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This building is a landmark historical treasure and needs to be preserved.
Please add your comments, stories about the Shul, and reasons why you feel that it is significant on the comments here.
Please forward the issue to individuals you know who are interested.
The more people who "vote" to have this fixed, the more likely this building can be restored to its former glory as a community space for all -- instead of an abandoned building.
Excellent photographs of the Shul may be found here:
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CT Livable Streets Campaign (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
Anonymous (Khách)
Interesting site: http://www.orchardstreetshul-artistsproject.org/
Exhibition: December 6 2009 - January 31, 2010
This collaborative effort will result in an invitational exhibition to be held at The John Slade Ely House in New Haven, Connecticut in opening on December 6, 2009, and continuing through January 31 2010, additionally supported through an exhibition catalogue. The exhibition will be a collision of history and art in which the past unfolds the present to reveal what the future may hold for the OS and its neighborhood.
Jonathan Hopkins (Khách)
Concerned (Khách)
Anonymous (Khách)
Shul Watch (Khách)
Interesting article on the Shul: http://newhavenindependent.org/archives/2008/10/orchard_street_1.php
It was operational until 1990.
Can someone confirm which entity officially "owns" the Shul? I would like to contact them regarding this issue.
Anonymous (Khách)
info@orchardstreetshul.org
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
Jonathan,
Great to have local residents weigh in.
Can you post a sketch that illustrates the concept you've described for these lots?
It might be hard for some to picture if they aren't as familiar with your neighborhood.
Mark
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
About neighboring Route 34: "Now it's just a tract of grass, no memory at all. No markers. It's like a cemetery- where the Jewish community is buried."
From a fantastic Google Maps-based project that Lisa Link, a web designer at UMass Boston, sent to me:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=111671120397906118317.0004754fbee7ca270eb12&ved=0CAwQmwU&ei=B5jOSrryGZXOyQSaxszqCQ&ie=UTF8&source=embed&ll=41.306182,-72.934628&spn=0.01657,0.028367&z=15
Jonathan Hopkins (Khách)
Jonathan Hopkins (Khách)
Jonathan Hopkins (Khách)
Jonathan Hopkins (Khách)
Jonathan Hopkins (Khách)
Jonathan Hopkins (Khách)
Jonathan Hopkins (Khách)
Cynthia Beth Rubin (Khách)
The plaza and apartment images are not based on the reality of the site. What is there is a very small parking lot -- very small. Some one took a distorted picture and multiplied the size of the lot by 4. Go look!
I suggest that these images are doing the opposite of what I think is intended. Instead of contributing to saving a building, they look like it is going to be torn down. At first glace I thought that they did just that - tear down a historic building, and put in a plaza! Wow!
Anonymous (Khách)
Jonathan Hopkins (Khách)
Cynthia Beth Rubin (Khách)
Anonymous (Khách)
Jonathan Hopkins (Khách)
"Also, the lot is needed for off-street parking when events are held at the Shul"
The point of putting housing on the site would be to encourage people who use the Shul to live near it. Therefore not requiring use of a car at all...
"Drive by the space sometime!"
I walk by there frequently and get a much better sense of the space than someone who is in a car. I am also very familiar with the Scranton Street School because my pediatric doctor's office is in there.
People are completely missing the point of these images. Something has to be done to this site. The parking garage that shines light into people's bedrooms has to go, the driveway along the side of the school has to go, route 34 has to go, Scranton Street has to be fixed, the neighborhood has to be rejuvenated, and the Shul has to be renovated. This could occur by making the lot between the school and the Shul usable. If it were a plaza, people would gather there, and there would be an incentive to fix up the surrounding buildings. The images are in no way a proposal for the use of the site, I came up with them in 15 minutes and then threw together some google maps images and photographs.
Attached is the existing site conditions. There is a lot of underused space.
Jonathan Hopkins (Khách)
Resident (Khách)
Excellent map, Jonathan. That's very helpful.
The idea of keeping the adjacent site as a parking lot is somewhat absurd. There is plenty of on-street parking in the neighborhood and another enormous garage was recently built a couple blocks away.
We need to reconnect our neighborhoods and make them livable, attractive places to walk -- that means having a continuous streetwall, not having them be pockmarked with random parking lots.
Anonymous (Khách)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
http://culturalheritageartistsproject.org/gallery.html
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RevKev (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
Is anyone actually connected with the Shul following this thread? If so, please contact me. We'd love to add this to our neighborhood revitalization conversations. The Shul property is included on the Route 34 West MDP map and also sits within the West River NRZ. It should be an asset to our community showcasing our religious and cultural diversity. It would be wonderful to have this place of worship and history back online.
kevin@westrivernsc.org
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RevKev (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
This is great! I will be sending my info to get on the list. There are several of us who live and work in the West River neighborhood banding together to make our community stronger and more vibrant. I'm hoping we can figure out we can work together with the board to bring back this community asset.
info@westrivernsc.org
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The synagogue is now restored and fully functional. Not only is there a growing congregation and weekly services (along with many other events), but the physical structure has been completely restored, both inside and out.
Anyone interested in learning more can visit the congregation's website at www.orchardstreetshul.org .
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