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Jun 21, 2021 9:20 am
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Refugees and friends in East Rock Park Sunday.
Jane and Rahab Kinity at Sunday’s gathering.
Arabic salad, vegetable biryani, Sudanese white beans, and Afghani qabili palau were passed around Sunday to the beat of African drumming — and the tales of more than 35 refugees from eight countries who are now part of one community in New Haven.
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Emily Hays & Thomas Breen |
Jun 15, 2021 7:08 pm
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Black Lives Matter New Haven Co-founder ala ochumare: The board chose white supremacy.
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Mayoral challenger Karen DuBois-Walton (center): Roblee investigation must be transparent.
Parents, protesters, and political leaders called for a transparent investigation and a public apology from the former Brennan-Rogers School principal, one day after the Board of Education narrowly voted to demote her for using the “n‑word” in an antiracism workshop.
Qinxuan Pan (right) with attorney William Gerace in court on June 1.
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Whyte: Why shoot my house?
• Runs 96 pages. • Blood evidence cited to support murder charge. • Pan linked to other, nonfatal shootings in town, including of deputy school superintendent’s house. • North Haven cops let Pan go — even though they knew license plate on his car was stolen. • New Haven dispatcher later sent out incorrect bulletin for “Black” suspect. • New details of Jiang murder revealed.
A night after heralding a big win for the city on state aid, Mayor Justin Elicker won a resounding endorsement for his reelection from his neighbors in East Rock.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 7, 2021 1:32 pm
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Alexandra Daum: Raising bar at the zoning board, cashing in on real estate market.
A top state economic development official and local zoning board member is also a city landlord on the move — actively buying, renovating, managing, and selling rental properties in New Haven’s red-hot housing market.
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May 26, 2021 8:42 am
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The cast of A Light in the Dark — the showcase from Lights Up Drama Club at Wilbur Cross High School, which will be broadcast June 4 and 5 — assembled in a rehearsal room at the school that would also serve as the beginning scene for the number “I Feel So Much Spring,” from the William Finn-penned musical A New Brain.
As the music began, and music director Matt Durland conducted, all the voices behind the masks sprang to life.
The students glided across the floor as co-director Salvatore DeLucia weaved among them with a camera. It would all be edited together into a final product, with 17 other songs, in time for broadcast.
Some weeks ago, I came across a woman of advanced age on the sidewalk. She used a cane and wore a backpack, and was walking down Orange Street toward East Rock Park. When she stopped to greet me, she noticed the pup on my leash, and, as most foot travelers, was eager to pet little Lucca.
While she did so, I resumed my digging for New Haven gold, defined here as a pedestrian’s daily discovery and illumination.
Quinnipiac School Principal Monica Morales and West Rock Principal Yolanda Jones-Generette will head up Fair Haven School and Celentano Magnet School, respectively, starting this July.
The New Haven Board of Education voted for their transfers on Monday evening, alongside the promotion of Marisol Rodriguez to principal of Columbus Family Academy.
“Are there any volunteers at home who want to do this problem?” said New Haven Academy biology teacher David Herndon, addressing the portion of his class tuned in via computer. “Don’t all jump at once.”
His in-person students giggled.
Herndon switched his attention back to the physical classroom — and, like high school teachers all over New Haven, navigated a new normal of teaching two types of classes at once: Remote, and in-person.
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Thomas Breen |
May 6, 2021 1:32 pm
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Police take suspect into custody Thursday.
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A tense standoff on Livingston Street between a barricaded man and local cops and federal agents that led to evacuation of nearby residents ended peacefully when the suspect surrendered with no shots fired on either side.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 28, 2021 9:29 am
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Armando Muñoz, a.k.a. Decoy, danced at the top of East Rock, popping and locking, the city of New Haven unfurling behind and beneath him all the way to the Long Island Sound. In front of him, armed with a tiny handheld camera, cinematographer Mike Pollack moved with Muñoz, following the arcs of Muños’s steps, the bending of arms, the fluttering of fingers.
A few families were at the top of East Rock at the same time, and one of them drifted close to watch.
“You’re so good!” one of the family members exclaimed.
(Opinion.) The results of the New Haven school choice system are out. It’s a good time for our city’s most privileged families to think about how we talk about our “wins” and “losses” in this lottery.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 29, 2021 5:49 pm
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Inside the renovated 771 Orange St.
Atticus CEO Negaro: A market that keeps people in New Haven.
Seven floors, four ceilings, two storefronts, and 15 months of renovations later, the longtime downtown cafe and bookstore Atticus has opened up a second shop in East Rock.
The city plans to ditch a vacant lot (bottom right in photo) to facilitate the development of next phase of Corsair.
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City’s Carlos Eyzaguirre: Lot is currently empty and trashed.
Forty-four years after first acquiring a triangular sliver of highway-adjacent land from the state, the city plans to give it back — with the hopes that the parcel could soon sprout roughly 70 Upper State Street apartments as part of “Corsair II.”
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 22, 2021 4:52 pm
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The empty pit at 31 Sheffield Ave. Landlord Edward Zislis (below): New 3-family home in the works.
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A new three-family house on Sheffield Avenue is one step closer to rising from the ashes of its burned-down predecessor — and, two neighborhoods away, three new townhouses won the thumbs up to pop up atop a Humphrey Street backyard.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 17, 2021 10:18 am
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It’ll be easier for East Rockers to find their way to the gym and then an after-workout stop at the brewery.
That’s because Tuesday night, at its regular Zoom-assisted meeting, the Board of Zoning Appeals approved the placing of two signs at 268 Nicoll St. in the Goatville section of East Rock.
That’s the parking lot adjacent to the mActivity Fitness Center, part of a complex that also houses the East Rock Brewery.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 16, 2021 5:00 pm
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570 Whitney Ave., where Mandy Management recently purchased 16 condos.
For only the second time in two and a half years, the megalandlord Mandy Management purchased market-rate rental housing in East Rock — picking up 16 condos on Whitney Avenue as part of a monthlong, $4 million, 45-unit buying spree.
