Another Whalley Walgreens Closing
by | Feb 17, 2025 11:55 am | Comments (19)
Another New Haven pharmacy is closing, this time the Walgreens at Whalley and Ellsworth avenues near Ella Grasso Blvd.
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Paper Target Decried
by | Jan 30, 2025 4:18 pm | Comments (8)
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The target found outside Panzarella's house.
Local Peace Garden steward Frank Panzarella raised his hand and held a paper shooting target up for the mayor, police chief, and a crowd of his neighbors to see.
Tensions Erupt At Murder Sentencing
by | Jan 14, 2025 4:38 pm | Comments (4)
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Mom Latasha Brown at vigil with photo of her son Tashawn, 18, the day after his killing.
Photos of Suggs included in U.S. Attorney's Office court filing.
A fight broke out at the U.S. District courthouse Tuesday after a judge sentenced a 20-year-old to nearly 21 years in prison for his gang involvement and the murder of Tashawn Brown, almost four years after the 18-year-old’s death at Edgewood Park.
Eviction OK'd, After Oral Lease Warning
by | Jan 9, 2025 10:51 am | Comments (8)
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Tenant Gabriella B.: Next time, will make sure to get a lease in writing.
A state judge approved the no-fault eviction of an Edgewood family after cautioning both landlord and tenant about the quicksand-like perils of oral, rather than written, leases.
Police Chief: New Contract = More Cops In Beaver Hills
by | Dec 5, 2024 4:39 pm | Comments (4)
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Alder Hogan (second from left) with Beaver Hills neighbors at latest crime-focused meetup.
Whalley-Edgewood-Beaver Hills neighbors should expect to see more police officers in their part of town next spring — thanks to what the police chief anticipates will be a surge in hiring due to a newly inked union contract.
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Do We Know Each Other? Do We Know Ourselves?
by | Oct 1, 2024 8:50 am | Comments (1)
Do you have a mind’s eye, the ability to not just remember, but visualize the past? Do you have an interior monologue? Rich childhood memories, full of sights, sounds, and smells? For science writer Sadie Dingfelder — speaking to an audience of about a dozen Monday night at the Edgewood Avenue bookstore Possible Futures — the answer to all these questions and a few more like it were a clear no.
And until just a few years ago, she thought the same was true for everyone else. Until a fateful trip to the grocery store led her to become the subject of a few lab studies, and to the work of New Haven-area science journalist Carl Zimmer, and on and on — heading toward the edges of neurologists’ understanding of how varied the human experience can be.
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COMPASS Gets A New Home
by | Aug 28, 2024 3:38 pm | Comments (7)
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Jim Farrales and Nancy Navarretta: This center is the "first of its kind" in the state.
The city’s non-cop crisis response team now has a central location on Winthrop Avenue where first responders can bring adults who need short-term help for substance use and mental health challenges — while keeping them out of hospitals.
Make Way For 3 More Preschools
by | Aug 22, 2024 2:14 pm | Comments (4)
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345 Norton St.: One of 3 homes newly eyed for daycare.
New Haven’s daycare “desert” is about to grow a bit more green, in the form of three new or expanded group child care centers in Fair Haven and Edgewood.
Greerville Tenants Call In Their Alder
by | Aug 12, 2024 1:52 pm | Comments (5)
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Edgewood neighbors Charlie Nixon and Julie Jaus meet with Alder Hamilton (second from right): When do we have to go?
Edgewood tenants turned to their neighborhood alder for help from potential mass evictions precipitated by the sell-off of rental properties owned by nonprofits controlled by incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer.
Tenants Brace For Greerville Sell-Offs
by | Jul 29, 2024 10:15 am | Comments (25)
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Sale pending at Greer nonprofit-owned 193 Maple St.
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Nixon, Oliver, and Jaus: Putting up a fight.
Blindsided.
That’s the word tenants are using to describe how they feel as incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer’s nonprofits seek to sell off a host of multi-family houses in the Edgewood neighborhood — leaving those renters worried about potential orders to move, and prompting them to start organizing to protect their positions at a time of uncertainty.
Family Fun Day Comes To Edgewood Park
by | Jul 12, 2024 9:36 am | Comments (2)
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Quanisha Morrison helps her cousin with arts and crafts ...
... at city's first Family Fun Day of the summer.
Brothers Logan and Mason Bacote enjoyed free ice cream that dribbled down their faces. Rasheem Jr. took a bite of a freshly made slice of pizza alongside his dad Rasheem Miller. And four-year-old Winter was gifted his first ever bicycle.
Safer Streets Update: Cycletrack's Striped On Edgewood; New Sidewalk's Coming On Crescent
by | Apr 19, 2024 12:04 pm | Comments (32)
The indispensable DFA New Haven weighs in on freshly painted bike lane on long-delayed Edgewood cycletrack.
When the light at Osborn and Whalley turns from red to green, Hilda Kilpatrick counts to ten.
Students Track Down Tracks
by | Apr 19, 2024 9:06 am | Comments (1)
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Students tell Ranger Harry the stories of their tracks.
Tree hollows, a raccoon track, and red-tailed hawk scat were all found by young New Haveners with the help of Ranger Harry as they practiced their tracking skills in Edgewood Park while on spring break.
Sex Offender Finds Millions, Keeps Yeshiva
by | Apr 17, 2024 10:36 am | Comments (11)
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The Edgewood Yeshiva, no longer in foreclosure.
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Rabbi Greer: Signs mortgage docs and runs nonprofits while behind bars.
Incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer’s nonprofit housing organizations received a $12 million boost from a mystery lender — and then saw two longstanding lawsuits ditched by Greer’s sexual-abuse victim.
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Ross Gay Incites Joy
by | Feb 21, 2024 8:48 am | Comments (1)
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Ross Gay: "The hope is to be unmade in the process.”
Ross Gay practiced what he preaches last night at Possible Futures, as the poet, essayist, and teacher offered a grateful crowd a selection of his work encompassing joy and tenderness that brought them from rapt silence to riotous laughter and everywhere in between.
Book Club Kicks Off Year Of Baldwin
by | Jan 19, 2024 10:52 am | Comments (7)
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Baldwin books available at Possible Futures.
Hosts Lauren Anderson and IfeMichelle Gardin spreading that "book joy" on kick-off night.
The vibe at Possible Futures was lit Thursday night — more specifically Kulturally Lit, as the literary-focused arts organization’s 100 Years of Baldwin Book Club had its inaugural meeting exploring the works of author, playwright, thinker, and civil rights icon James Baldwin.
Local Artists Auction For Palestinian Aid
by | Dec 7, 2023 8:30 am | Comments (12)
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The Palestinian sunbird up for auction to raise humanitarian funds.
In Emmeline Kaiser’s painting, a vibrant blue Palestinian sunbird perches in a blooming meadow, a picture of peace.
That bird has raised $75 and counting in a fundraising effort organized by local artists of color for humanitarian aid to Palestinian communities now facing bombs and evacuation orders.
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Zines Create Scene At Possible Futures
by | Nov 13, 2023 9:02 am | Comments (0)
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Making zines at The New Haven Zine Club.
Tiny Ghosts Haunting Small Things, The Band Plays in Front of a Big Audience, and Cars Go Too Fast (and our road design encourages it) are not titles you might find on the bestseller list or at your local news stand. But you can find them in the zine library making its way through the city as part of the New Haven Zine Scene, a group of creatives that meet up once a month to make, read, and talk about zines and share everything and anything zine related. This past Saturday, the group met for the first time at Possible Futures on Edgewood Avenue, where it will continue to trade off monthly meeting dates with Witch Bitch Black Box on Whitney.
City Lands $7.7M Federal Lead-Abatement Grant
by | Oct 27, 2023 4:19 pm | Comments (6)
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A lead paint-chipped windowsill in Fair Haven.
Lead paint hazards will be removed from 200 more New Haven homes — and 130 local contractors, maintenance workers, and landlords will receive training in how to do that children’s-health-protecting work — now that the city has been awarded a new $7.7 million federal grant.
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City To Style Up More Salon Inspections
by | Oct 12, 2023 8:55 am | Comments (10)
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Fatou braids a client's hair, hopes for more landlord accountability.
A new layer of city regulation is coming to local hair, piercing, tattoo, and nail salons — sparking a debate over the burden of annual inspection fees, and prompting one African hair braider to hope that more leverage against neglectful commercial landlords is on the horizon.
Possible Futures Looking Bright On Edgewood
by | Sep 26, 2023 12:17 pm | Comments (5)
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Author Winsome Bingham, at Possible Futures-hosted reading.
Over the course of just three days, the following all unfolded on the modest corner of Hotchkiss Street and Edgewood Avenue: A regular monthly meeting of a major local nonprofit; a happy hour for exhausted educators; three authors’ readings, and a two-hour-long neighbors’ knitting circle smack dab among the displays, plants, comfy couches, and shelf after shelf of shiny, new, colorful volumes.
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The Corner Store Re-Imagined, On Edgewood
by | Sep 11, 2023 11:25 am | Comments (4)
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Kenia and Michael Massey and Kenia's mother, Thomasina Nichols.
Future firefighters with current firefighter Jasmine Williams, during a Friday visit to the Black Corner Store.
Kenia and Michael Massey are re-defining the significance of the corner convenience store, especially one in a Black community.
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Community Carries Fred Hampton's Ideas Forward
by | Aug 31, 2023 8:09 am | Comments (0)
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On one side of Hotchkiss Street at the intersection of Edgewood Avenue on Wednesday evening, along the side of the bookstore Possible Futures, a DJ on the corner pumped out irresistible grooves while friends greeted one another, browsed books, and snacked on empanadas and mimosas.
On the other side of the street was a cheerful sign that read “Happy 75th Birthday Fred!” with a timeline laid out beneath it. The Fred in question is none other than Fred Hampton, Black Panther Party leader and revolutionary.
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Brick Wall Sees Possible Abolitionist Future
by | Aug 23, 2023 8:24 am | Comments (1)
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Christina Duan, Jess X. Snow, Sheri, Sonja John, Aaron Jafferis, Sarah "TW" Tracy-Wanck, and Rheo June painting Possible Futures.
The outside wall of Possible Futures, the bookstore located at 318 Edgewood Ave., stood blank and dull against the street, devoid of inspiration and creativity. That was about to change.
Tuesday marked the beginning of a 10-day-long painting project to design a mural, a tribute to New Haven local and celebrated prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore. The blank wall became a canvas, as muralists and community volunteers worked together to explore all the possible futures the space could hold.
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Free Summer Meals Come To Quiet Close At Troup
by | Aug 4, 2023 11:58 am | Comments (1)
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Troup's summer meals backbone: Cafeteria worker Robin Jones.
Mother of three Falilat Enny stopped by Troup School to visit a friend who her kids call “grandma” — because she has loved to serve Enny’s three girls free meals for breakfast and lunch all summer.
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