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An early rendition of the 201 Munson St. plan.
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Newhallville Alders Delphine Clyburn and Brenda Foskey-Hill express support for the project.
The quest to transform 13 acres in Newhallville from vacant industrial land into 385 new apartments won a crucial vote Thursday night despite last-minute efforts to delay the decision.
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Rendition of Munson plan.
Mayor Toni Harp is urging alders to proceed with plans to approve a zoning change to allow 385 new apartments to be built in Newhallville.
by | Dec 12, 2017 8:13 pm | Comments (0)
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Firefighters Mike Lopes and Dan Scotto remove a lizard from 70 Read St. Tuesday morning.
Firefighters extinguished a first-floor kitchen fire and then helped the scaly pets of one of the displaced families get out of their damaged home.
by | Dec 12, 2017 1:32 pm | Comments (1)
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Juan Castillo: From the streets to the airwaves.
A roomful of New Haveners embarked on a journey Monday night from Newhallville to Wyoming, from Panama City to Brooklyn, and back again. By the time it ended, they traveled through time, heard about fateful encounters with ancient bison bones and a tough-love judge, and gained new insight into their own community — as well as the spiritual quests that can connect people from seemingly different worlds.
by | Dec 1, 2017 1:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Seventh-grader Saad Ourodjeri explores smell and memory.
A tube from a vacuum cleaner was the neuron or nerve cell. Green pipe cleaners were the dendrites. And a set of dominoes stood in for how the “action potential” resets the cell so that a new memory can be created.
Continue reading ‘SCSU Science Squad Brings “Flame Challenge” To King Robinson’
by | Nov 16, 2017 8:38 am | Comments (15)
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Zone change supporters (clockwise from top left): Foskey-Hill, Williams, Solomon, Winter.
A plan to turn a vacant former factory site in Newhallville into a complex with nearly 400 apartments cleared a regulatory hurdle with the help of supportive neighbors.
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Rendition of Munson plan.
by | Nov 13, 2017 8:59 am | Comments (3)
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BIMEC’s James Walker at 320 Shelton Ave.
Believe in Me Empowerment Corp. will finally get a shot at giving a three-story building in Newhallville a new lease on life.
by | Nov 9, 2017 3:58 pm | Comments (8)
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Attorney Shelley White with tenant Melissa Phillips.
Evictee Mellow.
Melissa Phillips gets to stay in her Newhallville apartment. But thanks to a landmark court ruling about the rights of canine and human tenants, “Mellow” has to go.
by | Nov 8, 2017 2:49 pm | Comments (1)
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Brown receives a proclamation from her surprise guest, State Sen. Ted Kennedy Jr.
It was only fitting that Lillian O. Brown’s 100th birthday fell on Election Day and that a Kennedy would come to kiss the brow of the Godmother of Newhallville.
by | Nov 3, 2017 4:59 pm | Comments (1)
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Eddie Thorne’s brother Robert and daughter Sheila outside his barbershop Friday.
Newhallville will say goodbye this weekend to a beloved barber shop owner who has been a fixture on Newhall Street for 49 years.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville To Say Goodbye To ‘Mr. Eddie’’
by | Oct 31, 2017 7:54 am | Comments (12)
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Telephone-gobbling tree at Hazel and Shelton.
Day 2 of sweep: LCI’s Ramos with renter Goodson.
“Look at that!” Delphine Clyburn called out at Thompson Street and Shelton Avenue, pointing to one of Newhallville’s many overgrown trees. “Where’s parks?”
by | Oct 27, 2017 1:11 pm | Comments (22)
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Team of city workers — from Youth Services, Livable City Initiative, Public Works — sets off down Winchester Avenue.
At 687 Winchester Ave.
An army of city inspectors came upon a two-family Winchester Avenue home with a compromised roof, exposed wiring and hanging gutters and proceeded to condemn it.
Now they have to figure out how that same building passed inspection — and how they can stop others homes in New Haven from sinking to that condition.
by | Oct 26, 2017 1:33 pm | Comments (2)
After hearing complaints from noise-weary Newhallville neighbors, police canceled a planned training “night” shoot at its Sherman Parkway range.
by | Oct 18, 2017 4:16 pm | Comments (6)
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Quattlebaum planting grass in front of his house.
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Alberta Nelson and Marshall Curry on their front porch.
When dozens of government workers swarm into Newhallville next week on a new “Clean City” quest for clues about what makes blocks thrive or decay, they might want to pop in on Levon Quattlebaum and Alberta Nelson on Bassett Street.
by | Oct 18, 2017 7:37 am | Comments (25)
Superintendent finalists Ramos, Birks.
Mayor Toni Harp remains to be convinced whether any of the six out-of-town finalists to become New Haven’s next schools superintendent has the right stuff for the job.
by | Oct 16, 2017 1:04 pm | Comments (47)
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Williams and Winter: vying for Ward 21 seat.
When Rodney “Rock” Williams watches the demolition of the last vestiges of the former Winchester Arms plant in Newhallville, he sees more than childhood memories and the neighborhood’s past slipping away. He sees the alarming potential for the neighborhood’s political power to slip away too.
by | Oct 9, 2017 8:13 am | Comments (5)
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Telford beside a banner of her murdered son.
Investigators are offering $50,000 to produce a break in a three-month-old homicide of a 14-year-old boy.
by | Sep 28, 2017 12:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Walker at 53 Shelton, where he’d like to build.
James Walker believes in the power of second chances. He believes his plan to bring housing and jobs to Shelton Avenue could offer a second chance for Newhallville.
Regulatory hurdles have reminded him that second chances don’t come easy, or cheap.
by | Sep 24, 2017 9:09 am | Comments (1)
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Ice the Beef Youth’s Carmon calls for a new Newhallville youth center.
Standing alongside the mother of Tyriek B. Keyes, a 14-year-old dancer who was shot dead in Newhallville this summer, Ice the Beef Youth President Chaz Carmon demanded a safe recreational space and better employment opportunities for the neighborhood’s youth.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Marches For Youth Jobs, End to Violence’
by | Aug 30, 2017 5:22 pm | Comments (4)
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Brown-Clayton.
The principal credited with helping to turn around Lincoln-Bassett School has been hired away by Bridgeport.
by | Aug 28, 2017 12:27 pm | Comments (0)
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Squad greets Lincoln-Bassett students with cheers.
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Kids arrive for day one at John C. Daniels.
The little boy in the dark blue polo and khaki pants looked stoic and also a little perplexed as a line of adults cheered and smiled to welcome him to his first day of school Monday morning. at Lincoln-Bassett Community School.
by | Aug 25, 2017 7:58 am | Comments (0)
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“A.I.,” from the New Haven-raised Black Jewelz’s science-fiction hip hop odyssey Illethal, begins with a sparse yet shimmering beat, one that leaves plenty of room for the torrent of words that’s coming. Then the voice comes in, first heavily distorted, the sound of a machine talking.
“Attention,” it says. “I am immortal / Anthropomorphic, invincible, abnormal / Infamous. Also incognito, anonymous, / Intently announcing impending Armageddon, imminent annihilation, instant apocalypse.”
“The main attraction of the song,” Black Jewelz — that is, Julius Ferguson — explained, “is the lyrical pattern. I labored over it for two days straight. I went through every word in the dictionary that begins with a and i.”
by | Aug 20, 2017 1:50 pm | Comments (5)
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Mavi Sanchez-Skakle of New HYTEs working with children on their stances.
Could the next tennis phenom be growing up in Newhallville or Dixwell? Maybe, if the neighborhoods had tennis courts.
by | Aug 11, 2017 1:05 pm | Comments (2)
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Demethra Telford with a cast that her son, Tyrick Keyes, was wearing when he was shot.
Telford’s bedroom displaying a resolution from the Board of Alders and programs from her son’s funeral.
Each night, reclining on her living room couch, Demethra Telford summons the courage to climb upstairs, knock on the door of an empty bedroom and talk to her 14-year-old son’s ashes.
Continue reading ‘With Killer On Loose, Tyrick’s Mom Seeks Answers’
by | Aug 11, 2017 7:25 am | Comments (3)
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AUSA Peter Markle, Lt. John Healy and Det. Ryan Macuirzynski, who oversaw the investigation into the Goodrich Street Boys shootings.
The sometimes tedious work of logging shell casings — and a new law-enforcement pact with gang-bangers — helped New Haven detectives put six alleged gang members they believe responsible for unsolved shootings behind bars.
Continue reading ‘How The Goodrich Street Boys Ended Up Behind Bars’