by | Jul 1, 2020 5:37 pm | Comments (1)
A local community-empowerment organization is stepping in where the federal and state governments failed: to help black-owned businesses recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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by | Jun 28, 2020 8:15 pm | Comments (12)
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Kashon Brown, Courtney Brown, and Brittany Odom at rally.
More than 100 New Haveners marched Sunday and released balloons in memory of murdered 19-year-old former Hillhouse basketball forward Kiana Brown and all other 2020 victims of gun violence.
by | Jun 28, 2020 2:45 pm | Comments (1)
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Elders and staff at the Ella B. Scantlebury Senior Residence on Dixwell Avenue received essentials — including masks and Ricky D’s Rib Shack food — delivered Friday by the brothers of Chi Omicron Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.
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by | Jun 25, 2020 5:00 pm | Comments (15)
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Carpenter Ernest Pagan and small business contractor Rodney Williams outside the Q House construction site Thursday.
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A third of the way through the construction of the new Q House, only 9 percent of subcontractors working on the project have been African American-owned companies, and less than 8 percent of the total construction workforce for the project has been Black.
A dozen local, Black small business contractors rallied outside of the future community center site to protest that lack of work, and to lambast a city-funded hiring initiative they argued benefits the county more than it does New Haven proper.
by | Jun 16, 2020 9:54 am | Comments (0)
Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Childhood School staff wanted a way to say goodbye to a school year that has been turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Principal Monique Brunson.
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by | Jun 15, 2020 1:26 pm | Comments (0)
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by | Jun 15, 2020 11:01 am | Comments (1)
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“We are responsible, strong and safe,” said Dixwell resident and neighborhood organizer Fred Christmas, whose vision to recognize and thank his neighborhood celebrated Saturday.
by | Jun 14, 2020 12:11 pm | Comments (18)
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Marching down Dixwell to the Green.
Empty caskets on the Green representing lives lost to police brutality.
Several hundred people rallied outside of Varick AME Zion Church in Dixwell in a prayer and protest rally commemorating the lives of those lost to police brutality — and detailing the work needed to realize a more just future.
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by | Jun 14, 2020 12:16 am | Comments (9)
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Justin Farmer and Ashleigh Huckabey lead march up Dixwell.
Echoing calls around the country to defund cops and reinvest in communities, 600 young protesters marched through Downtown, Dixwell, and Newhallville Saturday to demand that the university abolish its police department.
by | Jun 12, 2020 11:03 am | Comments (1)
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Lt. Troy Frost and Alder Ron Hurt.
New Haven firefighters responded to help at a hotspot — a hotspot of Covid-19 in the Hill.
by | Jun 4, 2020 12:12 pm | Comments (15)
Officers on scene at Henry Street.
A 45-year-old New Haven man who allegedly held a woman at gunpoint then remained barricaded in a Henry Street apartment surrendered to police without incident around 11:45 a.m. Thursday.
by | May 28, 2020 3:01 pm | Comments (19)
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Wahlburgers chef Paul Wahlberg (right) and Crescent Capital’s Mark Devincentis at Thursday’s burger giveaway.
A Massachusetts-based burger restaurant, a Los Angeles-based investment firm, and the state treasurer’s office teamed up with local clergy, politicians, firefighters, and labor organizers to distribute 750 free hamburgers with a side order of Covid-19 racial consciousness in Dixwell, the Hill, and Fair Haven.
by | May 26, 2020 10:56 am | Comments (1)
As many working class parents prepare go back to their jobs, they are also deciding not to send their kids to summer camps, out of lingering pandemic fears.
What’s to be done with 8 and 9‑year-olds confined to the house?
Provide an infusion of board games? Books? How about community-organized treasure hunts to pry them safely away from their screens?
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by | May 19, 2020 12:20 pm | Comments (2)
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From left, Virginia Percy, son Todd Percy son, Earl Percy, Rev. Morton Percy, daughter Natalie Oliver (seated).
Reverend Morton and Virginia Percy and the NAACP teamed up to prepare a “family” dinner for 20 people — with a side of protective masks.
by | May 13, 2020 12:49 pm | Comments (1)
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The proposed 4-story, 69-unit apartment building at 340 Dixwell.
A planned new four-story, 69-unit apartment building slated for a Dixwell lot formerly home to Joe Grate’s barbecue stand advanced with a unanimous vote of support from the city’s zoning commissioners.
by | May 5, 2020 1:24 pm | Comments (6)
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Free mask giveaway on Winchester Avenue in Science Park.
Dozens of volunteers filled the median and sidewalks of Winchester Avenue in Science Park to give out tens of thousands of free masks to eager recipients who honked and cheered as they laid their hands on the hard-to-find protective face coverings.
by | Apr 29, 2020 2:07 pm | Comments (2)
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Hill Health’s Dixwell site, now owned by ConnCORP.
Local developers behind a planned $200 million overhaul of Dixwell Plaza have purchased Cornell Scott Hill Health Center’s site there for $1.8 million, even as they temporarily postpone the rebuilding project to focus on raising money for neighbors during the Covid-19 crisis.
by | Apr 24, 2020 6:23 pm | Comments (16)
Williams, Carter and Pittman Friday on “Dateline.”
With $60 billion in Covid-19 relief headed to cities to boost hard-to-reach small businesses, Miguel Pittman, Rodney Williams, and Jayuan Carter stand ready to help New Haven get it right this time.
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by | Apr 24, 2020 10:06 am | Comments (3)
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James Ratliff, soon after getting his coronavirus test.
Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison (right) and Hill Health nurse Michael Raffles inside new Dixwell test site.
James Ratliff pulled his bright blue surgical mask back over his face as he left the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center on Dixwell Avenue — two minutes after he had arrived, and one minute after a nurse had stuck a long nasopharyngeal swab up his nose for 15 seconds.
His coronavirus test was done. He’d find out the results in a few days. Now he had to get back to work changing tires.
by | Apr 20, 2020 5:19 pm | Comments (1)
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ConnCAT President and CEO Erik Clemons.
A Science Park-based job training and education center has launched a new Covid-19 relief fund geared towards raising $600,000 to provide direct financial assistance to Dixwell and Newhallville families struggling during the pandemic.
by | Apr 20, 2020 5:19 pm | Comments (1)
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The New Haven Links, Inc. made its third donation of 900 face masks to public-housing tenants, helping the housing authority reach its first goal of donating 2000 masks to those most vulnerable during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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by | Apr 15, 2020 1:06 pm | Comments (5)
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The proposed 4-story, 69-unit apartment building at 340 Dixwell.
Two affordable housing developers, one from Dixwell and one from New York City, have teamed up to build a new four-story, 69-unit apartment building atop a vacant triangular lot that was formerly home to a gas station, a parking lot, and Joe Grate’s popular barbecue stand.
Continue reading ‘69 Apartments Planned For Joe Grate’s Lot’
by | Apr 13, 2020 10:40 am | Comments (0)
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Bishop Charles H. Brewer III invites congregations to address Covid-19 during livestreamed sermon.
The growing toll of Covid-19 was at the forefront of the minds, and prayers, of Dixwell Avenue congregants this Easter Sunday.
by | Apr 6, 2020 9:26 am | Comments (7)
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The former Walt Cleaner’s at 310 Dixwell, now owned by the city.
The city has purchased the former Walt’s Cleaners building on Dixwell Avenue for $150,000 as part of a broader plan to revitalize that commercial corridor’s small business landscape — a plan that a top city official said is now all the more critical, and all the more uncertain, as the Covid-19 pandemic has shut down wide swaths of New Haven’s economy.
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by | Apr 3, 2020 5:07 pm | Comments (4)
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Rodney Williams Friday on “Dateline New Haven.”
Trillions of dollars are flowing from Washington and through the state Capitol to help keep struggling families and businesses afloat amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Will they flow all the way down into urban neighborhoods like Dixwell and Newhallville?
Rodney Williams is watching closely — and is skeptical.