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With retired Sgt. Shafiq Abdusabbur at the unveiling.
With grandsons Wesley and Wilbert Frazier.
During ceremony, legendary principal urges adults to volunteer.
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Candidates Eddie Gist, Steve Winter, Troy Streater, Anais Nunez.
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The three neighborhood-spanning Ward 21.
A four-way alder race in the jigsaw-shaped Ward 21 pits a first-term incumbent focused on challenges ranging from street light improvements to affordable housing to climate change against a slate of challengers calling for more opportunities for neighborhood youth.
by | Sep 4, 2019 3:18 pm | Comments (14)
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Mayor Toni Harp at Wednesday’s event.
The Hillhouse High dance team.
With a high school dance team to her right, a dozen alders and city officials to her left, and an excavator busy tearing up concrete behind her, Mayor Toni Harp led a Q House construction press conference that was equal parts progress and politics less than a week before a hotly contested primary.
by | Aug 30, 2019 12:27 pm | Comments (20)
Mayor Toni Harp with City Engineer Giovannia Zinn at contract signing.
The city plans to start construction next week on the new Dixwell Community “Q” House.
by | Aug 19, 2019 7:29 am | Comments (5)
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Two dozen police officers and anti-gun violence activists rallied together at a prayer vigil commemorating the murder of a West Haven man and the shooting injury of a New Haven top cop.
Continue reading ‘Community, Cops Join Hands: “We Can’t Do This Alone”’
by | Aug 8, 2019 7:55 am | Comments (17)
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Mandy Management’s Israel Mochkin and tenant Henry Pizzaro.
Persistent rat problems at a Mandy Management-owned Dixwell apartment led the city’s Fair Rent Commission to set a tenant’s rent at half of the original monthly rate until the rodents are gone for good.
by | Aug 6, 2019 7:33 am | Comments (2)
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Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison speaking in support of the skate park.
Alders voted unanimously to accept two grants totaling $75,000 to build out a new skate park in Dixwell’s Scantlebury Park.
Continue reading ‘Skate Park Plan OK’d; Housing Commission Created’
by | Aug 5, 2019 7:54 am | Comments (4)
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Skate park promoters Steven Roberts and J. Joseph Jr.
The full Board of Alders is scheduled to vote Monday night on a controversial proposal to build a skate park in Scantlebury Park, following a packed public hearing on the idea.
by | Jul 31, 2019 4:44 pm | Comments (9)
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Elicker gives senior citizens high fives at meeting.
Dixwell seniors don’t want to have to climb down a perilously steep, concrete stairwell every time they want to use the back entrance to their weekly meeting room.
On Wednesday afternoon, elderly prospective voters from a group associated with the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center quizzed mayoral challenger Justin Elicker on what exactly he would do, if elected, to help improve safe access to their communal gathering space.
by | Jul 29, 2019 3:28 pm | Comments (34)
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LCI Executive Director Serena Neal-Sanjurjo and City Plan Director Aicha Woods.
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Grand Avenue as it points towards downtown.
City officials promised to examine the potential impact that a rezoning project might have on low-income black and brown communities as they move forward with longstanding retail revitalization plans for Dixwell, Whalley, and Grand Avenues.
by | Jul 29, 2019 3:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Paris (left) and Abby Feliciano-Cosme (right).
Paris and Abby Feliciano-Cosme were both adopted by their old babysitter to help them escape a traumatic home life.
Now the 14-year-old sisters are working with a New Haven-based adoption and foster care agency to make sure that kids in similar situations get the love, mentorship, and support that helped them survive.
Continue reading ‘‘r kids Expansion On Dixwell Moves Forward’
by | Jul 29, 2019 7:33 am | Comments (2)
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Tyrick B. Keyes loved playing in a summer basketball league organized by the anti-violence group Ice The Beef. Two years after Tyrick was shot and killed at age 14, the league kept going this summer — now named after him.
Continue reading ‘Youth Basketball League Combats Gun Violence’
by | Jul 27, 2019 9:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Jill Marks.
Jill Marks said she wants to keep bringing park improvements, speed bumps, jobs, and a spirit of unity to Ward 28 — and asked voters to help her do that by electing her to a third two-year term on the Board of Alders.
by | Jul 22, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (21)
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Rev. Steven Cousin (center): Emphasize the positive.
Amid a campaign season of complaints and conspiracy theories, mayoral candidates took a brief pause from the animosity on Sunday afternoon to say something nice about each other.
by | Jul 18, 2019 2:44 pm | Comments (23)
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Mayor Harp, Bethel Bishop Gregory G.M. Ingram, and Jason Bartlett (in orange) at the Escape lease signing in September 2015.
Applause rang out in a church hall when Harp administration officials announced plans to build an “Escape” drop-in center and homeless shelter for young people.
Even as the documents were signed, years of behind-the-scenes City Hall bickering began. Over who should get paid. How. And whether to pull the plug on the project altogether.
Continue reading ‘Escape Emails Reveal Behind-Scenes Battles’
by | Jul 16, 2019 2:08 pm | Comments (24)
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Rev. Kimber and Mayor Harp join hands in campaign prayer.
The Rev. Boise Kimber led two dozen black and Hispanic pastors Tuesday in endorsing Mayor Toni Harp’s reelection — and committed to knocking on doors, handing out flyers, raising money, and running social media promotions on her behalf.
by | Jul 16, 2019 8:03 am | Comments (2)
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Proposed designs for a remodeled 25-35 Springside Ave.
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Artist Titus Kaphar: Home sold.
A local developer spent over $3.2 million on a 29-unit apartment complex near Southern Connecticut State University that he plans to convert into 41 apartments, in one of the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Jul 15, 2019 1:43 pm | Comments (4)
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A vacant lot at 245 Munson St., soon to be affordable housing.
A local faith-based development company has obtained approvals to build three new units of affordable housing atop two long-vacant Munson Street lots.
by | Jul 15, 2019 7:39 am | Comments (0)
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“It’s not home but it’s special,” said Alton Johnson who attended and performed at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church for its annual State of South Carolina Gospel Brunch Fundraiser.
by | Jul 12, 2019 7:55 am | Comments (2)
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Three new faces of the New Haven Police Department (NHPD) joined Interim Police Chief Otoniel Reyes and community leaders to get a first-hand look at community policing — and take on three teens on the Scantlebury Park basketball court.
Continue reading ‘New Cops Get To Know Dixwell On Community Walk’
by | Jul 9, 2019 1:20 pm | Comments (3)
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The speeding-prone curve at Hillside and Mansfield, one of possible demo project locations.
Nina Lentili loves the convenient proximity of the Stop & Shop on Whalley but is terrified to ride her bike there (although she’d like to). Even crossing the street as a pedestrian at that un-signalled, un-crosswalked location is daunting.
Beverly Barnes adores the location where she lives, on Admiral Street at Dixwell, right near a bus stop from which she can bus anywhere in town. However, if she walks a few blocks to the intersection where Munson, Henry, Dixwell, and Shelton all meet in a sprawling, confusing triangle, she doesn’t know who’s turning where and when and if she’ll be able to get across unharmed.
Continue reading ‘Dixwell Targets Problem Intersections For Quick Street Fix’
by | Jul 2, 2019 7:00 am | Comments (7)
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Tenant Malika Sharif at St. Martin’s.
A landlord plans to gut-rehab all 63 apartments at a federally subsidized Goffe Street complex over the coming year — leaving low-income tenants concerned about uprooting their lives in the meantime.
by | Jul 1, 2019 7:52 am | Comments (2)
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Elaine Peters and her chihuahua named Coconut danced at the New Haven Caribbean Heritage Festival on Sunday to celebrate her family roots.
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Elicker (above) addresses Bethel congregants (below).
Days after an opposing campaign attacked his wife and her fellow federal prosecutors as Trump co-conspirators, mayoral candidate Justin Elicker took to the pulpit Sunday to urge New Haveners to transcend “political rhetoric” and “come together as a city.”
by | Jun 27, 2019 12:12 pm | Comments (8)
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“Let’s save some lives!” 7‑year-old Jahri Goodman (pictured) yelled into a SWAT truck radio speaker that was parked at the St. Martin Townhouses parking lot Wednesday afternoon during a community “Touch The Truck” event.
Continue reading ‘3 Months After Fire, Kids Bone Up On Safety’