A Central Avenue resident notified our local neighborhood officer that a
man had been driving around soliciting her.
She described the man as driving a purple pick- up truck with a green Martian
in the passenger seat!
Calling all cars ...
>
Guess what ...
She was right!
The truck was purple and there was indeed a large stuffed toy Martian
riding shotgun!
Welcome to Hillside :)
Humor
of the
Hood
There is a new alcoholic beverage on
the market. It is called Bourbon Renewal.
Drink enough of it and the old
neighborhood starts to look good.
Wouldn't it be
wonderful if the Ice Cream Truck could play more than one tune?
Neighbors keep
complaining about the prostitutes hanging around and using the outdoor pay phones a lot
... is that why they are called
"Call Girls" ?
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HILLSIDE
HISTORIAN
July, 2010
Edition Hillside's
famous newspaper now online
Things we hear - Things we
see - Things we talk about
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NEIGHBORHOOD BLIGHT ...
YESHIVA PROPERTIES
UNAPPRECIATED, NEGLECTED,
ABANDONED
AND NOW IN FORECLOSURE! June
16, 2010 Three residential
Hillside properties owned by the Waterbury Yeshiva Gedolah sit abandoned
and vandalized with unpaid mortgages, unpaid city taxes and an unpaid
community obligation.
Reliable
neighborhood sources have informed us that the Naugatuck Bank has foreclosed on these
three and is taking a claim action on a fourth occupied residence with the
same Yeshiva ownership.
These properties have been vandal targets for years and been a source of
numerous complaints by area residents.
Once stately, architecturally significant dwellings contributing to the historic heritage
of Waterbury and the Hillside neighborhood, the three homes are neglected, unsecured and are being
ravaged for scrap. CLICK HERE:
COMPLETE STORY BELOW
QUELLE DOMAGE :(
EMILY BORGIO,
28, of 64 Lounsbury Ave., prostitution.
DELORES PEOPLES,
44, of 12 Washington St., prostitution.
STELLA NIVER,
40, of 114 Benedict St., prostitution.
HEIDI LUCIA,
34, of 21 Holmes Ave., prostitution.
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
REPORT GETS
POLICE
ATTENTION
April
16, 2010-AB
A report by the Hillside Historic District
Neighborhood watch,
which covers the streets between Willow
and Cooke (especially Hillside and Grove), identified "johns" stopping and
slowing for their pick-ups in the afternoon in the Hillside-Grove area.
Only problem is ... the young ladies they were stalking were ... HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS!OUR DAUGHTERS!
Vehicle slowing to solicit
student on her way home from school.
Don't let those degenerates screw with our Kids was the message
heard loud and clear by officers of the Community Relations division in
attendance at the Neighborhood Association meeting last Tuesday.
LE officials committed to utilizing the Neighborhood Watch reports of
documented "Johns" to stop, inspect and warn off those who like to troll
the hood for tail.
The probable cause for the stops is expected to be "creating a public
nuisance", "suspicion of
participating in the solicitation and procurement of prostitutes" or
something like that. Police inform us that vehicle stops could last
from a couple of minutes to those who admit their activity and heed the
warning to several hours for those insisting on living the lie.
Vehicles like the Black Hummer, Black Kia Escort Vehicle, Red Pick-up with
the chap who masturbates as he drives along, the little gray escort
vehicle, the decked out dark blue jeep, the Seebring convertible, and a host of others documented as
continuous repeaters are hereby put on notice .. the game is over.
The "Johns" messing with our daughters has set off alarms throughout the
neighborhood, and USI has volunteered to activate the full scope of
digital surveillances throughout the district for the duration.
New Neighborhood Watch points include Grove at Central, Holmes and
Prospect. Hillside at Prospect, Pine and Frederick, as well as
several locations on Pine and Willow.
The Hillside neighborhood and Block Watch area covers Willow thru Cooke
Streets and all terrain in between. Within those boundaries, we will
fight to the death ... beyond that area ... we really don't care!
Stop on
Prospect Street Friday Afternoon
One Less Shrimp On The "Barbie" Mom :)
The Neighborhood Watch List does work!
October
21, 2009
NEW
TOP COP
UNDERSTANDS
NEIGHBORHOODS
AND THEIR PROBLEMS
New
Waterbury Police Chief Michael Gugliotti is an excellent choice to
both prevent and fight crime in our neighborhoods.
Chief Gugliotti joined the force in 1988 when he was 22, working his
way through the department including the Gang Task Force, Vice and
the Detective Bureau. He has been Deputy Superintendent since
2007 and is well schooled in the Neil O'Leary philosophies and
practices.
He is well versed in the issues of the city, and being a resident of
the city, he has a vested interest in the betterment of our
neighborhoods.
Under his departmental leadership, Hillside will remain well engaged
in the war on prostitution and the escalation of activities to rid
the area of the Johns with new and surprising enforcement
activities.
Hillside welcomes our new top cop.
GOLDEN
WEB AWARD HILLSIDE
NEIGHBORHOOD
POLICE REPORT
Officer Fred Scott
Month of: May 2010
NOT
ON FILE
NEW POLICE CARS ISSUED TO
NEIGHBORHOOD OFFICERS. "54" Issued to Hillside
"Car 54, where are you?"
seriously...
"Car 54, where are you?"
YESHIVA PROPERTIES after years of
neglect and abandonment ...
NOW IN FORECLOSURE (cont'd)
Mansions of our industrial forefathers and their families are congregated in
the Hillside Historic District, and all are included in the National Register
of Historic Places compiled within the Federal listings of the Hillside
Historic District.
Several of these mansions were purchased by the Yeshiva Gedolah earlier in this
decade for dormitories. The first of which was the Hayden Homestead at 146
Pine Street, purchased the first year of the Yeshiva with an intent of
converting it to a 40 bed dorm.
Neighbors happened upon the event of the truckload of mattresses being moved
in and questioned city officials as the 17 room Hayden Home is zoned as a one family
residence
and as such limited, by law, to no more than 5 unrelated persons in the
dwelling unit.
Fire officials inspected notified the Yeshiva personnel via a "cease and
desist order" that only the first two floors
could be used in any circumstance as the requirement of fire doors and
fire/smoke
control systems were required for more than two floors of occupancy. Fire
officials further detailed to the Yeshiva all renovations needed to bring the
building up to code for extended residential use. Health and Zoning
officials informed the organization of the 5 person rule and a myriad of other
requirements to make the building comply with city codes for a dormitory use.
The Yeshiva opted to not make the costly changes to the historic home and
reduced the number of unsupervised students to a number nearer to 5, though obviously
exceeded to any casual observer.
Gary O'Conner, the attorney who put the Yeshiva contract together, met with
the group as a representative of the City, and told them with "definity" that
they could not sidestep or run roughshod over city ordinances in creating living spaces
for students of the school and that they had to abide by the regulations of
the City, same as all other citizens.
If recollection is correct, property of a condo on Cables Avenue was then
traded to the Zembruski family in October, 2003 for their multi-family home at 133 Pine
listed as a sale price of $170,000 and an
additional purchase of a duplex at 15-17 Hillside was completed in October,
2004 for $69,300 and housed 5
or so young men in each side of this dwelling.
Right after the mid-decade mark, Alderman Dennis Odle of Overlook happened
upon a literal bus load of Yeshiva students all departing a luxury coach on
Farmington Avenue in Overlook and swarming into two housed on the street. He
subsequently learned that city officials had been intentionally looking the other way as new
dorms had been created throughout the Overlook neighborhood.
Everyone involved seems to have ignored and "just plain forgotten" the written warnings and violations of 146 Pine Street just a couple of years earlier.
Odle took the City and the Yeshiva to task and the dorms were closed, and
students moved into the Carlton Towers apartments which had been purchased by the
Yeshiva to resolve their housing issues.
The three buildings in Hillside used as dorms were soon thereafter vacated and
abandoned and have remained so to this day. One is boarded up and the other
two unsecured according to our sources.
The deteriorated condition of these buildings is accented additionally by the
total neglect of the two buildings of the Yeshiva Campus that situate on the
North side of Buckingham Street, the former UConn administration building
(white) and immediately to its East the Hart Homestead (reddish).
The undeniable neglect of the two campus buildings on Buckingham is a direct
violation of the terms of the lease, which the city is, for some reason,
unwilling to enforce!
In February 2009, Steve Gambini, acting on behalf of the Mayor, sent a letter
to the Aldermen stating maintenance of the campus buildings of the Yeshiva
(formerly UConn) was "substantially compliant". You look at the photos on the
following linked
page and you decide. Most were taken in 2009 shortly after the letter
was sent to the Aldermen and conditions have only deteriorated since.
24 AREA TOWNS
Towns in Northwestern Connecticut where residents
can now recycle all plastic containers,
without checking their numbers, are Barkhamsted, Beacon Falls, Bethlehem,
Canaan, Colebrook, Cornwall, Goshen, Harwinton, Litchfield, Middlebury,
Naugatuck, New Hartford, Norfolk, Oxford, Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon,
Southbury, Thomaston, Torrington, Waterbury,
Watertown, Winsted and Woodbury.
What still can’t
be thrown in your recycling bin
Styrofoam/plastic foam and polystyrene foam-
Plastic film such as food wrap, sandwich bags, drycleaning bags, trash bags
and shopping bags-
Packing material such as Bubble Wrap-
Any container that held motor oil, paint, antifreeze, insecticide, fertilizer
or any other toxic material-
Plastic plant and seedling trays and pots-
Screw-top caps-
Bureau of Refuse Pick-up Guidelines
RESIDENTIAL TRASH:
to be placed on curbside evening before collection day. (No more than 24
hours prior to collection; no later than 5 a.m. day of collection.)
RECYCLABLES:
to be placed in orange bin and placed on curb evening before collection.
Collectable items include paper (newsprint, magazines),
cardboard (corrogated only, flattened, cut and tied, 2 ft. x 2 ft.,
glass bottles (clear, green and brown; rinsed out and labels and
caps removed); plastics (#1 and #2 only; must have labels);
aseptic cartons (milk and juice paperboard cartons; must be rinsed
out; no straws);
Effective October 2005 “junk mail” can be included with recycling the
following items are added to the list of acceptable recyclables;
Catalogs, magazines, coupons, stationary, bills and paper envelopes;
yard waste (click
here for a copy of the Yard Waste
schedule; grass clippings and leaves, must be in bio-degradable paper
bags only; brush must be cut and tied--no more than 4 inches in
diameter, no longer than 4 feet long).
SPECIAL PICK-UPS:
by appointment only. No more than five items at one time. Must make
appointment prior to putting on curbside. Bulky items include
couches, mattresses and large furniture. Metal appliances include
washers, stoves, etc.
REFUSE DEPARTMENT:
181 East Aurora St.
Waterbury, CT 06708
Phone (203) 574-6857
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