by | May 22, 2023 12:49 pm | Comments (4)
A rendering of the future childcare site on Flint Street.
Ten new early childhood classrooms to accommodate 80 more kids in need of care are one big step closer to coming to an ex-Flint Street movie theater this summer, thanks to an approval by local land-use commissioners.
by | Apr 26, 2023 12:25 pm | Comments (3)
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486 Middletown Ave., soon to become senior housing?
A sketch of the anticipated seven-unit complex.
A local engineer won city permission to build seven apartments in Quinnipiac Meadows for seniors hoping to spend their final years in their own homes.
by | Mar 23, 2023 2:08 pm | Comments (6)
Rendering of proposed new childcare campus at ex-Cine 4 site.
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David Symond, Jr., Allyx Schiavone, Margo Early, and Karin Patriquin on Wednesday.
The corn will keeping popping at the central ticketing-and-candy counter of the old Cine 4 movie theater — even as that entryway fixture is converted into a reception desk for a planned new early education campus now in the works on Middletown Avenue.
by | Feb 10, 2023 4:33 pm | Comments (1)
Hulya Elevli: “I’m not changing my clothes because I’m thinking, 'They can’t change theirs over there.'”
Some of the donations ready to be boxed and shipped to Turkey.
Hulya Elevli has spent every day this week sorting through donations at the Diyanet Mosque in Quinnipiac Meadows while coordinating with earthquake refugees to help them find shelter in a house she owns in northern Turkey.
On Friday morning, the end of a restless week and the mere beginning of a coordinated response to the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that ravaged parts of Turkey and Syria and that has caused at least 23,000 fatalities, Elevli joined members of the mosque at 531 Middletown Ave. and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal to speak up about the need that exists abroad and offer guidance to locals about how to help.
Continue reading ‘Donations, Prayers Pour Into Turkish Mosque’
by | Feb 9, 2023 9:21 am | Comments (26)
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Jake Sr. and Jr.: Moving soon out of Sunset Ridge after a canceled Notice to Quit.
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A real estate investment firm filed 26 eviction lawsuits in just one month against tenants in a single low-income Quinnipiac Meadows apartment complex — cementing that landlord’s status as one of the most aggressive evictors in the city.
by | Feb 3, 2023 2:38 pm | Comments (2)
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One last spin through Ciné 4 film history.
Across a post-apocalyptic landscape on the outskirts of town, in a dark room on the second floor of an abandoned movie theater, footsteps echoed.
Had the zombies finally arrived for one last cinematic encounter?
by | Nov 14, 2022 11:46 am | Comments (4)
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Shelley Smith tutors second grader Maite at Bishop Woods Thursday.
Bishop Woods second grader Maite paused and took a deep breath as she looked at the word: “Dent.”
She knew what it meant. The spelling was the hard part. So she decided to sound it out — at the suggestion of a tutor from a successful New Haven nonprofit that has been called in to help the city’s public schools up their reading game.
by | Aug 23, 2022 9:44 am | Comments (3)
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Tamya celebrates new back-to-school hairstyle on Middletown Ave ...
... as Tanya Solomon's grandsons pick up books on Valley St. Monday.
Tamia Massey usually spends more than $200 getting her two daughters’ hair braided at the start of every back-to-school season.
This year was different — thanks to one of a host of community-led events focused on helping families cut costs as students prepare to return to the classroom.
by | Aug 11, 2022 1:44 pm | Comments (29)
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Farewell, flicks: Middletown Ave.'s Ciné 4, now shuttered.
Start the early ed: Friends Center's Schiavone, who plans to convert cinema into childcare campus.
The lights are off and the popcorn’s all gone from a decades-old independent movie theater on Middletown Avenue — which new nonprofit owners aim to convert to a bustling campus for affordable early childhood education.
by | Jun 9, 2022 1:29 pm | Comments (24)
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City officials join Quinnipiac Gardens tenants and tenant union organizers for Thursday press conference. According to LCI, Quinnipiac Gardens has no outstanding housing code violations.
(Updated) The mayor and top City Hall housing officials traveled to an apartment complex on the east side of town to promote a newly proposed law empowering tenant unions — and to encourage renters to band together to advocate for fair rent and safe living conditions.
by | Jun 3, 2022 9:15 am | Comments (4)
Brent Peterkin in action at preserve, in prep for Black Birders Week walks.
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Local Osprey makes use of Quinnpiac nest platform.
Large winged Ospreys circled overhead. Coupled Mourning Doves sang to each other on a thin leafless tree. Hunting Tree Swallows sped through the air in blue flashes.
That was the scene this week at the Quinnipiac Meadows Nature Preserve, a local Narnia-esque green space owned by Gather New Haven (GNH).
GNH Executive Director Brent Peterkin was scoping out the preserve, and pointing out its beauty, in advance of leading community bird walks on Friday and Saturday.
by | Feb 14, 2022 4:02 pm | Comments (0)
The word on Foxon Boulevard Monday was: Love lives on Valentine’s Day.
by | Feb 8, 2022 1:54 pm | Comments (3)
Abby Cadet with the new book she wrote with her mom.
A mom who started seeking to fill her daughter’s home library with more books featuring Black characters has begun publishing some of those books herself — with her daughter.
by | Feb 3, 2022 12:54 pm | Comments (1)
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Cesare Downing answers knock.
A knock came on the door of Cerese Downing as she was in the process of enrolling her 9‑year-old in an after-school program coming to her neighborhood. It was a team of recruiters for that very same program.
“I’m filling out the application right now!” Downing responded. “That’s spooky. I’m upstairs right now on my phone doing it. It’s a confirmation from God!”
by | Oct 7, 2021 4:43 pm | Comments (1)
A student brought a bb gun to Bishop Woods Architecture and Design Magnet School Thursday morning.
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by | Sep 17, 2021 2:22 pm | Comments (2)
Students at Ross/Woodward School spent Friday across town at Hillhouse High School’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse after bats were discovered inside their building.
by | Aug 26, 2021 3:59 pm | Comments (15)
Rafael Romano: Soap can temporarily solve a tight fix, but it doesn’t get the landlord out of one.
Yvonne Anderson: “I wanna get out of here, sir.”
“I wanna get out of here, sir. I need to get out of here,” Yvonne Anderson pleaded from the living room of her Quinnipiac Gardens apartment.
Anderson was making her plea to Rafael Ramos, the deputy director of the Livable City Initiative (LCI), a city government housing inspection agency.
Ramos and three other city employees arrived Thursday at Quinnipiac Gardens, the apartment complex where Anderson lives at 1314 Quinnipiac Ave. They showed up the morning after a new tenant union protested living conditions there and demanded that landlord Pike Intentional resolve longstanding maintenance issues.
Continue reading ‘Q Gardens Goes 16 For 16 — For Violations’
by | Aug 25, 2021 12:20 pm | Comments (37)
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Quinnipiac Gardens tenant union crashes Pike Int’l HQ.
Kay Pittman: Rats chewed through vents and get in through here.
A new tenant union put a landlord on notice that it plans to fight back unless conditions improve at their Quinnipiac Meadows apartment complex.
by | Jul 14, 2021 9:56 am | Comments (3)
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Yul Watley: “Laid back, and ready to serve.”
Housing authority tenant advocate / street hot dog vendor / construction contractor / youth counselor Yul Watley is looking to add a new title to his civic resume: alder for an “isolated” neighborhood on the far east side of town.
Continue reading ‘Public Housing Activist Launches Alder Run’
by | Mar 16, 2021 5:00 pm | Comments (2)
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570 Whitney Ave., where Mandy Management recently purchased 16 condos.
For only the second time in two and a half years, the megalandlord Mandy Management purchased market-rate rental housing in East Rock — picking up 16 condos on Whitney Avenue as part of a monthlong, $4 million, 45-unit buying spree.
by | Feb 4, 2021 1:56 pm | Comments (9)
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Marottoli on the Q Avenue beat.
Clamper in hand, Vin Marottoli watched cars roll in and out of the El Mexicano Hand Car Wash across the street as he picked up a receipt and a black ice car freshener from the ground.
by | Jan 29, 2021 6:44 pm | Comments (2)
An off-duty Meriden police officer who formerly worked for the New Haven Police Department was shot at Thursday night outside of the Essex Townhouses on Quinnipiac Avenue.
by | Dec 2, 2020 5:45 pm | Comments (38)
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Ornes outside his (for now) apartment: “We’re struggling.”
Connecticut has a pandemic eviction moratorium in place.
That’s not helping Willis Ornes, who lost his job and now faces losing his home.
Continue reading ‘Amid “Moratorium,” 31 Eviction Cases Filed’
by | Nov 23, 2020 5:09 pm | Comments (7)
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Customers wait to check out Sunday.
Walmart passed a surprise test issued by the city, though some shoppers remain wary of their safety at the superstore.
Continue reading ‘Walmart Passes Pop Quiz, Told To Spread People Out’
by | Nov 8, 2020 4:28 pm | Comments (2)
Facing a city shutdown, Walmart met a 72-hour city deadline to show it’s taking Covid-19 more seriously.