Northeast New Haven

A sidewalk is desperately needed on the New Haven Lawn Club side of the road from Orange to the Yale School of Management. This area is heavily trafficked by students, and I can't tell you how often they're nearly hit by cars. Some walk down the middle of the road with headphones in and can't hear the car horns behind them, holding up traffic. This road is extremely wide and could easily accommodate a sidewalk.

illegal use of city /park property. Obvious signs of unapproved camping, trash, drug paraphernalia. Please investigate and remove

253 Lawrence Street is owned by Frank Carrano, an absentee landlord in Florida who has been deemed to be a slumlord by his tenants. He has broken his contracts with some of them, and threatened to evict them if they tried to enforce it. Also, there was a leak which a plumber initially traced to a toilet, and he waited for months afterwards while it soaked the walls and ceilings of those below them before he hired someone to find the pipe buried in the wall. After the pipe was fixed, he complained about expenses and couldn't find someone cheap enough to fully fix all the damage.

The crossing area for Trumbull St and Whitney Ave is a hazard to pedestrians. It's common for cars not to obey the small YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS sign when they take a right onto Trumbull off Whitney. Drivers assume since they have a green light that they have the right of way. Pedestrians will cross without looking because of the blinking Walk signal.

Every week residents at Yale apartments at 68 Mansfield Street put their garbage out sloppily, not properly separating recycling, and just throwing bits of food and household trash on the ground. With last week's wind half of it ended up blown around the whole neighborhood. Yale needs to teach people who rent it's housing the rules for handling garbage.

Why isn't more being done to address the significant increase in crime to East Rock. My tax assessment jumped considerably and so did the crime in the neighborhood with so many posts about cars and houses being broken jnto. What is the City doing to address this other than throw another report on the pile? We need an action plan!

Tires stolen off of a Honda Fit on my block. Wisconsin plate: 435-ZVY. What do we to protect ourselves against this?

This place was robbed again last night and a customer and clerk were shot. This is approximately the 90th time this gas station has been robbed (not exagerating). Is there any way for the city to step in and control the hours of operation here? Unfotunately as convenient as this location is for myself and others, it brings in the completely wrong element late at night.

Cars frequently park in the no parking zone on State St. by the intersection with Bradley St., right in front of Cafe Goodfellas. This is a no parking zone for a good reason - cars parked there obstruct the view of drivers turning from Bradley onto State. In particular, at least several times a week I see a black Mercury SUV parked illegally in front of Cafe Goodfellas. I'm pretty sure this SUV belongs to the restaurant owner. He was parked illegally again today. When I asked him to move his car to a legal parking spot, explaining the visibility issue, his response was "Or what?" Way to be a good neighbor, Cafe Goodfellas! My question to the city: Can we get some more active parking enforcement in this area? I'd especially like to see some enforcement on evenings and weekends, when it seems like there is virtually no enforcement at all.

Orange is still not plowed, residents followed parking ban for days, but the city has done its part. Parking continues to be a big issue. Will it get plowed,? Do we continue to follow the parking ban?

With decent weather returning, a couple of in-street pedestrian signs are needed back in this intersection to remind drivers that they must yield to pedestrians here. Drivers were getting pretty good when the signs were in place last spring, summer, and fall, but their behavior has changed noticeably--for the worse--once they were removed during the winter.

This happens all over my route between the train station and East Rock, but today it was here. A driver came up behind me in his black Honda and was sounding his horn and revving his engine. I was already as close as I dare get to the parked cars for fear of getting doored. The driver proceeded to squeal his tires passing me with about a one foot clearance instead of the three feet required by law. He then cut me off at the intersection, but I am sure that had more to do with the gesture I gave as a reaction after being nearly run over by this maniac.

I would love to again see the signs on the buses reminding drivers to share the road with cyclists.