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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.
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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.
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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.
by | Nov 6, 2021 8:35 pm | Comments (5)
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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.
by | Nov 5, 2021 8:49 am | Comments (11)
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.”
Continue reading ‘Plan-gineers Map Out “Safe Routes For All” Strategy’
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.
Continue reading ‘20-Year Hill Health, 5-Year Skating Rink Contracts OK’d’
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.