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Kaley Pillinger, one of the confused students, receives her sticker after finally arriving at the right location.
Confusion over even-year polling locations sent some Yalies to the wrong voting stations Tuesday.
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DeLauro addresses GOTV rally Saturday in Dixwell Plaza.
Three days away from an election overshadowed by a pandemic, mass unemployment, and national political tensions, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and a troop of fellow Democratic candidates urged voters to remember that government must play an active role in helping the vulnerable survive calamitous times.
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Women’s suffrage speaker greets workers at plant entrance, ca. 1916.
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Cavanagh, Criscola outside ex-factory entrance; their new book (below).
If you closed your eyes, you could imagine hearing the factory whistle blow and seeing thousands of workers streaming past Joan Cavanagh and Jeanne Criscola the other day.
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Next up: Munson Street ex-factory slated for demo.
Science Park plans to knock down one more still-abandoned former factory building and construct 200 new apartments there. Newhallville alders and residents are seeking to ensure their neighbors can afford to live there.
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Affordable housing developers seeking local tax breaks: RJ Development’s Joseph, Beaulah’s Brooks, and Beacon’s Kovel.
Tax-break deals for three different residential building projects planned for vacant lots around town were fast-tracked for approval — revealing some of the current strategy for promoting affordable housing.
by | Oct 20, 2020 4:58 pm | Comments (24)
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Vew of planned new Dixwell Plaza redevelopment.
The city plans to sell its remaining stakes in Dixwell Plaza for $750,000 to a local redevelopment team looking to convert the 1960s-era shopping complex into 50,000 square feet of new commercial space and 150 new apartments.
Continue reading ‘$750K Sale Pitched For Dixwell Plaza Deal’
by | Oct 19, 2020 5:44 pm | Comments (1)
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“I got some Legos, books, and art paper,” said Pamela Mobley.
Continue reading ‘Wexler-Grant Gives Families Supplies, & Tips On Returning’
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Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison partnered with her sorority sisters to bring food gift cards and hand lotion to the seniors of Dixwell and Newhallville.
Continue reading ‘Alpha Kappa Alpha Comes To Seniors’ Aid During Pandemic’
by | Oct 14, 2020 11:52 am | Comments (4)
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Angel Hubbard with memorial shirt.
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Divonne Jaquel Coward.
Divonne “DJ” Coward was the one his family members called for a ride when they were stranded. When someone didn’t have a way of getting home late at night, he’d promise from other end of the line, “I’ll be there in ten minutes.”
Coward would rouse his niece to wake up at 5 for early-morning runs. He could be counted on to dispense advice on vitamins to take, herbal teas to drink. He loved to stop by a neighbor’s house to argue about Donald Trump. At family gatherings he played sports with the kids, who adored him.
Continue reading ‘Post-Homicide, DJ’s Family Demands Dignity’
by | Oct 13, 2020 4:12 pm | Comments (1)
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“This is heaven-sent,” said Lexy Johnson. “Seriously, I can’t thank you enough.”
Johnson and her friend, Nisha Mirror (pictured), came in their car to a food distribution site set up Thursday by the police substation on Charles Street in Dixwell. They were among hundreds of households to pick up food.
Continue reading ‘Pandemic Food Giveaway Feeds Hundreds In Dixwell’
by | Oct 6, 2020 10:53 am | Comments (4)
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Monday’s virtual Board of Alders meeting.
The Board of Alders voted unanimously in support of transferring $100,000 in city funds towards paying for a planning study for a new social worker-centered mobile crisis response team.
Continue reading ‘Alders Transfer $100K For Crisis Team Study’
by | Oct 5, 2020 3:35 pm | Comments (17)
Developer Yves-Georges Joseph II: A “renaissance of investment.”
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Canal and Henry Streets: Soon to hold 150 new apartments?
A local developer plans to build a new five-story apartment complex — with one third of its 150 units at affordable rents — atop a city-owned grassy lot on the Dixwell/Science Park border.
by | Sep 27, 2020 1:46 pm | Comments (1)
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The Bereavement Care Network team at Saturday’s event.
Doris Moye came to watch her granddaughter’s fusion dance team at a Peace Mobile Caravan and Rally Saturday in Goffe Street Park. She also came to mourn the loss of her cousin, who died two weeks ago from homicide.
Continue reading ‘Homicide Victims Remembered, With Doves & Forward Vision’
by | Sep 27, 2020 9:32 am | Comments (10)
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After seven years of planning, New Haven Saturday unveiled a 700-pound bronze monument to one of the seminal and no-longer forgotten figures of the city’s Black history, William Lanson.
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Covid killed Demelle Turner’s and Marquel Caesar’s chances of throwing touchdown passes this fall. Instead they found themselves throwing soil into garden beds — with a team devoted to preventing violence.
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Clockwise from top left: City arts director Adriane Jefferson, Stetson Librarian Diane Brown, and the public library notice for Dana King’s and Lisa Dent’s talk about William Lanson.
When young Black New Haveners walk by the new statue of William “King” Lanson, Dana King hopes they think to themselves, “That looks like me.”
Continue reading ‘“Gov” Sculptor Urges Kids To Claim History’
by | Sep 15, 2020 12:25 pm | Comments (14)
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High-schoolers help prepare the Escape before work stopped.
The perennially-stalled and never-opened “Escape” youth homeless shelter lurched towards its formal demise at a city government hearing Monday night.
by | Aug 31, 2020 8:27 am | Comments (3)
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Salwa Abdussabor teaches Gia and Alana Ciuitello to skate.
Thursday’s ribbon cutting at the new park.
Teenage sisters Gia and Alana Ciuitello can now join in on the fun at Dixwell’s new Scantlebury Skate Park, after picking up free boards of their own at the park’s official ribbon cutting.
Continue reading ‘Scantlebury Skate Park Celebrated, On Wheels’
by | Aug 25, 2020 6:32 pm | Comments (12)
Steve Roberts (above right, below with co-creator J. Joseph) checks out the contours of the new Scantlebury skatepark.
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Steve Roberts found the flow just where he’d always pictured it — at a new skatepark in the neighborhood where he grew up, and where he can now teach other young people to hone their moves.
by | Aug 17, 2020 12:21 pm | Comments (1)
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Jazmyn Richardson looks for a new backpack Saturday.
Ava Rodriguez shows off her new backpack.
Melissa Rodriguez helped her daughter, Ava, pick out a new backpack for her first day of 5th grade.
The mother-daughter duo weren’t at a school supply store — but instead at a Dixwell back to school drive, where they joined other families struggling to navigate precarious finances and uncertainty around the coming school year amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Aug 14, 2020 12:17 pm | Comments (10)
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The city decided this place is dangerous.
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Titus Kaphar
Analogous colors.
On one wall of NXTHVN’s gallery is a possibly already-iconic painting: A Black mother, eyes closed, her hair kept from her face by a headband, cradling only the silhouette of a baby. New Haven-based artist Titus Kaphar painted it in reaction to the killing of George Floyd, and in June it ended up being on the cover of Time magazine.
Facing that image, on the opposite wall, are a series of black pieces of paper that contain faces and words and crossed out lines. One side of the gallery is a short shock; the other is a lake of layers to sink into.
Together, they make up “Pleading Freedom,” a small but deep exhibition of work by Kaphar in collaboration with memoirist, poet, and attorney Reginald Dwayne Betts that has much to say about the condition of being Black in America at a time when people’s ears are prepared to hear that message as much as they have been in a generation.
by | Aug 10, 2020 9:45 am | Comments (2)
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River and Stevens with school supplies they donated for fellow students.
Jayleani Rivera and Zonasia Stevens are keeping optimistic about adapting to the upcoming school year and overcoming the obstacles of Covid-19. In the meantime, they joined their families on Saturday to donate school supplies at the Dixwell police substation on Charles Street.
Continue reading ‘Dixwell Donates Back-To-School Supplies, For Either Reopening Scenario’
by | Jul 30, 2020 2:51 pm | Comments (6)
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Reyes with Alder Honda Smith at community anti-violence event.
Otoniel Reyes began his police career as a young beat patrol officer keeping in touch with the pulse of the neighborhoods.
Twenty-one years later, as chief, he’s repeating those steps — hitting community management team meetings over the past week in Dixwell, East Rock, and Newhallville to check in with neighbors on his department’s response to a crime uptick and demands for change.
by | Jul 29, 2020 9:52 am | Comments (1)
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Natalie Marshall and Kathryn Piscitello.
Close friends Natalie Marshall and Kathryn Piscitello met up at a Dixwell food drive Tuesday to pick up groceries. Before leaving the pair arranged a dinner night with each other.