squillacote and Almodovar make their case.
Wooster Square neighbors will have to wait for the right development project to come to their stretch of Grand Avenue.
Continue reading ‘No Homes In 1st-Floor Storefront, Zoners Rule’
by | May 6, 2015 8:10 am | Comments (6)
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Larry Conaway is counting down until graduation. Wednesday marks 9 days until final exams and 25 until his students graduate — and at his alternative school, all 16 of his seniors need an extra hand to get there.
Continue reading ‘Finish Line In Mind, Principal Gets Creative’
by | May 4, 2015 8:14 am | Comments (0)
Contributed Photos
Wooster Square activist Peter Webster sent in this write-up and these photos. Click here and here for previous articles about this project.
The shabby, neglected dumping-ground called Russo Park, on the tiny connecting street between Chapel Street and Wooster Street, site of the Saturday Wooster Square City Seed Farmers Market, is being recast in splendor: Harvey’s Walk.