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Azucena Rojas with her mom and business partner, Angeles Romero.
At the 10th annual Quinnipiac Riverfest on Saturday.
Fair Haven businesswoman Azucena Rojas moved her Mexican grocery outdoors for the day — and further connected with the neighborhood she calls home — during a festive, sun-dappled 10th annual Quinnipiac Riverfest.
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Allan Appel |
May 24, 2022 4:15 pm
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Sidewalks so narrow you’ll have to choose between wheelchairs and trees.
Roadways so tight you’ll have to choose between a bike lane and giving up large swaths of parking.
A single major intersection so problematic it has clocked more than 100 crashes in a year and a half.
The intersection in question is at Grand Avenue and Ferry Street. Fair Haveners described those challenges and pressed for solutions at a gathering hosted by City Engineer Giovanni Zinn, whose office is beginning a process to make the area safer.
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Brian Slattery |
May 23, 2022 8:31 am
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On Sunday afternoon, dancers blessed the elements in four cardinal directions, following the traditions of generations — traditions carried from Oaxaca, Mexico to New Haven, and presented in the Elm City’s first-ever guelaguetza.
Friends Center for Children sent in this article and these photos about a recent event it organized.
What do we want? To fix child care! – and have some fun along the way.
Last Saturday marked the 10th New Haven Family Stroll and Festival, an annual event to raise awareness and much-needed funds for high-quality early care and education. After a two-year Covid-induced hiatus, this year’s event grew by over 300 people and had over 1,220 children, parents, educators and advocates converge at the Quinnipiac River Park for a day of awareness, fundraising and family fun
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May 16, 2022 12:01 pm
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Metropolitan Business Academy 11th-grader Neiel Ventura at DAE.
High school junior Neiel Ventura took a chance on a new after-school computer science program in Fair Haven. Months later, Ventura has set her sights on a career goal in technology and has cultivated the skills to support it — and built her own website designed to sell sneakers.
A shingle oak with star-like leaves was planted Friday just feet from the Quinnipiac River — marking a milestone in New Haven’s ongoing efforts to make the Elm City a tree city once more with deeply connected grass roots.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 28, 2022 3:46 pm
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The former St. Rose School on Richard Street, soon to be apartments.
An affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management won unanimous approval to convert a former Fair Haven Catholic school and nearby ex-convent into 18 new market-rate apartments.
Leroy (holding megaphone), Angaleea, and Nicole Scott at the march; Jericho's murder remains unsolved.
“If you know something, say something!” Leroy Scott pleaded into a megaphone, leading a crowd of supporters in red T‑shirts through a march Saturday in Fair Haven, the neighborhood where his son was murdered in 2015.
New Fair Rent ED Wildaliz Bermúdez running her first meeting.
The Fair Rent Commission slashed a $495 rent hike to $200 after finding the landlord’s initial proposed increase was too much for a tenant to swallow all at once — even if the original hike would have been in line with market rents.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 20, 2022 3:56 pm
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Armada Brewing's John Kraszewski with the 4/20 special, "The Herbalist."
Lloyd Street entrance to Armada's River Street building.
The city’s newest brewery has opened its doors — and its taps — in a former Bigelow Boiler Factory building on River Street, with hopes that “danky” beers, dreamlike art, and spacious gathering spots will help spur an economic revival for Fair Haven’s derelict industrial waterfront.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 19, 2022 2:04 pm
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Judge Harmon: "Arson endangers lives and terrifies people."
At virtual court hearing on March 28, clockwise from top left: Prosecutor Lisa D'Angelo, Angelo Reyes, defense attorney Alex Taubes, Judge Harmon.
A state judge turned down a convicted Fair Haven arsonist’s plea to get out of prison early, after finding that the “harm and devastation that resulted from his actions that seemed centered in greed and monetary gain” warranted his remaining behind bars.
Yaira Matyakubova and Lyala Stowe at gathering on Peck Street.
The room was hushed when Lyala Stowe began to speak. Her voice was soft. She is from Ukraine, and she was about to recite poems by Ukrainian poets.
Stowe apologized that most audience members would not comprehend the words, spoken in her native tongue. Regardless, the room held onto every syllable.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 12, 2022 9:12 am
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Jafferis.
Aaron, a White playwright, needs his new play to work out for the sake of his career. Tone, an Inca of the Latin Kings, is serving a prison sentence for conspiracy to sell drugs; he has a story to tell about his conversations with the man in the next cell over — Justin Volpe, the NYPD cop imprisoned for attacking and sexually assaulting Abner Louima in an station house bathroom in 1997. What follows is a power struggle that actually contains several power struggles.
Lt. Michael Fumiatti opens door that doesn't lock.
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Mess discovered by inspectors.
Inspectors and police streamed in and out of a pale yellow apartment building at 101 – 103 Grand Ave., where non-residents have apparently been sleeping, defecating, and leaving needles and debris in common areas.
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Laura Glesby |
Apr 8, 2022 4:22 pm
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Christine with her backpack of harm reduction supplies.
A few years ago, hospital workers tried to confiscate the purple-gray backpack that Christine carries with her everywhere, she said. At the time, the bag was her only possession; it doubled as a pillow when she slept on the streets.
Rather than sacrifice the bag, Christine refused health care. She has avoided medical centers ever since.
Now, as a volunteer with the Sex Workers and Allies Network (SWAN) who obtained housing, Christine uses that same backpack to carry a form of medical care that hospitals often fail to provide: “harm reduction” supplies like clean needles and condoms, which can mean the difference between life and death for those who use them.
Torrance Flowers was hard to miss. His laugh was booming — you could hear it across the room, even over the clanging silverware and raucous chatter that filled the back bar room of the smokehouse restaurant.
Richlin Morrow was everywhere. Somehow, in the background of every photo from that night, you can see her warm smile and listening eyes, as she greeted and acquainted herself with the many faces who showed up.
She’s a nurse. He works in media consulting for an audio entertainment company. They’ve been friends for years. Until bumping into each other Thursday, they never thought their business would overlap.
Where she works, at the New Haven Job Corps Center, Morrow said, she has high schoolers who need jobs. At his place, Audacy Inc., Flowers said, they have jobs for high schoolers.
Flowers and Morrow started making plans. And after a two-year pandemic pause, Business After Hours was back, swinging.
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Maya McFadden and Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 30, 2022 9:28 am
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Zack Weingart gets to surveying work on Grand Avenue.
Zack Weingart layered up in long johns, cargo pants, a T‑shirt, thermal shirt, sweatshirt, coat, thick gloves, and a furry winter hat Tuesday morning and set up a tripod outside the parking lot by Fair Haven Community Health Care on Grand Avenue.
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Laura Glesby |
Mar 11, 2022 3:52 pm
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DeeDee DeStefano.
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The Power In A Shower van.
Two days after losing her housing, DeeDee DeStefano found a place to wash off right in the Fair Haven neighborhood where she spends most of her time — thanks to a mobile van newly contracted by the city to provide showers, along with wraparound services, to unsheltered New Haveners.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 9, 2022 12:18 pm
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Movie studio plans still in the works for River Street.
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Jaigantic COO Mayne Berke and CEO Donovan De Boer lay out vision for soundstages at 46 to 56 River St. in August 2021.
The backers of a planned new movie studio in Fair Haven are pushing ahead with plans to transform the derelict industrial River Street waterfront into a revitalized creative arts district.
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 4, 2022 1:40 pm
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G-Mart owner Gazy Kaden: Problems not easy to fix.
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Inspection crew posts shutdown order Friday.
Two weeks ago after a shot man stumbled into Fair Haven’s G‑Mart corner store and collapsed in a pool of blood, a city government crew swarmed in — and shut the business down based on health, labor, and safety violations.
Luis Ramos Cruz: "These people are supposed to be Christians."
Landlord Law Firm's Jeff Mastrianni: Free speech costs extra.
A Fair Haven church began evicting a tenant in a building it owns — then slapped the tenant with $2,260 in legal fees, in large part because he dared to speak publicly about the case.
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Laura Glesby |
Mar 3, 2022 4:24 pm
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Governor Ned Lamont.
In a bright hallway of the recently abated Catholic Charities Child Development Center, Gov. Ned Lamont gathered with city leaders Thursday to urge the state legislature to bring statewide lead enforcement standards up to New Haven’s level.
