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.
Harvey Koizim (pictured), the late beloved, respected neighbor, the man responsible for City Seed, farmers markets, and much else good for New Haven, is being memorialized with an informal “walk” in his honor.
David Moser (pictured), the undervalued city landscape architect for New Haven, has designed a stand of perennial shrubs — Rhododendron, Azalea and Mountain Laurel — plants that Harvey loved that are being planted as I post, under a great stand of Eastern White Pine.
This is phase one.
Ruth Koizim, widow of Harvey, and a professor of French at Yale, is underwriting this initial planting and the drip irrigation system to sustain it.
David Moser.
A rendering of the finished Harvey’s Walk in Russo Park.
The Historic Wooster Square Association and the Wooster Square Conservancy, the neighbors who produce the Cherry Blossom Festival (42 years!), are supporting this effort to memorialize Harvey and beautify our neighborhood for everyone.