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Philly’s Finest Drill Team & Drum Corps at the 2015 parade.
A breakaway group has launched a spin-off of the Freddie Fixer group that stages the black community’s signature annual parade — with a battle brewing over this year’s event.
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A man had threatened to shoot not just his ex-girlfriend, but his two sisters and a young child at the house.
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Dancy, Diaz thank supporters Tuesday night.
A team of candidates representing the Dixwell neighborhood and a bordering sliver of Yale University scored a clear victory in a crowded ward committee election.
by | Feb 26, 2016 8:24 am | Comments (0)
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Team Dancy/Diaz.
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Powell.
While the rest of the city is selecting new Democratic ward co-chairs without election contests, five women are vying for the Dixwell community’s two Ward 22 positions up for grabs this coming Tuesday.
by | Feb 18, 2016 8:45 am | Comments (18)
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Fuss & O’Neill’s Haley Busch explains plan Wednesday night.
Radcliffe: Consult Dixwell.
Before Yale razes a building at the juncture of Dixwell Avenue and Goffe Street to create another parking lot, it will need to give neighbors a chance to weigh in.
by | Feb 17, 2016 8:42 am | Comments (6)
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Morrison: Whole city benefits.
The Board of Alders green-lights plans to transform parts of Dixwell and Long Wharf for the next generation.
In a unanimous vote, the alders Tuesday nights authorized Mayor Toni Harp to accept the $14.5 million from the state for the long-awaited rebirth of the Dixwell Q House, the beloved settlement house that opened in 1924 and closed in 2003.
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An early rendering of the Whalley Avenue property.
The state granted New Haven $200,000 to perform environmental assessment on land that can then be developed into affordable housing after a clean-up.
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William MacMullen outside the edifice he’s reimagining.
Evicted household’s stuff.
A crew hauled an evicted household’s belongings into a first-floor expanse where National Guard jeeps once stood, as a planned remaking of the old Goffe Street Armory begins taking shape.
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The 2015 edition of the Freddie Fixer Parade.
Takeover? Or rescue assistance?
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New Haven received long-awaited news Friday: the state money’s coming through to build a new Dixwell Community “Q” House.
by | Jan 18, 2016 5:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Officers Paul Finch, Dana Martin, Elizabeth White, and Todd Kelly and Lt. Sam Brown had a frank talk with young people at Monday’s event.
Nicole Jackson can usually be found at a Wells Fargo Bank branch helping people manage their money. But on Monday she was in a classroom at Wexler-Grant School talking to teens and adults about setting goals for their money.
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Jim Travers got a post-Christmas hug …
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Cops showed up at the doors of two families in need, their arms filled with holiday gifts.
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Travers, Chase, Breland and Dillon load up at Walmart.
With Christmas three days away, Metashar Dillon wanted to know which way to the toys.
“That way,” her 6‑year-old son Chase yelled excitedly. And off they went pushing empty Walmart shopping carts.
by | Dec 21, 2015 7:32 pm | Comments (0)
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United Way staffers deliver bikes to the toy-giveaway crew.
Organizers are extending a toy and coat giveaway by an extra day in the Dixwell neighborhood as they appeal for last-minute donations in the wake of a theft this weekend.
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Dillon: They even stole teddy bears.
Tahmir Riddick, 16 months old, did get a Tonka truck before supplies ran out.
An emergency call went out Monday for kids’ coats and toys after thousands of dollars of donated Christmas presents disappeared from the Dixwell police substation.
The theft occurred Saturday.
Organizers of an annual Christmas clothing-and-toy giveaway had packed the substation’s community room Friday evening with “enough to give every kid in New Haven three toys,” a teddy bear, and a coat, said Methashar Dillon, the event’s driving force.
by | Dec 9, 2015 3:13 pm | Comments (4)
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Bartlett and MacMullen at the zoning board Tuesday night.
Homeless teens will soon have more options for a safe, warm bed to spend the night, thanks to a zoning board vote Tuesday night.
Continue reading ‘Zoners Approve “Escape” Teen Homeless Shelter’
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Harp, center, with Levinsohn, right, and NHR board member and tutor Susan Netter.
Mayor Toni Harp made an electronic deposit Monday at New Haven Reads on Bristol Street, then challenged holiday-season charitable donors to follow suit.
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A limo pulled up to Dixwell’s Stetson branch library, waiting to whisk Diane Brown and her entourage to a rendezvous in the Big Apple.
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The mayor Tuesday accepted a giant check representing a $7,500 donation to help open its Dixwell drop-in activity center for young people and homeless teens.
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Smoothie Café’s opening day.
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KIKO Milano cosmetics came to Broadway, then Tropical Smoothies opened up on Dixwell Avenue, across the invisible barrier separating Yale from New Haven’s black community.
Is that progress? And who’s welcome?
by | Nov 17, 2015 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
The annual turkey drive conducted in the memory of the late Dixwell activist Mae Ola Riddick is kicking into high gear.
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A sign of the future.
As a federal official announced a proposed ban on smoking in all public-housing developments, some New Haven tenants said they aren’t ready to butt out in the privacy of their homes.
by | Nov 11, 2015 2:03 pm | Comments (8)
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Zarko Stojanovski was beaming as Tropical Smoothie Café at 15 Dixwell Ave. flooded with city and Yale officials and press — in addition to its usual clientele — for the store’s official grand opening on Tuesday.
by | Oct 30, 2015 7:06 am | Comments (1)
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A skeleton, an orphan and Spiderman entered a scary hall Thursday night — and emerged unscathed.