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Otis Johnson, Alder Morrison, Henry Fernandez, and Victoria Stewart at Q House plaza's rededication ceremony.
“I didn’t know your grandfather did all that,” a friend told Victoria Stewart on Thursday evening at the newly rededicated Daniel Y. Stewart Plaza at 197 Dixwell Ave, where a lightbox featuring infographics and images taken by Daniel Stewart is set to be installed to commemorate his legacy.
At the Freddy on Sunday: Cross's marching band ...
... and TVE Dance Studio ...
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... with outgoing parade organizers Petisia Adger and Diane Brown.
Dixwell Avenue burst to life in the Sunday afternoon heat as nearly 80 marching units, drill teams, bands and businesses joined politicians and city representatives for two hours of music, dancing and remembering neighborhood roots.
Tim Turner revved to life the engine of an Echo SRM-225 weed wacker and tidied up a grassy plot by a Dixwell Avenue bus stop — as part of a corridor-long cleaning effort to get the neighborhood ready for this weekend’s Freddy Fixer Parade.
Raymond Thompson and Jean Jenkins at Tuesday's meetup.
A rendering of ConnCORP's anticipated Dixwell redevelopment.
Now that the old Dixwell Plaza has been knocked down and remediated, Terrance Lee wants a chance to help build it back up alongside other New Haveners.
Playing nice: Mutually complimentary 94th District office-seekers Abdul Osmanu & Steve Winter.
A next-generation primary contest is shaping up as a second candidate has emerged seeking the Democratic nomination for a New Haven-Hamden legislative district.
Changing of the guard: Incumbent Porter, nominee Winter.
It appears something momentous will happen this year in New Haven: Voters will elect a new state legislator, for the first time in eight years.
That’s because incumbent State Rep. Robyn Porter did not show up to a convention Wednesday night to receive the Democratic Party’s endorsement to run for a sixth two-year term representing the 94th General Assembly District.
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Apr 24, 2024 10:31 am
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New Haven Counts ED Ronald Coleman (center) and New Haven Reads ED Kirsten Levinsohn on Tuesday.
A citywide math and literacy tutoring effort has reached 1,700 New Haven elementary school students since launching nearly a year ago — and is now on the lookout for 100 more volunteer tutors this summer, on top of the 240 who are currently signed up, to keep the program growing.
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Apr 22, 2024 1:11 pm
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At the New Haven Composers Spotlight at NXTHVN.
Composer and violinist Alyssa Chetrick was taking a solo as part of her vertiginous piece, sardonically titled “Equilibrium.” If some of the previous passages had offered a sense of calm, Chetrick was now going for chaos, spurring the ensemble around her to join her. Her phrasing pushed the musicians around her to dig deeper into the music she’d written, as if they were looking to break it. Would they?
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Apr 18, 2024 4:04 pm
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11-year-old Avery with her favorite Black Raspberry Newhall Street soap.
Bassett Street smells like lemongrass and poppy seeds to 11-year-old Kauren, now that her favorite sweet-citrusy soap is up for sale in honor of the street where she goes to school.
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Kenneth Joseph on the steel pans.
Music lovers young and old found their seats with the help of the early evening sun, the only source of light in the dark gymnasium of the Q House.
The space would not remain dark for long, however, as the Dixwell Community Management Team’s (DCMT) “Jazz & Contemporary Music Concert” lit up the space with singing, saxophones, and selections from various poets.
“The model minority myth is my worst enemy,” Angelina Li said at a Dixwell public library celebration of diversity and complexity and, of course, “big” reading.
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Apr 3, 2024 3:57 pm
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Dr. Ann Garrett Robinson, the future namesake of Dixwell & Argyle?
The corner of Dixwell and Argyle might soon bear Dr. Ann Garrett Robinson’s name, in honor of a beloved champion of local Black history who, in 89 years of life so far, has made a mark on history herself.
The ex-Monterey club: Still vacant. Still Ocean-owned.
Reator Latasha Eaddy: City-Ocean deal fell apart "quite some time ago." Private sales in the works, including for 269 Dixwell (pictured).
A city plan to acquire the derelict former Monterey jazz club and three surrounding Dixwell buildings from an oft-fined megalandlord has hit a flat note — and, apparently, collapsed altogether — after the Elicker administration ditched a purchase-and-sale agreement and issued new clean-up orders.
Months after that public deal fell apart, Ocean Management is reportedly now lining up new private buyers for these same properties.
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Mar 21, 2024 3:46 pm
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From "mass-level instruments of death" to homes and community: Matt Pugliese, Alder Kim Edwards, Alder Troy Streater, Eric Steinberg, Alex Twining, Arlevia Samuel, David Silverstone, Jake Pine and Mayor Justin Elicker break ground on Winchester Green.
As excavators pushed dirt from side to side at 315 Winchester Ave., city officials and housing developers dug shovels into a picture-planned pile of rocks to symbolically break ground on the mixed-use development that will one day be called the Winchester Green.
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Mar 12, 2024 9:54 am
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Good Luck Totem.
An antiquated candy vending machine sits atop a wooden stand in the lobby of NXTHVN, its faded signage and weathered hardware still beckoning the visitor to give it a coin. But it doesn’t work, and what’s inside it isn’t candy, but a multitude of cowrie shells, from sea snails found in tropical oceans. They’ve been used as money, as jewelry, and as rattles for instruments. But here, they can’t be used at all — not for any price.
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Feb 28, 2024 3:05 pm
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Marcus Harvin and volunteers deliver meals to Varick Warming Center.
“This was our vision in prison,” said Marcus Harvin, as he led his team with boxes of meals past a queue of people waiting for the doors of Dixwell’s Varick A.M.E. Zion Warming Center to open.
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91 Shelton Ave. to stay deteriorated on the outside ...
... and musically inspired on the inside.
City Plan commissioners killed a request to turn a dilapidated former factory serving as local artist studios into storage units — after deciding the development sounded like “dead space.”
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Feb 20, 2024 2:21 pm
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Co-owners Donald Moody and Mujahid Mohammed with Dannie Beverly of Made in Greenwood smoke shop.
Mujahid Mohammed had a dream. So did Dannie Beverly. And Donald Moody. It was, as it turned out, the same dream.
“All three of us did time in prison, and we wanted to come up with something for the community, a platform to give back, and that was starting our own business,” said Mohammed on a recent afternoon at Made in Greenwood.
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David Daniels at author talk at Stetson Library.
The Sunday, Aug. 21, 1994, edition of the Connecticut Post pictures a young Black man in police blues holding a hangman’s noose. The man was David Daniels, a police officer. The noose was left on his patrol car.
NAACP New Haven President Dori Dumas and Motley's niece Constance Royster unveil the stamp at Q House event.
Judge Constance Baker Motley was the only woman to work at the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund during the Civil Rights Movement. She wrote the original complaint in Brown v. Board of Education. She was Martin Luther King Jr.’s lawyer. She was the first Black woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, and she fought nine more desegregation cases, winning every single one.
She was a daughter of New Haven. She was a daughter of Dixwell. She was a daughter of the Q House.
Now she joins King, Rosa Parks, John Lewis, and Thurgood Marshall on a U.S. Postal Service Forever stamp.
Carlota Clark at Wednesday evening's open house at Science Park.
A rendering from Pine's presentation: Apartments up to $4,500 a month on Winchester Ave.
As Science Park developers presented renderings of a housing complex soon to rise on Winchester Ave., Carlota Clark wondered if one of the 283 apartments would someday be hers.
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Kennies Earl: Not "invisible."
Mother Juniper members Lindsay Skedgell and Christian Abbott: Jamming conversion plans.
Mother Juniper frontwoman Lindsay Skedgell unplugged from her Vox AC15 and tuned into Zoom from a “vacant” ex-factory building to send developers a message: 91 Shelton is far from empty.
Skedgell was among dozens of artists who banded together to flood the City Plan Commission’s Zoom room after hearing earlier that day that their studio space, a five-story former factory building at 91 Shelton Ave., is slated for sale to a self-storage company.
Sisters' Journey displays copies of each of their 25 past calendars at Saturday's event..
A group of Black female breast cancer survivors gathered at the place where they first united a quarter century ago in order to kick off a neighborhood institution’s second century.
The Q House is celebrating the 100 years that have passed since the community fixture first opened its doors in 1924.
The space will be hosting events throughout 2024, which can be read about here, to honor Q House history and strengthen its current community. Below, we’ve included a letter sent by the Q House Centennial Committee with more details.
