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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.
by | Mar 21, 2022 12:30 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
by | Mar 7, 2022 2:52 pm | Comments (13)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Petitioners Hit Doors To Fight APT Clinic’
by | Feb 28, 2022 5:00 pm | Comments (17)
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The Fusion Steppers ...
... fez-topped members of the Arabic Temple #40 at the 2019 Freddy.
The Freddy Fixer Parade, one of the city’s premier Black community events, won’t take place this year, its board announced.
The city responded by offering to help keep the tradition going.
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by | Feb 8, 2022 11:48 am | Comments (19)
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Aftermath of Sherman Parkway crash.
Aftermath of Central-Chapel crash.
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.
Continue reading ‘Crash Kills Man; Pregnant Woman Extricated From Car In 2nd Incident’
by | Feb 5, 2022 6:00 pm | Comments (15)
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Imam Saladin Hasan at Saturday's rally: "We are pro-help."
“You don’t set up trauma sites in communities that are already traumatized.”
Imam Saladin Hasan offered those words Saturday to a crowd of roughly 100 Newhallville residents and neighbors protesting the APT Foundation’s planned move of a methadone clinic to a former middle school building on Dixwell Avenue.
by | Jan 28, 2022 12:06 pm | Comments (5)
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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.
by | Jan 27, 2022 8:50 am | Comments (9)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Petition to Stop Methadone Clinic’
by | Jan 24, 2022 2:11 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Pitts Chapel Unveils Longtime Bishop's Portrait’
by | Jan 17, 2022 10:38 am | Comments (7)
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.
by | Jan 13, 2022 3:56 pm | Comments (20)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Blasts Methadone Clinic Plan’
by | Jan 7, 2022 1:00 pm | Comments (10)
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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.
by | Jan 6, 2022 1:47 pm | Comments (6)
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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.
Continue reading ‘State Sends $2M Grant For Science Park Redev’
by | Jan 2, 2022 6:46 pm | Comments (10)
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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.
by | Jan 1, 2022 5:35 pm | Comments (3)
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clockwise from left, Cass Cordoba, Colletta Cordoba, Brian Burkett-Thompson, Janice Morton, Kristen Threatt, Carlos Cordoba, Kennedy Cordoba.
The Eat Up guys are at it again.
by | Dec 17, 2021 9:16 am | Comments (9)
Judge Dorthula Green and organizer Jeanette Sykes check out contestants.
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Crystal Beard-Morton's home of holiday inflatables.
A Christmas house-decorating contest not only lit up Newhallville, but made the neighborhood feel “more like a neighborhood,” participants said.
by | Dec 9, 2021 1:26 pm | Comments (3)
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Erik Johnson at WNHH FM
Erik Johnson looked at the barbed wire. He heard the lonesome factory whistle blow. He thought: This doesn’t make sense.
And he thought: When I grow up, I’m going to make decisions about how neighborhoods work and how people live there.
Continue reading ‘When Erik Johnson Heard That Factory Whistle Blow’
by | Dec 6, 2021 1:30 pm | Comments (13)
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Planned 176-unit apartment complex at Ashmun, Canal, and Henry St.
Plans to redevelop a long-vacant Science Park lot grew in size to 176 proposed apartments — and won an initial recommendation to do so.
Continue reading ‘Apartment Plan Grows For Science Park Project’
by , and | Nov 24, 2021 10:13 am | Comments (19)
Gabrielle Lopez tells her story at the protest.
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Students walked out of Amistad High School Wednesday, told tear-filled stories of experiencing sexual assault and harassment, and demanded change.
Continue reading ‘Amistad High Students Stage Walkout Over Sexual Assault & Harassment’
by | Nov 5, 2021 2:21 pm | Comments (8)
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Empty lot at 506 Winchester, envisioned for playground.
Raegan Ferrell, pictured, has ideas for a possible new playground.
An overgrown Newhallville lot might become a playground, with springing bumblebee seats, a log-shaped tunnel, and mushroom stepping stones.
But when the city presented these plans to the neighbors, parents and grandparents balked. The park looks well-designed, they said, but would their children be safe?
by | Nov 4, 2021 5:39 pm | Comments (14)
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Devin Avshalom-Smith, who will be New Haven’s first known transgender alder, on the campaign trail with supporter Kim Harris.
After months of tireless teamwork, Devin Avshalom-Smith was cruising to election. Then the whispers and texts started.
Continue reading ‘Transgender Alder-Elect Triumphed Over Whispers’
by | Nov 2, 2021 1:41 pm | Comments (3)
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Alder candidates Addie Kimbrough and Devin Avshalom-Smith outside Lincoln Bassett on Tuesday.
The issues of gun violence, good jobs, and clean streets brought Newhallville voters to the polls Tuesday, as they came out to choose a mayor, city-town clerk, and new local legislative representative for Ward 20.
Continue reading ‘Guns, Jobs, Clean Streets Motivate Newhallville Voters’
by | Oct 8, 2021 1:28 pm | Comments (49)
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Ocean Management’s Shmuel Aizenberg (left) with attorney Ian Gottlieb in court this week.
Carmel Street bathroom: cracked tiles, mold, acrid smell.
The men in charge of two of the city’s largest low-income real estate empires landed in criminal housing court —as part of a city effort to prosecute landlords who take too long to fix up their properties.
by | Oct 6, 2021 11:40 am | Comments (0)
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251 West Hazel St.
Dixwell Plaza’s redevelopers are bringing their neighborhood revitalization efforts to Newhallville — in the form of a new duplex where a blighted, vacant single-family home currently stands.
Continue reading ‘Duplex Plans OK’d For Newhallville Eyesore’
by | Sep 28, 2021 1:14 pm | Comments (6)
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Lt. Dana Smith: Now the top cop for East Rock/Newhallvillle.
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Newly minted Dwight/Beaver Hills top cop Lt. Ryan Przybylski.
Newhallville, East Rock and Cedar Hill have a new neighborhood top cop — Lt. Dana Smith, who has stepped into the district manager role as Lt. Manmeet Colon moves over to Internal Affairs.
And a little further west in Dwight and Beaver Hills, Lt. Ryan Przybylski has risen to the role of district manager, replacing recently promoted Capt. John Healy.