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Marchers head down Broadway toward the police station.
Dixwell and downtown streets filled with cries for justice Friday afternoon as marchers sought to turn the tragedy of a New Havener paralyzed by police into a spur for structural change in how law enforcement deals with Black citizens.
by | Jul 7, 2022 2:30 pm | Comments (1)
Fashion designer Monica Lee at Wednesday evening's graduation.
New Haven’s nine newest homegrown entrepreneurs are hitting the market with ideas ranging from a “smart potty” to tools to help other entrepreneurs hit the market as well.
Continue reading ‘From Smart Loos To Cold Brews, Collab Grads Ready For Market’
by | Jun 29, 2022 11:35 am | Comments (23)
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Crump (right) with Randy Cox's mom Doreen Coleman at Stetson.
Dixwell’s Stetson branch library transformed into a courtroom Tuesday evening, as a nationally prominent civil rights lawyer previewed the case he might make if a jury gets to hear what happened when New Haven police took Richard “Randy” Cox for a ride that left him hospitalized and paralyzed.
“Why don’t they believe us when we tell them we’re injured?” the attorney, Ben Crump, asked aloud. “When we tell them that they’ve brutalized us?”
by | Jun 27, 2022 3:50 pm | Comments (0)
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"Hispanic Identity: Between Two Words"
As viewers walk into NXTHVN gallery to view a new group exhibit, Sofia Carrillo’s contribution stands out as one of the only artworks not on the walls. Carrillo’s sculpture consists of two armchairs tied together by woven flags. Atop each chair rests a telephone. The chairs, Carrillo said, represent “the new versus the old generation.”
Continue reading ‘Next Generation Opens Lines Of Communication At NXTHVN’
by | Jun 27, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (1)
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Friday's ribbon-cutting.
More than 300 people descended on 45 Dixwell Ave. to celebrate a ribbon-cutting on a $5 million, 11,000 square-foot expansion of the ‘r kids child placement agency.
by | Jun 24, 2022 2:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Escape New Haven's Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent peeks in ...
... to a diorama mini-history of the Farmington Canal circa 1835 ...
... as detailed in Escape's new outdoor adventure game, "Time Crimes: Pursuit of the Wallaby."
Lean in …
Just a little bit closer …
And tumble on through a dollhouse-sized portal into New Haven transportation history.
by | Jun 23, 2022 11:01 am | Comments (4)
Kismet Douglass debuts her signature mac and cheese at Wednesday's Q House farmers market
Dixwell got its first taste of farmer market produce Wednesday — and Kismet Douglass’s bacon and roasted chicken-topped mac and cheese.
Continue reading ‘Q House Farmers Market Launches, With New Mac & Cheese Twist’
by | Jun 20, 2022 1:42 pm | Comments (9)
Mayor Justin Elicker samples a chocolate espresso cocktail cupcake Monday at the Q House incubator kitchen (above), where baker Maxine Harris (below) displays a stand mixer she received from City Seed.
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It wasn’t too early in the morning to sample an artisanal beer-infused cupcake — or announce an infusion of federal dollars into a recipe for strengthening both public health and entrepreneurship in the Dixwell neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘$194K Seed Planted In Dixwell Food Desert’
by | Jun 19, 2022 8:05 pm | Comments (6)
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Saturday night on the A&I stage on the Green: One of a weekend full of Juneteenth celebrations.
With art, dance, food, music, books, even a group bike ride, New Haven marked Juneteenth for more than three days running, with a celebratory and fighting spirit.
by | Jun 17, 2022 6:18 pm | Comments (3)
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On Friday's canal history walking tour. Clockwise from top left: Tour guide Aaron Goode; Walking south past Yale's Benjamin Franklin College; an Escape New Haven-built diorama of the canal's early railroad years; a turtle sculpture in the Newhallville "Learning Corridor."
Aaron Goode pointed down to the 19th century trap rock retaining walls that still line the Farmington Canal Trail in Dixwell, and then up to the 21st century Yale-dorm-topping carved relief panels that pay homage to the enduring transportation corridor’s founding engineers.
“History is everywhere in New Haven,” he said, “above us and below.”
Continue reading ‘Rich History Revealed In Canal Walking Tour’
by | Jun 17, 2022 8:30 am | Comments (4)
LEAP sent in the following write-up:
As summer kicks into full swing, the Dixwell Q House announces a new Farmers Market in collaboration with CitySeed. The Farmers Market will occur at the Dixwell Q House plaza (197 Dixwell Avenue) every Wednesday from 3 pm to 6 p.m. starting on June 22nd until October 26th. The Q‑House Farmers Market is a partnership also involving LEAP, the Stetson Branch of the New Haven Public Library, the City of New Haven’s Dixwell-Newhallville Senior Center, and Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center. Opening day for the Farmers Market will bring together Connecticut farmers, artists, musicians, community members, and, most importantly, plentiful fresh food in the heart of the neighborhood.
by | Jun 15, 2022 4:32 pm | Comments (14)
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201 Munson St., now under construction.
After years of lying quiet and empty, a 12.7‑acre vacant former industrial site on Munson Street is now bustling with activity — with construction vehicles and hard-hatted workers back on location, paving the way for hundreds of new apartments.
Continue reading ‘Stalled Munson Project Rumbles Back To Life’
by | Jun 13, 2022 6:30 pm | Comments (4)
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Norman Boone, in 2008
After holding back from police investigators multiple times, an eyewitness to a 2017 murder decided to identify — rather than retaliate against — the man who allegedly shot and killed Norman Boone.
Continue reading ‘Witness Weighed Retaliation, Changed Mind’
by | Jun 9, 2022 3:26 pm | Comments (8)
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Ten police officers see off parents at Dr. Mayo the day after the April 12 shooting across the street.
“Uhhh you know, I was going through it.”
Those words helped lead to the arrest of a 19-year-old New Haven man for allegedly shooting a gun outside of a preschool in the direction of an apartment complex in retaliation against people who made Facebook posts mocking the recent murder of a fellow gang member.
by | Jun 6, 2022 12:30 pm | Comments (1)
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Families hula hooping at Saturday's festivities.
Members of the Concerned Citizens for the Greater New Haven Dixwell Community House.
Lance Legion looked out on a Dixwell Avenue bustling with dance, music, art, and laughter — all in front of a reborn “Q” House community center and a relocated and expanded Stetson Library.
“I’m really happy about the changes they made,” he said with a smile, holding his son in the afternoon sunshine. “Growing up, I’ve always wanted to come to the ‘Q’ House, so it’s nice to see it’s open and that they’re finally giving back to the community.”
Continue reading ‘Stetson Library Celebrated At Dixwell Fest’
by | May 26, 2022 9:25 am | Comments (7)
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Ingui.
“So did you hear? We’re moving,” said Kit Ingui, managing director of Long Wharf Theatre, to appreciative laughter Wednesday evening at the Stetson branch library in Q House on Dixwell Avenue. Ingui, Long Wharf Artistic Director Jacob Padrón, Mayor Justin Elicker, branch manager Diane X Brown, and Arts & Ideas Executive Director Shelley Quiala were there to announce Long Wharf’s plans for its 2022 – 23 season, as it moves out of the space it has occupied on Sargent Drive for years and moves into an itinerant model, bringing theater directly into New Haven’s communities.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Lays Out New Direction In 2022-23 Season’
by | May 23, 2022 8:40 am | Comments (4)
Friends and family gather on Ashmun Street.
A Dixwell garden will now blossom pink in memory of 21-year-old Chardé Monet Spates, who dedicated her life to giving back to her community.
Continue reading ‘Young Community Builder's Legacy Blossoms’
by | May 20, 2022 10:23 am | Comments (6)
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David Schadlich (right) and his brother Charles on a birthday ride.
Aaron Goode cuts the canal's 200th birthday cake, baked by Co Campbell.
David Schadlich knew exactly how he wanted to celebrate his 35th birthday: By taking the train to New Haven, and then biking 85 miles along the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail with his brother.
What he didn’t know was that, along the way, he’d also be helping celebrate the 200th birthday of the “crown jewel” of Connecticut’s bike-pedestrian transportation system.
Continue reading ‘Cyclists Celebrate Canal's 200th Birthday’
by | May 17, 2022 3:56 pm | Comments (15)
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201 Munson: Enough $ now on hand to turn this into ...
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... this?
A New York City-based developer claims his company is just weeks away from resuming work on a long-delayed, nearly 400-unit apartment complex on the Dixwell/Newhallville/Science Park border — thanks to yet another ownership reshuffling, as well as a newly pulled $78 million mortgage loan.
Continue reading ‘Stalled Apt. Plan Gets $78M Cash Infusion’
by | May 12, 2022 4:00 pm | Comments (5)
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At Thursday's ceremony honoring the one-year anniversary of Firefighter Ricardo Torres, Jr.'s line-of-duty death.
“Rico was a hero.”
With those words, New Haven Fire Department Capt. Kendall Richardson remembered his former Dixwell station colleague Ricardo Torres Jr., at a ceremony held on the one-year anniversary of a Valley Street fire that took Torres’s life.
Continue reading ‘1 Year Later, Fallen Firefighter Remembered’
by | May 6, 2022 4:40 pm | Comments (15)
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The rotting metal drum lay on the grass near the curb. How did it get there?
Cynthia Rivera vowed to find out — and get it removed.
by | Apr 22, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (3)
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Kindergarteners make airplanes Thursday.
Instead of sitting home playing video games, grade-schoolers are spending the week doing handstands around the gym, building airplanes and mini-solar houses, and making new friends, thanks to the lower-school version of a “Spring Fun Club.”
by | Apr 20, 2022 1:51 pm | Comments (0)
Tenth-grader Carla Rodriguez and 12th-grader Cheisy Cudoro washed dishes after making food with their culinary class.
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Nakisha Cadore with Isabel Faustino.
Ninth-grader Isabel Faustino was tired of thinking she had to change for somebody else, she said. So she etched out some words on a “vision board” as a reminder: “I am: Strong. Proud. Tough. Powerful. Enough. ME.”
“That’s exactly it!” said Nakisha Cadore. “We’ve got to get you running some circles.”
by | Apr 12, 2022 3:48 pm | Comments (6)
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Tuesday's reading rally.
New Haven students showed off their TikTok dance chops Tuesday — before stocking up on books as part of a citywide campaign to boost reading chops.
by | Apr 11, 2022 3:34 pm | Comments (1)
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After two years of keeping in touch through lunch dates, friends Sarah McClain and Annie Meyers returned to the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center — in its modern new home — ready to get back into classes, day trip outings, and bingo.
Continue reading ‘Seniors Welcomed Back To Reopened Senior Centers’