Near Grand Ave. and Murphy Dr., soon to be "Emma Jones Justice For Malik Corner."
The corner where East Haven police officers chased, shot, and killed 21-year-old Malik Jones in 1997 will not be called “Malik Jones Corner” after all.
Instead, the Board of Alders decided to name that intersection after Jones’s mother, Emma, and the campaign for police accountability she has carried forth after his death.
Showing up: Street medicine outreachers Phil Costello, Emma Lo, Claudette Kidd at WNHH FM.
Teens have started jumping out of cars and attacking homeless people sleeping on the street in Fair Haven, according to a veteran street outreach worker.
School Psychologist Yesenia Garcia calls for smaller class sizes at Monday's rally.
Fair Haven School has just one social worker, one psychologist, and one school counselor — to support over 800 students.
At one of three rallies that took place across the city’s public school district Monday morning, Mayor Justin Elicker said that the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) system needs an additional $35 million in order to fund a “reasonable” ratio of one social worker per 250 students.
Elicker offered that assessment as 50 educators, students, and allies gathered outside the Grand Avenue public school to call for that funding.
Community Resilience Director Tirzah Kemp: COMPASS provides an "empathetic, compassionate, humane, and trauma-informed approach to care."
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COMPASS calls, by the #s, as presented in August report.
The city’s non-cop crisis response team will now be on call until 3 a.m. each day — with double the staffers working during the peak hours of 7 to midnight — as the Elicker administration again expands its effort to send social workers and not police to certain 911 calls about homelessness, mental health, and substance abuse.
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Library lovers Dave Caron and Mary Newell at Thursday's planning session ...
... with City Librarian Maria Bernhey and Deputy Director Luis Chavez-Brumell.
Library leaders and patrons gathered on Grand Avenue to think through how to keep the city’s public libraries among the most welcoming, friendly, helpful, diverse places in town — as part of a planning process designed to make them even more effective at serving the New Haven community a half decade from now.
Two handmade signs, only one still legible, commemorate the Grand Avenue block where Malik Jones died.
Norm Clement joined a dozen public testifiers early in September to call for an official corner sign honoring Malik.
The words “Justice For Malik” have nearly faded from one hand-painted wooden board nailed to a Grand Avenue post.
A more durable sign bearing Malik Jones’s name may soon rise alongside it — inscribing the memory of a bright, adventurous 21-year-old whom an East Haven cop shot to death in 1997.
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From left, servers Big Don McDaniel, Marcus Harvin, Greg Altieri, Adam Rawlings, Marcus Carpenter, Babatunde Akinjobi, and Bradley Woodworth.
One group brought a full-course dinner, complete with a choice of jerk chicken or fried chicken. Another brought a “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”DVD, a movie projector, and popcorn. Then a half-dozen smartly dressed servers showed up.
And just like that, with the inaugural “Dinner and a Movie” hosted by Best Video and the Newhallville nonprofit Fresh Starts, a dream, seven years in the making, saw its realization at Life Haven women’s shelter in Fair Haven.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro brought a progressive star with MAGA cred to town Monday to help craft an election season message about high food prices: Blame corporate price-gougers.
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English Station: Oh the potential, oh the decay.
A derelict power plant. A neighborhood school. A vibrant community history of hardship and resilience. And the ticking clock of climate change.
All these elements came together in the first of a series of walking tours — a collaboration among several public and nonprofit entities put together by Anstress Farwell, president of the New Haven Urban Design League — focusing on the decommissioned and toxic English Station power plant and the Mill River District in Fair Haven.
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Michael Pollack and his pizza monument.
The subject of pizza is always on the minds of New Haveners, whether it’s deciding what kind to order and where to order it from or what makes the perfect pie and slice. On Friday night, those pies and slices were unveiled as the theme of a world premiere art exhibit at District NHV. “New Haven Pizza Club: Discover the Art of Pizza” showcased the four-year-long odyssey of artist Michal Pollack to commemorate everyone’s favorite meal as a contemporary symbol representing a local legacy.
Osvaldo Hernandez gets ready to ride to Wilbur Cross ...
... as parking authority's Norm Forrester and Doug Hausladen cut the ribbon on a revived bike share.
One hundred e‑bikes are now available to rent by the minute at 30 stations across the city — to help New Haveners like Osvaldo Fernandez make the active commute from a doctor’s appointment in Fair Haven to soccer practice at Wilbur Cross.
Soon after she moved into a rental in Fair Haven in the winter of 2022, Stella Damoah realized the heat didn’t work and the landlord couldn’t, or wouldn’t, fix it. She looked around for another place and found studio apartments starting at $1,800 and one-bedrooms for well beyond that. So she opted for space heaters, adding about $600 to her expenses.
“That was when I made up my mind to look for a place to own,” said Damoah in a recent Zoom interview.
Following an almost two-year odyssey, Damoah, an accountant who came to Connecticut from her native Ghana in 2005 to pursue a master’s degree at the University of New Haven, will close on a home in Naugatuck next month.
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Shaylah McQueen-Lee: "Never give up on kids."
Step by step on Grand Avenue Friday morning, Shaylah McQueen-Lee walked towards her near future as a K‑2 teacher at Benjamin Jepson School — marking her return to the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district after graduating from Hillhouse more than a decade ago as both valedictorian and a teen mom.
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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.
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Aug 21, 2024 11:19 am
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Former student, current instructor Paul Nunez hosts drilling practice.
In a Fair Haven warehouse, Paul Nunez watched closely as his student drilled a hole into a soon-to-be light fixture — reminding Nunez that less than a month ago, he was the one learning those same manufacturing skills on the same machine at the Manufacturing and Community Technical Hub (MATCH).
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Perez-Plocharczyk recites "ELEMENT."
“A neighbor with a happy dog / A homeless man sleeping under the bridge / Poor houses with pretty flowers,” Vivian Perez-Plocharczyk intoned to an audience of 60 at Bregamos Community Theatre in Fair Haven. “My hood, my element.” She took a deep breath and tilted her head back. “Fair Haven!” she stage-whispered, drawing out the final consonant into rousing applause.
Builder Fowler: Manufacturing, not residential, this time.
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Some of the empty River Street land and warehouses now owned by Spinnaker.
The site of a riverfront movie studio that never came to be is now slated to sprout a new housing-related manufacturer on a stretch of Fair Haven’s industrial waterfront.
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Aug 9, 2024 9:21 am
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Isael Arroyo, Y'madelis Arroyo, Jay'na Estrada, and Yesenia Arroyo mourn their father's death, and commend police for arresting his alleged shooter.
Murder victim Peter "PJ" Arroyo.
A man dressed all in black walked west on Wolcott Street, pulled a gun out of his waistband, and fired shot after shot after shot — killing 42-year-old New Havener Peter Arroyo, whom police believe was not the shooter’s intended victim.
That fatal gunfire took place in broad daylight in Fair Haven on a Monday afternoon in May, in full view of a number of witnesses and — crucially, for the police investigation to follow — in full view of surveillance cameras.
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The Strong School.
The plan to turn the vacant old Strong School at 69 Grand Ave. into 58 affordable, artist and LGBTQ-friendly apartments is moving ahead, if a little more slowly than anticipated.
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Aug 5, 2024 8:33 am
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Ashley the Creator and her painting Emotional Orange.
According to legend — and poet Christina Rossetti — one should never eat fruit offered by fairies. It’s considered illicit, otherworldly, and so good that one taste will leave you hankering for more for the rest of your days. But in her new exhibition, “Pomology,” artist Ashley the Creator makes fruit seem more tempting than it’s ever been before. The fae, inhuman faces in her paintings wear fruit as a part of their own bodies, and the effect is both eerie and mouth-wateringly good.
The new neighborhood top cop Thursday evening with Alder Caroline Tanbee Smith.
Fifteen-year NHPD veteran Sgt. Chris Alvarado has already seen the estimated 5 percent or so percent of Fair Haven that is troubled by drug dealing and serious crime. As the newly arrived district manager, he’s excited to be discovering the rest.
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Aug 2, 2024 10:46 am
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Alders-For-A-Day Ada Akdağ and Melissa Rodriguez at work learning about Keiry Pena and Joseph Jenkins' deli dreams.
Two “alders” checked in on a couple’s revived East Street deli, talked street improvements with a development official, blasted the news to constituents — and dreamed about what they want to be when they grow up.
