Updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 1:37pm
By 4 p.m. on Wednesday, 60 people stood in line outside the door of the Columbus House homeless shelter on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, where the lobby was littered with vestiges of people on the move — beat-up suitcases, black trash bags filled with belongings, bundles of bed linens. The new shelter has opened at a time when the city is blaming the state government, at...
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...
On an icy Thursday afternoon, three federal agents in a Chevy uplander brimming with boxes of documents drive down Whalley Avenue. A U-Haul truck soon pulls up to the entrance of the Community Action Agency of New Haven, and frightened employees watch as more than a dozen agents burst through the front door marked with a scrap of yellow notebook paper reading “Agency...
A local memorial built to honor lives lost in the war in Iraq has been vandalized four times in the past week, prompting only muted response from city officials and Yale students, most of whom seemed aware of the monument’s existence. The memorial — a pile of stones that represent every month of the Iraq War, with each stone inscribed with the number of U.S. military...
Aramark, the food-services company formerly employed by Yale University Dining Services, is now facing allegations of mismanagement and poor food quality from cafeteria workers and custodians in New Haven Public Schools. Complaints about Aramark began in late November when a few parents expressed concern over the food quality at a school board meeting and have escalated...
The University announced last week that it has renewed and expanded its popular Homebuyer Program, an initiative that has helped hundreds of University employees purchase homes in the Elm City for over a decade. The program, which was conceived and launched by University President Richard Levin in one of his first acts in office, will now offer $30,000 to Yale employees...
San Francisco may have snagged national headlines with the creation of a municipal ID card last month, but New Haven, which pioneered a similar card in May, has not finished settling immigration business of its own. Gateway Community College on Wednesday released the results of a discussion on immigration that took place at the school in October — about two months...
For many of New Haven’s homeless and poor, chicken dinner at soup kitchens every night is a sign of bad times. A shortage in food-bank supplies, which has resulted in scantier offerings for the poor and hungry nationwide, has hit home locally, New Haven hunger advocates said. As Congress debates a farm bill that experts say has the potential to increase access to food...
Against a backdrop of bustling evening traffic and winter darkness, more than 50 members of the New Haven community gathered Monday night to inaugurate a memorial for city residents killed in the Iraq war. But Yale students were mostly M.I.A. The monument — situated on a traffic island across Elm Street from Ivy Noodle and titled a “Memorial to an Endless War” —...
At its annual conference in New Orleans on Thursday, the National League of Cities honored New Haven for its ground-breaking immigration policies — in particular, the creation of the Elm City Resident Card. The league selected New Haven from among 168 other cities in its population category as the gold winner of the Award for Municipal Excellence. As part of the award...
Ward 7 Alderwoman Frances “Bitsie” Clark can still remember clearly the time she was most impressed with the youth of New Haven. She remembers a girl who came to the front of the stage at one of two public youth hearing hosted by the Board of Aldermen last year to speak against a teenage curfew proposal. “You gave birth to us,” Clark said the girl said to the...
Efforts to provide identification for undocumented immigrants nationwide lurched forward and backwards yesterday. In anticipation of overwhelming opposition from New York legislators and courts, Gov. Eliot Spitzer last night said he plans to abandon a highly controversial proposal to issue driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. Meanwhile, San Francisco became...
