by | Feb 7, 2023 2:50 pm | Comments (4)
The rubble in Diyarbakır, Turkey.
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Stepping up: Kadir Catalbasoglu Tuesday at Brick Oven Pizza.
The tragedy unfolding in his native Turkey prompted Kadir Catalbasoglu to do what he usually does when people need help: He got busy.
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by | Jan 30, 2023 4:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Eugene J. Foreman Jr. looked surprisingly calm with his walkie-talkie out on the Beers Street sidewalk outside Augusta Lewis Troup School as a siren sounded and kids poured out of the building.
by | Jan 19, 2023 4:23 pm | Comments (0)
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Kasheem “Kash” Knight returned to Dwight from the overnight shift to throw in a load of laundry, and keep working.
by | Jan 10, 2023 5:24 pm | Comments (6)
Derrex Conner was on his way to the dump when he noticed a dozen bags trashing the curb on Elm Street between Beers and Orchard.
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by | Dec 7, 2022 2:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Jorge Astudillo was upgrading the entrances inside an historic New Haven building — while opening a new door in his own journey of opportunity.
by | Nov 28, 2022 12:44 pm | Comments (8)
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Azariah’s mom had the day off work and stayed home with him. So Nana grabbed a broom and headed out to clean the sidewalk.
There was work to do.
by | Nov 22, 2022 4:25 pm | Comments (0)
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Candy Cruz and fiance Jose Pagan with new temporary neighbor.
Candy Cruz readied one turkey for the oven and placed a taller plastic one on her lawn to prepare for a particularly thankful Thanksgiving.
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by | Nov 17, 2022 12:47 pm | Comments (7)
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Buyers Josef and Jacob Feldman of MOD Equities: Now the owners of 145 more Dwight neighborhood apts.
A New York-based landlord team that has long been active in New Haven’s real estate market added 145 more apartments to its local portfolio — in part by paying twice as much as the city-appraised value for a recently built Howe Street luxury apartment complex.
by | Nov 7, 2022 12:54 pm | Comments (6)
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The now-vacant, soon-to-be-demolished Antillean Manor.
Carabetta project manager Polinsky: "It's been a really long road."
A Meriden-based landlord has begun pre-demolition work on a vacant former Dwight housing co-op where it plans to build back 31 affordable apartments.
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by | Nov 3, 2022 4:58 pm | Comments (5)
King Brandon shows his green pumpkin Thursday to his Congresswoman at Dwight Montessori ...
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... and gives a high five.
New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro isn’t done fighting for a child tax credit.
by | Nov 3, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (0)
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The former CVS building and future MCCA treatment center on Whalley.
New Haven residents make up three-quarters of the patients served by a substance use disorder treatment center that currently operates out of a rented Whalley Avenue office building — and that plans on moving to the former CVS site at the corner of Whalley and Orchard.
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by | Nov 2, 2022 4:22 pm | Comments (3)
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Someone forgot to tell Jose Arias to groan about gas prices.
by | Oct 27, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (3)
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Panelists on Wednesday: Almost time to vote.
With less than two weeks before Election Day, a Dwight landlord gathered community leaders and neighbors for a panel discussion about the Nov. 8 ballot — and about the importance of voting every year.
by | Oct 25, 2022 3:22 pm | Comments (21)
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WEB CMT Chair Rebecca Cramer (left), MCCA's Scott Nelson (right) at Monday evening's meeting.
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Former pharmacy at 215 Whalley.
The leaders of a Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit promised to keep preaching abstinence — and not to branch out into prescribing methadone — as they prepare to move their local outpatient clinic into the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street.
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by | Aug 31, 2022 3:24 pm | Comments (10)
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YNHH leaders and city officials break out their shovels.
Yale New Haven Hospital ceremoniously started construction Wednesday on a long-awaited, $838 million neurosciences center in the Dwight neighborhood, celebrating the forthcoming addition as “transformative” for patients with brain-related illnesses.
by | Aug 16, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (15)
Site work underway at Orchard and George.
Sign posted at site of future neuroscience center.
After more than two years of pandemic-induced delays, Yale New Haven Hospital has revived its neuroscience center development plans — with construction vehicles now on site at the southern end of the St. Raphael’s campus, and local building permits pulled for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of medical-center-expansion work soon to come.
by | Aug 3, 2022 3:11 pm | Comments (18)
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Pizza recommendations abound at "Beer With The Mayor."
As punk rock played on the stereo, Justin Elicker sipped his Counter Weight Headway with a small group of New Haveners who had come with curiosity — but no complaints.
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by | Jul 28, 2022 8:42 pm | Comments (20)
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Local 217's Josh Stanley with Graduate hotel worker Jacqueline Sims.
The Graduate New Haven hotel on Chapel St.
Graduate New Haven hotel employees, union organizers, and labor-friendly politicians celebrated the city’s first new hotel worker union in a quarter century by praising an unexpected ally — an employer that voluntarily chose to recognize and negotiate, rather than fight.
Continue reading ‘Graduate Hotel Union Ratifies 1st Contract’
by | Jul 18, 2022 9:50 am | Comments (1)
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On to the next 50: Lisa Zellman and Maggie Todd at Seabury bash.
Instead of a funeral or a reunion, Seabury Co-op’s community got to celebrate a birthday of survival — a half-century after opening.
by | Jul 8, 2022 9:14 am | Comments (6)
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After a countdown from three, Kevin Mackenzie took a bottle of champagne — and smashed it against the side of The Cannon, the new combination sports pub-plant-based eatery on Dwight Street.
“We thought,” Mackenzie said, “this was a little more our style.”
Continue reading ‘The Cannon Smashes Open, Dispenses With The Ribbon’
by | Jul 7, 2022 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Donated produce arrives at Sherman Avenue pop-up.
David Burgess at work with food-giveaway crew.
David Burgess, retired from stripping metal parts at the old Sargent’s factory, found himself on another assembly line Wednesday: breaking down emptied cantaloupe and watermelon boxes in a joint quest to nourish families.
by | Jun 22, 2022 2:30 pm | Comments (2)
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New property manager Joe Katz at 76 Sherman Ave.: "Things look fine."
A 22-unit Sherman Avenue apartment complex once known as “The Cage” has changed hands for $3.3 million — nearly twice the amount its former landlord paid for the property seven years ago.
by | Jun 16, 2022 4:12 pm | Comments (3)
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State Superior Court Judge James Abrams.
A Kensington Playground-focused lawsuit got a new lease on life, after a state judge rejected the city’s request to strike down the case.
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by | May 9, 2022 3:58 pm | Comments (17)
Sven Martson sent in these videos of crashes that took place this weekend at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Dwight Street.
by | May 2, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (2)
Eat Up's Isaiah Pinion, Bryan Burkett-Thompson, and Kristen Threatt.
It was a battle of Afrotina’s Latin-flavored southern cuisine versus Eat Up’s Italian-inspired soul food cuisine: Chef Ohioma Odihirin’s Sazon chicken took on Chef Bryan Burkett-Thompson’s mumbo chicken, and Chef O’s homemade Voodoo sauce vied with Chef BB’s pineapple salsa.
Continue reading ‘Battle Of The Chefs Promotes Community In Dwight’