by | Oct 7, 2019 4:34 pm | Comments (26)
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188-206 and 218-222 Bassett St.
The city has closed on a $900,000 purchase of a long vacant Newhallville office building that it plans to convert into a worker-owned laundry.
by | Sep 27, 2019 2:14 pm | Comments (23)
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Can you identify where the above pile of dirt is located?
Hint: It’s in the middle of a city where the landscape is transforming before our eyes amidst a years-long building boom. That means lots of big piles of dirt, for now.
by | Sep 27, 2019 12:26 pm | Comments (2)
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UI cuts power at the line for 445 Huntington.
In the basement, finding the source of stolen electricity.
UI cut power at the line Friday for a blighted three-family absentee-owned New Haven home, as one squatting tenant was served eviction papers and another two were left to find a new home.
by | Sep 19, 2019 1:30 pm | Comments (7)
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GE ‘s James Van Nortwick (center) at hearing.
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71 Shelton Ave.
General Electric plans to demolish a former nuclear manufacturing facility in Newhallville and truck hundreds of containers of uranium-contaminated dirt through Dixwell and downtown New Haven as part of a year-long environmental remediation and site-clearing project.
by | Sep 10, 2019 9:39 pm | Comments (2)
Three incumbent New Haven alders defeated challengers in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries, while a party convention-endorsed candidate also prevailed against a petitioning challenger.
Continue reading ‘Incumbent Alders Beat Back Primary Challenges’
by | Sep 10, 2019 2:02 pm | Comments (6)
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Toni Harp and Justin Elicker both had volunteers working outside two polling places Tuesday morning where their opponents need to run up the score big to win.
by | Sep 9, 2019 11:11 am | Comments (3)
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Candidates Eddie Gist, Steve Winter, Troy Streater, Anais Nunez.
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The three neighborhood-spanning Ward 21.
A four-way alder race in the jigsaw-shaped Ward 21 pits a first-term incumbent focused on challenges ranging from street light improvements to affordable housing to climate change against a slate of challengers calling for more opportunities for neighborhood youth.
by | Aug 30, 2019 7:25 am | Comments (8)
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Rosalind Garcia and Daniel Hunt welcome students back to Lincoln-Bassett on Thursday morning.
Jai-dyne and Quran.
Thousands of students woke up on Thursday morning for the start of another school year, encouraged to resume their studies even if their bus stops and teacher assignments weren’t quite finalized yet.
Continue reading ‘School Resumes With High Hopes, Longer Walks, More Subs’
by | Aug 28, 2019 2:57 pm | Comments (3)
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490 Prospect St.
An East Rock landlord snapped up three Wooster Square properties, a Shelton Avenue-based landlord expanded his holdings in Newhallville and the Hill, and Albertus Magnus College plunked down $5 million for more student housing, in the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Aug 21, 2019 4:05 pm | Comments (0)
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Amina Ahmed interviews Doreen Abubakar in the Learning Corridor.
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Harris with Newhallvillians lined up for the premier.
The growing inspiring story of how an infamous drug dealing spot has risen from the ashes to become an oasis for plant life and cultural life in Newhallville hit the silver screen, courtesy of neighborhood kids who are honing video chops.
by | Aug 9, 2019 12:27 pm | Comments (21)
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The clock struck 4 — and Eddie Gist was still waiting for the doors to open.
by | Aug 8, 2019 2:03 pm | Comments (2)
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Ruth’s broken door.
Inside her Daisy Street apartment, Ruth is waging a war against wind.
Neat strips of clear duct tape cover a hole in her wall where a socket used to be, to keep the air out. More duct tape lines the side of one of the doors to her apartment; by now, it has crumpled and stuck to itself. She keeps it there to prevent a draft from entering the space between the door and the wall.
by | Aug 7, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (2)
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Officers and residents dance at the National Night Out event.
Over 100 kids, parents, and police officers danced together, munched on cotton candy and hotdogs, and learned about how to make their community safer at the park behind Lincoln-Bassett Community School.
Continue reading ‘Cops And Cotton Candy At National Night Out’
by | Aug 5, 2019 7:52 am | Comments (0)
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Nathaniel Jones, Gordon Williams, and Calvin Johnson at City Hall.
A pair of New Haveners with deep roots in their communities within the city are on track to see their names on street corners in Newhallville and Cedar Hill.
Continue reading ‘With Streetcorner Namings, The Living Get Their Due’
by | Jul 29, 2019 7:39 am | Comments (11)
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Delphine Clyburn at Sunday’s announcement.
Delphine Clyburn celebrated a recent groundswell of community and political engagement in Newhallville on Sunday as she kicked off her campaign for reelection as Ward 20 alder.
Continue reading ‘Clyburn Seeks Fifth Term, Running On Community Power’
by | Jul 26, 2019 8:01 am | Comments (2)
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It’s been five years since Doreen Abubakar (pictured above left) started creating a greenspace at the corner of Hazel Street and Shelton Avenue in Newhallville. She was joined there Thursday evening by other green-minded New Haveners who celebrated a quarter-century of working together creating similar oases in spots throughout the city.
Continue reading ‘Greenspacers Mark 25 Years Of Beautifying Neighborhoods’
by | Jul 25, 2019 7:49 am | Comments (2)
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Above tables where people sip lattes, eat lunch, do work, and chat with friends, there’s a person with a large head whose body is made entirely of other heads. Next to that person is another person who has just one head for a body; that person’s legs emerge from the smiling mouth of the body-head. Unsettling? Maybe. But in the context of Marcella Kurowski-Cavaliere‘s artwork, it’s also a lot of fun.
by | Jul 22, 2019 7:31 am | Comments (1)
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A crew of neighbors and nature-promoters from throughout the city braved Saturday’s scorching heat to see the wonders that have arisen at Cherry Ann Park — and make it an even nicer “urban oasis.”
Continue reading ‘Volunteers Bring Out The Best In Cherry Ann Park’
by | Jul 22, 2019 7:27 am | Comments (2)
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Regular classes stopped for summer in New Haven’s public schools — but the regular reading didn’t.
by | Jul 18, 2019 8:13 am | Comments (11)
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Developers and their attorneys on Wednesday night: Adam Haston; Carolyn Kone; Jim Segaloff; Michael Massimino.
New Haven’s market-rate apartment boom kept chugging Wednesday night as seven different developers looking to build over 200 new apartments won key city sign-offs
by | Jul 17, 2019 8:00 am | Comments (4)
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A total of 20 Ward 21 committee members voted.
The Ward 21 Democratic committee voted in favor of mayoral candidate Justin Elicker Tuesday night along with incumbent Alder Steven Winter, Board of Education incumbent Darnell Goldson, and City Clerk Michael Smart.
by | Jul 15, 2019 1:43 pm | Comments (4)
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A vacant lot at 245 Munson St., soon to be affordable housing.
A local faith-based development company has obtained approvals to build three new units of affordable housing atop two long-vacant Munson Street lots.
by | Jul 15, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (49)
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Tiffany Jones Saturday on Butler Street.
Tiffany Jones is “one of the one thousand,” she says — one of the employees Yale recruited as part of a promise to hire New Haven residents within three years of April 2015. Now Jones has been helping put up signs across the city to pressure Yale to make good on that promise for other New Haveners seeking employment.
by | Jul 3, 2019 8:21 am | Comments (41)
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Newhallville committee co-chair Oscar Havyarimana and neighbors Maritza Spell, Pascazia Havyarimana, and Addie Kimbrough.
Gentrification and unemployment took center stage for a night in New Haven’s mayoral race, as Democratic candidates fielded questions in Newhallville.
by | Jul 1, 2019 12:12 pm | Comments (13)
CCA’s Bonita Grubbs and Cynthia Texiera in 660 Winchester lobby.
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The fine red pile of bricks that was once the Ivy Street School might once again help homeless families get back on their feet thanks to a new experiment. If people in New Haven pitch in.