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Maya McFadden |
Feb 8, 2021 7:38 pm
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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy made two New Haven stops Monday to discuss his efforts to bring back federal funding for youth summer enrichment programs and the FEMA Empowering Essential Deliveries (FEED) Act.
A confrontation that began with an allegedly raised middle finger ended with a 37-year-old man tased and lying on the sidewalk, and passersby debating with cops about how best to handle mental health-related policing and business owners’ loitering concerns.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 16, 2020 11:46 am
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In New Haven, women favor wearing sneakers, not heels. But they love their sequins.
Baltimore transplant Kimberly Sewell-Poole got up to speed on all that, as she hits round two of trying to launch a retro-chic boutique on Whalley Avenue during a pandemic.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 30, 2020 10:55 am
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A Massachusetts-based “mega-franchisee” bulked up its regional fast food holdings by purchasing three local Dunkin’ Donuts outlets for $4.6 million, in the city’s latest property deals.
Two dozen young Black women jumped and danced and sang in the middle of the intersection of Whalley Avenue and Sherman Avenue as several hundred fellow protesters sat in the street and blocked traffic on all sides.
“Black women matter!” the group cheered, a portrait of Breonna Taylor held aloft nearby. “Black women matter!”
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Thomas Breen & Maya McFadden |
Aug 19, 2020 3:40 pm
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New Haven police visited the Stop & Shop parking lot on Whalley Avenue — not in response to a call for help, but instead as part of a new push to recruit community members to join the local force.
City tree trimmer Adam Wambolt heaved a limb up and tossed it into the pile next to the yellow payloader. The rustling pile of wood and leaves was all that was left of a tree that had blocked almost two lanes of traffic on Prospect Street.
Prospect’s felled giant was one of over 200 trees broken and blown by Tropical Storm Isaias on Tuesday. And it was one more tree cleared from Wambolt and crew’s to-do list for Wednesday.
Life went painfully on Wednesday for Howard Lewis’s family as they held an outdoor birthday party for his 10-year-old son — while top cops and city officials sought to figure out who killed Lewis and one other man the night before, and how to get a handle on New Haven’s worst stretch of violence in a decade.
New Haven has now surpassed the number of shootings it saw in all of 2019. It’s only July.
Paul Ciccarelli walked out of the Whalley Avenue jail and into freedom— to find himself greeted by three dozen protesters rallying for the release of more inmates during the Covid-19 pandemic.
With $60 billion in Covid-19 relief headed to cities to boost hard-to-reach small businesses, Miguel Pittman, Rodney Williams, and Jayuan Carter stand ready to help New Haven get it right this time.
Safe streets activists got a crash course in the methodical grind of local government as three city department managers presented their immediate responses and longer term plans for addressing the recent surge in traffic-related deaths and injuries.
Nadine Horton can still remember shopping as a kid at the fruit market and neighborhood deli that used to stand at the southwestern corner of Whalley and Winthrop Avenues.
Thomas Jackson doesn’t see much difference between a good sermon and good journalism. Both, in his view, strive to make people see connections more deeply and build community.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 8, 2020 8:58 am
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A long-in-the-works rezoning initiative designed to boost the city’s neglected “commercial corridors” received unanimous aldermanic approval for Whalley Avenue — and was officially dropped, for now, from Dixwell Avenue and Grand Avenue.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 11, 2019 5:28 pm
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Grand Avenue and affordability mandates were both dropped from a long-in-the-works rezoning initiative that now advances to the full Board of Alders with only Whalley Avenue slated to be affected.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 21, 2019 2:35 pm
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Long-in-the-works zoning changes designed to promote dense, sustainable, and affordable development along New Haven’s “commercial corridors” moved ahead for Whalley Avenue and Grand Avenue — and have been temporarily dropped for Dixwell Avenue, with neighbors thanking city staff for heeding their concerns about potential gentrification.
A Westport-based investor purchased a 41-unit apartment complex in the Annex from a Waterbury-based investor for $3.95 million, in one of the city’s latest property transactions.