by | Dec 12, 2022 4:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Fred Christmas filing papers Monday at City Clerk's Office; Maceo Troy Streater.
Two lifelong New Haveners are seeking to become the next Ward 21 alder now that the incumbent has stepped down mid-term.
by | Dec 9, 2022 4:39 pm | Comments (14)
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Officers on the scene of Friday's Shepard St. shooting.
A 24-year-old Pennsylvania man was killed and a 40-year-old Newhallville man was injured in a Friday afternoon shooting on Shepard Street.
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by | Dec 9, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (8)
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First graders erupt from mountain pose at Lincoln Bassett.
Lincoln Bassett School first graders took a break from their usual class instruction to witness a volcanic eruption.
Luckily, the eruption took place during a yoga lesson where the students locked their fingers together, pointed them to the sky in a mountain pose, and then made them burst apart into what resembled an explosive geological wonder.
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by | Dec 8, 2022 3:24 pm | Comments (10)
Workers pouring a concrete foundation Thursday at 201 Munson.
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Erick Morris: Making change on home turf.
Erick Morris went to work on Munson Street Thursday just as his grandfather did for three decades, albeit with different tools.
by | Dec 7, 2022 2:32 pm | Comments (12)
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Mark Douglas: Delayed conviction erasure is "definitely a big disappointment."
Disappointed and resolved, Mark Douglas spoke out about about how years-old misdemeanor convictions still haunt his bid for gainful employment — as he and other statewide criminal justice reform advocates pressed to keep a spotlight on Connecticut’s “clean slate” bill even if its rollout is slower than expected.
by | Dec 5, 2022 9:22 am | Comments (10)
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CHFA's Lisa Hensley, NeighborWorks America's Eileen Anderson, Alder Steve Winter, Alonda Emery, U.S. Sen. Blumenthal, and LCI's Arlevia Samuel at Friday's groundbreaking.
Alonda Emery never thought she’d own her own home — right up until she stood with a smile, and a shovel, atop the very Newhallville lot where her future new house will soon be built.
by | Dec 2, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (20)
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275 Winchester Ave., now under new ownership.
Two New Jersey-based investors have purchased the 158-unit Winchester Lofts luxury apartment complex — capping off a two-year local real estate spending spree that has seen that same landlord duo buy a total of 632 New Haven apartments for a price tag likely well in excess of $100 million.
by | Nov 23, 2022 9:18 am | Comments (5)
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Tamika Baines cuts ribbon on NHS-renovated West Hazel Street home.
After decades of helping families stay one step ahead of gentrification, Jim Paley and Bridgette Russell have some ideas for confronting new threats.
by | Nov 8, 2022 4:39 pm | Comments (9)
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Enthusiastic kids, more enthusiastic politicians shouting "VOTE" Tuesday.
A new political polling group arrived at Lincoln Bassett School and discovered two preliminary findings: Newhallville is an overwhelmingly Democratic neighborhood — and “the floor is lava!”
by | Nov 8, 2022 11:49 am | Comments (10)
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Demarlo Allen with Winter outside King/Robinson polls: Is early voting safe?
Boosting electoral reform, with the help of stickers.
“If democracy isn’t accessible, it isn’t really democracy.”
With those words of caution — and with plenty of democracy-boosting stickers and flyers and lawn signs to boot — Steve Winter made an Election Day pitch to fellow Newhallville residents to vote yes for early voting.
by | Oct 31, 2022 9:33 am | Comments (0)
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Artist Arizona Taylor.
On Friday evening, the small park between Shelton Avenue, the Farmington Canal Trail, and Hazel Street bloomed into a small arts festival that warmed the cool evening with an explosion of color, sound, and good conversation. It was the beginning of the Artspace-organized Open Source Festival’s weekend of making visual art appear across New Haven, not only from downtown, Westville, and East Rock, but from Newhallville and Dixwell to the Hill and Mill River.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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’