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clockwise from left, Cass Cordoba, Colletta Cordoba, Brian Burkett-Thompson, Janice Morton, Kristen Threatt, Carlos Cordoba, Kennedy Cordoba.
The Eat Up guys are at it again.
by | Dec 17, 2021 9:16 am | Comments (9)
Judge Dorthula Green and organizer Jeanette Sykes check out contestants.
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Crystal Beard-Morton's home of holiday inflatables.
A Christmas house-decorating contest not only lit up Newhallville, but made the neighborhood feel “more like a neighborhood,” participants said.
by | Dec 9, 2021 1:26 pm | Comments (3)
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Erik Johnson at WNHH FM
Erik Johnson looked at the barbed wire. He heard the lonesome factory whistle blow. He thought: This doesn’t make sense.
And he thought: When I grow up, I’m going to make decisions about how neighborhoods work and how people live there.
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by | Dec 6, 2021 1:30 pm | Comments (13)
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Planned 176-unit apartment complex at Ashmun, Canal, and Henry St.
Plans to redevelop a long-vacant Science Park lot grew in size to 176 proposed apartments — and won an initial recommendation to do so.
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by , and | Nov 24, 2021 10:13 am | Comments (19)
Gabrielle Lopez tells her story at the protest.
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Students walked out of Amistad High School Wednesday, told tear-filled stories of experiencing sexual assault and harassment, and demanded change.
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by | Nov 5, 2021 2:21 pm | Comments (8)
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Empty lot at 506 Winchester, envisioned for playground.
Raegan Ferrell, pictured, has ideas for a possible new playground.
An overgrown Newhallville lot might become a playground, with springing bumblebee seats, a log-shaped tunnel, and mushroom stepping stones.
But when the city presented these plans to the neighbors, parents and grandparents balked. The park looks well-designed, they said, but would their children be safe?
by | Nov 4, 2021 5:39 pm | Comments (14)
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Devin Avshalom-Smith, who will be New Haven’s first known transgender alder, on the campaign trail with supporter Kim Harris.
After months of tireless teamwork, Devin Avshalom-Smith was cruising to election. Then the whispers and texts started.
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by | Nov 2, 2021 1:41 pm | Comments (3)
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Alder candidates Addie Kimbrough and Devin Avshalom-Smith outside Lincoln Bassett on Tuesday.
The issues of gun violence, good jobs, and clean streets brought Newhallville voters to the polls Tuesday, as they came out to choose a mayor, city-town clerk, and new local legislative representative for Ward 20.
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by | Oct 8, 2021 1:28 pm | Comments (49)
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Ocean Management’s Shmuel Aizenberg (left) with attorney Ian Gottlieb in court this week.
Carmel Street bathroom: cracked tiles, mold, acrid smell.
The men in charge of two of the city’s largest low-income real estate empires landed in criminal housing court —as part of a city effort to prosecute landlords who take too long to fix up their properties.
by | Oct 6, 2021 11:40 am | Comments (0)
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251 West Hazel St.
Dixwell Plaza’s redevelopers are bringing their neighborhood revitalization efforts to Newhallville — in the form of a new duplex where a blighted, vacant single-family home currently stands.
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by | Sep 28, 2021 1:14 pm | Comments (6)
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Lt. Dana Smith: Now the top cop for East Rock/Newhallvillle.
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Newly minted Dwight/Beaver Hills top cop Lt. Ryan Przybylski.
Newhallville, East Rock and Cedar Hill have a new neighborhood top cop — Lt. Dana Smith, who has stepped into the district manager role as Lt. Manmeet Colon moves over to Internal Affairs.
And a little further west in Dwight and Beaver Hills, Lt. Ryan Przybylski has risen to the role of district manager, replacing recently promoted Capt. John Healy.
by | Sep 22, 2021 3:37 pm | Comments (2)
A shooting outside Lincoln-Bassett School sent students and teachers into lockdown Wednesday morning. No one was injured, and the school was reopened just after noon.
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by | Sep 21, 2021 8:16 am | Comments (13)
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Demolition underway at 276 Howard Ave…
… fire-damaged homes at 25 and 21 Sheffield Ave…
… and a partially collapsed rear wall at 133 Hamilton St.
A Howard Avenue barbershop has been reduced to a dusty pile of wood and bricks.
Two fire-damaged Sheffield Avenue homes are boarded up and awaiting repairs.
And the old clock factory on Hamilton Street has a collapsed rear wall, 20 leaking oil drums, a corner apron of fallen bricks — and no construction workers in sight.
City building inspectors have their eyes on those derelict properties and more, according to a half dozen newly issued “unsafe structure” notices filed by the Building Department on the city land records database.
by | Sep 20, 2021 8:20 am | Comments (2)
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Elijah Davis Jr. leads final service as pastor: God needs fishers of men.
New sign revealed.
En route to leading his last service as pastor of Pitts Chapel Unified Free Will Church, Elijah Davis Jr. accidentally left his bible in the limo. So he ditched his planned sermon and preached a word about fishermen and loyalty.
by | Sep 17, 2021 9:29 am | Comments (3)
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84 Bassett St., flipped at triple markup — still looking like this.
Flipper Kevin Kolteryahn of “Nationwide Community Revitalization.”
A California-based “lease-to-own” company flipped a vacant Bassett Street eyesore to a local megalandlord for a nearly $150,000 profit, in the latest example of middlemen cashing in on properties they barely touch.
That boarded-up Newhallville property is located at 84 Bassett. The new owners have started cleaning things up with renovation plans in the works.
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by | Sep 14, 2021 8:49 pm | Comments (1)
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Victor Devin Avshalom-Smith with supporters at polls Tuesday night.
Devin Avshalom-Smith, a 32-year-old state legislative aide and Newhallville community organizer, defeated a party-endorsed candidate to win New Haven’s only Democratic primary Tuesday night.
by | Sep 14, 2021 8:46 am | Comments (2)
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Three months after signing a lease on a lot in Newhallville for a plant nursery and community space, community organizer Doreen Abubakar was surveying the development of the program now called Urbanscapes — and marking a milestone in its progress.
Continue reading ‘Native Plant Nursery Greens Newhallville, And Beyond’
by | Sep 9, 2021 4:11 pm | Comments (6)
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Chief Dominguez and Newhallville Community Management Team Chair Kim Harris before Thursday’s presser.
Police do not currently believe that the three homicides and two nonfatal shootings that have rocked the city over the past four days are related.
by | Sep 6, 2021 12:41 pm | Comments (4)
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Ward 20 primary candidates Shirley Lawrence, Devin Avshalom-Smith, Addie Kimbrough.
Devin Avshalom-Smith is living the way Newhallville once lived — and the way he and his competitors for a seat on the Board of Alders vow to help make it live again.
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by | Sep 2, 2021 3:45 pm | Comments (5)
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327 Newhall St.: First flipped, then renovated?
A local landlord made a $50,000-plus profit in one day buying and flipping a two-family house in Newhallville — and now promises to fix up the rundown building in his capacity as its property manager.
by | Aug 18, 2021 2:00 pm | Comments (2)
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General Bishop Elijah Davis, Jr.
Alders fast-tracked the renamings of two Newhallville street corners after two neighborhood leaders who have dedicated decades of their lives to church-focused community service.
by | Aug 17, 2021 12:40 pm | Comments (1)
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A two-alarm fire left 11 adults and six children temporarily homeless and sent two firefighters to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
by | Aug 11, 2021 4:23 pm | Comments (6)
It’s official. New Haven will have only one contested primary this September: a three-way race for the Democratic nomination for Newhallville alder.
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by | Aug 10, 2021 11:54 am | Comments (1)
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Gamaliel “Gammy” Moses performs at festival’s first week.
Newhallville neighbors gathered at the Learning Corridor Saturday afternoon to enjoy jazz, art, and an interactive drum circle, for the first week of a concert series that is scheduled to run through September.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Kicks Off Weekly Summer Music And Arts Festival’
by | Aug 9, 2021 2:49 pm | Comments (1)
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Newhallville alder candidates Shirley Lawrence, Devin Avshalom-Smith, and Addie Kimbrough.
Newhallville Democrats will have three alder candidates to pick among on Sept. 14 — in what may turn out to be the only contested primary in town this year.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Alder Hopefuls Petition Onto Primary Ballot’