by | Oct 27, 2022 2:33 pm | Comments (0)
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Artist Winfred Rembert: Future mural subject?
188 Bassett: Recently damaged by people camping inside the building.
New life may soon light up a long-dead former social services building on Bassett Street — in the form of a mural remembering the late Newhallville artist Winfred Rembert.
by | Oct 20, 2022 11:35 am | Comments (3)
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Dwayne Betts and Nicholas Dawidoff at public library book talk.
What makes a neighborhood unique? What makes a neighborhood “iconic”? What makes a neighborhood, well, a neighborhood?
After eight years of research and 500 interviews for his landmark new book about a Newhallville murder, author Nicholas Dawidoff found the answers to those questions in the many individual voices that — taken together — add up to something rich and profound.
by | Oct 19, 2022 3:09 pm | Comments (7)
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This empty Newhall St. church will remain an empty church, for now.
One planned convenience store won’t be coming to a former Newhallville church any time soon — while another convenience store might be on the way to the ground floor of a Hill house.
That was the upshot of two contentious Board of Zoning Appeals hearings at which two sets of neighbors pushed back hard on corner stores coming to their blocks.
Continue reading ‘Newhall, Sylvan "Convenience" Plans Contested’
by | Oct 18, 2022 10:01 am | Comments (2)
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173 Ivy St.: Now OK'd to be bought, or taken.
The Board of Alders signed off on the city’s plans to acquire two tax-delinquent vacant Newhallville lots for $150,000 — or by eminent domain, if necessary — in a bid to create more parking for the future adult education site.
Continue reading ‘Alders OK Lot Purchases, With Eminent Domain Option’
by | Oct 14, 2022 4:27 pm | Comments (17)
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Vacant 44 Brewster St. lot: Will city acquisition be "friendly"?
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Poitier: Eminent domain "is not going to kick it."
The Elicker Administration is looking to pay a Hamden-based landlord $150,000 to acquire two vacant and overgrown Newhallville lots — both of which are currently wrapped up in a tax foreclosure lawsuit, and both of which could be taken by eminent domain if the city and the property owner can’t reach a deal.
by | Oct 14, 2022 1:25 pm | Comments (6)
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Bobby Johnson walks out of Church Street courthouse to freedom in 2015 after nine years of false imprisonment.
The individuals who murdered an innocent man, who framed an innocent teen, who copped a fake confession all made choices. So did Nicholas Dawidoff when he told their story — and he has now left New Haven with a choice of our own.
Continue reading ‘New Blockbuster Book Explores Backstory Of Newhallville Murder Case’
by | Sep 30, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (17)
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At Thursday evening's event, clockwise from top left: Jeanette Sykes, Kim Harris, Mayor Justin Elicker, Katurah Bryant, State Rep. Robyn Porter, Alder Devin Avshalom-Smith.
Some ideas for the neighborhood generated by a community brainstorm.
The APT Foundation has committed to pause development of a planned methadone clinic at 794 Dixwell Ave. through Dec. 1 as the organization searches for another location — and as Newhallville neighbors piece together a vision for what they want in their neighborhood instead.
Continue reading ‘APT Holds Off On Methadone Clinic; Newhallville "Manifests" A Better Future’
by | Sep 27, 2022 11:10 am | Comments (15)
132 Newhall St. at Saturday's foreclosure auction.
A Newhallville two-family house that was built a decade ago by a local affordable homeownership nonprofit will soon be owned by the federal government — and then put out for sale again — after no bidders showed up to the property’s foreclosure auction.
by | Sep 22, 2022 11:18 am | Comments (4)
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28 Thompson: Don't expect any megalandord "For Rent" signs here.
Two new two-family houses and a rehabbed single-family home should soon be coming to the Hill and Newhallville, thanks to a local affordable homeownership nonprofit’s recent purchases of three underused lots from the city.
by | Sep 20, 2022 4:45 pm | Comments (30)
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Republican candidates Laura Devlin and Bob Stefanowski talking about life in Newhallville Tuesday with Dixwell Ave. residents Cedric Young and Nickesha Evans Hill.
Board of Alders Prez Walker-Myers (right, with Mayor Elicker): "If you really love the city that you grew up in and that you talk about so passionately, why haven't you been back to help us figure out what's going on in the city?"
Gunernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski took a walk into the past — or, to be more specific, along Dixwell Avenue and Pond Street — to highlight his Newhallville roots, and to unveil a tax-cutting plan he claimed would benefit the working class.
Continue reading ‘Stefanowski Touts Tax Cuts On Memory Lane’
by | Sep 19, 2022 9:15 am | Comments (2)
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New Haven & New Jersey firefighters at work.
Firefighters from New Haven and New Jersey collaborated to take apart a condemned Newhallville playground, piece by piece — so that safe, new play equipment can rise in its place in honor of a local “angel.”
Continue reading ‘Firefighters Begin Rehab Of "Angel's" Playground’
by | Aug 30, 2022 4:47 pm | Comments (10)
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Judkins on the court.
On the Lincoln-Bassett courts, he was known as “Mango” who “got right” with a winning team. In the recording studio, where he was known as “Young Klean,” he found “time to heal.”
His real name was Michael Judkins. He was shot dead Monday on Thompson Street. Because he knew so many people around town, police are now concerned that someone else might get shot in retaliation.
by | Aug 30, 2022 4:46 pm | Comments (17)
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Rendering of Bassett Street building.
After hours of heated debate, a divided Board of Education voted to move its adult education center from the Boulevard to the former state social-services building on Bassett Street.
by | Aug 25, 2022 10:45 am | Comments (7)
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The current surface parking lot at 315 Winchester Ave ...
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... slated to be turned into hundreds of new apartments.
“Any time we can turn a parking lot into residential living, especially with affordable housing available, that’s a worthwhile investment.”
State Sen. and President Pro Tem Martin Looney offered those words of support Thursday morning in an email press release celebrating a $5 million state grant that the governor recently OK’d for the next phase of Science Park’s redevelopment.
Continue reading ‘Pols, Science Park Redevelopers Celebrate $5M State Grant’
by | Aug 15, 2022 2:49 pm | Comments (1)
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The "Young Kings" take home the tournament championship.
Newhallville celebrated its past, present, and future at a closing event at an annual summer community reunion and basketball tournament hosted at Lincoln Bassett Park.
Organizers present Newhallville leaders with appreciation awards.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Celebrates Its Champs, On The Court & In The Community’
by | Aug 8, 2022 2:37 pm | Comments (5)
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Greenspace outside Mitchell Library.
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URI Intern Justine Phillips-Gallucci at the tour's new Valley Street stop.
Dozens of New Haveners peeled off of yellow school buses and down a pathway toward the Botanical Garden of Healing, nestled in the shadow of West Rock on Valley Street. They were grandmothers, grad students, kindergarteners, actual gardeners, high school friend groups, and everyone in between, who braved the thick August heat for a tour of New Haven’s ever-growing roster of community greenspace sites, including this new one on Valley.
Continue reading ‘Bus Tour Highlights Community Greenspaces Citywide’
by | Aug 8, 2022 12:02 pm | Comments (7)
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Shneor Edelkopf flips, clockwise from top left: 106 Bassett, 47 Hillside, 232 West Hazel, 268 Exchange.
Real estate investor Shneor Edelkopf has kicked his rental-property-flipping business into high gear this summer — as his companies have bought and promptly sold four apartment buildings in five weeks, at a combined markup of $364,000.
by | Aug 4, 2022 4:34 pm | Comments (11)
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Believe In Me's James Walker at 53 Shelton.
Eighteen affordable single-room apartments might soon rise from an empty Shelton Avenue lot, if Believe In Me Empowerment Corporation’s plans come to fruition.
Continue reading ‘Supportive SROs Proposed For Shelton Avenue’
by | Aug 2, 2022 4:18 pm | Comments (4)
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"Team Get Right" and "Young Kings" square off in OT in day's final game.
Basketballs soared in the air. Stuntin’ Is A Habit played on the loud speaker. Families competed in spades. And grill smoke ignited the crowd’s appetites.
Continue reading ‘With Summer Tourney, Newhallville Gets Right’
by | Jul 27, 2022 10:05 am | Comments (13)
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Baines cuts ribbon on her new home.
Tamika Baines dreamed of owning her own home — then shed tears of joy as she realized that dream at a renovated former blighted property in Newhallville.
by and | Jul 21, 2022 3:46 pm | Comments (3)
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Katherine Tucker screens Dexter Jones for high blood pressure at his eponymous Unisex Barbershop.
Cardiologists and healthcare workers sat in line at Dexter’s — not to get their hair cut, but to work their way into the barbershop talk of the day by speaking truth to a “silent killer.”
Continue reading ‘Blood (Pressure) Talk Comes To Barber's Chair’
by | Jul 21, 2022 12:55 pm | Comments (8)
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State Rep. Toni Walker and Principal Michelle Bonora at Wednesday night's community meeting. Below: The former state social services building.
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After nearly a decade of vacancy, the former state social-services building on Bassett Street might soon take on new life — not as an employee-owned laundry, but as an adult education center.
Continue reading ‘Adult Ed Eyed For Vacant Bassett Building’
by | Jul 20, 2022 5:18 pm | Comments (4)
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Jill Biden at Albertus Wednesday.
First Lady Jill Biden came to New Haven Wednesday and saw some hope on the “Horizon” for helping kids catch up after falling behind academically during the pandemic.
Continue reading ‘On City Visit, Jill Biden Sees Gap Closing’
by | Jul 18, 2022 1:00 pm | Comments (6)
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C U @HBCU: Sunday's send-off.
Xavier Mom. Spel-Bound. HBCU Strong Hampton University. Aggie Dad. hbcu-ish. Morgan. Alumni North Carolina A&T State University.
Participants donned T‑shirts with those logos Sunday at a send-off celebration for 53 students headed for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
by | Jul 18, 2022 9:21 am | Comments (2)
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Over 100 people gathered at the Lincoln-Bassett School field in Newhallville to bounce on inflatable castles, enjoy free burgers and snow cones — and say no to violence in their community.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Families Come Together To Stop the Violence’