Locals in dark on colleges
After Levin endorses expansion, residents near proposed site consider impact
Winchester and Mansfield streets are generally quiet, residents say, and seem far removed from the Yale campus. Except when the bustle of Friday-night hockey games at Ingalls Rink makes parking virtually impossible, locals say they appreciate the residential environment, everything from the low crime to the fresh air.
But for the residents of this neighborhood, just north of the Prospect-Sachem Triangle that would house Yale’s two new residential colleges, all that could change come Friday.
The next decade may see a new, as yet undefined, relationship between the old...
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2006/09/yale.php
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/18431
The stories seem right -- how many really know what's really going on?
Ha! Good on ya, poster! Boo hoo, how those YDN reporters love the "human interest" angle: LOCALS KEPT IN THE DARK! LOCALS SHUT OUT OF NEGOTIATIONS! LOCALS MISLED!
Oi.
If you have complaints, go start your OWN company/business/school and duke it out for New Haven land (and I mean that: it would be good for all involved!).
Yale is the anchor that keeps once-proud New Haven from slipping into the Sound, to be forever forgotten. All hail Yale!
Yes, Hieronymus, how strange that the YDN would be interested in an angle of the story that is only paid lip service if mentioned at all in University press releases on the proposed expansion.
While it is not necessarily surprising that the surrounding community is as uninformed as the broad Yale community, it's certainly worth noting that University administrators stand to earn plenty of enmity from Yale's neighbors by continuing its standing policy of announcing a new phase of the project once every year or so, then retreating back into the shadows.
New Haven Mayor John DeStefano said Wednesday he supports the proposal. Yale has done a good job of blending development with its surroundings, he said.
"It will create additional economic activity, it will strengthen the university," DeStefano said.
-- Hartford Courant, February 20, 2008
No noise pollution?!! Do the excess number of dump trucks (with their air brakes) driving to various Yale construction sites via Winchester/Sachem not count? How about the 6-8 month steam pipe replacement project in 2006 that started at 7am every morning, jack hammers and all? Not to mention the two gas leaks (one at 3am) that resulted from this steam pipe project... Oh, the inconvenience of having concrete barriers blocking footpath access to our front door for a month? I've lived on Sachem/Winchester for 3 years and I'm moving out this summer. The thought of living near 2 to 3 new construction projects is too much to handle after what we've been through so far. Graduate students beware!!
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/18012