Wilfred Fuentes, Jayuan Carter, Tom Goldenberg aboard the 206.
Wilfred Fuentes is not looking forward to paying $1.75 again every time he needs to commute from his home in the Annex to his job in Hamden.
Fuentes found a sympathetic ear in a Democratic mayoral challenger who rode the bus and talked to riders roughly two weeks before fares are set to resume for the currently free-to-ride state-run public transit system.
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A rendering of the future Winchester Green apartments.
Alders approved a 17-year tax abatement for dozens of planned new income-restricted apartments in Science Park — along with a rezoning plan that could allow for even more places to live, shop, and conduct research at the former Winchester factory site.
Shaina Plunkett: Hoping to bring Jamaican heritage to Yale Hospitality.
With reunion and commencement season on the horizon, Yale Hospitality is looking to hire 75 to 100 semi-permanent workers from New Haven as banquet servers and casual dining staffers.
University officials urged an audience of city residents to apply for those jobs in the latest session of an ongoing town-gown local hiring push.
Ex-State Sen. George Logan, with guitar and in front of picture of Mary McLeod Bethune, at Republican-organized Black History Month event.
George Logan and a handful of fellow local Republican politicos commemorated Black History Month with a live performance of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” — and with a lineup of speakers who paid tribute to the late civil rights icon and informal presidential adviser Mary McLeod Bethune.
Eighteen years after an abandoned building began posing a public safety hazard on Winchester Avenue, the city has had its final remnants bulldozed and is filling in a treacherous hole in the ground.
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Feb 24, 2023 10:42 am
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The Mandy-controlled two-story house at 698 Dixwell.
An affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management is looking to add one more apartment to a two-story Newhallville house — rather than build six new rental units or bring in a commercial tenant.
Greg McLaurin stopped at Goffe Street Tuesday morning because he didn’t want to cuss. He wanted a calm spot to consider a solution rather than escalating a conflict he had on the job.
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263 Dixwell Ave.: One of 2 Ocean-owned properties the city plans to sell to Beulah.
The Elicker Administration is one step closer to buying and selling two two-family homes on Dixwell Avenue — so that a nonprofit can maintain the currently megalandlord-held properties as rentals.
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Vacant former Winchester factory at Munson/Mansfield ...
... Kim Harris with Harris & Tucker students: Hoping to see a "great, eye-popping development that will move everyone forward."
Alders endorsed a 17-year tax break deal for dozens of planned new below-market-rent Science Park apartments — as part of a broader set of local legislative proposals designed to further the redevelopment of the former Winchester Arms Factory’s remaining parking lots and vacant industrial buildings into new housing, retail, and bioscience labs.
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Feb 7, 2023 12:33 pm
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Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison: Acquisitions “a step in the right direction."
3 of the 4 properties the city can now buy from Ocean, including the the Monterey Jazz Club in the center.
The Elicker Administration has won its final needed approval to acquire a slate of rundown properties, including a historic long-derelict former jazz club, from an oft-cited megalandlord to the tune of $1.3 million in an effort to revitalize a stretch of Dixwell Avenue.
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The current surface parking lot at 110 Munson.
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Developer Alex Twining: Part of the "replacement of parking lots with places to work and live."
A 200-space Munson Street parking lot could be the site of New Haven’s next biotech lab building — according to a Winchester-factory-redevelopment zoning update that received a favorable, if still skeptical, recommendation from the City Plan Commission.
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At Tuesday's presser: KeyBank's Analisha Michanczyk, ConnCORP COO Paul McCraven, KeyBank's Matthew Hummel, ConnCORP Board Chair Carlton Highsmith; ConnCorp CEO Erik Clemons, Lab Executive Director Aya Beckles Swanson, and ConnCORP Chief Investment Officer Anna Blanding.
A vegan baker, a mobile notary, and a professional organizer were among the 20 hand-picked Greater New Haven minority business owners to embark on a rigorous entrepreneurial boot camp — and to benefit from a new $1 million grant designed in part to help that program and its participants thrive.
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Kolton Harris and film student Joaquín Morales.
At Thursday's BITE kickoff.
“Who would have ever thought I’d be back in here watching a film?” asked Tracey Massey, in a hushed whisper, in the back row of a film screening at the former Stetson Branch library building in the soon-to-be-demolished Dixwell Plaza.
On the projector played “Black Joy,” a musical short film by Kolton Harris, which tells the story of a group of Black students in detention who find pride and celebration in their Blackness through song and dance.
“I came to this library 40 years ago as a child growing up in this neighborhood. It is here where we learned the first stories of Black joy. Here’s where we read books about Martin Luther King Jr., where we heard the first Michael Jackson song, the first Nina Simone song. We learned about Malcolm X. All of those stories generated out of this library.”
“It was joy. It was magic. [Harris] is reminding us of that. It was really just like it is in his film,” said Massey.
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At a LEAP-organized Halloween party at the Q House last fall.
LEAP Executive Director Henry Fernandez at Monday's Q House board meeting.
A local youth tutoring and recreation nonprofit’s bid to keep the Q House humming with more bingo, ballet, farmers markets and line dancing took a big leap forward this week — as the Dixwell Avenue community center’s board voted to recommend approval of a new five-year, $500,000 contract between LEAP and the city.
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Jan 26, 2023 9:32 am
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LCI Director Arlevia Samuel: Ocean is "holding firm at the $1.3M."
The former Monterey Jazz Club, center, along with the vacant deli and one of the multi-family homes the city plans to acquire.
The Elicker Administration’s bid to acquire a slate of rundown properties from an oft-cited megalandlord in an effort to revitalize a stretch of Dixwell Avenue took one big step closer to closing — as the Livable City Initiative’s (LCI) Board of Directors signed off on the proposed $1.3 million deal.
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Maceo "Troy" Streater (center) with campaign supporters at King-Robinson.
(Updated) Maceo “Troy” Streater ended up on top of a four-way special election for Ward 21 alder, making him the next local legislative representative for a zig-zagged district that stretches across parts of Newhallville, Dixwell, and Prospect Hill.
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Maceo Troy Streater knocks on Ann Garrett Robinson's door Wednesday.
A team of formerly-incarcerated campaigners rally behind Streater.
Door after door, Maceo Troy Streater set out in the neighborhood where he’s lived his whole life to campaign for a newly vacant alder seat — and to convince neighbors that personal and political change is possible.
City arts director Adriane Jefferson (right) with colleague Kim Futrell at Tuesday's "cultural vitality" presser.
More artists and artisans at city farmers’ markets. The return of a historic Black cultural parade to Dixwell Avenue. Pop-up events for young photographers, actors and dancers looking to show off their work and grow their audiences.
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Stephanie Greenlea reflects Monday on 17 years of organizing with Local 33.
Days after Yale graduate student-workers officially won union recognition in a landslide election, a local labor coalition celebrated that victory while rallying in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s vision of working class justice.
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Jan 16, 2023 6:30 pm
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Rev. Eldren Morrison: “The church has lost its activist spirit."
A former New Haven-based faith leader returned to Dixwell Avenue Monday to lift up Martin Luther King Jr.‘s legacy of church-led progressive political action.
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Jan 13, 2023 10:50 am
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Fred Christmas at the door with Dixwell resident Sharon Green.
Fred Christmas bounded onto Winter Street in the biting January air, holding a manila envelope of campaign leaflets in his hand.
The Ward 21 alder hopeful had spent the morning talking with Dixwell voters, and was running late for a meetup with some neighborhood senior citizens. But there were still a few more doors to knock — and Christmas was on a mission.
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LCI Board Member Nadine Horton (left): "Rewarding bad behavior." LCI Director Arlevia Samuel (right): "Investing in community.”
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The derelict former Monterey Jazz club on Dixwell.
A debate about how to revitalize the Dixwell neighborhood without rewarding a megalandlord for bad behavior has delayed a key vote on the Elicker Administration’s plans to buy four rundown properties for a combined sum of $1.3 million.
