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Planned 176-unit apartment complex at Ashmun, Canal, and Henry St.
Plans to redevelop a long-vacant Science Park lot grew in size to 176 proposed apartments — and won an initial recommendation to do so.
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by | Dec 5, 2021 6:00 pm | Comments (3)
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Student athletes Olivia O'Connor and Gary Moore Jr.
This time next year, two Hillhouse track stars will retire their blue Academics uniforms to graduate to shades of green as collegiate student athletes.
by | Nov 23, 2021 1:11 pm | Comments (8)
Plans for Kimberly Field.
The parks department received the go-ahead to proceed with a series of improvements throughout the city:
• A restoration of athletic facilities at Kimberly Field in the Hill.
• Replacing the aging and inadequate guardrails at the dangerous curve on Townsend Avenue by Pardee Sea Wall promenade facing the harbor.
• Enlarging signs at Scantlebury Park to ensure people know that only pickle ball and tennis are allowed on those spiffy new courts
• Creating uniform playground rule signs throughout the city, whose first rule is that “Adult supervision is highly recommended.”
by | Nov 17, 2021 5:02 pm | Comments (3)
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Steelers Tuesday at DeGale Field, preparing for regional contest.
Team captains William “E.J.” McClary and Chase King.
A goal line stand in overtime made the 30 eight- and nine-year-olds comprising the 8U2 New Haven Steelers youth football team Connecticut’s undisputed state champions.
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Henry Fernandez, Jacqueline Bracey, Jeanette Morrison, Toni Harp, and Malcolm Welfare help cut the Q ribbon Saturday.
Hundreds celebrated the reopening of Dixwell’s newly restored Community “Q” House Saturday with hope for the future and a nod to history.
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The newly rebuilt Q House, ready to reopen Saturday after 18 years.
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Jeanette Morrison and Henry Fernandez, leading a tour inside.
Seniors in the morning. Kids in the afternoon. Other adults at night.
That’s one way of looking at the planned rhythm of the newly rebuilt Dixwell Community “Q” House, which opens Saturday with a festive ribbon-cutting celebration of a decade of community working.
by | Oct 27, 2021 11:59 am | Comments (16)
A member of a group called The People’s Collaborative for Dixwell has submitted the following letter to the Board of Alders calling for a pause on an inclusionary zoning study.
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by | Oct 27, 2021 9:12 am | Comments (0)
On one level, Christian Curiel’s painting of the woman by the water is realistic; she’s sitting in a natural position, not like she’s posing for a picture, but like she’s just gotten out of the water. But ritual soaks the atmosphere around her, in the way her face is painted, the flowers in her hair, the candles floating on the water. Then there are the shapes in the air around her that have no place in a realistic painting, as if Curiel has made visual the intangible spiritual act that has just taken place. In the end, though, you might say the key to the whole painting is the cinderblock at her feet. It looks at first like it’s resting in the shallows, but the woman’s feet suggest the water’s deeper than that. Is the cinderblock floating in the water? Are all the rocks floating as well?
by | Oct 22, 2021 8:36 am | Comments (5)
Team Q: LEAP’s Henry Fernandez, Alder Jeanette Morrison.
The long-awaited opening of the new Dixwell Community “Q” House is a week away. Here’s the lowdown on how a community advisory board and LEAP will take the reins.
by | Oct 18, 2021 3:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Skateboarding commences Friday night at new George Street park.
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Ambassador Neftalie Williams teaches Jaden Lee how to Ollie Saturday at Scantlebury Park.
Fourteen-year-old Jaden Lee snapped the tail of his skateboard, slid his foot forward, and jumped all at once.
Jaden received those three tips on how to do his first “Ollie” from a visiting U.S. “ambassador” who came to town to spread the word about not just how to skateboard, but why it matters, as New Haven also opened a new park for the faithful.
by | Oct 18, 2021 9:42 am | Comments (3)
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Katherine Jacobs, Mary Brown, Alder Jill Marks, Justin Elicker, Alder Ron Hurt, Chaz Carmon at Sunday park ribbon-cutting.
Napoleon tests new play surface.
Napoleon Jenkins jumped from the gleaming bars of the jungle gym, his feet landing on the spongy surface of the Goffe Street Park playground with a soft thud.
“It’s pretty good,” said the 8‑year-old, grinning, testing out the new surface, one of a host of improvements at the park.
by | Oct 13, 2021 10:36 am | Comments (2)
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Volunteers at work Tuesday.
A new community garden sprouted in four hours at Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Learning School, with help from students at the other end of New Haven’s public school age range.
by | Oct 11, 2021 11:28 am | Comments (6)
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Ariana Akani meets Strawberry Sunday in Goffe Street Park.
On her fifth birthday, Ariana Akani made a new friend named Strawberry. If all goes well, Strawberry will return to New Haven and Ariana again in the spring — and perhaps offer her a ride.
by | Oct 8, 2021 1:28 pm | Comments (49)
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Ocean Management’s Shmuel Aizenberg (left) with attorney Ian Gottlieb in court this week.
Carmel Street bathroom: cracked tiles, mold, acrid smell.
The men in charge of two of the city’s largest low-income real estate empires landed in criminal housing court —as part of a city effort to prosecute landlords who take too long to fix up their properties.
by | Oct 7, 2021 4:44 pm | Comments (8)
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A ConnCAT flag newly raised above Dixwell Plaza.
Dixwell Plaza’s redevelopers raised a flag above the fraying mid-century shopping complex to celebrate gaining site control of the neighborhood-anchoring block — and to point ahead towards the strip’s pending transformation into ConnCAT Place.
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by | Sep 30, 2021 12:15 pm | Comments (6)
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“Safe Routes” gathering Wednesday evening in Scantlebury Park.
En route to New Haven: a blueprint for city streets that prioritizes walkers, bikes, and bus riders with, among other ideas, miles of new bike lanes and bus “mini-hubs.”
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by | Sep 27, 2021 11:31 am | Comments (2)
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The Ralph Walker Skating Rink on Upper State Street.
The Board of Alders unanimously approved two public-private agreements — one that will keep Cornell Scott Hill Health Center in Dixwell for the next two decades, another that will bring an ice rink management company to Upper State Street for the next five years.
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by | Sep 24, 2021 1:21 pm | Comments (3)
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Chaz Carmon: This was our youth’s home away from home.
Hurricane Ida wiped out seven years worth of belongings at the home of the Ice the Beef anti-violence youth group. Now the group is scrambling to get back in and “save lives” again.
by | Sep 20, 2021 8:08 am | Comments (0)
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Still from “Skin.”
Black Haven Film Festival returned on Saturday for its second year, with five new filmmakers ready to share their vision via spoken word, song, dance, and animation — both in person and online.
by | Sep 13, 2021 1:08 pm | Comments (1)
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In a Dixwell parking lot, literature came to life and spoken words about loss, faith, injustice, family, and self-love filled the air.
by | Sep 4, 2021 9:12 pm | Comments (15)
ConnCORP’s Erik Clemons, Carlton Highsmith, Anna Blanding, Paul McCraven, and Elaine Roper at Saturday’s event.
One hundred residents, city officials, and outreach members celebrated the planned transformation of Dixwell Plaza into “ConnCAT Place.”
ConnCORP, the complex’s new owner, threw a block party Saturday afternoon behind Stetson Library in the plaza’s parking lot as a way to thank the community for support as the organization proceeds with plans to build a new $200 million mixed-use complex on the site.
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by | Aug 30, 2021 3:09 pm | Comments (20)
Kwadwo Adae at work on the Bouchet mural.
As you drive through New Haven on Henry Street, you will notice something at the intersection of Dixwell: Across from a derelict lot is a magnificent mural in progress on a wall that was once pink.
The image consists of cascaded portraits of a Black man rendered in gradients of color. The man is Edward Bouchet, a New Havener who was the first Black man to get a doctorate in the United States. Bouchet got his Ph.D. in physics from Yale in 1876. Yet, most children in the Elm City don’t know about him.
Muralist Kwadwo Adae hopes to change that one brushstroke at a time.
by | Aug 23, 2021 12:20 pm | Comments (0)
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New Dixwell corner name is unveiled Saturday.
The late Bishop Lethenial McClam.
The “legacy, integrity, generosity, and love” of the Bishop Lethenial McClam will now live on forever at the corner of Bristol Street and Dixwell Avenue.
“Bishop Lethenial McClam Corner” was unveiled at that spot Saturday afternoon to the family, friends, and community members whom McClam helped throughout his lifetime through unspoken acts of kindness, prayer, and his establishing of the McClam Funeral Home more than 20 years ago.
by | Aug 20, 2021 1:43 pm | Comments (3)
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Johnny Cummings: Keep your eye on the ball, not me.
Johnny “JC” Cummings stepped on the court where he once reigned, not to sink a three-pointer, but to pass along wisdom about the game of basketball to an up-and-comer he hopes will follow in his footsteps.
by | Aug 10, 2021 3:40 pm | Comments (2)
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Ralph Walker Skating Rink.
Alders unanimously advanced two proposed public-private accords — one that would keep a community health center in Dixwell for the next two decades, another that would bring an ice rink management company to Upper State Street for the next five years.
Continue reading ‘Hill Health, Skating Rink Contracts Advance’