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Alder Steve Winter with Beulah's Darrell Brooks after vote.
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New apartments planned on Dixwell.
A local affordable housing developer’s bid to build 69 new apartments atop “Joe Grate’s lot” on Dixwell Avenue moved forward yet again, after alders unanimously voted to amend a tax-abatement and land-sale agreement with terms more generous to the builder.
by | Mar 28, 2022 11:53 am | Comments (1)
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Nisaa Monk Williams performs at Stetson.
Old-school jazz brought audience members of all ages to their feet dancing at the new Stetson Library Branch, during “A Celebration of Jazz,” put on in collaboration by the Shubert Theatre, Monk Youth Jazz, the Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation, and the New Haven Free Public Library.
The event, held Saturday, showcased performances by the band Chill, featuring members of Thelonius Monk’s family and Monk Youth Jazz students.
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by | Mar 25, 2022 4:45 pm | Comments (18)
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Rendering of Canal Trail-side apartment complex plan.
Developer Yves Joseph.
Dixwell residents gathered in the Q House gym to hear about a revived and changed plan to build 176 new apartments on the vacant city lot where Henry meets Ashmun and Canal Streets by the Farmington Canal Trail — and some emerged mulling whether to apply for a new home or a job.
by | Mar 25, 2022 10:03 am | Comments (3)
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Get 'Em Boy Boxing crew returns with national championships.
Hillhouse freshman Matthias Cruz, Hamden High sophomore Brianna Alers, and Wexler Grant sixth-grader Amir Foster returned home with flashy championship belts from a national boxing competition, then got back to work in the ring and at school.
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Mekhi Barnett stretches after 1-mile run.
After wrapping up a mile’s worth of laps at Bowen Field, 22-year-old Southern Connecticut State University senior Mekhi Barnett was warmed up — and on track to pursue long-range goals off the field.
by | Mar 21, 2022 9:24 pm | Comments (17)
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Cousin Ranisa Sweat, close friend Nevaeh Kellman at evening vigil.
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Keiron Jones.
Keiron Jones, a Hillhouse High School junior who was acing his classes and seemed bound for college, died Monday from injuries suffered in a shooting.
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by | Mar 21, 2022 5:22 pm | Comments (9)
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Diane Brown at entrance to new Stetson Branch Library.
Diane Brown swung open the door Monday morning to a long-awaited new, enhanced neighborhood library and community anchor at the corner of Dixwell Avenue and Foote Street, with lots more room, more books, and more to do.
by | Mar 9, 2022 8:54 am | Comments (0)
Since its first exhibition opened in March 2020 — and despite the pandemic — NXTHVN has managed to mount show after show that makes great use of its wide gallery walls, whether it’s by nearly covering them or using their white space to make distance between the pieces. Its latest exhibit is the first to give the viewer a sense of having entered and perhaps become a part of the art on display, the first to impart a feeling of bringing people somewhere else, if only for a little while.
by | Feb 28, 2022 5:00 pm | Comments (17)
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The Fusion Steppers ...
... fez-topped members of the Arabic Temple #40 at the 2019 Freddy.
The Freddy Fixer Parade, one of the city’s premier Black community events, won’t take place this year, its board announced.
The city responded by offering to help keep the tradition going.
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by | Feb 23, 2022 1:52 pm | Comments (8)
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Rendering of redeveloped Dixwell Plaza, with outdoor public space.
Imagine jazz festivals at a new 350-seat theater on Dixwell Avenue. And a mural celebrating the neighborhood’s rich history of Black art. And a landscaped public plaza replete with sculptures and furniture and dance, poetry, and hip hop.
A local redevelopment team heard those hopes, dreams, and visions during a community meeting focused on the cultural potential of a transformed Dixwell Plaza.
Continue reading ‘Plaza Redevelopers Dream Big For Dixwell Art’
by | Feb 22, 2022 6:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Local leaders at Tuesday's celebration.
The late New Haven born civil rights leader and federal judge Constance Baker Motley will get her due, if U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro succeeds in a mission in Washington.
Continue reading ‘Congressional Medal In Sight For Constance Baker Motley’
by | Feb 11, 2022 3:42 pm | Comments (20)
Price's rendering of repurposed Walt's Cleaners building.
Jason Price at Dixwell community meeting.
Walt’s Cleaners on Dixwell Avenue is long gone, but Black-owned business doesn’t have to be.
by | Feb 1, 2022 8:43 am | Comments (2)
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Fernanda Franco
Fernanda Franco brings every aspect of her artistic self to her new job as outreach director of New Haven Reads. “I walk into the office at Bristol Street, and I feel like Belle from Beauty and the Beast because you walk in and the walls are lined with books and it’s beautiful,” she said. She sang that last line, not unlike the character did in the movie.
Continue reading ‘Fernanda Franco Books New Gig At New Haven Reads’
by | Jan 28, 2022 1:46 pm | Comments (2)
Anthony: Shoot marbles, not guns.
The word on the street at Dixwell Plaza Friday was: Paying rent, and staying safe.
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by | Jan 21, 2022 11:23 am | Comments (0)
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SCSU Prez Joe Bertolino (at right).
Southern Connecticut State University Joe Bertolino is back making rounds of New Haven neighborhoods, looking to link his campus to the community.
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by | Jan 18, 2022 2:59 pm | Comments (2)
Monday's livestreamed MLK Day event. Clockwise from top left: Ron Hurt and Barbara Vereen; Rosa DeLauro; Kelcy Steele; Jaime Myers-McPhail.
“When we move mountains, we must celebrate.”
Continue reading ‘Labor Takes Victory Lap At MLK Celebration’
by | Jan 14, 2022 2:06 pm | Comments (7)
Augustine in his Hillhouse art classroom.
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A masked superhero has walked the halls of Hillhouse High School for almost a year, mostly in secret.
by | Jan 14, 2022 9:28 am | Comments (2)
To the vibrant sound of bomba from Movimiento Cultural, officials, press, and community members gathered in front of the Q House on Dixwell Avenue to celebrate the launch of what city Director of Cultural Affairs Adriane Jefferson called Connecticut’s first initiative targeting cultural equity.
Continue reading ‘"Cultural Equity" Pledge Targets Who Tells Whose Story’
by | Jan 6, 2022 4:05 pm | Comments (0)
Maliik Tinney waits online outside the Cornell Scott center on Dixwell.
From Long Wharf to Dixwell, people lined up for hours to get tested for Covid-19 as the Omicron variant continued to rage.
Continue reading ‘Test Message Received; Vax Message Muddled’
by | Jan 6, 2022 8:54 am | Comments (15)
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Alajah Tucker: "It feels like I'm just wasting time at school."
Despite bus driver shortages and dozens of absent teachers, New Haven students like Amil Soweol and Tylanna McCrea managed to get class time on Wednesday — at least part of the day.
by | Jan 4, 2022 3:38 pm | Comments (15)
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Planned 176-unit apartment complex at Ashmun, Canal, and Henry Streets.
Alders unanimously approved a suite of zoning changes designed to allow for the redevelopment of a long-vacant Science Park lot into 176 apartments and 88 parking spaces.
by | Dec 23, 2021 11:15 am | Comments (2)
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Student celebrate new donated gifts.
Kindergarteners at Wexler-Grant School got a colorful donation Wednesday from an 11-year Danbury artist.
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by | Dec 18, 2021 6:21 pm | Comments (16)
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Dixwell Plaza’s redevelopers won their final needed city approval to undertake an estimated $185 million overhaul of the fraying mid-century shopping strip — and turn it into a bustling mix of apartments, stores, and cultural venues in the heart of New Haven’s historic Black neighborhood.
by | Dec 13, 2021 3:36 pm | Comments (1)
The newly purchased Elks Club home at 329 Dixwell Ave.
The Elks Club has found a new Dixwell home, after purchasing a single-story church building on Dixwell Avenue near Munson Street for $180,000.
by | Dec 13, 2021 10:44 am | Comments (2)
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Charee Anderson with daughters Layana and Kahlea at Sunday's Q House event.
A day or so before the New Haven Public Schools were putting on a “Holiday Children Gifts & Books Giveaway” at the Dixwell Q house, organizers realized they didn’t have enough toys.
“The turnout was going to be much larger than we expected, so we reached out to NHPS staff and they came through with at least 100 toys,” Gemma Joseph Lumpkin, the school system’s chief of youth, family, and community engagement, said at the Sunday afternoon event in the Q House gymnasium.
Continue reading ‘K-4 Kids Start Holiday Season With Books At Q House Giveaway’