by | Oct 19, 2018 1:08 pm | Comments (2)
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Rendition of the second-floor cantilevered addition, presented Thursday night.
An anchoring agency in the Dixwell neighborhood that for two decades has been helping to stabilize vulnerable little kids and their families is poised to double its size, and the number of families it can serve.
All it needs are another $2.8 million and ten to 14 parking spaces.
by | Oct 19, 2018 12:26 pm | Comments (11)
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Plaza’s Clarke, Harp: Let’s see the plan.
Plaza passageway to back lot.
The faded retail hub of the Dixwell neighborhood appears on the verge of entering the 21st century.
Details to come, and be worked out.
by | Oct 3, 2018 6:17 pm | Comments (22)
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NXTHVN Founders prepare to lead Wednesday’s tour.
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Rendering of NXTHVN, part of which is expected to open in early 2019.
A future artists’ haven in Dixwell has a new name and a new pricetag for completion — between $8 million and $10 million.
by | Oct 3, 2018 1:51 pm | Comments (2)
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Varick Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church at the corner of Dixwell and Charles, soon to be renamed “Bishop James Varick Corner.”
Dixwell church founder James Varick.
A streetcorner adjacent to a historic Dixwell church will be named after an early 19th-century Methodist minister who defied racial segregation and founded the congregation.
Continue reading ‘Dixwell Corner Renamed For Church Bicentennial’
by | Sep 14, 2018 12:03 pm | Comments (2)
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684 Orchard St.: Soon to be a two-family home.
Two new affordable, two-family homes are coming to the Dixwell neighborhood thanks to the efforts of a local faith-based development company that specializes in affordable housing.
Continue reading ‘Beulah To Build Affordable Homes On Orchard And Munson’
by | Aug 13, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (25)
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Varick Pastor Kelcy Steele at Sabbath services Sunday.
With sweat pouring down his face and the jubilant sound of drums, keyboards, and a hundred pairs of clapping hands before him, Pastor Kelcy Steele revved up one of New Haven’s most influential African-American congregations to make their presence known at the polls this Tuesday.
by | Aug 8, 2018 9:40 pm | Comments (32)
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Ned Lamont (center) and Shawn Wooden (right) with labor organizer Scott Marks on Wednesday night.
Less than a week before statewide Democratic primaries, two candidates earned New Haven’s most important on-the-ground endorsement: from Yale’s UNITE HERE unions
by | Aug 8, 2018 8:25 am | Comments (16)
Pre-debate scene outside Bethel AME on Tuesday.
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Tong (at left, with Mattei and Doyle) recants pot vote.
A passionate debate for the support of the Democratic Party base got into the weeds Tuesday night — or, more specifically, into weed.
by | Aug 3, 2018 8:14 am | Comments (1)
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High School junior Sharric James and colleague assemble the cedar boxes of the aerators
Nina Javier is already selling a carrot-based body scrub that’s delicious enough to eat.
Jahlil Moses is still in the research phase deciding whether to turn the sage and mint he’s growing into an oil or a paste as a basis for fashioning his own line of incense.
The two high school-aged environmental-minded gardeners have been growing their produce and their start-up business ideas this summer at New Haven Land Trust’s Grand Acres Greenhouse site. Now they will be able to create a rich compost to grow their products on their own.
The result: saving money as well as having enough left over to be the basis of yet another business.
by | Jul 20, 2018 11:37 am | Comments (4)
Barista Meg Rattanni creates latte art.
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Ballaro and Negreiro at the newly opened Fussy Coffee in Science Park.
The story of how Fussy Coffee at Science Park came to be named is a joke between David Negreiro and his brother-in-law and business partner Joe Ballaro.
On one level, it’s a tongue-in-cheek riff on how pretentious some coffee shops can be. On another level, it’s about the two men’s love of a good coffee after a meal.
by | Jul 20, 2018 11:37 am | Comments (2)
342 Grand Avenue
The Fair Haven Community Health Care Center is one step closer to purchasing a foreclosed property of 342 Grand Ave. for $2,000. Now, all it requires is few more city approvals and hundreds of thousands of dollars for renovations.
by | Jul 16, 2018 8:25 am | Comments (22)
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Bermudez Zimmerman greets Pastor Roger Wilkins at the forum Sunday.
A Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor admitted that she’s looking to run on a ticket with someone who wasn’t her first choice.
Continue reading ‘Lt. Gov. Candidate Admits She Preferred Other Guv Candidates’
by | Jun 28, 2018 12:15 pm | Comments (2)
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Ala Ochumare stood at the center of a candle-lit circle and read a two-page list of New Haveners who have been killed in the city since 2010.
by | Jun 25, 2018 7:42 am | Comments (2)
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“Contestant Number One!” the emcee shouted to a sea of cheering faces.
The ultimate dance-off had just begun.
Continue reading ‘Caribbean Flavors Savored In Goffe Street Park’
by | Jun 21, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (12)
Kenneth Boroson Architects
City plan commissioners signed off on the final site plan and design for the new Q House, thus bringing the resurgent Dixwell community center one step closer to becoming a reality nearly 15 years after it last closed its doors.
by | Jun 19, 2018 3:01 pm | Comments (6)
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Joe Spain, Anthony Camposano hunt at eviction storage auction.
“Ten…”
“Twenty!”
“Thirty…”
“Fifty…”
Anthony Camposano wasn’t folding. He was looking at a large pile of used clothes, furniture, bikes and home appliances abandoned by an evicted household. He hoped that somewhere inside would be a tool he could resell.
by | Jun 19, 2018 2:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Deltas Keisha Redd-Hannans and Zakia Parrish help a young shopper look for toiletries.
The New Haven Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, the Delta Academy, and GEMS youth program held their 8th “free market” for the community this past Saturday.
by | Jun 18, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (0)
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Jill Marks and Mary Brown at the banner event.
Mary Brown has lived across the street from Goffe Street Park for 60 years. She has watched the plot of land, currently including a baseball field, basketball court and playground, morph into “not being kept up like when I was a kid.
by | Jun 4, 2018 9:14 am | Comments (11)
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Fusion Steppers drill team stomp it at Freddy Fixer Parade.
Thousands of New Haveners lined the street in Dixwell and Newhallville Sunday afternoon for a parade that has been marching through the city’s historic African American neighborhoods — and bringing pride — for over half a century.
Continue reading ‘Freddy Puts “Neighbor” Back In “Neighborhood”’
by | May 23, 2018 2:26 pm | Comments (2)
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Sixth-graders Alia Jones and Joseph Saunders had learned that the former Goffe Street Special School for Colored Children —now the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Masons at Sperry and Goffe — was the city’s first school for African-American kids and adults.
They also had learned the school opened up shortly after the Civil War. They certainly knew what the Civil War was about.
However, they did not know that only white teachers were allowed in the early years. That really bothered the African-American students, who set about to make some changes.
by | Apr 30, 2018 12:20 pm | Comments (7)
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Dolores Colon: “On program.”
The city’s anti-blight agency voted to sell two vacant Munson Street lots to a faith-based nonprofit housing developer to bolster the affordable rental market in a stretch of Dixwell-Newhallville that is on the cusp of overflowing with market-rate apartments.
by | Apr 27, 2018 8:23 am | Comments (18)
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Brooks shows off the vision for new gateway into Dixwell.
Dixwell neighbors are used to developers trying to woo them with plans for apartments, leaving them asking “‘affordable’ for whom?”
They were pleased not to be asking that question after hearing Thursday night about the details of a new planned gateway to their neighborhood with 70 mostly lower-income apartments on a now-vacant lot once known for barbecue.
Continue reading ‘Beulah Unveils A Promised Land In Dixwell’
by | Apr 23, 2018 4:19 pm | Comments (21)
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Updated rendering of the 201 Munson St. project.
The latest plans for a new apartment complex at the border of the Dixwell and Newhallville neighborhoods show slightly more apartments than had been previously pitched to neighbors and a less prominent “moat” of parking around the rest of the site.
Continue reading ‘Munson Project Inches Closer To 400 Units’
by | Apr 23, 2018 12:16 pm | Comments (4)
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Brooks announces new partnership for Beulah Land.
A longtime dream of redeveloping a vacant parcel at 340 Dixwell Ave. into affordable housing moved a step closer to coming true.
by | Apr 23, 2018 8:38 am | Comments (0)
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New Haven Sunday honored the rich and ongoing legacy of Christine Alexander, the beloved founder of New Haven Reads, who died at age 66 in 2011, by officially naming the corner of Bristol and Ashmun streets in her honor.