A day after after Beaver Hills pleaded with the mayor and top cops for help, two more crimes unsettled the neighborhood — and the police announced two arrests they consider tied to a spike in violence.
Those were the latest developments in a simmering confrontation between one of the New Haven neighborhoods hit by increased violence this year and officials struggling to contain it with a reduced police force.
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Oct 22, 2020 5:46 pm
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Superintendent Tracey gets tested at King Robinson.
“It doesn’t hurt, but it just felt funny, like the test shouldn’t be all the way up my nose,” New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey said with a smile after getting swabbed for Covid-19.
Police Chief Otoniel Reyes told 100 Beaver Hills residents worried about an uptick in violence not to go out patrolling the neighborhood themselves, but instead to keep pushing his department to do better.
Forty Beaver Hills residents came out Sunday to seek solutions to spiking crime — and at times confronted divisions in their own neighborhood, which has both a sizable African-American and a sizable Orthodox Jewish population.
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Oct 1, 2020 10:34 am
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Hundreds of Southern Connecticut State University students marched to demand that their school live up to its “social justice” mission — as the campus president joined them and vowed to help make that happen.
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Aug 25, 2020 3:46 pm
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Rafael Ramos (left), Meghan Maidelis (right) lay out rules for landlord.
Two basement bedrooms of a two-story Diamond Street house had metal bars and plywood boards on their windows. Not good — that meant the people living inside had no alternative escape route should a fire break out.
When Mahogany Lowery went on field trips as a child, she needed an adult with her to give her insulin and make sure her blood sugar levels were not too high or too low. Her diabetes hospitalized her every year, she recalled.
The New Haven native has spun those memories into fiction with her first book, Greatness Over The Rainbow. The book, to be released on Amazon on Friday, follows four kids living in a city like New Haven who experience chronic illness and the deaths of family members and overcome those challenges.
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Jun 29, 2020 4:13 pm
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260 West Hazel: future site of 2-family house.
The city plans to sell four vacant lots and one blighted, empty house to a trio of local affordable housing developers, who plan to build five new owner-occupied homes in Newhallville, Beaver Hills, and Fair Haven.
“You’re the problem!” “I’m the solution!”: Marshal Criscuolo spars with co-owner Monsanto outside Fitch 50 at Monday’s paper-serving.
Prompting accusations of racism from the owner, the city closed down the popular 50 Fitch restaurant and bar and revoked its license after an event that drew an estimated 1,000 people to its parking lot amid restrictions aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus.
Carlton Staggers (center) at Monday evening support gathering: “We’re standing by” Monsanto.
Ihsan, Ismail and Salwa Abdussabur and Ayanna Bakiriddin at the traditional meal, with a pandemic twist.
On the one hand, the family was together and the grilled lamb was so tender it was falling off the bone. On the other, lost opportunities and the dangers of Covid-19 had brought them there.
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May 17, 2020 1:47 pm
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“Nothing could have made me happier,” Lucille Williams said while celebrating her 81st birthday on Saturday at a small masked outdoor gathering with her family and friends.
9 of Mandy’s new purchases: 45 Springside Ave., 52 Winchester Ave., 300 West Elm St., 105 Rock Creek Rd., 56 Pendleton St., 58 William St., 33 Pendleton St., 25 Young St., 31 Young St.
Affiliates of the local mega-landlord Mandy Management recently spent over $2.2 million buying 22 apartments in 10 different one‑, two‑, and three-family houses in Amity, Beaver Hills, Dixwell, Edgewood, West Rock, Westville, and Wooster Square.
Lamont, far right, with Francis Evon, second from right, and Steven Choi in white.
After camouflage-clad National Guard troops spent just five hours unloading cots, pillows, curtains, and bed pans, Gov. Ned Lamont wandered between the 250 beds of Connecticut’s newest field hospital Wednesday afternoon.
Hunt’s niece Faith Mann reads at Tuesday’s graveside memorial.
Mask-wearing pallbearers carry Hunt’s casket.
Marion Marcus Curtis Hunt, better known as “Curtis” to friends and “Kirky” to family, loved to sing opera around the house.
He had an insatiable appetite for good food and education. And he dedicated his professional life to helping New Haveners at the margins — those struggling with addiction, those suffering from HIV — get quality, stigma-free healthcare.
It was in that capacity that the humble 57-year-old became the first New Havener to die of Covid-19 — and the first to be buried with the virus firmly in mind.
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Mar 31, 2020 5:01 pm
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Guard members unloading medical supplies at SCSU.
The National Guard has begun work on a temporary “surge” hospital on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) to help ease the potential health-care crisis in town once the Covid-19 spread peaks.
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Mar 20, 2020 10:37 am
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From his car, sidelined photog launches “Porch-Ritz” portrait project outside New Haveners’ homes — and helps keep a community stitched together, person by person.
