Fashion Meets Music At "Connect Da Love"
by | Mar 28, 2022 4:34 pm | Comments (3)
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New Haveners gathered to “Connect Da Love” through fashion and music Saturday night.
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Homeless "Shower Power" Rolls Into Town
by | Mar 11, 2022 3:52 pm | Comments (1)
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.
Moviemakers Press On With River St. Studio Plans
by | Mar 9, 2022 12:18 pm | Comments (7)
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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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Arsonist Torches 4 Vehicles; Stolen Car Pulled Out Of Duck Pond
by | Mar 7, 2022 6:33 pm | Comments (5)
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One of the burned-out cars.
(Updated) Someone lit four cars on fire in Fair Haven, on a night when a stolen car also ended up in the Edgewood Duck Pond.
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Sweep Shuts Down Corner Store
by | Mar 4, 2022 1:40 pm | Comments (6)
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.
Church Fines Evictee For Talking
by | Mar 4, 2022 10:18 am | Comments (14)
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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.
Gov Urges State To Follow New Haven's Lead On Lead
by | Mar 3, 2022 4:24 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
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Guv Gets Taste Of Lab-Meat Economy
by | Feb 28, 2022 1:52 pm | Comments (10)
Gov. Ned Lamont bit into a lab-grown mini-chicken shawarma in Israel — and tasted future jobs back home in Connecticut.
Man Shot Outside Store On Problem Corner
by | Feb 17, 2022 8:54 pm | Comments (8)
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At G-Mart after shooting.
A 31-year-old man was shot outside a Fair Haven convenience store Thursday morning, then collapsed inside in a pool of blood.
Church Evicting Parishioner
by | Feb 17, 2022 2:38 pm | Comments (8)
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The Virgin Guadalupe watches over Luis Ramos Cruz.
Luis Ramos Cruz could depend on the church next door for a prayer service, an occasional bag of food pantry groceries, and — most recently — an eviction notice.
Make Way For MoCACONN!
by | Feb 16, 2022 8:50 am | Comments (17)
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English Station: From eyesore to cultural draw?
The former English Station power plant, located in the middle of the Mill River on Ball Island in New Haven Harbor, occupies eight acres of abandoned land. Its unique location would make a perfect Museum of Contemporary Art.
Manufacturer Pitches Training Hub
by | Feb 10, 2022 11:36 am | Comments (2)
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Marcia LaFemina: "I always wanted it to be in Fair Haven."
Marcia LaFemina is looking to transform a vacant Fair Haven industrial building into a community hub where manufacturing trainees can take bilingual classes, sign up for energy assistance, and receive diapers for their kids.
Grand Café Denied Liquor Permit Renewal
by | Feb 3, 2022 4:05 pm | Comments (6)
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Kica Matos and Moviemiento Cultural lead bomba drum circle at protest outside Grand Café.
Fair Haven neighbors prevailed.
Word on the Street: Where's There's Smoke ...
by and | Feb 2, 2022 4:55 pm | Comments (5)
Gladys Tavarez shares the Word on the Street at CTown.
The word on Ferry Street on Wednesday morning was “delinquency.”
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Feds Send City $2M For "Healthy Homes"
by | Jan 24, 2022 2:33 pm | Comments (5)
Rafael Ramos, Martiza Bond, Richard Blumenthal, and Justin Elicker at Monday's event.
Two hundred low income households can expect to get assistance from the city to tackle causes of asthma, lead poisoning, and exposure to radon, thanks to the latest infusion of federal cash into New Haven.
They Crossed That Bridge When They Came To It
by | Jan 18, 2022 2:38 pm | Comments (3)
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Ozyck and Curran cross the reopened bridge on Day One.
After waiting nearly two years, neighbors Rosie Ozyck and Donna Curran got to walk across the Grand Avenue bridge Tuesday — and meet up more efficiently for their daily stroll.
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Work Begins On Third Phase Of Mill River Trail
by | Jan 17, 2022 3:47 pm | Comments (5)
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Construction site.
A crew is pulling up asphalt from a dead end as part of the next phase of constructing the Mill River Trail.
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Neighbors Reconnect On Reopened Bridge
by | Jan 15, 2022 5:51 pm | Comments (4)
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Bridge party! On Grand Avenue Saturday.
Repainted, rehabbed, and reopening (on Tuesday).
Engineer Giovanni Zinn shows underside of bridge's "exodermic" deck.
Dozens of Fair Haven and Heights residents braved the single-digit cold for a neighborhood-spanning celebration above the Quinnipiac River, as the historic Grand Avenue Bridge — fresh off of a $28 million, on-time-and-under-budget rehab — prepares to reopen for the first time in nearly two years.
Cold Spring Preschool Expansion Approved
by | Jan 12, 2022 12:12 pm | Comments (3)
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Looking for silver linings to the pandemic? The Fair Haven-based kindergarten-through-sixth-grade independent Cold Spring School just found one.
Junta Connects Latinos To Covid Tests, Masks
by | Jan 11, 2022 4:20 pm | Comments (2)
Driver Daniel Pizarro, Junta's volunteer Art Director, and Bruni Pizarro, Junta's executive director, delivering Covid tests.
Taina Cintron began to come down with a sore throat, stuffy nose, and cough. Cintron, a 20-year-old college student, was unsure about what to do with her grandmother coming home the next day from the holidays. Results from the PCR test she took would not come back for “another eight days”; her boss wanted a test result before returning to work.
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Junta conecta a latinos con pruebas de Covid y máscaras
by | Jan 11, 2022 4:17 pm | Comments (0)
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La estudiante universitaria Taina Cintron comenzó a sufrir dolor de garganta, congestión nasal y tos. Cintron, una estudiante universitaria de 20 años, no estaba segura de qué hacer con su abuela que regresaba a casa al día siguiente de las vacaciones. Los resultados de la prueba de PCR que tomó no volverían por “otros ocho días”; su jefe quería un resultado antes de volver al trabajo.
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How Fair Haven Swung Back Into Action On Covid Tests
by | Jan 5, 2022 12:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Maritza Casanova Spell picks up a test kit for a friend with Covid symptoms, during grassroots Fair Haven distribution.
At Fair Haven’s health hub, the Covid-19 test positivity rate neared 45 percent. Hundreds of people needing tests were turned away.
Suzanne Lagarde knew she needed help. And she knew where to turn: the community.
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Schools Hustle, Improvise To Stay Open
by , and | Jan 3, 2022 6:49 pm | Comments (15)
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Principal Dan Levy: This isn't March 2020.
Administrators filled in to keep classrooms running and lunches served Monday, bus routes were combined, and teachers all received masks, as the New Haven and Hamden school districts resolved to remain open even as some suburban districts temporarily pulled the plug.
The hope remained by day’s end that kids can remain in schools despite the fact that Connecticut posted a record 21.5 percent Covid-19 test-positivity rate.
Meanwhile, New Haven’s teachers union president applauded the efforts to fill gaps but questioned whether they’ll prove “sustainable” — or if Connecticut should allow some remote learning to count as official school days.
Rally Targets Violence Against Sex Workers
by | Dec 20, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (10)
SWAN Program Manager Jaclyn Lucibello reads the names of murdered sex workers; at right, group founder Beatrice Codianni.
Twenty community members gathered in a Fair Haven parking lot to remember sex workers who have died or gone missing — and to call on New Haven to protect the lives of every person who shares the city’s streets.
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Grand Cafe Mounts A "Cheers" Defense
by | Dec 17, 2021 3:08 pm | Comments (8)
Grand Cafe Co-Owner Jose Rivera, customer Julian Welch outside bar.
Everybody knows your name at Grand Cafe — which regulars and supporters called a good thing as they appealed to preserve the Fair Haven haunt’s liquor license in the face of organized opposition by neighbors weary of gun violence, drugs, and lewd behavior on the premises.