Resident reports that the trash (brown toter) was not emptied.

no pick up last week!

There has been excessive drug dealing on Sea Street and South Water St, (often done behind the Sound School buildings, dumpsters, etc.) Many residents have observed this on various nights and have called police with car descriptions (and eventually a license plate number, see the SeeClixFix issue entitled "NHPD Dispatch Refuse to Dispatch Officers" for more on this).
On one night that an officer did respond, he told the resident that called it in that there is nothing he can do "unless the Sound School posts a 'No Trespassing' sign, since it is public property." I am told that the officer then left without getting out of his car.

While I find this assertion hard to believe, I'd like to request that the city or the school posts appropriate "No Trespassing" signs so that the residents who live here might receive a better police response.

owner cleared rear yard last year & placed brush pile on curb strip/tree strip on Second St. deadend side of his property. Attracting illegal dumping here.

This house has been an eyesore for at least 9 years. Owner was issued a citation by LCI on 10/24/03. Debris still on porch & in back yard, building falling apart, continually vandalized. Mayor & Board of Aldermen owe neighbors an explanation of why this has been allowed to fester and degrade our neighborhood for so long.

Litter all over front of property and tree strip, garbage can overflowing, never removed from treesstrip. LCI NEEDS TO FINE OWNER $100 PER DAY. WE WOULDN'T NEED A TAX HIKE IF CITY ENFORCED LAWS.

Drug dealers, 299 Greenwich & Intimidation

Throughout history Evil Forces have dominated entire populations with one powerful technique: INTIMIDATION.
Example # 1: 100 years ago in the South, there were more blacks than whites. And among that white minority the Klu Klux Klan was an even smaller minority. Yet through acts of INTIMIDATION—midnight lynchings, cross burnings, fearsome costumes—they were able to so intimidate the black population that their only recourse was to begin the Great Migration northward during the 1930s.
Example # 2: On Nov. 9, 1938 Nazi thugs smashed the windows of Jewish shops and synagogues: an event that came to be known as Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”).
This was the culmination of anti-Jewish laws passed in Germany during the previous several years, and so INTIMIDATED the Jewish population that they ultimately were led away like cattle to be slaughtered in concentration camps.
THE GANG AT 299 GREENWICH AVE. USED THIS SAME TECHNIQUE!
When they taunted passersby, did burnouts with their cars in front of your homes, blasted music at 4:00 AM, openly and blatantly sold drugs, smashed your windshields, they didn’t do this because it was “fun”. They did it to INTIMIDATE you, to tell you that they now own your street and your neighborhood.
BUT WE WERE NOT INTIMIDATED! WE FOUGHT BACK. AND WE HAVE REGAINED OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, OUR HOMES, THE PEACE & TRANQUILITY THAT IS OUR RIGHT.
LET THIS BE A WARNING TO ANYONE WHO DARES TAKE THIS RIGHT AWAY FROM US. WE WILL FIGHT YOU. WE WILL NOT GIVE IN TO YOUR EVIL, SELFISH INTENTIONS.
AND***WE**WILL**WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Christopher Schaefer
www.CityPointNewHavenConnecticut.net

The pile of discarded furniture, etc. behind 375 Greenwich has been growing for about 2 weeks. Owners are Clement & Helen Eneh of Stratford, CT 203-526-7045 [Neighbors might want to write down this phone number for future reference...]

Pile of garbage, trash, broken furniture has been sitting in the back yard of 375-381 Greenwich Ave. for over a week. Owner is Helen Eneh of Stratford 203-526-7045

Tree in front of 401 Greenwich Ave.--in the City Point Neighborhood--is dead and needs to be removed.

One of New Haven’s newest Greenspace groups begins its second year!
WHAT WE DO: plant trees, shrubs, flowers in the tree strip [curb strip] in front of your home or apartment: the area between the sidewalk and curb. (This particular Greenspace group does NOT do front yards or parks/public spaces.) Plants are FREE!
WHERE: the area bounded by and including Hallock Ave., Greenwich Ave., and South Water St., including Howard Ave. from Lamberton St. to South Water St., and the cross streets in this area: First through Sixth Streets & Sea St.
WHEN: June through July. Days of week & times to be determined by group members. So join now and we’ll accommodate your schedule! Also, if you join now you can help us determine which locations on the aforementioned streets we’ll tackle this season.
HOW TO JOIN: Call me, Chris Schaefer, at 203-668-6348. If no answer, PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE and I’ll return your call. OR email me: schaeferchristopher@yahoo.com
“As neighbors work together to beautify their homes, they begin to identify other problems of concern: trash, crime, abandonment, etc. Before you know it, a tree planting project creates common ground which helps solve a variety of problems…” Community Greenspace Manual: Urban Resources Initiative
For more info about this program go to
http://environment.yale.edu/uri/programs/

Several car bumpers have been dumped on the sidewalk at the intersection of Hallock Ave. and First St., in the City Point neighborhood.

There has been a pile of discarded furniture, etc. in front of 222 Hallock AVE for about a week.

375[-381] Greenwich Ave. [owners: Clement & Helen Eneh of Stratford 203-526-7045] has had a large pile of broken furniture, mattress, hubcaps, etc. along rear yard fence [facing Second St.] for over a month. In far corner of yard there also are discarded auto parts. Owners need an order from LCI to clean it up (again...).

A tire has been dumped on the sidewalk on Hallock Ave, across from intersection of Second St.

Pile of furniture has been discarded in front of 198 Hallock AVENUE. There are no signs posted [e.g. no parking], indicating that there is a bulk pick-up scheduled for tomorrow[which would be March 8, 2012]. Therefore this is an illegal trash pile.

Pile of furniture has ben discarded along side of 126 Hallock AVENUE [along Fourth St]. There are no signs posted [e.g. no parking], indicating that there is a bulk pick-up scheduled for tomorrow[which would be March 8, 2012], therefore this is an illegal trash pile.

owner of 234 Howard Ave (@ corner of Third St.) seeks zoning variance to add ADDITIONAL apartments. Meeting of Board of Zoning Appeals is TOMORROW evening, Tues. March 13, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Public Hearing Room, Hall of Records, 200 Orange St. Here’s the wording of the variance application: Variance to allow 896 sq. ft. of lot area per dwelling unit where 3500 sq. ft. are required; allow 2 on-site parking spaces where 6 are required. [In reality not even 2 cars can park in back due to trash toters, etc.]

Last March a tragedy put a hole in our street and in our hearts, when number 305 Howard Ave. (Santos family’s home) was destroyed in an explosion, and the Antrum/Rivers home on the left (309) and Ortiz home on the right (301) were heavily damaged, temporarily dislocating these families. [See uploaded photo.]
Neighbors want to create “tree surround gardens” in front of their damaged homes, so they’ll know that their neighbors haven’t forgotten them—and that we’re looking forward to their return. (Plants will be provided for FREE by Yale’s Urban Resources Initiative Greenspace program.)
But we need YOU to help with the planting.
We’d also like to plant FREE trees, shrubs, or FLOWERS in the tree strip [curb strip/area between the sidewalk and curb] in front of YOUR home or apartment. (Take a look at Howard Ave. from Second to Fourth Streets to see what your neighbors did last year. This particular Greenspace group works approximately in the area bounded by First St., Hallock Ave., Fifth St., Greenwich Ave., including that portion of Howard and the numbered cross streets between.)
WHEN: June through July. Days of week & times will be determined by group members. So join now and we’ll accommodate your schedule! Also, if you join now you can help us determine which additional locations on the aforementioned streets we’ll tackle this season.

HOW TO JOIN: Call me, Chris Schaefer, at 203-668-6348. If no answer, PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE and I’ll return your call. OR email me: schaeferchristopher@yahoo.com

“As neighbors work together to beautify their homes, they begin to identify other problems of concern: trash, crime, abandonment, etc. Before you know it, a planting project creates common ground which helps solve a variety of problems…” Community Greenspace Manual: Urban Resources Initiative

For more info about this program go to
http://www.environment.yale.edu/uri/programs/community-greenspace/

To see one of our planting sessions last year go to https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2231743476732.2131313.1342249996&type=3&l=a33eb6323e

2 tires have been dumped on Howard Ave., near the intersection of Second St.

This vacant lot, belonging to Kenneth Barclay [also owner of abutting 235 Howard Ave.], has become an overgrown jungle and is attracting illegal dumping. Owner needs to be ordered to completely clear the lot--and to keep it that way.

an old broken TV has been dumped on the sidewalk along the rail road wall, across the street from No. 296 Hallock AVENUE.

2 tires have been dumped in one of the weed-filled tree pits along the railroad wall, on Lamberton St., near the intersection with Cedar St.

Is trash being collected this week or what is the schedule?

99 Greenwich Ave has been producing some of the same problems as 76 Howard Ave: noise and disrupting neighbors, public urination, parked cars (with people hanging out inside) that block other people's driveways, dumping garbage out of the cars into the street, sidewalk, neighbors lawns, etc. Can something be done?!