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City To Immigrants: Know Your Rights

by | Jan 17, 2025 7:19 pm | Comments (38)

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Chief Jacobson: "We want you to call the police no matter what your immigration status is."

New Haven will protect immigrants, regardless of legal status, during a second Trump administration.

More than two dozen city officials, alders and immigrant rights advocates gathered in Fair Haven Friday afternoon to send that message — as they highlighted the city’s newly updated resource guide for new residents, which includes sections on the legal rights available to undocumented New Haveners. 

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3 Kings Bring Presents, Preserve Culture

by | Jan 7, 2025 9:29 am | Comments (3)

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Gisleidy Rodríguez and her nieces, Nathalie and baby Aaliyah, pose for a photo with a volunteer trio of Three Kings.

According to 12-year-old Gisleidy Rodríguez, the meaning of Three Kings Day was ​“presents.”

But as she skipped around the room with her younger nieces and told the story of the milk she left under her bed for the Three Kings to drink, she gave a different kind of gift to the adults in the room — adults determined to pass on dearly-held traditions to the next generation.

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Dinner & A Movie Return To Fair Haven Shelter

by | Dec 23, 2024 4:10 pm | Comments (1)

The Fresh Starts team, including Marcus Harvin, Diamond Harvin, Talia Cardoba, Bradley Woodworth, Axel Woodworth, Adam Rawlings, and Big Don McDaniel.

On a bone-chilling night, Talia Cardoba spooned spicy chicken onto a heaping plate and handed it to an elf who scurried out of the kitchen.

“Careful, it’s hot,” she said, as the conversation of 16 mothers and their children floated in from the dining room of Life Haven, a 40-bed Ferry Street facility that provides temporary shelter to homeless pregnant women and women with young children. 

The occasion was the second iteration of ​“Dinner & A Movie” hosted by Best Video and Newhallville’s Fresh Starts, a nonprofit founded on the belief that the first step toward helping someone realize their aspirations is nutritional sustenance.

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Look Closely, & You'll Hear New Haven

by | Dec 20, 2024 10:01 am | Comments (2)

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A true New Haven circuit board melds music and apizza.

Donato Biceglia of Dual Stage Amplification has been making and repairing amplifiers, guitar pickups, pedals, and other music gear for years out of his Erector Square space. He’s expanding his business now by rolling out a couple new pedals, among them a compressor and a phaser, all embedded with New Haven-specific messages burned right onto the circuit boards he uses for his gear.

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Alameda Animates Mill River District Visioning

by | Dec 10, 2024 2:41 pm | Comments (14)

Can the city help bring this vision to life?

Oh, that's an alameda. Cool!

Imagine an alameda — a long shady tree-lined walkway — running down the middle of Blatchley Avenue all the way from Grand Avenue to the Quinnipiac River. 

And how about building up underused lots into lots more housing on East Street and on Wolcott?

Those were a few of the neighborhood-changing ideas that emerged Monday night at 162 James St., CitySeed’s new building, where city economic development officials convened a second public meeting for citizen input to envision a now-and-future identity for the Mill River District.

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After Foraging, CitySeed Feasts

by | Nov 12, 2024 11:13 am | Comments (0)

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Babz Rawls Ivy and Chrissy Tracey talk mushroom foraging.

Drummers greet visitors to new CitySeed HQ.

This citizen contribution was submitted by Naseema Gilson, CitySeed’s director of development.

The smells of Nepalese momos and jerk chicken wafted down the stairs, as guests poured into a former Fair Haven factory for ​“A Night of Food, Community, and Conversation.” The drumbeats and skirt swirls of Movimiento Cultural Afro Continental’s drummers and dancers greeted visitors at the top of the stairs, along with a message: Welcome to CitySeed’s new home.

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Collective Consciousness Peels Away "The Niceties"

by | Nov 7, 2024 9:35 am | Comments (1)

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Kendall Driffin and Susan Kulp in The Niceties.

Janine, a professor, has some feedback for her student, Zoe. ​“I’m glad you brought this in early. I can see you’ve done an impressive amount of work on it,” Janine says. 

“Yeah, well. I tend to get a little intense about fulfilling requirements,” Zoe says. The tone in the room is still friendly, but something is changing. 

“I wish you hadn’t plowed ahead like this — written the full draft without getting comments on the thesis,” Janine says. ​“I was just excited to lay out the ideas,” Zoe says. 

“I’m afraid you’re in for quite a substantial rewrite,” Janine says. ​“Your argument is … fundamentally unsound.” She turns to the first page. “‘A successful American Revolution was only possible because of the existence of slavery,’” she reads out loud.

Now the mood has changed completely, though Janine doesn’t fully realize it. ​“Yes,” Zoe said. Janine challenges her, as only a professor at an elite college can: ​“Yes?” she says, the verbal equivalent. But Zoe, suddenly, is having no more of it. ​“Yes,” she says.

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Memories Live On At Day Of The Dead

by | Nov 4, 2024 10:59 am | Comments (0)

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Mari Rojas (right), with daughter Camila: "I just want her to learn her culture."

Skeleton floats get ready for the parade.

Sadie Rose doesn’t usually celebrate Día de los Muertos — but when Jack, her boyfriend of two years, died suddenly in June, she knew she had to find some way to honor him.

So, with a candle and a framed picture in hand, Rose came out to Bregamos Community Theater with dozens of others to help mark the Day of the Dead.

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Hello Pennsylvania, New Haven's Calling

by | Oct 23, 2024 10:36 am | Comments (31)

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Leslie Blatteau and Elizabeth Baldetti work the phones for "pro-worker, pro-working-family candidates like Vice President Kamala Harris, former AFT member Tim Walz, and Senator Bob Casey."

Seven New Haven teachers gathered after school to make phone calls — not to students’ parents, but to registered voters in the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania, to encourage them to each make voting plans, and to boost Democratic candidates for president, vice president, and senate.

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Erector Square Overflows With Art

by | Oct 21, 2024 9:39 am | Comments (2)

Amelia Ingraham artwork

Hey, Erector Square! Who you calling "meat face?"

Erector Square was full of people and art, as the second year of the fully artist-run New Haven Open Studios packed the building complex — so much so that, in addition to the many artists who had flung open their studio doors to visitors, many more had set up displays in entryways, intersections, and hallways, giving the sense that everywhere one went, there was art on the walls, and conversation happening.

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$2M Sought For Undoing Highway Harms

by | Oct 9, 2024 2:47 pm | Comments (31)

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More like Underpass Haven: By Exit 6 ...

... near State and James ...

It doesn’t have to be like this.

The Elicker administration and East Rock / Fair Haven Alder Caroline Tanbee Smith have asserted as much — well, not in those exact words — about the current state of neighborhood-slicing highways, as they seek $2 million in federal funds to help plan a brighter future for underused underpasses.

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