by | Jun 25, 2019 7:44 am | Comments (19)
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A legal aid poster calling for more affordable housing. Below: A packed room at Wednesday night’s meeting.
Deputy Zoning Director Jenna Montesano, City Planner Stacey Davis, and City Plan Director Aïcha Woods.
The city’s planned zoning overhaul for Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell Avenues hit a gentrification speed bump from activists concerned about protections for low-income residents.
by | Jun 24, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (2)
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New Haven youth like Des’Tahnee Manick-Highsmith were given the opportunity to showcase their talents during a Juneteenth celebration on Saturday at Goffe Street Park.
by | Jun 14, 2019 12:44 pm | Comments (4)
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Skate park promoters Steven Roberts and J. Joseph Jr.
“Look at all that space right here!” Jean Jenkins said, gesturing toward an open, grassy area in the middle of Scantlebury Park. “Why can’t it be here?”
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123 Ogden.
The sale price of a Prospect Hill mansion dropped nearly $95,000 in a decade a half, in one of the city’s recent property transactions.
by | Jun 7, 2019 7:51 am | Comments (2)
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Jeffie Frazier (right) at Thursday night’s hearing.
Alders unanimously supported renaming a Dixwell corner outside Wexler-Grant in honor of the school’s retried longtime principal and a nationally celebrated neighborhood educator.
by | Jun 6, 2019 1:33 pm | Comments (42)
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City Plan Director Aïcha Woods (at left) presents draft.
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Grand Avenue as it points towards downtown.
The City Plan department has drafted a zoning overhaul for Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell Avenues with the hopes of creating denser, more pedestrian-friendly “commercial gateway districts” between downtown and the city’s neighborhoods.
by | Jun 4, 2019 5:58 pm | Comments (20)
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Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker Tuesday at Prescott Bush.
Mary Demand-McDaniel watched Justin Elicker juggle a lemon, apple and orange for a room full of her fellow seniors.
“Can you do that,” she asked him, “with the school budget?”
by | Jun 3, 2019 3:10 pm | Comments (23)
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Skate park promoters Steven Roberts and J. Joseph.
Two young men with a skateboard and $50,000 in private committed funds in hand walk into a community meeting and propose to build a skate facility in a beloved park.
What could happen?
by | Jun 2, 2019 6:48 pm | Comments (4)
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Douglas Bethea and his daughter Shatea Threadgill.
The Fusion Steppers at Sunday’s parade.
Tiny athletes with the Walter Pop Smith Little League.
This year’s Freddy Fixer Parade Sunday ended in tears … of joy, as Nation Drill Squad and Drum Corps leader Douglas “Dougie” Bethea passed the baton to his daughter after three decades at the helm of the multiple national championship award-winning team.
by | May 31, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (0)
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Annie Bradley Gallman says that there’s no secret in living to 100; it just requires some work. And she should know. She joined the centenarian club Thursday — a decade after she finally stopped working.
by | May 27, 2019 12:24 pm | Comments (1)
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Eliza Vargas and Ronisha Moore at the forefront of the Dixwell march.
Only a few days after many of them had prom celebrations, the high school members of the anti-violence youth organization Ice the Beef joined together on Dixwell Avenue to rally against gun violence in New Haven.
by | May 27, 2019 8:59 am | Comments (13)
Fair Rent Commission Executive Director Otis Johnson.
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324 Goffe / 401 Sherman.
The city’s Fair Rent Commission reduced a Dixwell tenant’s monthly rent from $675 to $0 until his landlord, Mandy Management, addresses longstanding problems with a studio apartment’s leaky roof and rodent infestation.
by | May 10, 2019 4:40 pm | Comments (1)
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The late Ida Ruth Wells in 2011. Her family, including daughters Jacqueline Frazer (second from left) and Stephanie Wells-Gary (second from right) outside of the newly renamed corner on Friday (below.)
Dozens of friends, family, neighbors, and admirers came out to the corner of County Street and Henry Street in Dixwell Friday afternoon to celebrate the life of the late Ida Ruth Wells.The intersection, right outside of the Prescott Bush senior apartment complex where Wells lived, gardened, and advocated for public housing tenants rights for over a decade, will forever be known as Ida Ruth Wells Corner.
by | May 10, 2019 7:35 am | Comments (10)
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Anthony Campbell at Varick Thursday evening.
Faith and community leaders are asking how best to move forward in rebuilding trust with the police after Hamden and Yale officers shot at two unarmed people in the Newhallville section of the city.
by | May 10, 2019 7:29 am | Comments (3)
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The following was submitted by Petisia M. Adger, president of the Elm City Freddy Fixer Parade Committee Inc. (ECFFPC).
The 55th Freddy Fixer Parade will be held Sunday, June 2 at 1:30 p.m. and its theme is “Our Village Legacy — #freddyweekend.”
by | May 4, 2019 11:53 pm | Comments (2)
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Rally oranizer Eliza Vargas: “S-T-O-P the violence.”
Saturday’s anti-gun violence rally outside the Stetson Library.
Two dozen teens from throughout the city rallied youth gun violence Saturday three blocks away from where a 9‑year-old had been shot earlier in the week in the Dixwell neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Teens Rally In Dixwell Against Gun Violence’
by | May 1, 2019 3:48 pm | Comments (47)
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Addys Castillo at Stetson powwow: Time to take action.
March. Flyer. Grieve. Organize.
A dozen community organizers from a dozen neighborhood groups resolved to do that Wednesday afternoon during an emergency anti-violence planning session held three blocks from where a 9‑year-old boy was shot in Dixwell.
by | Apr 30, 2019 2:43 pm | Comments (1)
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Heather Taylor celebrates completing small business academy.
Heather Taylor’s nonprofit sober house was already underway when she decided to take an eight-week program at the city’s Small Business Resource Center to help her learn even more about running a business.
Now she has graduated from the Fit For Business program, ready to join the city’s newest job creators.
by | Apr 26, 2019 12:02 pm | Comments (6)
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Completion of 59 Dixwell Ave. stalls for at least another 30 days.
The completion of the renovation of a former Dixwell Avenue funeral home into a four-story, seven-unit apartment complex hit another speed bump when a proposed easement failed to gain a necessary approval.
by | Apr 16, 2019 11:26 pm | Comments (17)
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Friends of Stephanie Washington protest outside Hamden PD.
Protesters flood police HQ atrium.
Hundreds of protesters massed up and down Dixwell Avenue in two separate rallies late Tuesday demanding answers about why a young woman was shot and a young man arrested (then released) in New Haven by Hamden police earlier in the day.
Officials refused to offer any, down to otherwise routinely disclosed details.
Continue reading ‘Protesters Storm PD Seeking Answers In Officer-Involved Shooting; Officials Mum’
by | Apr 16, 2019 7:30 am | Comments (2)
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A youth empowerment project has two new faces and two new locations in Dixwell.
by | Apr 15, 2019 3:08 pm | Comments (7)
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New NXTHVN Executive Director Nico Wheadon.
A celebrated Harlem museum community engagement director will be leaving New York City this summer to become the inaugural executive director of a factory-turned-artist haven in Dixwell.
by | Apr 15, 2019 7:32 am | Comments (3)
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Rendering of 201 Munson project; 201 Munson today (below).
A 13-acre lot at the border of Dixwell and Newhallville should soon start transforming from a massive mound of dirt into a 400-unit apartment complex, now that the developer has a new set of co-owners for the stalled project.
by | Apr 15, 2019 7:27 am | Comments (7)
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Elicker on the campaign trail in Dixwell on Saturday.
Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker secured at least four votes on Saturday morning as he canvassed up and down Orchard Street talking jobs, schools, housing, and clean government with working class black voters.
Continue reading ‘Jobs & Schools Top Elicker’s Dixwell Pitch’
by | Apr 9, 2019 5:38 am | Comments (11)
Lee Cruz looking for some road safety on Grand Avenue.
LCI’s Arlevia Samuel and Paul Hudson talk Dixwell Avenue.
Bike- and pedestrian-friendly commercial corridors. Reimagined alleys and public space. And maybe even more density. But none of that at the expense of affordability.
City planners heard that vision from 40 people at a two-hour session on how to bring zoning into the modern era on Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell avenues.