"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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.”
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.
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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.
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Diane Brown at entrance to new Stetson Branch Library.
Diane Brown swung open the door Monday morning to a long-awaited new, enhanced neighborhood library and community anchor at the corner of Dixwell Avenue and Foote Street, with lots more room, more books, and more to do.
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Mar 21, 2022 12:30 pm
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Dominiq Oti, left, helps Nylee Williams with her signature.
In careful penmanship, 8‑year-old Nylee Williams signed her name, title, and “company” at the bottom of a page outlining her responsibilities in the planning process for a new community center in Newhallville.
Ethel Berger, Jeanette Sykes, and Robyn Porter divvy up streets.
Sadie Flowers has seen her block of Hazel Street address crime and grow more peaceful as community connections tightened.
“We don’t want to go back,” Flowers, who has lived on the street for 35 years, said as she signed a petition against the APT Foundation’s plans to move offices and a methadone clinic nearby on Dixwell Avenue.
A Hamden man died Monday from injuries suffered in a car crash at Chapel Street and Central Avenue, one of two collisions in New Haven that required fire rescue crews to extricate trapped victims.
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Industrial warehouse property now under new ownership.
Criterion Group's Shibber Khan: One year, $27M+ spent on New Haven real estate.
A Queens-based real estate investment group spent over $21 million buying three industrial waterfront properties in the Annex, in some of the city’s latest property transactions.
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Kim Harris and Barbara Vereen speak out against the APT Foundation's planned move to Newhallville.
Four hundred and fifty people have signed their names in opposition to a methadone clinic’s planned move to Newhallville, with organizers just getting started.
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Jan 24, 2022 2:11 pm
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Elijah Davis Jr.: "I'd like to thank God, because He made it all possible."
The legacy and face of Pitts Chapel Unified Free Will Church’s retired leader Elijah Davis Jr. will now remain in the church even on days when his physical presence is absent.
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Cars lined on Butler Street for food pickup.
A crew showed up at a Shelton Avenue church not to chant prayers or hear a sermon — but to help a community stay fed and protected during a particularly tough stretch of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Among those at Wednesday's virtual meeting, clockwise from top left: State Rep. Toni Walker, Community Management Team Chair Kim Harris, State Rep. Robyn Porter, Alder Devin Avshalom-Smith.
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Former Elm City Prep building at 794 Dixwell, now owned by APT.
Newhallville spoke out with a clear voice: It doesn’t want a new methadone clinic in the neighborhood.
Elizabeth Street resident Marcus Pearson in front of 794 Dixwell: Methadone clinic relocation is "a good idea" for neighbors in need of treatment.
A methadone clinic and healthcare nonprofit plans to relocate from Long Wharf to Newhallville, after purchasing a Dixwell Avenue former middle school building for $2.45 million.
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The former Winchester Arms plant at Munson and Mansfield, slated for demolition.
Science Park’s redevelopers landed a $2 million state grant to help clean up and demolish a derelict section of the former Winchester Arms factory — and to advance plans to create hundreds of new apartments and tens of thousands of square feet of office, lab, and retail space.
Sonia Clubb and Supt. Iline Tracey Sunday handing out test kits outside King/Robinson.
Iline Tracey handed out the first batch of Covid-19 rapid at-home tests to nervous teachers Sunday as the school system prepared to reopen Monday amid a surge of cases.
