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At Wednesday's event, clockwise from top left: Friends Center for Children staffers; ConnCORP CEO Erik Clemons; Skanska builders Robert Daddona and Richard Murphy with contractor Rodney Williams; Amber Delacruz serving up mozzarella sliders courtesy of Orchid Cafe.
Dixwell Plaza's planned new ConnCAT Place redevelopment.
Dixwell Plaza’s planned redevelopment has gained a general contractor, a childcare partner, and a food hall operator — and has lost a too-pricey underground garage — as the local team behind the now-estimated $220 million project moves ahead with its effort to build up the heart of New Haven’s historic Black neighborhood.
The current surface parking lot at 315 Winchester Ave ...
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... slated to be turned into hundreds of new apartments.
“Any time we can turn a parking lot into residential living, especially with affordable housing available, that’s a worthwhile investment.”
State Sen. and President Pro Tem Martin Looney offered those words of support Thursday morning in an email press release celebrating a $5 million state grant that the governor recently OK’d for the next phase of Science Park’s redevelopment.
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Aug 23, 2022 9:30 am
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Waiting for the dance contest to start at Unity fest on Sunday.
A rebooted Dixwell community festival with decades-old roots offered free haircuts, free food, and bountiful calls for citywide unity in Goffe Street Park.
Alan Tilley: fighting to keep his house in memory of his mother.
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The house at 766 Orchard.
Two decades after his family bought a church-built house meant to stabilize a neighborhood, Alan Tilley is fighting to keep the home out of the hands of out-of-town landlords.
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Aug 18, 2022 12:59 pm
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Kendall Cobb Wednesday with his wheels.
Light rain and a brief detour through Hamden Wednesday morning didn’t stop scooter-toting Kendall Cobb from making his way to Orange to get his computer fixed — while keeping his gas bill down.
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Aug 17, 2022 9:15 am
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Davis performing Tuesday evening at Stetson Branch Library.
The first phrase of Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” flowed from Chris “Big Dog” Davis’s fingertips, instantly familiar. But the chord voicings Davis put underneath it felt thoroughly modern.
As he proceeded through the classic of American music, Ace Livingston on bass and Dexter Pettaway, Sr. on drums fell in behind him. Together the trio made the classic a quick trip through the history of American jazz, from its murky origins to its up-to-the-minute contemporary form.
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Aug 15, 2022 9:50 am
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Scott Troublefield and New Vision.
Far out behind the crowded audience at Goffe Street Park, beyond still the stragglers who spread out among the opposing baseball diamond’s outfield, tucked just inside the entryway of the third-base dugout, a woman with gray hair and blue Nikes called out: “Amen!”
The Sunday sun had set, but the sound of gospel from the stage still echoed as far as Crescent Street. The woman, silhouetted by the park floodlights, said she was taking her church from all the way back there.
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Aug 10, 2022 11:49 am
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Developers and officials break Beulah ground.
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Sustainable, affordable housing envisioned for 340 Dixwell.
Faith leaders, politicians, and investors shoveled a pile of ceremonial dirt, breaking ground on a soon-to-rise apartment complex that will be sustainable not only for the earth, but for low-income families.
Rev Kimber: New leadership needed. Mayor Elicker: More funding needed.
New Haven needs a new plan — and new leadership — in order to improve abysmal student reading levels.
The Greater New Haven Clergy Association issued that plea Wednesday during a press conference at which Newhallville pastors laid into the Board of Education, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) administrators, and the mayor after a recent report showed that 84 percent of third-graders are reading below grade level.
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Aug 1, 2022 9:36 am
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Dixwell UCC bicentennial planning committee members Joy W. Donaldson, Antonie Thorp, Estelle Whitfield Simpson, Clifton Graves Jr., Althea Musgrove Norcott, Helena Rogers, and Cheryl Gray.
The nation’s oldest African American United Congregational Church is celebrating 200 years of being rooted in community service, social justice, and humanitarian efforts.
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Audrey Tyson, Alder Sarah Miller, and Gov. Lamont talk education at Brazi's during one of the governor's New Haven stops Wednesday.
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Lamont in radio studio with hosts Jose Candelario and Norma Rodriguez-Reyes, and campaign Deputy Political Diretor Gabriela Koc.
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Lamont with Erik Clemons at ConnCORP: Talk to Looney.
Erik Clemons took advantage of a 20-minute audience with Gov. Ned Lamont to make a multimillion-dollar pitch — for bond money to help revive the commercial heart of New Haven’s Black community.
With a deadline looming days away, the mayor and lieutenant governor popped in to the Q House Tuesday to issue a plea to working families: “Don’t leave money on the table.” Apply for the state childcare tax rebate.
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Jul 17, 2022 10:53 am
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Ahndiya Glasper (far left) at the table honoring her late great-grandmother and mother.
Latoya Glasper was planning a community wellness day as part of her new job with the city Health Department. It would be a resource fair, named “Momma’s Love Community Day,” in honor of her late grandmother.
Before Glasper was able to see the event to completion, she underwent a sudden health crisis and died in June. At 42 years old, Glasper left her five children and own mother.
This Saturday, the Health Department put on the event anyway — dedicated to Glasper’s memory.
An 18-year-and-counting blight stalemate continues on an otherwise reviving stretch of Winchester Avenue — but now a lender and the city have gone to court to call the question.
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Jul 13, 2022 9:38 am
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Judée Badibanga Kabongo, special advisor to the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pitches diaspora in Dixwell.
New Haven and the Democratic Republic of the Congo strengthened their relationship this week through an exchange of ideas on a common challenge: poverty.
A delegation of government officials from the DRC arrived Saturday in New Haven, their first stop in a tour across the United States that will include D.C., Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, and Oklahoma.
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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.
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.
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?”
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Olivia Charis |
Jun 27, 2022 3:50 pm
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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.”
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.
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.
