by | Oct 22, 2018 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
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NHR’s Juan Salas-Romer.
A local developer who has made a name building apartments for middle-income renters is shedding smaller properties to invest in larger-unit ventures Downtown and in Fair Haven Heights, as reflected in some of the latest recorded land sales in town.
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by | Oct 10, 2018 2:45 pm | Comments (9)
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Three of the 17 women represented in Kwadwo Adae’s new Women’s Empowerment Mural on the Farmington Canal trail.
Adae at Wednesday’s unveiling.
One day after a judge accused of sexual assault ascended to the nation’s highest court, a local painter unveiled a mural depicting 17 actual and imaginary New Haven women, all standing proud and strong and committed to a more equitable future.
by | Oct 9, 2018 7:58 am | Comments (13)
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260 Humphrey St.
A three-family East Rock house sold for more than twice what it cost in 2005, while a nonprofit dropped a decaying Newhallville single-family home that it couldn’t find enough money to rebuild.
by | Sep 28, 2018 3:05 pm | Comments (2)
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Kim Harris and Spirite Watson, 8, and Aneissa Beam, 11, present a dream board for Newhallville.
More black-owned businesses. More activities for children. A praying community with a few more speed bumps and communication. That’s how more than 100 Newhallville neighbors want to see their community develop.
ConnCAT CEO Erik Clemons wants to use what he has access to — resources, influence, knowledge — to help neighbors make that vision a reality on Newhallville’s terms.
by | Sep 14, 2018 12:03 pm | Comments (2)
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684 Orchard St.: Soon to be a two-family home.
Two new affordable, two-family homes are coming to the Dixwell neighborhood thanks to the efforts of a local faith-based development company that specializes in affordable housing.
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by | Aug 23, 2018 7:35 am | Comments (0)
The road to Kennies Earl Kreative House — an all-purpose creative space for photography, music production, theater, and workshops on Shelton Avenue — started in Earl’s stepfather’s apartment about 15 years ago, when Earl, still in college, got a synthesizer and started to use it.
His stepfather, Earl recalled, “thought I was making too much noise.”
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by | Aug 21, 2018 3:44 pm | Comments (1)
Daviya and Henry.
A bullet that pierced Henry Harris Green IV, aka Renegade, on a Newhallville street eight years ago, and remained lodged in his body is now evidence in an investigation into his recent death.
Call it one more chapter in a compelling story about a young man who embraced life against great odds while injecting humanity into the communal conversation about gun violence.
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by | Aug 14, 2018 6:01 pm | Comments (0)
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Kids TV reporter Beam presses Douglass on whom she voted for.
The results of the first exit polls Tuesday came from four energetic 8‑to-10-year olds, members of Newhallville’s Kids TV Network, at their neighborhood’s polling place at the Lincoln-Bassett School.
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by | Aug 1, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (6)
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Democratic candidate Ned Lamont gets some firsthand Elm City art experience as he paints alongside local artist Kwadwo Adae on Newhallville’s women’s empowerment mural.
Tim Herbst: “We have to dig out of this hole.”
How best to protect endangered arts funding at a time of statewide fiscal crisis?
For three candidates participating in a forum in New Haven, the answer lies in fixing underfunded pensions.
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by | Jul 31, 2018 8:09 am | Comments (2)
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DeLauro sits with Zianna, 7, and her brother Jeremy, 6 in Jocelyn Square Park Monday.
New Haven will feed thousands of children meals this summer. It may be harder to do that next summer, thanks to potential changes to the federal funding that helps pay for the food.
by | Jul 30, 2018 8:00 am | Comments (0)
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Barry Black in New Haven on Saturday.
U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black claims that we live in a lunatic world — but one in which we can not simply survive, but thrive.
by | Jul 26, 2018 8:40 am | Comments (8)
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Jazmarie Melendez, sister of cop-slain Jayson Negron, at Albertus.
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Ganim, Lamont debating Wednesday night at Albertus Magnus.
A gubernatorial debate in New Haven turned testy after protesters pushed Joe Ganim about his handling of cops who kill and Ganim pushed his opponent Ned Lamont on how he finances his campaign.
by | Jul 20, 2018 2:59 pm | Comments (6)
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Targets lined up inside the range …
… as the ribbon is cut outside.
Francine Caplan wasn’t sure she’d live to see the day where she didn’t hear a hail of gunfire just blocks away from her home. She and her neighbors had been pushing for what seemed like forever — actually more than two decades — for the city to move the outdoor police firing range in Beaver Hills.
by | Jul 20, 2018 11:37 am | Comments (4)
Barista Meg Rattanni creates latte art.
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Ballaro and Negreiro at the newly opened Fussy Coffee in Science Park.
The story of how Fussy Coffee at Science Park came to be named is a joke between David Negreiro and his brother-in-law and business partner Joe Ballaro.
On one level, it’s a tongue-in-cheek riff on how pretentious some coffee shops can be. On another level, it’s about the two men’s love of a good coffee after a meal.
by | Jul 17, 2018 1:43 pm | Comments (0)
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City to tenant: don’t chew on the lead paint.
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Inspector Jomika Bogan.
The city’s Health Department has found lead paint hazards at three different city apartments, all of which currently house children with elevated blood lead levels.
by | Jul 10, 2018 1:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Readers Marge Wiener and Spirite Watson, and Valentine Moore participating in his own way.
Spirite Watson led the way helping to read an inspirational book about a powerful hat and what it means to be a foreigner.
Jayden Bolden thought the sundaes were particularly good with chocolate sauce and a ton of sprinkles.
And Valentine Moore was so comfortable with the reading and the event, he fell fast asleep on Marge Wiener’s leg for 15 minutes.
by | Jul 2, 2018 8:35 am | Comments (1)
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Jean Stanley prepares to shoot
Jean Stanley’s smooth layup put the HT Barberz up 43 – 42 in a see-saw battled against Who’s Next in the 90-plus degree Sunday in Lincoln Bassett Park. Then Who’s Next raced down the court for one last chance at victory.
by | Jun 21, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (12)
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City plan commissioners signed off on the final site plan and design for the new Q House, thus bringing the resurgent Dixwell community center one step closer to becoming a reality nearly 15 years after it last closed its doors.
by | Jun 18, 2018 7:58 am | Comments (6)
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The candidate with Basset Street resident Lossie Gorham.
Chris Mattei listened for nearly ten straight minutes. He leaned in, kept eye contact. But he didn’t say a word.
His interlocutor was Shelton Avenue resident Darlene Grant, who graphically described a bleak situation: She has a chronically derelict landlord, with trash overflowing in the back yard, mice running throughout the house. and a little child who’s been tested for lead and has alarmingly elevated levels.
When the exterminators do come, they stay for five minutes, and then are gone; yet the mice remain. She desperately wants to move out but with her federal Section 8 rent voucher she doesn’t know where to go, or to whom to turn for help.
Finally Mattei said that’s why he’s running for Connecticut attorney general: to serve as her voice.
by | Jun 14, 2018 6:51 pm | Comments (9)
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Pols and school officials kickoff the construction of the future Barack H. Obama University Magnet School.
Kindergartener Luis Castillo addresses the crowd while Principal Susan DeNicola holds the mic.
With a shout of “Yes we can!” and the toss of some dirt, politicians and city officials launched the building of what will be the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School on the Southern Connecticut State University campus.
by | Jun 11, 2018 4:56 pm | Comments (18)
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Ed Rodriguez: The house was getting crowded.
Ed Rodriguez wanted to turn the garage behind his Exchange Street home into an apartment for his daughter, her husband, and their child.
But he failed to clear his plans by the city first, and a dispute with a neighbor plus a city agency sweep of the neighborhood have put a pause on his hopes to increase the number of residential units on his property. At least, until he gets his permits in place.
by | Jun 6, 2018 7:49 am | Comments (1)
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Friends and family filled Community Baptist Church to remember Lillian Brown Tuesday.
Lillian Brown’s mothering powers were so strong that she could just look at a child in Newhallville — her own and anyone else’s — and the child would straighten right up. She could cook food so good that you might be convinced to try chitlins.
And so sharp was her political acumen that mayors of New Haven knew that they hadn’t really won the seat until they’d had an audience with her on her front porch.
by | Jun 4, 2018 9:14 am | Comments (11)
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Fusion Steppers drill team stomp it at Freddy Fixer Parade.
Thousands of New Haveners lined the street in Dixwell and Newhallville Sunday afternoon for a parade that has been marching through the city’s historic African American neighborhoods — and bringing pride — for over half a century.
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by | May 29, 2018 7:17 am | Comments (17)
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Delroy May: “We just plant vegetables.”
The back lot of 74 Porter, subject of LCI order.
Come back next month, Delroy May and Sylvia Stephens promise, and you’ll see organic vegetables starting to grow.
Right now, a city inspector ruled, he sees a blighted mess and a potential safe haven for rodents — and has ordered it cleaned up.
by | May 18, 2018 1:47 pm | Comments (6)
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George Fairweather: “There’s no junkyard here.”
New Haven’s anti-blight agency has cited seven Newhallville homeowners for allegedly running junkyards on their properties — which at least some of the homeowners call an unfair accusation.