You Might Want To Park Somewhere Else
by | Jun 22, 2021 3:31 pm | Comments (4)
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Car window on Dwight.
At least eight cars in one block have been broken into in the last month — all parked on an 80-foot stretch of Dwight Street.
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Judge Sides With City, Dismisses Half Of Kensington Playground Lawsuit
by | Jun 17, 2021 6:29 pm | Comments (9)
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Sign posted in Kensington Playground.
A state judge threw out half of a lawsuit about the future of Kensington Playground, after agreeing with the city that a Dwight resident and a neighborhood parks group do not have legal standing to sue the city for selling the public greenspace.
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Make Way For New Bike Lanes
by | Jun 15, 2021 10:21 am | Comments (19)
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Alder Sabin test rides a new Chapel Street bike lane.
Construction has begun on the Edgewood Cycletrack.
A newly-striped bike lane has appeared on Chapel Street for cyclists to use as they seek to dodge downtown car traffic — and, a few blocks to the west in the Dwight neighborhood … could it be? … the long-delayed Edgewood Cycletrack has finally begun construction (!).
Dwight Helps Send Aspiring OB/GYN To HBCU
by | Jun 4, 2021 4:40 pm | Comments (4)
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Graduating Hillhouse senior Tiasia Jones.
Tiasia Jones is heading to Morgan State University with help from her Dwight, West River and Edgewood neighbors.
The Hillhouse senior won $500 from the Dwight Central Management Team’s DeBorah E. Davis Scholarship with her essay on bagging groceries for food insecure families on Thanksgiving.
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Park Case Q: Can City “Take” From Itself?
by | Jun 3, 2021 3:50 pm | Comments (14)
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Sign posted in Kensington Playground.
The first court hearing in a months-long dispute over the future of Kensington Playground raised a broader question: Can the city be accused of “taking” land that it already owns?
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Vaxxed, But Not Ready To Un-Mask
by | May 19, 2021 5:00 pm | Comments (38)
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Edible Couture’s Tisha Hudson: Too “complicated” to pivot yet.
Mask Liberation Day arrived — but you wouldn’t have known it on some city sidewalks or at local businesses like Rayon Market.
City Sees 2 Murders, 3 Shootings In 5 Days
by | May 18, 2021 4:41 pm | Comments (15)
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Acting Police Chief Renee Dominguez and Mayor Elicker on Tuesday.
A 44-year-old Waterbury man was shot and killed Tuesday morning near Orchard Street and George Street — becoming the second person murdered in the city in four days, and just the latest victim of a recent surge in local gun violence.
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Bottle Bill Boost Plugged
by | May 5, 2021 4:10 pm | Comments (8)
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Bottle deposit room at Beverage Boss.
Bottle deposit machines on every corner. Breezes free of incinerated trash particles. No litter in sight.
Climate activist Louis Rosado Burch painted this idyllic picture to Dwight neighbors as the outcome if the Connecticut General Assembly passes a new version of the bottle bill.
Park Deal Spawns Dueling Enviro Reports
by | May 3, 2021 9:24 pm | Comments (16)
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Protesters round corner Monday from Kensington Playground.
A city-commissioned report concluded that converting Kensington Playground into affordable apartments will not harm the environment. A group of neighbors strongly disagreed and took to the streets Monday to say so.
Iftar Brings Together Politicos, Neighbors, Students
by | Apr 21, 2021 5:38 pm | Comments (2)
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Alders, mayoral candidates and neighbors celebrate Ramadan together.
As the sun set, even political rivals ate dates, lentil soup and rice together at Brick Oven Pizza’s iftar.
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Work Begins—& Available—At Hotel Site
by | Apr 21, 2021 9:40 am | Comments (15)
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Construction beginning at corner of MLK Blvd. and Dwight.
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Planned Cambria Hotel.
KBE Building Corporation has selected the large steel and concrete contractors for a six-story hotel that will complete development of the “Route 34 West” superblock. Now, it’s time to select subcontractors and fulfill city expectations of minority hiring.
Lead, Park, Ricci Suits Enter New Phases
by | Apr 20, 2021 9:22 am | Comments (13)
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Top city attorney Pat King: City working through 450 active cases.
The city appears on the brink of settling a lead paint lawsuit, while preparing to argue who has the right to sue whom over the fate of a Dwight playground and a retired fire union president’s pension.
Kids Get Wheels At Kensington Playground
by | Apr 17, 2021 9:40 pm | Comments (7)
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Winter Carter.
Winter Carter, 5, received a new bike on Saturday morning — and jumped for joy.
Eyeing Asthma, Dwight Tracks Pollution
by | Apr 16, 2021 11:57 am | Comments (13)
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One of three PurpleAir sensors set up to monitor air.
Three small, white domes will soon be able to tell Dwight neighbors exactly how much pollution is floating around their neighborhood as they brace for an influx of up to 1,000 new cars a day.
Kids’ Easter Event Highlights Quest To Save Kensington Playground
by | Apr 5, 2021 9:56 am | Comments (6)
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Organizers and participants at Saturday’s basket giveaway with top neighborhood cop Lt. John Healy (second from right.)
Friends of Kensington Playground and Upon This Rock Ministries distributed 45 Easter baskets and 30 bags filled of canned goods to Dwight residents on Saturday.
The giveaway was a part of Friends of Kensington Playground’s ongoing mission to save the pocket park on Kensington after the city sold the property to The Community Builders, INC. (TCB) to build affordable housing.
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Vaccine Pop-Up Train Hits Dwight
by | Mar 31, 2021 6:34 pm | Comments (1)
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Olivia Davis receives her J&J vaccine Wednesday at Immanuel Baptist.
One hundred people were “one and done” Wednesday thanks to the latest grassroots effort to stay ahead of a new Covid-19 surge — as a church, a funeral home, and health center teamed up in Dwight.
Antillean Tax Break Wins Final Approval
by | Mar 16, 2021 10:19 am | Comments (15)
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Roth (left): Carabetta can and should pay more tax. Walker-Myers (right): Rain was coming down into apartments.
Alders overwhelmingly approved a 17-year tax break for a failed Dwight housing co-op on the brink of demolition and reconstruction, amid objections that the affordable housing deal is too generous for the project’s developer.
Middle School Reopens Gradually
by | Mar 5, 2021 11:07 am | Comments (6)
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Lashonda Toon (right): Daughter was eager to return.
Eighth grader Brian McClain was the only student back in his classroom Thursday. And it made a difference: He mastered a lesson in eight minutes after struggling remotely for months with pre-algebra.
As Fire Broke Out, 3 Dwight Cops Helped Save Lives
by | Mar 3, 2021 6:11 pm | Comments (4)
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Scene of Tuesday night’s fire.
When a two-alarm fire erupted on Orchard Street, three patrol cops helped six people safely escape the flames.
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Sickle Cell Pitch Prompts Spontaneous Pledge Drive
by | Mar 3, 2021 5:06 pm | Comments (2)
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Sharon Jones McCann, Malcolm Welfare, Jorge Lopez, Theodore Brooks, James Flaherty, and James Rawlings outside Michelle’s House, the renovated, once-abandoned Victorian at 1389 Chapel St.
A pitch for support for government money turned into a rapid-fire virtual grassroots fundraiser, with Dwight neighbors deciding to dig into their own pockets to help prevent sickle cell disease.
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Antillean Manor Tax Break Advances
by | Feb 24, 2021 11:35 am | Comments (16)
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Carabetta’s Muniz: Tax break makes project “pencil out financially.”
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Roth: Builder should pay more.
A proposed tax break for a failed Dwight housing co-op on the brink of demolition and reconstruction moved ahead — after debate about how it fits into efforts to promote affordable housing and avoid a local tax hike.
Besides tax forgiveness, the overall project includes a $1.5 million “development fee” for the co-op’s buyer and $400,000 in federal anti-poverty block grants along with a building contract for a construction affiliate.
Today’s Special: Alba’s Beet Salad With Goat Cheese Panna Cotta
by | Feb 16, 2021 12:57 pm | Comments (2)
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Devil’s Diet beet salad with goat cheese panna cotta.
Leave it to Alba Estenoz, widely known in these parts as the celebrated pastry chef at Zinc, to feature a beet salad with goat cheese panna cotta as a way of introducing The Devil’s Diet, the new dessert bar on the Howe Street side of The Novella apartment complex at the corner of Chapel.
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Dwight Debates Vaccine Barriers
by | Feb 3, 2021 4:39 pm | Comments (6)
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Lino Monge gets his vaccination shot at the Casa Otonal senior apartment complex.
Long wait times to book vaccination appointments by phone. Transportation difficulties. Lack of information about how to sign up.
Dwight neighbors raised these observations as they considered why nonwhite seniors in particular seem few and far between at Covid-19 vaccination sites in New Haven.
Today’s Special: Dave’s Navratan Curry
by | Feb 3, 2021 11:28 am | Comments (3)
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When Dave Singh first tried navratan korma in New Jersey, he knew he wanted the creamy, vegetable-filled curry on his own restaurant’s menu.
Twenty-five years later, Singh’s Tandoor The Clay Oven has sold over 100,000 servings of the “nine-gem” korma.
Antillean Manor Tax Break Advances
by | Jan 25, 2021 1:49 pm | Comments (9)
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Commissioners Radcliffe, Mattison, Marchand pictured at meeting before the pandemic (so please don’t yell at them for not wearing masks).
The City Plan Commission has approved a tax abatement deal for the new owners of Antillean Manor, a 1960s-era, failed former co-op and affordable housing complex in the Dwight neighborhood.
But commissioners don’t know how big an abatement they approved.