Father Panik Village has come full circle since it opened in 1940 as the state’s first and largest-ever public housing project. It rose from the rubble of 778 slum dwellings — the vision of ...

Students walk home from Waltersville School past a large vacant lot, site of the former Father Panik Village housing project in Bridgeport, on Tuesday, August 28, 2012. Brian A. Pounds.

Father Panik Village opened in 1940 and was the first public housing facility built in the state. Most of the projects were closed in the 1980s, and the final buildings were demolished in 1994.

When Father Panik Village, a 50-year-old housing project in Bridgeport, Conn., was demolished in 1994, drugs and violence plagued the community. But former residents have not forgotten the earlier ...

The project is transforming the former Father Panik Village site on the city’s East Side, and is the result of a public-private partnership between Park City Communities and the JHM Group, city ...

A 37-year-old woman told police Tuesday night that she was abducted at gunpoint from a street corner in Bridgeport and driven to Berlin, where she escaped. Police Chief Gerald Charamut said the wom… ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (WTNH) — Governor Malloy celebrated the opening of a new, affordable housing complex in Bridgeport on Tuesday. Crescent Crossing is a new complex located on Church Street where ...