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West haven sandbar parking lot Open

2-44 Beach Street West Haven, CT 06516, USA - West Haven

There are no trash pails in the parking lot. Fishing season has begun and there is lots people coming and going and no place to throw out trash. Now it's all over the lot and blowing in to the marsh.

2013-05-05 · Reported by CFFCChrisTreat · · Flag Flagged

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westie (Guest)

@Carol
I'm not sure we earned the moniker "Waste Haven" due to high taxes. My understanding it's because we all are mentally ill, obnoxious, and live in a dirty city that's been forgotten by the "powers that be" very long ago.

PS: These "powers that be" are not at City Hall.

2013-06-03 · Flag Flagged
carol (Guest)

There has to be some kind of solutuion, guys. It's not just the people who enjoy the beach free....it's the trouble down there now. I love West Haven and I refuse to give up and just hand it over. HELP...ideas....if you had the power what would you do???????

2013-06-03 · Flag Flagged
westie (Guest)

In all seriousness, we can DEMAND that town hall play a more active roll in "Acknowledging" and then "fixing" these issues. Please send a message to Ben Berkowitz and ask his advice on how to get
town hall to "notice" this forum.

2013-06-03 · Flag Flagged
carol (Guest)

Hi Westie....I am assuming you are a native. I am adopted here but sure love West Haven...warts and all. I feel like a big dummie but I don't know Ben Berkowitz. I have always addressed my complaints to Tom Blake the mayor's assistant and gotten excellent results. Carol

2013-06-04 · Flag Flagged

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Cars parking on corners and blocking view Open

Campbell Ave West Haven, CT - West Haven

On Campbell ave, more specifically from the corners of Park St. to Atwater St., cars are always parking on the corners and it makes crossing Campbell Ave a real challenge. You need to move up so far into crossing traffic just to see and people drive too fast on Campbell to be able to judge anything.

A lot of these corners have parking spots painted on the street but they are just too close to the corners. Some people ignore these spots and park right on the corner, and that makes it impossible to see.

I cant tell you how many times Ive had to depend on the car opposing me to know when it is safe to cross Campbell Ave. Its pretty dangerous if you ask me.

2013-03-28 · Reported by Michael74 · · Flag Flagged

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2013-03-31 · Flag Flagged
michael74 (Guest)

Sent in to WH voice.

2013-04-01 · Flag Flagged
ray (Guest)

I appreciate what the local media is doing to help, but we should continue to build a healthy SCF
community here in West Haven. I am grateful for Michael 74's respectful and descriptive postings.

2013-04-01 · Flag Flagged
Michael74

Its now nice out, this issue will have some consequences if police do no start ticketing parking violators. I see at least one car everyday in clear, blatant violation.

2013-05-28 · Flag Flagged

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vandals Open

68- 66 Leete St Area West Haven, Connecticut - West Haven

Two of my neighbors cars got spray painted(tagged) Friday night, they were a mess. West haven police need to step it up as crime in west haven is skyrocketing.To many low life's moving and/or coming into the city. Both vehicles unfortunately will need to be repainted.

2013-06-03 · Reported by Anonymous · · Flag Flagged

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crack cocaine house/drug addicts Open

341 Center St (Corner Savin) West Haven, CT - West Haven

drug addicts living here, police need to monitor comings& goings.

2010-11-04 · Reported by concerned whresident (Guest) · · Flag Flagged

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shelly (Guest)

Section 8 is more apt to help someone who is on crack and drugs than a mother and her children who have fallen on hard times and just trying to make ends meet my working 2 jobs and then has to come home to a crack infested house.

2010-11-25 · Flag Flagged
1st Ave guardians

Yes,Agreed. If you make it hard for the Crack Heads to sell their crack, they will vacate at any location. If you have Section 8 tenants that really need a home "good tenants" and you are not a absentee landlord even better. Or better yet do a major renovation to your rental property so you can command higher rental fee's and tenants that will take pride in their neighborhood. They are out their, you just need to clean house.

2010-12-21 · Flag Flagged
Anonymous

I suggest that you get in touch with the guardian angels . I seen them operate. They will sit on that location day in and day out making there presents know. Potential customers will see them there constantly and keep going. No customers ,no business . Eventually the dealer will confront them (guardian angels) and risk the police being called, which i don't think they want, or they will take there business else where. Although we would rather see them arrested.

2011-04-21 · Flag Flagged
carol (Guest)

Encourage city to support the proposed "blight council"and make absentee landlords pay attention.Owning rental property is a BUSINESS. Waterbury has already laid out a great plan for us to follow.If landlords protect WH and refuse to renew leases to people who cause "trouble", 90% of drugs, dirt, speeding, noise and other disturbances etc. will walk right out of this city.Think also of less strain on the police...usually responding to calls on the same houses.

2013-06-01 · Flag Flagged

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Major fire at overpopulated home on blohm st Open

210-212 Blohm St West Haven, CT - West Haven

House had a major fire, needs to be torn down. Now we have two blighted homes here on blohm st. also 214 is vacant and foreclosed. what is happening in W.H. The home that had a fire twice in 2 days had too many people living there, and too many cars. Noone ever checked the premises to confirm the amount of families living there probably illegally. They were using generators, which probably caused first elect. fire. This area is going to @#$%. Now we have two homes which need to come down. Hope City gets after owners to immediately rectify these matters. Looks like a ghetto here now. Awful. Awful.

2010-09-13 · Reported by concerned citizen (Guest) · · Flag Flagged

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frustratedresident (Guest)

It has been three months now since this house was torched. When in @#$% is it coming down, we people who live here are discusted that things have to take so long to occur. The Mayor or someone should get after the home owner or insurance carrier to resolve this mess once and for all. Our neighborhood is starting to look just like a ghetto, discusting and run down, not maintained, when most of the folks take care of their properties.

2010-11-20 · Flag Flagged
neighborhood citizen (Guest)

Someone, needs to get something done about this burned house. Kids constantly play in back of this house and people have been seen going in back of house, people who did NOT live there. House is going to be home to undesirable transients if noone does anything about this situation. Enough time has passed, what is being done about this.

2010-11-30 · Flag Flagged
Anonymous

The same people own this house who used to own it, and now wants to build a 2 family. So they could put in more undesirable tenants, with loads of cars? They should have kept track of who was living there when they rented it out to all the illegals living there, then they wouldn't have had that problem. There were mattresses strewn all over the first floor apartment when it was rented. What kind of owner allows that. We don't need that kind of trash AGAIN in our neighborhood. We are trying so hard to keep out the trash and drug addicts and dealers. If they do rebuild, PLEASE, PLEASE, MAKE SURE THERE ARE DECENT PEOPLE LIVING THERE OR WE WILL ALL SUFFER AGAIN. There are decent people living on this street who really try to keep their property decent and clean,and have a safe place for their children to walk and play. KEEP IT THAT WAY.

2012-01-10 · Flag Flagged
carol (Guest)

You bet...there are great people on Blohn Street.
Get together you like-minded people. Call your counsel person, Bill Conlon. He is very helpful and concerned. Go to a city counsel meeting as a group and ask for help. I found that the communities I admire most assist their municipality and never just turn a problem over.There are two choices...fight or flight. I'm older, still work and get very tired but know I have to "get out there". I find West Haven worth the trouble.

2013-05-31 · Flag Flagged

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Asphalt Plant AIR POLLUTION ALERT Open

309 Main Street West Haven, Connecticut - West Haven

Highly polluting Asphalt plant proposed for West Haven. This plant will pollute the air, with major toxins throughout the area, including areas of New Haven - West River and the Yale Bowl and Orange.
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/04/28/news/metro/doc517dbac87b66a266851276.txt

The people governing West Haven continue to destroy the city through bad planning.

2013-05-01 · Reported by Waste Haven, choking on filthy air (Guest) · · Flag Flagged

FedRetiree (Guest)

Good Luck to UNH in attracting and retaining student. Check the problems of plants in Conventry RI

2013-05-29 · Flag Flagged
Corrupticut (Guest)

I wonder what kind of bribes and back-room deals are being made to get this toxic waste dump approved.

2013-05-29 · Flag Flagged

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Intersection of Park st and campbell ave, Parking in no parking zone Open

Park And Campbell Ave - West Haven

at the intersection of Park st and Campbell ave, (mikes apizza) people are parking in fron of the laundry mat all the time and it is very hard to see oncoming traffic while trying to pull out, and also people near fire hydrant... police were called, never came.

2010-09-13 · Reported by Anonymous · · Flag Flagged

Chris Treat (Guest)

This has been an ongoing issue and it has been getting worse every year. I am glad to see businesses doing well in this area. I am a lifelong resident on Park Street and know how difficult it is to navigate from this corner. I have seen a few accidents, and I know there must be more documented with the traffic unit. Why can't their be a stop sign, or signage or paint on the road to make this a safer street for drivers, walkers, and cyclist? On a dialy basis cars are speeding to catch the light at the corner of Campbell and Capt. Thomas. I would like to direct the Police Dept., city council, and the public to the following link http://www.completestreets.org/
Many surrounding towns have bike sharrows, more signage for cyclists and pedestrians, and an overall greater effort to promote safe streets not just for cars, but for walkers and cyclists. Slowing down traffic with stop signs near heavy business areas like this one is not only good for the pedestrians walking and cycling, but also for the business.

2010-09-13 · Flag Flagged
CFFCChrisTreat (Guest)

Does anyone look at this? Is there any study of this intersection? Why not a 4 way stop sign? Had we had better planning and made certain parts of Campbell Ave more pedestrian friendly maybe residents would have shopped more at lower Campbell Ave businesses. Now many are boarded up and closed. What's the plan for businesses at the Savin Rock Plaza and those businesses from Capt. Thomas down Campbell Ave? What meetings do we have to attend to hear what's going on if anything?

2013-03-13 · Flag Flagged
otnas (Guest)

Worse than ever have to stick the car out half way to see, potential accident, motorcycles fly by, cops just drive by , witnessed myself, something bad is going to happen unless this gets fixed parking from Chinese place and Mike's and laundrymat.

2013-05-28 · Flag Flagged

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underage drinking & noise @ 11Grove Place,West Haven Open

11 Grove Pl West Haven, CT 06516, USA - West Haven

Every Thurs. ,Fri, Sat & some Sundays the "two dollar holla" girls arrive screaming,swearing & DRUNK @ closing time. Extremely crude & littering @ this rental of UNH boys .Nonstop car door slamming also a treat @ 2 AM.
The white homie w/the white car cranks up the volume for all to hear!
I hope they are not studying law enforcement! This house is owned by the slumlord who also rented her other house 28 to section 8 crack dealers .
It's going to be worse.These guys are moving in June and football players are moving in.WHPDV will be called nightly!

2011-04-04 · Reported by Philip Nolan (Guest) · · Flag Flagged

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2011-10-03 · Flag Flagged
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2012-03-05 · Flag Flagged
Philip Nolan

Huge party last week, public urination,noise,screaming girls,cops were called(by many) & allowed drunks to drive home;NO arrests!

2012-03-17 · Flag Flagged
Philip Nolan

Same crap Thursday night.

2012-12-08 · Flag Flagged

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Television in parking lot Open

523 Ocean Avenue West Haven, CT 06516, USA - West Haven

I took this picture almost a month ago while out on a run. I know others have seen it too. It's unfortunate that residents ( or possibly someone out of town) don't follow the towns recycling program. This is besides the point. The television has been there and no town official or employee has cleaned this up. There must be some protocol for trash dumped in lots, parks, or beaches. One push and this television is in the Long Island sound.

2013-04-26 · Reported by CFFCChrisTreat · · Flag Flagged

TV dumping (Guest)

I see TVs all the time. As usual, the City does nothing.

2013-04-27 · Flag Flagged
ridiculous (Guest)

The TV is STILL there! What an eyesore

2013-05-15 · Flag Flagged
CFFCChrisTreat

It's still there. Why isn't there a truck that picks up the trash in city lots. Let the police enforce blight and those who litter and the other departments need to keep the town clean. There also needs more enforcement for residents that can't manage their own trash. So many homes don't use trash pails. No lids. They are exposed so raccoons and skunks can eat like kings and keep their population increasing. Everything is connected. We need more cohesion among residents and town officials.

2013-05-20 · Flag Flagged
Concerned (Guest)

There are two "dismembered" tv's in the parking lot on the northeast side of the skate park on Beach Street. They have been there for MONTHS. Neither the maintenance staff at the Morse Park ball fields directly behind this lot have bothered to do anything about it, nor have the guys who drive down Beach St emptying the garbage cans (now that they have finally, sort of, been returned). There is a undeniable appearance of neglect and decrepitude that is taking over much of the city: areas that have, for all appearances, been abandoned. While this and other evidences of neglect continue, the city has not dialed back on its obsession with frivolous acts like beach grooming. Already some of the beaches around Grove Park have been groomed 3 or 4 times. Meantime, the rest of the city is falling apart.

2013-05-21 · Flag Flagged

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Drug House Open

127 Leete Street West Haven, CT - West Haven

I see there is already so many concerned neighbors addressing this issue, however I feel I should also express my frustration with this situation and the way it is completely being ignored by the west Haven Police department as well as all the other local organizations. At any given moment you can go by this home and see the comings and goings of many shady characters. I think its time for all the reports to the police and complaints to be addressed. Please take notice and take care of this on going problem. Lets not wait until there is an assault or something truly bad happens to one of the neighborhood children. Everyone talks about setting the example for our children...lets hope the heads of our community take that step and show they care about the people in their city.

2011-04-27 · Reported by Anonymous · · Flag Flagged

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Anonymous (Guest)

We were to late.

2011-10-01 · Flag Flagged
Eleanore Turkington (Guest)

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2011-10-03 · Flag Flagged
FedUp (Guest)

Dear Mrs Turkington,
I'm sure that you have good intentions, but you commented on this property on another thread 5 months ago. Now that there has been this awful tragedy, SUDDENLY you can help if I give you my personal information? I do not see the relevance in sharing that info in order for this issue to be resolved. I understand that you "need it for your files"...that's a load of hooey. Judging from the expedience that the WHPD has exercised in resolving this issue...what makes me trust ANYONE in West Haven nor have confidence that you have the almighty wand to wave over and "fix" the problem?

The bottom line, is that a 20 month old is DEAD in a house with known illegal activity and not a darn thing has been done. What the neighbors NEED to see is the house raided, every one of the adult occupants escorted out in handcuffs, and the children relocated to homes that can teach them right from wrong before they,too, fall into the lifestyle. Can you make that happen from behind your computer?

2011-10-04 · Flag Flagged
WH Resident (Guest)

Fed Up...Mrs. Turkington is a writer for the West Haven Voice. The only thing she is doing is looking for news. She has yet to do anything on any of the threads that she has commented on. All she wants is a story. What we need to do is (1) Contact our councilperson. For this district, it is Nick Pascale, who has come through in the past with issues on this street. He does listen and he does care. (2) Enforce the neighborhood watch that was established a few years back. If you see something...SAY SOMETHING. Don't let them continue to make us live in fear! (3) Keep involving the police. Eventually, something will be done.

This tragedy has struck this community hard and it has affected people strongly. An angel lost her life, and at the end of the day, this woman is not going to be punished for her negligence. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about this situation but as far as the original complaint on this house, we need to take a stand! The community needs to start coming together and taking back our neighborhoods. We live in fear of retaliation and this is allowing these people to do whatever the @#$% they please. Kids rule the streets, adults keep their mouths shut because they're afraid. If nothing is done, it will continue it's downward spiral and soon, we will be no better than any other "ghetto" neighborhood.

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