by | Jul 12, 2022 2:05 pm | Comments (1)
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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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by | Jul 10, 2022 11:59 am | Comments (8)
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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by | Jul 1, 2022 10:07 am | Comments (9)
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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.
by | Jul 1, 2022 10:06 am | Comments (4)
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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.
by | Jun 24, 2022 3:34 pm | Comments (22)
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.
Meanwhile, the three biggest issues that have emerged in the case are crystallized in under five minutes of edited footage gleaned from a review of hours of video of the incident, from multiple angles.
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by | Jun 21, 2022 3:59 pm | Comments (1)
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Bassett's Batman Bunch at graduation Tuesday.
A bat signal was sent from Lincoln-Bassett Community School — and summoned some sixth-grade superheroes to the stage.
by | Jun 17, 2022 6:18 pm | Comments (3)
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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.”
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by | Jun 15, 2022 4:32 pm | Comments (14)
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201 Munson St., now under construction.
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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by | Jun 13, 2022 9:32 am | Comments (5)
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Doreen Abubakar receiving the Audubon Connecticut Lifetime Achievement Award with Mike Burger, Executive Director of Audubon New York & Connecticut
People were buzzing about bees — and about the person behind putting together an event calling attention to the role they play in nature.
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by | Jun 6, 2022 12:40 pm | Comments (4)
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State Rep. Robyn Porter and Katurah Bryant at WNHH FM.
Neighbors on both sides of the Newhallville-Newhall border turned a threat into an opportunity.
by | May 20, 2022 9:41 am | Comments (4)
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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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by | May 19, 2022 4:04 pm | Comments (13)
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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.
by | May 17, 2022 3:56 pm | Comments (15)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Stalled Apt. Plan Gets $78M Cash Infusion’
by | May 16, 2022 8:27 am | Comments (9)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Though Sympathetic, Judge Blocks Eviction’
by | May 11, 2022 3:31 pm | Comments (7)
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"The guy keeps winning": The late Winfred Rembert in the Newhall Street apartment where he made the magic happen.
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Looking for My Mother, 2019; reprinted in Chasing Me To My Grave.
Lillian Rembert dropped her mail sack on Shelton Avenue to see why her phone was blowing up with alerts — to discover that her late father won a Pulitzer Prize.
by | May 10, 2022 8:20 am | Comments (12)
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Honorio Ramirez and Francisco Mendez Perez: Priced out of changing stretch of Newhallville.
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Local landlord/state official Alexandra Daum at a recent State Street economic development presser.
Rising rents drove Honorio Ramirez and Francisco Mendez Perez out of their apartments on Huntington Street.
A year and a half later, their erstwhile landlord is looking to collect a portion of the debts she claims they owe for months and months of rent-free living in a house she upgraded during the pandemic.
by | Apr 11, 2022 3:34 pm | Comments (1)
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After two years of keeping in touch through lunch dates, friends Sarah McClain and Annie Meyers returned to the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center — in its modern new home — ready to get back into classes, day trip outings, and bingo.
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by | Apr 11, 2022 2:28 pm | Comments (1)
Earl McCoy Jr. at work.
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Youth gather to clean up Shepard Street Garden.
A decade ago Addie Kimbrough was teaching her son how to cut grass and prune bushes. Now that he’s 23 years old, she’s teaching a new generation of neighborhood youth about yard work.
by | Apr 8, 2022 3:15 pm | Comments (5)
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Justin Elicker, Dave Stratton, Oscar Diaz, Stephan Torquati, Rafael Ramirez, Renee Dominguez at Friday presser..
New Haven Police Department has a terse warning for people steering vehicles through city streets: “U Drive. U Text. U Pay.”
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by | Apr 8, 2022 10:23 am | Comments (3)
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Rev. Boise Kimber at 2020 Newhallville Management Team meeting.
Throughout the first of six planned “listening sessions,” Newhallville residents shared cautious optimism about about the general concept — and questions about the details — of an effort to replace a planned methadone clinic with a mental health center in a former school building at 794 Dixwell Ave.
Continue reading ‘"Resilience Academy" Proposers Embark On "Listening Tour"’
by | Apr 5, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (17)
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Winfield: "Not new."
New Haven’s gun violence came to Gary Winfield’s front door Monday night — and left him as resolved as ever to find alternative solutions to “lock-em-up” policies.
Continue reading ‘Winfield & Family Safe After Shooting Outside Home; State Senator Was Not Target’
by | Apr 4, 2022 11:46 am | Comments (0)
Mother Joyner at Saturday's event.
Newly unveiled street sign.
“We’re all related,” a voice in the crowd remarked Saturday in the moments before the corner of Newhall and Huntington Streets officially became “Mother Mary E. Atkinson Joyner Corner.”
by | Mar 29, 2022 9:47 am | Comments (13)
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Imam Saladin Hasan at anti-APT-plan rally: "We are pro-help."
The East Rock Community Management Team voted to oppose a proposed methadone clinic in the next-door Newhallville neighborhood, after passionate discussion over whether such a stance would further stigmatize people with opioid use disorder.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Backs "Stop APT" Drive After Debate’
by | Mar 24, 2022 2:46 pm | Comments (6)
That was fast.
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by and | Mar 23, 2022 5:42 pm | Comments (13)
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February community rally against planned methadone clinic.
(Updated) A former school building on Dixwell Avenue might become a wellness-focused “Resilience Academy” rather than a community-opposed methadone clinic under a plan under consideration for millions of state bonding dollars.
Continue reading ‘Kimber-Clifford Beers "Resilience Academy" Would Replace Methadone Clinic Plan’