by | Jul 21, 2023 10:38 am | Comments (7)
Team Dixwell-Newhallville: Alder candidates Jeanette Morrison, Troy Streater, and Brittiany Mabery-Niblack.
Three New Haven natives are running as a team for alder seats in Wards 20, 21, and 22 in Dixwell and Newhallville.
by | Jul 19, 2023 12:42 pm | Comments (11)
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Jeanette Sykes, center, to political hopefuls: "Sometimes you're gonna have to stand alone."
With gentrification and adult education on their minds, Newhallville Democrats endorsed a political newcomer for alder while casting their support with the incumbent mayor and splitting on a school board seat.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Endorses Amid Talk Of Change’
by | Jul 3, 2023 12:08 pm | Comments (76)
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Remidy Shareef: White supremacy "is the root cause of all of our problems here in America."
Call out exclusionary suburbs. Stand up for undocumented immigrants. Help boost Black small-business contractors. And always “speak truth to power.”
New Haven’s four Democratic candidates for mayor offered those responses when asked on the debate stage about what they have done and will do to combat systemic racial prejudices that benefit people who are white and harm those who are not.
by | Jun 30, 2023 9:25 am | Comments (72)
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Brennan, Goldenberg, and Mayor Elicker on the debate stage Thursday.
Abddusabur: "If we're not prioritizing taking care of our own community, how the hell are we going to have housing for somebody else that just got here?"
A hypothetical “bus of immigrants” rolled up to a Newhallville school auditorium Thursday night — revealing a divide among the city’s four Democratic mayoral candidates over just how much of a haven New Haven should be for new arrivals in need.
Continue reading ‘Immigrant "Bus" Pulls In To Mayoral Debate’
by | Jun 26, 2023 2:08 pm | Comments (2)
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Ward 21 Alder Troy Streater with Madgalene Campbell and granddaughter Makayla on the campaign trail.
Maceo “Troy” Streater was on a mission.
To win his first full term in aldermanic office. And to gather enough support to rename a stretch of Thompson Street in Newhallville for a long-time former neighborhood English teacher.
Continue reading ‘At The Doors For Reelection, & A Renamed Corner’
by | Jun 26, 2023 12:04 pm | Comments (2)
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Doreen Abubakar (center) helping a senior attendee pot her plant.
“Everyone, be quiet! I want to know which one I got.”
A hush fell over the roughly 30 seniors gathered on the second floor of the Q House community center as the gardeners-in-training attempted to find the flower that corresponded to the leafy sprouts in front of them.
by | Jun 15, 2023 12:16 pm | Comments (43)
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256 Shelton: Potential candidate for eminent domain?
A mayoral challenger embraced the idea of claiming blighted properties for city ownership by way of eminent domain, as part of a campaign push to use local government’s powers to support new housing and deter dangerous building decay.
by | Jun 12, 2023 9:10 am | Comments (19)
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Abdussabur (right) passing Dope N Delicious lunch ...
... as campaign supporters pass Black-business-boosting business cards.
As takeout containers filled with fried rice, mac and cheese, chicken wings, and salad changed hands — along with business cards promoting the work of New Haven-raised Black entrepreneurs — Shafiq Abdussabur detailed his vision for bringing back the small-business glory days of the Dixwell Avenue of his youth.
Key ingredients to the revival he pitched include collaboration, public safety, local hiring, and making sure City Hall supports locally sourced ventures as soon as they get off the ground.
by | Jun 6, 2023 12:05 pm | Comments (15)
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794 Dixwell: Still APT owned, but not for long?
Newhallville-Hamden Strong Chair Jeanette Sykes: APT pushback brought community together.
A hundred Newhallville and southern Hamden community members celebrated news that the APT Foundation methadone clinic nonprofit is still open to selling its recently-purchased Dixwell Avenue building to a local children’s mental health nonprofit.
by | Jun 5, 2023 10:54 am | Comments (7)
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Hamden Academy of Dance and Music dancers ...
... and quads and motorcycles ...
.. help fill the streets for the Freddy's festive return to Dixwell Ave.
Thousands of people filled Dixwell Avenue to march and mingle in a revived Freddy Fixer parade, marking a moment of community celebration following an extended pandemic-prompted pause.
by and | May 30, 2023 4:40 pm | Comments (43)
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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’