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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.
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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.
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Aug 8, 2022 12:02 pm
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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.
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.
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Aug 2, 2022 4:18 pm
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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.
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.
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Jul 21, 2022 3:46 pm
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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.”
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Jul 21, 2022 12:55 pm
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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.
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.
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Jul 18, 2022 1:00 pm
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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).
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Jul 18, 2022 9:21 am
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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.
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Jul 12, 2022 2:05 pm
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Religious and secular leaders gather for dialogue with police brass.
Fifty Black pastors and community activists filled the pews of First Calvary Baptist Church on Monday evening, offering visions for a new era of public safety to city leaders and one another.
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New Hope team cuts ribbon.
Bobbie Cheri McDonald at opening event.
When Bobbie Cheri McDonald was a struggling single mother of two facing homelessness, a local housing program helped save her family — on two separate occasions, seven years apart.
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Jul 1, 2022 10:07 am
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At Newhallville anti-violence parley. Top row: State Rep. Robyn Porter, city resilience chief Carlos Sosa-Lombardo, youth worker Ron Huggins. Bottom: District Manager Lt. Dana Smith, State Sen. Gary Winfield, and Ice The Beef's Chaz Carmon.
As summer set in, grassroots gun-violence prevention leaders compared notes about ongoing efforts to keep people safe in Newhallville, and heard a plea to step up their game in conjunction with a broader anti-poverty strategy.
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Jul 1, 2022 10:06 am
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Adae and his father next to the portrait of his late grandmother, at ConnCAT opening of the artist's first solo show.
Adae describes his portrait of his friend Kimberly Cherubin.
New Haveners are likely to know Kwadwo Adae’s work from his murals like the one of Dr. Edward Bouchet on the corner of Henry Street and Dixwell Avenue. Thursday evening, Adae brought his vibrant artwork and personage indoors — and a distinctive approach to connecting with community and nature along with him.
Three New Haven Independent-edited videos showing key moments from police officers' handling of Richard Cox on Sunday.
Attorney Ben Crump in New Haven on Thursday. Left: At press conference (unrelated to Cox case). Right: Visiting Dixwell with Librarian Diane Brown.
A nationally prominent civil rights attorney has joined the legal team for a 36-year-old New Havener who was partially paralyzed while in police custody — potentially moving the rapidly developing local police misconduct case into the national spotlight.
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Jun 17, 2022 6:18 pm
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On Friday's canal history walking tour. Clockwise from top left: Tour guide Aaron Goode; Walking south past Yale's Benjamin Franklin College; an Escape New Haven-built diorama of the canal's early railroad years; a turtle sculpture in the Newhallville "Learning Corridor."
Aaron Goode pointed down to the 19th century trap rock retaining walls that still line the Farmington Canal Trail in Dixwell, and then up to the 21st century Yale-dorm-topping carved relief panels that pay homage to the enduring transportation corridor’s founding engineers.
“History is everywhere in New Haven,” he said, “above us and below.”
After years of lying quiet and empty, a 12.7‑acre vacant former industrial site on Munson Street is now bustling with activity — with construction vehicles and hard-hatted workers back on location, paving the way for hundreds of new apartments.
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May 20, 2022 9:41 am
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Participants in Thursday's launch party.
New playground rendering.
A party brought Newhallville together at a playground slated to be revamped to honor a Yale clinical scientist who loved to give back and made significant strides to improve substance abuse treatment.
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New "Winchester Green" apartments and retail to be built atop ...
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... current surface parking lot.
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New York-based redeveloper Alex Twining at an April 2021 Winchester Ave. meeting.
Developers won permission to build 287 new apartments, two new privately owned streets, and a new public plaza — continuing the transformation of the former Winchester Arms factory complex into a research, residential, and shopping hub.
201 Munson: Enough $ now on hand to turn this into ...
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... this?
A New York City-based developer claims his company is just weeks away from resuming work on a long-delayed, nearly 400-unit apartment complex on the Dixwell/Newhallville/Science Park border — thanks to yet another ownership reshuffling, as well as a newly pulled $78 million mortgage loan.
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Thomas Breen |
May 16, 2022 8:27 am
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Palja Stanovic outside courthouse.
A New York-based landlord found out that he needs to take extra steps if he wants to both accept government subsidies and then evict nonpaying tenants.
