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Allan Appel |
Oct 31, 2022 11:08 am
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Congregant Josue Ortiz shows how it's done.
Josue Ortiz sounded the shofar, but it wasn’t the Jewish Day of Atonement. He wasn’t even in a synagogue.
The site was the Estrella Resplandeciente de Jacob, the Radiant Star of Jacob Church in Fair Haven, where the spirit and service of long-time pastors Javier and Shari Diaz were trumpeted, along with the help of an official certificate presented by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 26, 2022 3:45 pm
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Grand Cafe plaza regular Curt Duarte (at left): We're being targeted.
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A protest/sit-in/"occupation" of the Grand Cafe parking lot in Sept. 2021.
The parking lot outside of the Grand Cafe swelled last fall with live music, poetry, and pizza as activists gathered to “reclaim” a Fair Haven corner known for attracting violence.
A year later the bar is closed, shootings are down, and a new set of neighbors fills the lot with cannabis smoke and stereo tunes.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 25, 2022 1:10 pm
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Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A health center’s plan to rezone a Fair Haven block to allow for more parking, and eventually a larger medical campus, moved ahead — despite city staff’s initial recommendation of denial.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 24, 2022 8:44 am
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The process of moving from drawing and painting to working with fiber. The limitations — and the opportunities — presented by fabrication machines, and the connection of that to old Atari video games. The ways that the materials an artist uses can deepen the theme of the art, about climate change and impending extinctions. Such were a few of the conversations on offer for those who visited Erector Square this weekend, as dozens of artists in the warren of studios in the former factory building in Fair Haven threw open their doors to visitors for the first full weekend of Open Source, the citywide visual arts festival organized by Artspace.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 21, 2022 9:41 am
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Det. Blaisdell at police presser.
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John Tubac at his HSC graduation, weeks before his murder.
“You are the fucking guy who was racing in front of my house,” a 25-year-old New Havener allegedly said after confronting a teenager in his truck late at night in Fair Haven this summer.
“I’m ready to shoot,” he threatened.
He then noticed what would turn out to be a BB gun on the truck’s dashboard.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 20, 2022 12:30 pm
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Lead-buster Ramos: Ramos: Check out this site for more on prevention.
The city's new "lead case dashboard."
New Haven property owners can receive up to $15,000 per apartment from City Hall to help cover the costs of making their homes lead-safe — while city government watchdogs can now keep track online of how the Health Department is doing in making local houses less toxic for children to live in.
Fair Rent Director Bermudez: "We need to meet people where they are."
A Blake Street apartment complex’s tenants are looking to make their union official — as the city’s Fair Rent Commission director works on getting out the word about the opportunities for collective renter power at City Hall.
Claudia Herrera at the 2019 Democratic Town Convention.
Fair Haven community activist, Democratic ward co-chair and professional dental assistant Claudia Herrera will be the next alder for Ward 9 — not because she especially wants the job, but because she couldn’t bear the thought of an “empty chair” representing her neighborhood.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 13, 2022 1:00 pm
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Junta staffers Rosaida Maldonado and Cheila Serrano Thursday.
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A river crossing in Marín Bajo, Puerto Rico that was rebuilt by neighbors after the storm washed away a bridge.
As one of Fair Haven’s longest standing social service agencies prepares to resettle Puerto Ricans fleeing the wreckage of yet another hurricane, New Haven’s congresswoman has secured additional federal aid to help the island and other natural disaster-wracked areas rebuild.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 10, 2022 8:46 am
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So long, mixed-use building and parking lot; hello, new health center?
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A map of the clinic's current headquarters, planned addition (at the top left), and planned new parking lot.
Fair Haven Community Health Care’s upcoming Grand Avenue expansion came into sharper focus — as a health center representative described plans to knock down an existing corner building that currently houses a pharmacy, a pizzeria, and a handful of apartments, and to construct in its stead a new neighborhood clinic and community space.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 10, 2022 8:43 am
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Ginny Monk and John Moritz on the job at Saturday's cleanup.
An under-appreciated Fair Haven riverine jewel is looking shinier than ever thanks to an invigorated “friends” group and an increasingly effective partnership with the city and Yale University’s Urban Resource Initiative.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 7, 2022 9:34 am
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Rick Altice: As overdoses rise, patients need safe equipment.
A Yale harm reduction-focused healthcare team has its sights set on installing a trio of vending machines around town that would dispense not candy bars and soda, but clean syringes, safe injection kits, and overdose reversal medication.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 30, 2022 11:59 am
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Cutting the ribbon on the rehabbed Ferry St. bridge.
Construction crews wrap up work before bridge's official reopening.
Cars and trucks looking to cross between Fair Haven and Cedar Hill can use the Ferry Street bridge again, now that the state has wrapped up a $3 million rehab of a span that has been closed to traffic for the last five months.
When Wilson Reyes looked at the bed of roses beyond the porch of 302 Exchange St., he thought back to the Fair Haven he grew up in half a century ago — and he remembered how flowers stood in that very same spot even then.
At a foreclosure auction for that now-empty house, Reyes put in the highest — and only — bid, with the goal of reviving that small slice of the neighborhood he has long called home.
Glendower/Patriquin rendering of proposed Strong School redesign.
Two affordable housing developers are competing to transform the long-vacant former Strong School building into an artists’ community, public gathering space, and housing complex.
Peeling back the onion: A plan for a structural addition to this dome has sparked new questions about what's happening on a trash company's property.
Officials of the “Circle of Life” transfer station on Middletown Avenue showed neighbors plans for a new semi-circlular structure on their site — and heard back questions, claims and complaints about the broader conditions on their property.
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Laura Glesby |
Sep 1, 2022 8:35 am
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Site of proposed new Fair Haven Health building.
Fair Haven Community Health Care plans to build a new medical building focused on treating behavioral health issues and addressing “social determinants of health” at the corner of Grand Avenue and James Street, next door to the community health center’s current headquarters and main clinic.
If suggestions of Fair Haven neighbors come to fruition, the new building will be brightly colored, filled with plants, and adorned with local art reflecting Latino cultures.
Cotto and Blanco looking for a missing man at Justin’s Deli.
City police Officers Martha Cotto and Kevin Blanco were in the middle of their walking beat on Grand Avenue when a call came over the radio: An 85-year-old man with dementia had wandered away from home, and he was now missing somewhere in Fair Haven.
Jose (right) on Ferry Street: A new center with private bathrooms "would be nice," much better than going "in the woods."
Harm reduction crew at 229 Grand lot: John Burroughs, John Rivera, Mark Jenkins, Alder Sarah Miller, Jaclin Lucibello, Emme Magliato.
A Fair Haven-based harm reduction coalition has its sights set on turning a vacant Grand Avenue lot into a one-stop “engagement center” for sex workers, day laborers, drug users, and other struggling populations.
They have the backing of local businesses and social service organizations. Now they’re looking for help from City Hall.
Jocelin and community health volunteer José Antonio Armas Alvarez.
Jocelin hobbled through the doors of Unidad Latina en Acción’s Howe Street headquarters with a leg she had nearly lost, a mind spiraling with trauma, and a $64,000 medical bill.
Inside, she found a volunteer who had survived his own journey to New Haven as an undocumented immigrant — and who helped her find and afford the medical care she sorely needed.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 8, 2022 12:02 pm
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Shneor Edelkopf flips, clockwise from top left: 106 Bassett, 47 Hillside, 232 West Hazel, 268 Exchange.
Real estate investor Shneor Edelkopf has kicked his rental-property-flipping business into high gear this summer — as his companies have bought and promptly sold four apartment buildings in five weeks, at a combined markup of $364,000.
Homeowners trying to turn their expanses of traditional turf grass into gardens for vegetables or flowers might take some cues from Elizabeth (Liz) Johnston and Lizzette Flores of Perkins Street: Their small yard is full of flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees and vines, and is described by some friends as “Paradise.”
