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.
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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’
by | Aug 9, 2021 9:25 am | Comments (17)
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The still-vacant former “State Building” on Bassett Street.
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Devin Avshalom-Smith, Kim Harris: Include neighborhood in next steps.
City plans to convert a long-vacant publicly owned building on Bassett Street into a worker-owned laundry have fallen apart — leaving the fate of Newhallville’s former “State Building” in limbo, and prompting the city to look elsewhere to build up the commercial laundry co-op.
by | Aug 5, 2021 11:54 am | Comments (3)
Thanks to a federal judge’s ruling, the 911 caller is on the hook in a lawsuit — but Hamden, New Haven, and Yale are largely off the hook — for what happened to Paul Witherspoon and Stephanie Washington.
by | Aug 2, 2021 9:28 pm | Comments (18)
Babz Rawls Ivy with Prosperity Foundation Executive Director Orsella Hughes at Monday’s porch launch.
Babz Rawls Ivy kicked off Black Philanthropy Month with the launch of a fund to aid Black women exiting prison and reentering society, hoping to ease a path she herself has successfully navigated.
by | Jul 29, 2021 9:05 am | Comments (6)
Avshalom-Smith making his campaign pitch to Sheila Harris and Evette Brown.
More speed bumps. Cleaner streets. And a safe space for children to play without the threat of violence.
Newhallville alder hopeful Devin Avshalom-Smith heard those quality-of-life calls Wednesday as he and campaign supporters collected signatures in a bid to petition his way onto the Democratic primary ballot.
by | Jul 28, 2021 6:43 pm | Comments (6)
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Tarrell Stafford on Wednesday’s group ride from Newhallville to East Rock.
Heading down the canal greenway, with a police escort.
Budding bike mechanic Tarrell Stafford, 12, found a potential new home to hone his craft — and teach others the importance of bicycle safety — as part of a summer camp group ride from Newhallville to East Rock.
by | Jul 27, 2021 11:01 am | Comments (14)
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Gov. Lamont (center), Kim Harris (left), and Harris Tucker school students celebrate the newly cleaned lot.
71 Shelton Avenue: Now nuclear-free.
Gov. Ned Lamont, a dozen middle school students, a local landlord, and two Newhallville alder candidates walked onto a vacant lot — to celebrate that now, after decades of contamination, the site of a former Shelton Avenue nuclear manufacturing site is finally clean and ready to be repurposed.
by | Jul 26, 2021 9:02 am | Comments (1)
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Jazz on the patio at The Orchid Cafe
Brunch is one of the most celebrated meals in this city, and the brunches that include jazz are particularly revered. This reporter decided it was time to revisit three of them: one that had recently restarted, one that was a limited-run event, and one that had been ongoing for the past year.
by | Jul 22, 2021 6:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Ward 20 alder candidates Shirley Lawrence, Devin Avshalom-Smith, and Addie Kimbrough.
A neighborhood mural at Starr and Shelton.
A three-way race is on to win an open alder seat in Newhallville, pitting a longtime Newhallville community activist and labor organizer backed by the ward committee against two neighbors who have vowed to keep democracy alive by petitioning their ways onto the primary and general election ballots, if necessary.
by | Jul 21, 2021 10:51 am | Comments (0)
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Mayor with Harris-Tucker School students at Tuesday’s meeting.
Mayor Justin Elicker picked up yet another straw-poll vote of support, this time in a Newhallville ward where he has lost in past campaigns, as his reelection quest glides towards a likely endorsement at next week’s Democratic Town Convention.
by | Jul 14, 2021 12:46 pm | Comments (4)
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Tuesday’s journey.
Inside the NHFPL’s read mobile bus.
Eighty New Haven Public School (NHPS) students, parents, teachers, and administrators gathered for a summer afternoon focused on fitness and reading.
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by | Jul 12, 2021 4:39 pm | Comments (4)
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Michael Jai White: Calling on community.
Michael Jai White brought a message to movers and shakers: Help me make studio opportunities for the community in my latest venture.
Continue reading ‘Movie Superhero Lays Out “Jaigantic” Community Vision’