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Catalbasoglu at work at Brick Oven Pizza.
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A new apartment complex at 59 Dixwell, which Catalbasoglu could finish if he secures an easement from the city.
A local pizza maker is a step closer to moving along with his plans to become a Dixwell Avenue developer now that a key city committee has advanced a plan to give him a five-foot easement from the city.
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Apr 3, 2019 12:21 pm
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Simon Obas: “A lot of relationship-building needs to happen.”
Early in his teaching career, as the “in-school reflection coordinator” at an Achievement First’s Bridgeport middle school, Simon Obas worked with tweens whom other teachers had kicked out of class.He drew on the “r” word — as in relationship-building.
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Mar 6, 2019 8:40 am
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New Haven felt a little closer to New Orleans Tuesday night as revelers converged on Mitchell Library during the annual Mardi Gras fundraising celebration for the New Haven Free Public Library.
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Jan 24, 2019 5:17 pm
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Gov. Ned Lamont joins helps cut the ribbon at Science Park Thursday with QCI co-founder Robert Schoelkopf, and Canaan Partners Dan Ciporin and Yale Vice Provost Peter Schiffer.
The quest to develop the supercomputers of the future is now taking place in part at the corner of Winchester and Munson, where a Yale-connected tech start-up formally has launched a new lab.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 22, 2019 9:04 am
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Union leaders at Monday night’s service (clockwise from top left): N.H. Rising Director Scott Marks, Local 34 prez Laurie Kennington, Local 33 leaders Charles Decker and Sandra Sánchez, Local 34 member Rebecca Corbett.
The arc of the moral universe is long. And if local politicians, union leaders, and labor-sympathetic pastors have anything to say about it, that arc will bend directly towards New Haven’s largest employer: Yale.
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Jan 21, 2019 5:59 pm
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Veteran firefighter Erika Bogan loves telling children, especially girls, about what it’s like to be a firefighter. And she’s passing that passion on to new firefighters like Shy Floyd.
Both women were holding court with a group of 7‑year-olds Monday during the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr conference at Wexler-Grant Community School.
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Jan 14, 2019 8:44 am
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A hearse, manufactured in 1888, carries Bishop Stalllings’ body Sunday from Beers Street to Dixwell.
Bishop Robert Henry Stallings Jr.
He was a young pitcher in the Negro Leagues when the New York Yankees came to his door to recruit him.
No way, his father, Bishop Enoch Stallings, of the Church of God and Saints of Christ in the Dwight neighborhood, told the scouts. “This boy is going to sing in the choir.”
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Allan Appel |
Jan 11, 2019 8:49 am
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Roderick Cox by toxic factory where he worked as a young man.
The 90-day clock has begun to tick for the demolition of 71 Shelton Ave., a long-vacant 1915 building in the Winchester Repeating Arms Historic District in Newhallville.
The demolition has a silver lining: It may bring new money to revive the Goffe Street Armory, which the city has been looking to renovate and refill with new uses.
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Jan 9, 2019 3:07 pm
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Hammer presents plan, with McCraven & Clemons.
A vacant Yale-owned building at the edge of Dixwell and downtown may soon house a convenience store that gives culinary students a chance to show their stuff — and peddles local food but not alcohol or tobacco.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 4, 2019 1:42 pm
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Ida Ruth Wells with then-Land Trust Director Chris Randall in 2011.
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The corner of County Street and Henry Street, to be renamed Ida Ruth Wells Corner.
The street corner outside of the Prescott Bush senior apartment complex will be renamed in honor of a late neighborhood stalwart who promoted community gardening at public housing complexes.
(Updated 6:45 p.m.) Firefighters went to Wexler-Grant School at 9:15 a.m. Thursday to put out a fire in a bathroom in the northeast section of the building.
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Dec 10, 2018 8:32 am
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Pastor Donald Morris was grinning Sunday as he stood in front of a tree he planted 15 years ago that has become a symbol of community in Goffe Street Park. Beside him stood Lt. Manmeet Colon, the neighborhood’s top cop, and its alder, Jill Marks, who organized a lighting of that tree as part of a neighborhood holiday celebration.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 7, 2018 4:00 pm
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Steele checks in with vote pullers Alex Perry, Sr. and Alex Perry, Jr. in the basement of Varick church.
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Ann Robinson with pastor and vote-puller Kelcy Steele.
When New Haveners like Ann Robinson produced a 23,278-vote city victory margin Tuesday to elect Connecticut’s next governor, they weren’t thinking as much about Ned Lamont. They were thinking about Donald Trump.
Some of the hundreds waiting four hours to vote Tuesday.
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Democratic Registrar of Voters Shannel Evans assembles hand-count team at 1:42 a.m. at Edgewood School.
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Merrill: No excuses.
Hours after most Connecticut communities had reported their election results, New Haven’s leading voting official arrived at Edgewood School after midnight Wednesday with a team of election workers and began counting 1,968 ballots. By hand.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 31, 2018 4:40 pm
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Ned Lamont makes the rounds at Wednesday afternoon’s meet-and-greet with Dixwell seniors.
High taxes. Vacant buildings. Gun violence at churches and at schools. And looming cuts to social services for the elderly.
Those were a few of the myriad concerns that seniors from the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center presented to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont during a Wednesday afternoon campaign stop at Bethel AME Church at 255 Goffe St.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 31, 2018 12:56 pm
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722 Orchard St.
A faith-based nonprofit developer sold a rehabbed Orchard Street home to a low-income buyer, marking its fifth gut rehab and affordable housing conversion completed on a single block between Charles Street and Henry Street.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Oct 22, 2018 1:42 pm
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A rendering of the future Q House.
With the construction of the Q House slated to start in coming months, a campaign has begun to raise $3 million to make sure that it never closes its doors again.
