Kimberly Square Gets Time Of Day
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| May 13, 2024 6:33 pm |A clock unveiling at Kimberly Square was running late — until Rafael Flores ran across the street with a ladder, right on time.
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| May 13, 2024 6:33 pm |A clock unveiling at Kimberly Square was running late — until Rafael Flores ran across the street with a ladder, right on time.
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| Jul 19, 2023 4:57 pm |The city’s non-cop crisis crew will now be on call for twice as many hours a day, remain reachable through the night, and respond directly to emergencies without police or fire intervening first.
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| Jun 23, 2023 2:15 pm |A Kimberly Square supermarket won its final needed city approval to construct a roughly 3,300 square foot addition — as part of an expansion project that will also see a larger parking lot and a knocked-down house.
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| Jun 22, 2023 3:56 pm |Energized by the summer solstice sunshine on the longest day of the year, Hill neighbors brought a bit of good-natured heat and opposition to a preliminary city proposal to close off a section of Greenwich Avenue to make a little plaza or “public realm” — as part of a broader street-scape redo of Kimberly Square.
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| Mar 7, 2023 10:44 am |Yezenia Lebron succeeded in finding pork loin, bacalao, and Fiesta Campesina flower cookies at her go-to Grand Avenue grocery store — even as she struggled to get used to the supermarket’s new name above the door.
Five towering trees were sentenced to death on a crowded west side street. Meanwhile, across town, stewards whacked at vines in a reclaimed park to enable other trees to survive and thrive.
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| Dec 14, 2022 4:27 pm |A Kimberly Square supermarket is looking to stock more shelves and serve more shoppers — by first paving more parking spaces and later tearing down a two-family home.
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| Dec 14, 2022 1:33 pm |An online holiday party replete with ugly sweaters and good cheer brought into focus a vision for a bustling, business-friendly Kimberly Square .
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| Dec 6, 2022 9:00 am |Eight-year-old Nova and her three-year-old sister Zora shared big smiles as they posed for a photo on Santa’s lap. When St. Nick asked Nova what she wants for Christmas this year, she surprised him. She said she didn’t care about what to ask for.
“I just want to be grateful no matter what I get.”
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| Jun 8, 2022 1:35 pm |Twenty-seven community gardens and three nature preserves will get new soil, tools, hoop houses, raised beds, and other improvements thanks to an infusion of state cash.
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| Feb 10, 2022 4:17 pm |New Haveners can now find love — and gift baskets — in Kimberly Square, at the newly opened Angela’s Unique Creations.
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| Feb 9, 2022 12:54 pm |Neighbors heard about plans to fix up Kimberly Field — and threw in their own plan: To ensure that people power makes it safe to use.
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| Feb 23, 2021 2:31 pm |Hill pedestrians may soon have a safer — and more scenic — path through Kimberly Square.
Taco truck owner Carlos Rodriguez is further along the way to converting a vacant city-owned lot into a commercial kitchen with apartments on top after clearing a legislative hurdle.
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Balmer Gonzalez was closing up shop at his Colombian restaurant in the Hill when a group of strangers rolled down their car window and sprayed him and his family with bullets.
So Gonzalez pulled a handgun from his back pocket and returned fire. And ended up arrested.
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The four Democratic mayoral candidates honed their campaign stump speeches — with lists of accomplishments, idealistic visions for the future, critiques of the status quo, and even some stand-up comedy — as they sought to win the local party’s endorsement.
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| May 24, 2019 12:26 pm |Developers and real estate management companies are buying up at a frenetic pace the dwindling number of privately owned homes that give the neighborhood its character.
Nonprofits too are increasing the number of units they own in the area.
Meanwhile the city is poised to make a push to create more affordable housing, with a new proposal to create an affordable housing commission.
In the face of all these changes, some of the last Hill South homeowners have banded together to resist new real estate pressures and to have more of a say in how their neighborhood changes.
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| Mar 21, 2019 2:52 pm |The cops put the kibosh on a string of robberies of pizza deliverers in the Hill South neighborhood, where police believe a tech-savvy 15 year-old was using a scrambled phone number app he had downloaded in order to lure his pie-and-cash bearing victims.
Meanwhile, officers got word of a new problem — open gambling, smoking, and dealing a few blocks farther along on Greenwich Avenue at Galvin Park.
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| Mar 7, 2019 8:28 am |According to a newly released police report, the officer who exchanged shots with a fleeing suspect in the Hill in January fired the first bullet — after the suspect responded to orders to stop and raise his hands by pointing a gun at the officer instead.
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| Feb 8, 2019 1:37 am |Detectives are pouring through over 600 pages of medical records as they seek to prove that a chainlink fence — rather than a large, armed, unidentified assailant — was the source of a hand injury on a man accused of shooting at city police.
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| Jan 28, 2019 1:49 pm |A 55-year-old West Haven woman riding in a Honda minivan died in a crash in New Haven’s Hill neighborhood.
A newly available state report about an “officer-involved shooting” reveals that last week wasn’t the first time a 22-year-old city man led cops on a chase.
When they caught him this time in Kimberly Square, he broke free. He fired at least one shot; officers fired numerous bullets. He fled.
When cops found him again, he had shed his jacket and pants — and claimed to be a robbery victim. A telltale tattoo gave him away.
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Officers grabbed a fleeing man who had allegedly just shot at a cop. Then they kept him talking and applied first aid until medics could arrive on the scene.
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| Jan 9, 2019 4:51 pm |Kimberly Square was on partial lockdown Wednesday as state police scoured for clues in an “officer-involved” shooting the night before, and neighbors like Ghost processed the drama they saw unfold in their neighborhood.
Given New Haven’s broken bus system, how would car-less New Haveners get to a new primary care center planned for Long Wharf?
Yale-New Haven Hospital and the city’s two community health centers will have to answer that question over the next two weeks to win state permission to transform the way that New Haven’s poor get medical care.
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