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Dets. Larnell Jackson and Thomas Blaisdell canvassing Shelton Ave. on Tuesday.
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Marc Mulongo.
A 16-year-old Congolese immigrant was shot and killed steps away from the Newhallville driveway where he would shoot hoops for hours each day.
by | May 22, 2023 4:11 pm | Comments (7)
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Daryl Valentine on Monday: "I'm glad I get to walk free. I ain't vindicated yet."
For three months, Daryl Valentine’s name had been taped to a locked mailbox at 70 Shelton Ave., followed by the words “DO NOT REMOVE.”
On Monday morning, Valentine defied those words, peeled off his name, and took his last steps down the front stairs, into a new life of freedom.
Continue reading ‘Sentence Finished, Daryl Valentine Steps Free’
by | May 19, 2023 2:38 pm | Comments (5)
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Pilar Sanzari leads the flower planting at the newly built Kathy Carroll Playground at 660 Winchester.
Charla Nich and Kathy Carroll's daughter Kate Chivian on Friday.
Pilar Sanzari dug her gloved hands in some freshly poured soil to plant a colorful array of Shasta daisies, azaleas, petunias, and marigolds — as a vibrantly hued new playground took root behind her in honor of a beloved late Yale professor and substance use treatment researcher.
Continue reading ‘Memorial Playground Takes Shape On Winchester’
by | May 18, 2023 11:16 am | Comments (9)
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Felicia Howard and Faydre Phillips: "We just want to move and have a clean place to live and a landlord that fixes" what needs to be fixed.
Another roach down, plenty more to go.
Felicia Howard pointed a spray bottle at yet another cockroach crawling above her kitchen stove — and tried to snuff out a pest that has plagued a dilapidated Newhallville apartment from which an out-of-state landlord is trying to evict her and her daughter for no fault of their own.
Continue reading ‘Investor Tries Evictions First, Repairs Later’
by | May 8, 2023 2:53 pm | Comments (3)
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The Harding Pl. apartment building where Jacqueline Frett (pictured below) once lived.
Frett at her former kitchen table on Harding Place: "When you don’t have a stable home and household, it’s hard to maintain something outside."
Two years after an eviction lawsuit left Jacqueline Frett and her four kids with no place to live in New Haven, the 35-year-old former Harding Place tenant and her family are now trying to make their way back to the city they once called home.
Continue reading ‘Eviction Fallout Follows Ex-Newhallville Family’
by | May 2, 2023 2:08 pm | Comments (2)
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Landlord Raphael Badouch and attorney Jeffrey Weisman in court on Tuesday.
A state judge turned down a New Jersey landlord’s bid to evict a nonpaying West Hazel Street tenant after finding that her apartment’s persistent housing code violations justified the temporary withholding of rent.
by | Apr 28, 2023 3:30 pm | Comments (28)
Reese Green and Rodney Williams with photos of Reese's late brother, Javan.
For a sense of why Reese Green isn’t ready to bless his brother’s killer’s quest for a second chance outside of prison, accompany him on a visit to Beaverdale Memorial Park.
by | Apr 26, 2023 3:27 pm | Comments (8)
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Landlord attorney Eliana Schachter and property manager Arie Yehonatan Richenberg in eviction court: "I want to do my job."
Raphael Badouch got his day in housing court Tuesday in his company’s effort to evict a nonpaying tenant. He didn’t personally show up.
Raphael Badouch also had a day scheduled in housing court on April 11, to be arraigned in a separate case involving 24 code violations at the same property. He didn’t show up then, either.
That led the judge to ask: Where in the world was Raphael Badouch?
Continue reading ‘Landlord's Court No-Show Debated In Eviction’
by | Apr 24, 2023 8:38 am | Comments (2)
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The painting, titled transformation, is literally visceral, but fantastical at the same time. It is an act of carnage, though not necessarily one of violence. Are we witnessing creation or destruction? Are they part of the same thing?
Continue reading ‘Artists Get Personal In Newhallville Show’
by | Apr 20, 2023 3:54 pm | Comments (9)
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Schools Supt.-to-be Madeline Negrón greets Lincoln-Bassett students Thursday morning.
New Haven’s first-ever Latina schools superintendent greeted Ecuadorian-born student Bryan Panata with an “Hola,” made a Puerto Rican geography connection with Wilbur Cross junior Lunaa Omar, and remarked on how bilingual education has advanced since her childhood days working to learn English in a basement classroom.
Continue reading ‘History-Making Schools Chief Starts Listening’
by | Apr 19, 2023 2:53 pm | Comments (2)
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Gregory Edwards and Scarlet were caught by surprise Wednesday morning when they walked out their front door.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Willis: Beauty Pokes Its Head’
by | Apr 18, 2023 9:13 am | Comments (27)
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Construction workers on one of the roofs of fast-rising 398-unit 201 Munson project.
Hair salon owner Kay Smith-Holness: Feeling "squeezed."
Construction crews have begun building a new neighborhood on separate lots within one block of Karaine “Kay” Holness’s hair salon.
by | Apr 17, 2023 4:17 pm | Comments (5)
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Abdussabur (right) talking with Sandra Beamon on the campaign trail.
With his mom, sister, and wife by his side, Shafiq Abdussabur knocked on Newhallville doors to bring his mayoral-challenger message directly to the neighborhood where he used to work as police district manager — even as he continued to fast for the holy month of Ramadan.
Continue reading ‘Candidate Doesn't Break Amid Ramadan Fast’
by | Apr 13, 2023 4:10 pm | Comments (7)
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Judge Spader: If tenant's out by May, eviction case will disappear.
A state judge granted a Newhallville tenant an eviction reprieve after a Fair Haven Heights landlord testified that the renter could move into an apartment he owns on Lenox Street, thus sparing her from getting kicked out of her current home.
Continue reading ‘Lenox Landlord Prevents Sheffield Eviction’
by | Apr 13, 2023 3:10 pm | Comments (4)
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Albertus students, faculty planting pillars of faith Thursday.
A day of working in a garden — weeding and putting in kale and asparagus and bounty that will all be given away to food pantries and nonprofits — doesn’t usually begin with an assembly of 120 people and a reading from Paul’s letter to the Philippians in the New Testament, followed by a prayer.
It does, however, if the green acre in question happens to be the garden at Albertus Magnus, a Catholic college in the Dominican tradition, where service and community are pillars of the faith of equal importance with the two others, study and prayer.
Continue reading ‘On Service Day, Albertus Tends Its Garden’
by | Apr 5, 2023 10:05 am | Comments (8)
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Hometown higher-up: Cedar Hill/Newhallville/East Rock/Dixwell District Manager Sgt. Jarrell Lowery.
Sgt. Jarrell Lowery has spent the past week viewing through new eyes neighborhoods he has known his whole life.
by | Apr 4, 2023 2:56 pm | Comments (0)
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Angel Diaz rolled up the hose to his oil truck Tuesday morning outside a Munson Street home, halfway through his deliveries before a second gig making barber shop T‑shirts.
by | Mar 30, 2023 8:01 pm | Comments (2)
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Hillhouse's marching band at the 2019 Freddy Fixer.
The Freddy Fixer Parade is coming back, with a newly announced “step off” time of 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 4.
by | Mar 21, 2023 3:15 pm | Comments (7)
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Panelists (clockwise from top left) Darnell Goldson, Dietria Wells, Leroy Williams, Jamilah Prince Stewart, Larry Conaway, and Jose Champagne, at Monday night's forum.
Educators, advocates and parents ditched the “blame game” to brainstorm about how to help New Haven students do better in school during a time of various national challenges.
by | Mar 10, 2023 9:30 am | Comments (17)
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A rendering of the future Winchester Green apartments.
Alders approved a 17-year tax abatement for dozens of planned new income-restricted apartments in Science Park — along with a rezoning plan that could allow for even more places to live, shop, and conduct research at the former Winchester factory site.
by | Mar 6, 2023 3:09 pm | Comments (4)
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EMERGE's Richard Watkins on Monday: Young people's voices matter.
Aspiring medical assistants, landscapers, and manufacturers now have a clearer path to career success, thanks to a new city grant designed to skill up New Haven’s workforce.
by | Mar 2, 2023 10:50 am | Comments (14)
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Remaining pooches at city's under-investigation animal shelter.
A new HVAC system and veterinary care suite are coming to the city’s animal shelter — as ongoing investigations draw attention to the Fournier Street site’s lack of physical space for a growing number of abandoned animals, as well as to a chronic underinvestment in daily operations.
by | Feb 23, 2023 10:20 am | Comments (10)
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A 2019 rendering of the proposed Miller Street development.
Alders signed off on more tax relief — for fewer below-market-rent apartments — for a developer team planning to build a 56-unit majority-affordable housing complex atop a long-vacant lot in West River.
Continue reading ‘Updated 17-Year Miller St. Tax Break OK'd’
by | Feb 20, 2023 1:45 pm | Comments (3)
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Doing the solar system dance at Harris and Tucker preschool.
Tysin, a 4‑year-old budding outer space enthusiast, had a question for the special guest from NASA who had come to visit his Newhallville preschool: “How can I touch a star?”
Continue reading ‘Black Stars Shine Bright In Preschool's Orbit’
by | Feb 15, 2023 12:07 pm | Comments (1)
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Chemical engineer Edwin Cardenas at vax-building work in ACT's local lab.
A new all-synthetic vaccine against malaria may emerge from a third-floor laboratory in Science Park if research underway there comes to fruition.
Continue reading ‘Biotech Biz Seeks Malaria Vax Breakthrough’