Wow.

its under I-91 at the tidal gates in the Mill River. Right next to the skating rink.

Keep in mind when you decide to give cash at the Willow and State street exits to people collecting money including the guy with the dog b/c they buy drugs a short distance away on May street. Your cash is actually keeping them sleeping outdoors in most cases. It took me years to find this out and I'm 100% in accuracy here.

Give food not money.

I don't want to sound like a know it all but I would not recommend giving food either. I was part of a food donation squad for a year downtown and there is an abundance of food available on Broadway, Olive and Temple streets. Most of it high-quality too such as food daily from the nutrient dense food from the G-Cafe on Orange street. Keep in mind that food also gets hoarded and sold as well. I've seen it at Pizza shops downtown and bought a small pizza myself from a homeless man last year for $5.00 even though he was asking for three. I hope I don't sound like Scrooge but I have lived and interacted for 15 years with the unfortunate in the New Haven area and it really is BEST in most cases not give anything but shelter.

State street near May is the same young white woman with cap/bandana that comes out of Edgewood park camping with 2 white males as well as seen on Church Street and Frontage Road area directing male panhandlers with signs. She appears much more hyper and thinner and often is running money to the side of the underpass on State Street to men. Police please take notice and direct her to treatment or resources. She is not just affecting herself as sh is now affecting others as well.

This woman shaves her head and wears the cap for a reason; she fabricates to people that she has cancer which increases her donations! A reliable source who knows her told me this. She constantly presses the walk button to slow traffic to a halt and must be raking in over
$100.00 each day. If people don't give her money she will be forced into an inpatient program that can help her.

with all the money that the city takes from us in taxes, isn't there some responsibility for the city to deal with an issue like this? It seems unbelievable.

I spotted the woman mentioned 2 posts above earlier on my way to Lowes - on Willow under the I-91 entrance ramp that originates over near Cedar Hill. She appeared to have trouble standing up and was rapidly pulling hair strands out of her scalp with tweezers. I've been in New Haven a while so I'm used to a lot of this, but that was actually one of the sadder things I've seen in a while, made me sick to my stomach.

Meanwhile I was on my way to Lowes to buy renovation supplies for a newly purchased home in East Rock with $10k/yr in property taxes, that I'm sure will go up after renovation. Where is all this tax money going?

Friday Evening I called 911 - the thin woman with longer hair always sitting under the I-91 underpass on State St between Corsair and Exit 5 was in the Northbound lane of State St (yes, the middle of the driving lane) in the fetal position.
Tragedy waiting to happen - she is not a large person, and may not be spotted until too late on a higher-speed road like State St. Thankfully for me and her, I was travelling Southbound - when I'm working on my house I drive a big, tall 25-year-old pickup truck. An 8800lb GVWR metal battering ram that doesn't exactly stop on a dime. Even worse, what if it was an 18-wheeler? Again, tragedy waiting to happen.

Thanks for calling 911, I would also call the police district manager and the alderperson.

NHVCyclist ...Thank you as well!

got a scf note reminding me that this issue is 780 days old and I should consider closing. Well, yes the issue is old but the city continues to spend my tax money supporting the problem rather than fixing it.

Don’t worry ! The city set up a task force to look into this ! Just give it another 780 days !

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