by | Nov 11, 2020 4:13 pm | Comments (6)
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Inside and (below) outside the lab office building at 115 Munson.
A Branford-based biotech company plans to move to New Haven, after signing a lease for a 9,800 square-foot lab and office space in in the former Winchester Arms factory in Science Park.
by | Nov 6, 2020 4:29 pm | Comments (10)
Eva Smith: Watching a neighborhood rise back from her front porch.
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Three newly-built houses on Thompson Street.
Nine new two-family homes have sprouted atop formerly vacant lots in Newhallville — raising with them neighbors’ hopes for a rejuvenation of a two-block stretch of Winchester Avenue and Thompson Street.
by | Nov 6, 2020 4:26 pm | Comments (3)
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Clyburn (at right) checks in on Reishana Morrison.
As Covid-19 sweeps through New Haven again, Delphine Clyburn is knocking on doors to help her community stay strong.
Continue reading ‘Alder Takes Newhallville’s Pandemic Pulse’
by | Nov 6, 2020 10:46 am | Comments (32)
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Planned 150-unit apartment complex at Ashum, Canal, and Henrys.
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Alder Roth: Too little; no consistent standard.
The Board of Alders approved tax breaks for two residential building projects aiming to add 219 new apartments — 105 at “affordable” rents — to Dixwell.
The board also voted to drop, at the developer’s request, a proposed tax break deal for a Ninth Square project.
by | Nov 3, 2020 9:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Harriet Welfare is ready for Ward 25 voters.
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Gabriell Matos: Young person’s turn to step up.
Twenty-year-old Gabriell Matos, dressed in full PPE gear, was stationed outside Bishop Woods School Tuesday morning. He held the door open to voters and pumped out hand sanitizer to all.
by | Nov 3, 2020 5:31 pm | Comments (0)
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Robyn Porter and Rahassan Langley mix it up old-school at the polls.
Outside a Newhallville polling place Tuesday, R&B singer Rashaan Langley invited State Rep. Robyn Porter to join him on the chorus of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”
First, Porter dropped some history on him.
Continue reading ‘“Party At The Polls” Reveals The Poetry Of Politics’
by | Nov 2, 2020 11:26 am | Comments (13)
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Brother Born at giveaway: “Conservatism is the new rock and roll.”
Congressional candidate Margaret Streicker arrived in Newhallville with 5,000 child-sized masks and a “Blue Lives Matter” message — the latter of which sparked lively discussion.
Continue reading ‘Streicker Brings Newhallville Masks, Debate’
by | Oct 31, 2020 8:59 pm | Comments (2)
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The Knickerbocker Golf Club, Inc. made sure the kids of Newhallville didn’t fret this Halloween, finding a Covid-safe way to stage its 10th Annual Inner City Kid Safe Halloween Celebration.
Continue reading ‘Knickerbocker Club Keeps Halloween Alive — & Safe’
by | Oct 30, 2020 3:55 pm | Comments (10)
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Women’s suffrage speaker greets workers at plant entrance, ca. 1916.
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Cavanagh, Criscola outside ex-factory entrance; their new book (below).
If you closed your eyes, you could imagine hearing the factory whistle blow and seeing thousands of workers streaming past Joan Cavanagh and Jeanne Criscola the other day.
by | Oct 29, 2020 1:27 pm | Comments (31)
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Next up: Munson Street ex-factory slated for demo.
Science Park plans to knock down one more still-abandoned former factory building and construct 200 new apartments there. Newhallville alders and residents are seeking to ensure their neighbors can afford to live there.
by | Oct 28, 2020 12:18 pm | Comments (20)
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Affordable housing developers seeking local tax breaks: RJ Development’s Joseph, Beaulah’s Brooks, and Beacon’s Kovel.
Tax-break deals for three different residential building projects planned for vacant lots around town were fast-tracked for approval — revealing some of the current strategy for promoting affordable housing.
by | Oct 25, 2020 11:13 am | Comments (2)
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The Tucker family.
“I’ve had trouble finding coats,” said Karen Tucker, who brought her two great-nephews Eli and Jayden, who are 8 and 9 respectively, to a giveaway on Saturday. “The ones in the store aren’t insulated or don’t fit right. And they’re more expensive for bigger sizes.”
by | Oct 21, 2020 11:02 am | Comments (1)
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The burnt building, before demolition.
A Stamford-based landlord duo can now rebuild a house at the same size as the one that burned down earlier this year on a Sheffield Avenue lot, thanks to zoning relief unanimously granted by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Continue reading ‘Rebuilders Surmount Post-Fire Zoning Hurdle’
by | Oct 16, 2020 11:38 am | Comments (5)
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381 Shelton, 345 Forbes: 2 party venues. 2 potential zoning fates.
Blake: Plans baby showers, poetry reading, theater.
Open the doors and cue the lights in Newhallville. In the Annex? Not so fast.
That’s the upshot of two unanimous zoning decisions, green-lighting one new gathering space on Shelton Avenue while pausing an illegally existing party venue on Forbes.
by | Oct 16, 2020 9:59 am | Comments (7)
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Rodney Williams handing out free masks Thursday afternoon.
“Masks for my two grandkids and mother, please,” said Sandra Crockett.
Continue reading ‘Thousands Of Free Masks Fly In Newhallville’
by | Oct 15, 2020 6:05 pm | Comments (7)
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Diamond Short held her two-month-old daughter in her arms as she answered her apartment’s front door — to find a police chief and a pastor offering an update and reassurance in the wake of a horrific incident involving the discovery of another baby.
by | Oct 14, 2020 11:52 am | Comments (4)
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Angel Hubbard with memorial shirt.
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Divonne Jaquel Coward.
Divonne “DJ” Coward was the one his family members called for a ride when they were stranded. When someone didn’t have a way of getting home late at night, he’d promise from other end of the line, “I’ll be there in ten minutes.”
Coward would rouse his niece to wake up at 5 for early-morning runs. He could be counted on to dispense advice on vitamins to take, herbal teas to drink. He loved to stop by a neighbor’s house to argue about Donald Trump. At family gatherings he played sports with the kids, who adored him.
Continue reading ‘Post-Homicide, DJ’s Family Demands Dignity’
by | Oct 12, 2020 9:42 am | Comments (12)
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The newly vacant parcel, next to the office building at 89 Shelton.
A dilapidated former nuclear factory building has been taken apart piece by piece, and hundreds of containers of asbestos, lead dust, and uranium-contaminated debris have been trucked out of Newhallville — clearing a Shelton Avenue brownfield for a new use after decades of toxic disrepair.
The question now is: What will fill that space next?
by | Oct 7, 2020 9:07 am | Comments (1)
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I’m Lost, Red Directions.
The style of the painting could be celebratory or frantic. Some of the exclamations painted onto the canvas — “dangit,” “crap,” “oh poop!” — could be seen as jokes. But there is something truly piteous about the posture of the figure in the middle. “I’m lost,” the words above her read, and suddenly we’re in the mind of a child who has lost her way, buffeted by the world. That disorienting, somewhat scary sense we all had as children has its echoes in the current state of the world, as the news doesn’t look good and we don’t know what’s coming next.
by | Oct 5, 2020 5:59 pm | Comments (2)
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Elicker leads group around the neighborhood.
New Haven’s mayor, Connecticut’s lieutenant governor, and one of the state’s U.S. senators were looking for someone exactly like Iris Monday when they went door-knocking in Newhallville.
by | Oct 5, 2020 12:01 pm | Comments (5)
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Pellegrino conducts auction while Roberts stakes a prime spot.
“It’s hard for us to compete with these guys. They have big money,” rued Fair Haven’s Robert Roberts, motioning to a pair of suited speculators who stood huddled in front of a luxury sedan, whispering in conversation as they waited for a foreclosure auction to begin.
by | Sep 28, 2020 12:46 pm | Comments (8)
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Management Team Chair Kim Harris gives out prizes at last year’s Newhallville holiday party.
Newhallville neighbors are looking to spend $10,000 in public dollars on spotlighting “a sense of who we are,” said management team Chair Kim Harris: By installing signs that point the way to community landmarks and delve into the neighborhood’s history.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Looks To Highlight Landmarks, History With Democracy Dollars’
by | Sep 27, 2020 9:49 am | Comments (1)
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Ten new certified phlebotomists and ten chefs are plunging into the workforce after graduating Saturday as the Cohort VIfrom the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT).
Continue reading ‘ConnCAT Sends Chefs, Phlebotomists Into Workforce’
by | Sep 21, 2020 9:04 am | Comments (3)
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A crowd descended on Bassett Street in Newhallville, ready with brushes, rollers, and cans and cans of paint. They were there to make art that delivered a simple, powerful message — Black lives matter — by spelling it out on the street for all to see.
by | Sep 14, 2020 9:23 am | Comments (0)
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The William Fluker All Star Band at the Orchid Cafe
Jazz and brunch go together like chicken and waffles, like mussels and fries, like eggs and bacon. So when this reporter heard that an old favorite brunch was starting up again and a new one had arrived, I set my sights on checking out both.
Each one had a distinct flavor and sound. Each one reminded me how much I had missed the jazz brunch scene in New Haven — decimated by the Covid-19-related shutdown, but now coming back to life.