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Sep 27, 2021 8:19 am
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The collage on the walls of the bookstore is a riot of changing shapes, swimming text, faces melting in and out of form, like water in a stream. Around the collage, a series of faces, offering expressions that are both confident and challenging. They invite you in, but with an edge. You may be tested. You may be challenged. But you will be accepted. On one of the paintings is a statement hovering somewhere between a mandate and a mantra: “Be heard.”
Police seal off shooting scene (above); immediate aftermath (below).
(Updated Wednesday 11:06 a.m.) A man is in critical condition after someone shot him near the corner of Norton Street and Whalley Avenue Tuesday afternoon.
Officers Richard Burgos, Jason Jackson, and Christian Carfora in action at Whalley & West Park.
As he zoomed down Whalley Avenue, Hunter thought about arriving on time to his new job six blocks away at A‑1 Oriental Kitchen. He thought about sending his daughter to college this weekend. He wasn’t thinking about the speed limit.
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Aug 13, 2021 4:39 pm
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WNBA’s Tanaya Atkinson at Friday’s giveaway.
Barber Brian MacCalla give 5-year-old Jayce Smith a shape-up at Friday’s back-to-school event.
As basketball star Tanaya Atkinson prepared to fly out of the country, she passed the rock to kids back home in New Haven to ensure they have filled book bags and free fresh hair cuts in time to return to school.
Owner Josue Santana at his new restaurant across from Stop & Shop.
Inside a new fast-food Puerto Rican restaurant on Whalley, Chef Raul Santiago combines richly seasoned pork fried rice, pinto beans, and oven-marinated pork onto a plate. He then tops the entire dish off with a large serving of sweet plantains.
“That’s it!” said Santiago, holding out a plate of Arroz con Gandules.
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Jul 19, 2021 9:58 am
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Whitaker giving Scott Martin a cut during nurses’ pitch: “I don’t want my opinion to be everyone’s opinion.
Two city Health Department nurses set up class in a barbershop. The topic at hand — Why should we trust the Covid-19 vaccine? — elicited straight talk about why people choose to remain unvaccinated.
Nadine Horton with Steve Fontana: Helping businesses find solutions.
Two Whalley Avenue restaurant owners have noticed a lot of business taking place outside their new storefront. Unfortunately, it’s not the kind of business they had hoped for.
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Jun 29, 2021 3:05 pm
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New Haven Abatement & Demolition crew on scene Tuesday.
A demolition crew tore the crumbling former home of Newt’s Cafe into rubble on Whalley Avenue Tuesday as passersby watched and wondered what will come next to the spot.
Alder candidate Shafiq Abdussabur detailing his 10-point policing plan at Wednesday event.
Landlords are ready to offer cops discounted rents to live in the city, according to a political candidate who unveiled a 10-point plan to address New Haven’s red-hot gun violence.
New DuBois-Walton mayoral headquarters at Whalley and Sherman.
Fifty supporters entered the door to Karen DuBois-Walton’s mayoral campaign headquarters Sunday — then were dispatched back out to knock on doors throughout the city.
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May 28, 2021 8:44 am
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Foster parent Shannon Hinton, left, at the opening.
Foster families celebrated a new institutional home Thursday, as the Children’s Community Programs of Connecticut celebrated the opening of a new renovated central facility in the heart of Westville Village.
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May 24, 2021 8:54 am
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Elicker on the stoop: “New Haven is not Minneapolis.”
DuBois-Walton on Cleveland Road: Time for true leadership.
Two mayoral candidates won “leaning” voters one at a time through retail politics — making sales pitches with different leadership visions to small clusters of New Haveners a mile away from each other.
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May 17, 2021 8:24 am
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Caribbean Vibe Steel Drum Band
Sunday afternoon offered a few hints of another city summer on the horizon: a short burst of rain followed by a sunny break in the sky, the sound of music blasting from open car windows, and two International Festival of Arts and Ideas programs coming together to celebrate.
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May 13, 2021 12:11 pm
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The Pervises’ new location at 554 Whalley Avenue.
Darryl Pervis.
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Chicken wings, candied yams, and mac and cheese.
Darryl Pervis is back home on Whalley Avenue — and, starting Thursday, once again filling customers’ cravings for juicy BBQ chicken wings, sweet and sticky yams, and Mac and cheese.
Memorial Sunday for Danny Velazquez, pictured below on his ride.
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Memorial candles were lit, engines revved, and cries of “Revolucion!” rang out at the corner of Whalley and Ramsdell Sunday evening at the spot where an allegedly drunk driver killed the popular leader of a local motorcycle club.
Sgt. Derek Werner (above) with signs for posting at gas stations, including Whalley Exxon, where he met Agha Khan & Nasim Abid (below).
Beat it, dirt bikers.
That’s the loose translation of a sign that Agha Khan posted Thursday at the Exxon Tiger Mart at Whalley and Fitch — and of a new law and crackdown on daredevils on “motorized recreational vehicles” terrorizing New Haveners in parks and on the streets.
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Apr 12, 2021 9:43 am
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Chris “Big Dog” Davis.
Delores Willams and Lauren Anderson of the Whalley Avenue community bookstore People Get Ready beamed in front of the small, rapt audience seated in front of them Sunday evening.
“Give yourselves a hand,” Williams said. “We’re so grateful that you’re here.”
The bookstore, she said, was getting ready to reopen after a “long, necessary hiatus” — but before that, it hosted a concert by beloved musician Chris “Big Dog” Davis, back in New Haven on the heels of his latest release, the single “Heal The World.”
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Apr 2, 2021 3:22 pm
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352 Whalley Ave.: Stubbornly vacant, under new ownership.
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Neighbor Lynel Caply: Put in a “nice, little restaurant.”
New owners of a Whalley Avenue corner lot face a challenge that has defied their predecessors for over 20 years: Turning prime real estate on New Haven’s busiest commercial thoroughfare into something more than fenced-in dirt.
Robert Harris: I can’t make just a little collard greens.
It was 30 years ago when Robert Harris finally got his mother’s collard greens recipe exactly right.
Now he doesn’t even have to taste the cooked greens to know that they are ready for the customers of his Whalley Avenue restaurant, Mama Mary’s Soul Food.
Wilfred and Christine Rodie at CVS: One down, one to go.
Christine Rodie is a month shy of qualifying for the Covid-19 vaccine. She had a brief hope that she could take a no-show’s dose at the Whalley Avenue CVS — only to learn that there were four pages of names ahead of hers on the waitlist.
