That turned out to be false. But protest vigils followed, and those continue to cause problems and lead to public conflicts, especially around the anniversary of the crash.
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Justin Farmer and Ashleigh Huckabey lead march up Dixwell.
Echoing calls around the country to defund cops and reinvest in communities, 600 young protesters marched through Downtown, Dixwell, and Newhallville Saturday to demand that the university abolish its police department.
A little rain didn’t stop the staff at King/Robinson Interdistrict Magnet: An IB Stem School from celebrating their students! On Friday June 5, the staff lined the school property for a reverse parade.
Standing with community leaders at one of two police substations that someone tried to burn down, Mayor Justin Elicker promised Monday afternoon to respond to demands to combat racism and excessive force by law enforcement.
Meanwhile, less than a mile and a half away, a crew of construction contractors worked on boarding up the Apple Store on Broadway as part of a nationwide company effort to protect its consumer tech from looters.
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Four hundred families got food Saturday morning, and about 50 people got Covid-19 tests, at the Lincoln Bassett Community School in Newhallville, which has been hit hard both by the virus and its economic fallout.
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Devin Avshalom-Smith, right, at a February Whalley-Edgewood-Beaver-Hills Community Management Team meeting.
As the whole world seemed to move online amid Covid-19, Newhallville activists struggled at first to spread the word about neighborhood events and resources.
Devin Avshalom-Smith found a possible solution in a new Facebook page, Newhallville Community Action Network, which he hopes will address a new need for pandemic-era communication while also drawing more people into the life of the neighborhood.
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Enjoying a lunchtime beer and waiting for steak tips to arrive, Al Casagrande (pictured) felt safe sitting outside Temple Grill on the first day of Connecticut’s “phase one” reopening — safer than he feels on his construction job.
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Flanked by two women who were alternatively adoring and accusatory, Stout began her show with Nina Simone’s “My Name Is.” There was nothing behind them but a blank white space, an empty canvas. Stout moved to a small electronic rig just within arm’s reach, pressed a button, and started off a drum beat to slip into “See-Line Woman.” Then she added a coda that layered her own voice to create a lusher soundscape.
Voices intertwined. The drums dropped out. A sound emerged like a UFO landing.
“Queen Nina. That’s what you are. Even though you left us, your legacy still resides,” Stout said.
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Free mask giveaway on Winchester Avenue in Science Park.
Dozens of volunteers filled the median and sidewalks of Winchester Avenue in Science Park to give out tens of thousands of free masks to eager recipients who honked and cheered as they laid their hands on the hard-to-find protective face coverings.
Asst. Chief Renee Dominguez (right) with seized bikes, quads.
Cops arrested nine dirt bike and ATV riders and seized 12 of their vehicles as part of a crackdown on roughly 60 Connecticut residents who descended here Sunday to ride illegally through New Haven’s parks and streets.
Williams, Carter and Pittman Friday on “Dateline.”
With $60 billion in Covid-19 relief headed to cities to boost hard-to-reach small businesses, Miguel Pittman, Rodney Williams, and Jayuan Carter stand ready to help New Haven get it right this time.
A Science Park-based job training and education center has launched a new Covid-19 relief fund geared towards raising $600,000 to provide direct financial assistance to Dixwell and Newhallville families struggling during the pandemic.
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Use of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail has more than doubled in Hamden and risen more than 50 percent in New Haven in the Covid-19 pandemic, with regulars strolling or biking more and newcomers like Richard Maduka (pictured) discovering the path for the first time.
Farnam Center IT Manager James Mitchell at that organization’s new computer lab.
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Thursday night’s CSEP meeting.
The city is accelerating plans to set up free Wi-Fi in Newhallville in an attempt to provide high-quality Internet access to New Haveners stuck at home during the Covid-19 pandemic, and as part of a broader goal of bridging the city’s “digital divide.”
Scenes shot in New Haven from Smitty Bop’s videos.
Smitty Bop boasts he is “so New Haven.” And he is telling the world in detail what that means — in song, and on video.
“I love my block,” he proclaims in one of his newer videos.
The rising rapper also has this to say about his hometown:
All I see is drug dealing, gang banging …/ Life’s a gamble, that’s why we carry eights …/ You’re Kermit Carolina and I’m Toni Harp/ Which means I’m winning and you losing …/
Newhallville’s community management team has endorsed a proposal pushed by the Rev. Boise Kimber to build an intergenerational community center and eight affordable two-family homes on a long-vacant city lot right behind his church.
The project has more hurdles to overcome before becoming reality.
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Keivonna Austin: Wishes her two daughters could attend same school.
Canvassers will knock on doors in four neighborhoods this spring to find out why parents haven’t been signing their kids up for preschool — while slots remain open.
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Ward 21 co-chair contestants: Ray Jackson and incumbent Kate Sacks (top) vs. challengers Maverick Jacobs and Troy Streater.
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Ward 20 co-chair contestants: incumbents Oscar Havyarimana and Barbara Vereen (top) vs. challengers Jeanette Sykes and Rhonda Nelson-Sheffield.
The race is on in Newhallville, where eight candidates in four different slates are vying to become the neighborhood’s next hyperlocal Democratic Party leaders.
At stake: concerns ranging from crime to traffic, voter registration to attention from City Hall, and bolstering the Democratic Party’s strength in an all-but-single-party city to reforming party bylaws in the direction of transparency and accountability.
