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Postal Workers Protest National Slowdown

by | Aug 20, 2020 3:29 pm | Comments (13)

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Al Alston, a Wallingford postal worker, at Thursday’s protest.

A steep slowdown in mail processing isn’t just the subject of a red-hot national political debate for Al Alston.

The Wallingford postal worker has seen that reality play out first hand at the station he works at in the New Haven suburbs — where he’s seen massive backlogs caused by two mail sorting machines dismantled and left unused, as well as by his fellow mail carriers losing overtime pay.

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Mayor Tests Negative

by | May 12, 2020 12:36 pm | Comments (9)

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In hopes of encouraging the community to get tested for Covid-19 at one of New Haven’s five sites, Mayor Justin Elicker was swabbed and received an answer in less than a half hour Tuesday morning at the CVS rapid-testing site at 60 Sargent Dr.

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CVS Opens 1st Rapid Testing Site On Long Wharf

by | Apr 17, 2020 8:59 am | Comments (2)

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The former Gateway campus on Long Wharf.

The pharmaceutical and healthcare giant CVS has opened a new Covid-19 rapid testing site at the former Gateway Community College on Long Wharf, where New Haveners who register for an appointment in advance and show up in a vehicle can get tested for the novel coronavirus for free.

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YNHH Opens 1st Drive-Thru Testing Center

by | Mar 17, 2020 12:53 pm | Comments (9)

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At the Sargent Drive collection site.

Yale New Haven Hospital has established its first local testing and specimen collection center on Long Wharf where, only with a doctor’s order and a previously scheduled appointment, patients can be tested for a variety of respiratory viruses, including the novel coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic.

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UNH-Boathouse Lease Approved

by | Mar 3, 2020 4:38 pm | Comments (5)

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The city-owned, nonprofit-managed Canal Dock Boathouse.

Alders unanimously signed off on a new 10-year, $10-per-square-foot lease between the University of New Haven and the city that will allow the West Haven-based educational institution to build out new labs, classroom space, and public programs at the Canal Dock Boathouse on Long Wharf.

The lease will also give the financially struggling nonprofit that manages the city-owned building a reliable source of income.

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Long Wharf Tells A Survivor’s Story

by | Feb 14, 2020 8:30 am | Comments (1)

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The Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin houses transgender survivor of Nazi Germany and East Germany Charlotte von Mahlsdorf’s collection of manufactured objects from the founder’s period” of Germany — the 1870s through the start of World War I. Set in a memory space” inside the museum, Long Wharf Theatre’s revival of I Am My Own Wife, the Tony and Pulitzer-winning one-person show by Doug Wright, creates an eerie space that is both inside and outside.

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Long Wharf Stages A “Pride” To Be Proud Of

by | Dec 5, 2019 1:09 pm | Comments (0)

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Hicks, Ramirez, Eisen-Martin.

There is a point, at one of the dramatic peaks in the story of Pride and Prejudice, when Lizzy Bennet (Aneisa J. Hicks) is staring down the man who is either her nemesis or partner for life, Mr. Darcy (Biko Eisen-Martin). The sparring they’ve been doing has gotten about as intense as it can. The verbal gloves are coming off, and the illusions are all being stripped away. It’s then that Hicks’s take on the iconic character comes into full bloom. She’s one of the most famous characters in literature. But on the Long Wharf stage, she’s also a thoroughly contemporary black woman — and even more broadly, a person of our time. She’s fiercely intelligent, craving total honesty, and also a little frightened of what might happen if she actually gets it.

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Long Wharf Turns Jane Austen Inside Out

by | Nov 26, 2019 1:05 pm | Comments (2)

Aneisa J. Hicks and Octavia Chávez-Richmond, who play Lizzie and Jane Bennett in Long Wharf Theatre’s upcoming production of Pride and Prejudice, are seizing the moment, along with the rest of the cast and crew, as the theatre heads in a bold new direction under Artistic Director Jacob G. Padrón. This direction includes bringing younger and more diverse voices, and hopefully audiences, to the regional theatre anchor.

But then why revisit Jane Austen? Hicks and Chávez-Richmond have answers to that.

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“Belonging” Marks A New Start

by | Oct 17, 2019 7:34 am | Comments (2)

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Smith and Clapp.

It’s two men in a bar. The bartender, seeing the heat rising between them and realizing they have nowhere else to go that’s safe, leaves the keys with one of them and tells him he can lock up. So the two men begin a verbal dance. One is bold and direct. The other cautious, even afraid. But they both want the same thing. Finally one of them asks the question: May I kiss you?”

The other hesitates. Someone in the audience can’t handle it anymore and calls out: Do it!”

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State Approves Primary Care Move

by | Aug 16, 2019 4:24 pm | Comments (9)

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Primary care movers (from right): YNHH VP Jennifer Wilcox, Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde, YNHH VP Cynthia Sparer, Hill Health CEO Michael Taylor, Yale School of Medicine Associate Dean Stephen Huot.

The new primary consortium site at 150 Sargent Dr.

State regulators have approved, with conditions, Yale New Haven Hospital’s months-long bid to relocate its three primary care centers from downtown and Hamden to a single building on Long Wharf.

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New Haven Play Project Takes Off The Mask

by | Jun 26, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (0)

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Diana Martinez and Mark P. Griffin.

Diana is a worker from Fellowship Place, which offers support to people with mental illness. Mark is a homeless man, everything he owns in a garbage bag at his feet. She offers him a cup of coffee, a sandwich, maybe a place to stay, maybe some help, and Mark doesn’t know how to take any of it.

I’ve been using,” he says. He’s scared. He’s exasperated. Is your program going to help or what?”

Diana listens and sits next to him. She’s undeterred. She suggests that Mark call 2 – 1‑1.

I don’t have a phone,” he said. I don’t have anything.” So Diana gives him her phone to use.

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Primary Care Hub Wins Key City Sign Off

by | Jun 4, 2019 8:12 am | Comments (7)

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YNHH architect William Brothers presents plan for 150 Sargent primary care hub (pictured below.)

Yale New Haven Hospital received its final needed city sign-offs Monday night for two major planned renovation projects, including for the Long Wharf building it has proposed to fit out as a new primary care hub.

The hospital now needs only a final approval from state regulators before it can start making that centralized primary care vision a reality.

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Transit Deals Inked For Primary Care Hub

by | May 29, 2019 3:13 pm | Comments (2)

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Primary care movers (from right): YNHH VP Jennifer Wilcox, Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde, YNHH VP Cynthia Sparer, Hill Health CEO Michael Taylor, Yale School of Medicine Associate Dean Stephen Huot.

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Current YNHH primary care patients within and outside of 10 mile radius (green line) of 150 Sargent Dr.

Yale New Haven Hospital has signed contracts with Uber and two other regional transportation services to provide free transit for carless patients who live more than a 40-minute bus ride away from a proposed new primary care hub on Long Wharf.

According to a hospital survey of current patients, that number could be as high as 9,500 people.

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