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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.
Continue reading ‘Vaccine Waitlists, But No Walk-Ins, At CVS’
by | Feb 25, 2021 3:40 pm | Comments (13)
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Neighbors, officials on 2020 fact-finding Whalley-safety walk.
More street lights. Outdoor dining. More crosswalks. Bike and bus lanes.
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Chris Murphy in New Haven Monday.
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.
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Linwood “Woody” Lacy found his wings, and never gave up on his cooking dreams — which spawned a colorful spin on surf and turf.
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Quentin on the sidewalk after tasing.
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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Kimberly Sewell-Poole inside More Amour.
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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by | Oct 30, 2020 10:55 am | Comments (2)
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One of the DEKK Group’s latest Dunkin’ Donuts buys, at 323 Whalley.
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Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee king Konstantino Skrivanos (third from left) at 2018 charity gala.
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.
by | Sep 25, 2020 2:36 am | Comments (35)
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Protest dance party breaks out at Whalley and Sherman.
Marching on Chapel Street near Park Street.
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!”
by | Aug 19, 2020 3:40 pm | Comments (13)
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Officer Borisova out recruiting on Wednesday.
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.
Continue reading ‘Police Bring Recruitment Push To The People’
by | Aug 5, 2020 5:19 pm | Comments (1)
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Wambolt on the job Wednesday on Prospect Street.
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.
by | Jul 15, 2020 6:14 pm | Comments (47)
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Crime scene tape left at site on one of Tuesday night’s homicides.
Homicide victim Howard Lewis (center) with family in early July.
Melissa LyTrelle: “The devil was busy in our city last night.”
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.
by | Jul 14, 2020 10:05 am | Comments (27)
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Paul Ciccarelli, newly freed from Whalley jail.
Protesters rallying down Hudson Street.
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.
Continue reading ‘“Free Them All” Rally Targets Whalley Jail’
by | May 11, 2020 12:06 pm | Comments (11)
“Look at that,” the narrator says as a man on screen pops in to a car parked at the Citgo gas station on Whalley Avenue.
by | Apr 27, 2020 1:46 pm | Comments (4)
Sheila Masterson, a leading advocate for Whalley Avenue merchants and neighborhood improvement, has died at the age of 72.
by | Apr 24, 2020 6:23 pm | Comments (16)
Williams, Carter and Pittman Friday on “Dateline.”
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.
Continue reading ‘They’re Ready To Serve To Prevent Stimulus Repeat’
by | Feb 28, 2020 8:46 am | Comments (13)
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City Engineer Giovanni Zinn, Lt. Sean Maher, and city transit chief Doug Hausladen: The city is responding.
Urban planner Carolyn Lusch takes notes at Thursday’s meeting.
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.
by | Feb 26, 2020 4:11 pm | Comments (17)
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A dark stretch of Whalley and Ella T. Grasso Boulevard.
WASSD President Allen McCollum (right), with City Traffic Project Engineer Bijan Notghi: Too many lights out.
Is Whalley Avenue too dark?
A walk down the west side commercial corridor revealed the answer to be … well, it depends whom you ask.
Continue reading ‘Whalley Walked In The Dark (& Some Light)’
by | Feb 21, 2020 4:14 pm | Comments (6)
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A 26-year-old New Haven woman drove into a utility pole Friday morning and ended up in the hospital.
by | Feb 5, 2020 1:32 pm | Comments (13)
Long-vacant lot at 352 Whalley Ave.
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WEB Chair Nadine Horton (with city development deputy Steve Fontana): “There is a lot of opportunity here.”
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.
by | Feb 3, 2020 4:54 pm | Comments (2)
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Thomas Jackson at St. Luke’s, where he now serves as pastor.
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.
Continue reading ‘Activist-Turned-Priest Returns In New Role’
by | Jan 24, 2020 8:51 am | Comments (28)
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Ortiz, at right, with LCI staffer Maggie Fernandez.
There was a new face in the familiar crowd at this month’s Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hill (WEB) community management team meeting: A deputy fire chief.
by | Jan 23, 2020 1:32 pm | Comments (10)
A 55-year-old man was struck and killed by a car on Whalley Avenue Wednesday night in the city’s second fatal car crash in eight days.
by | Jan 8, 2020 8:58 am | Comments (2)
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Whalley Avenue looking west towards Orchard Street.
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.
by | Dec 11, 2019 5:28 pm | Comments (6)
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Grand Avenue looking east from Olive Street: No longer part of the plan.
Rezoning skeptics at Tuesday night’s hearing.
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.
Continue reading ‘Biz Renewal Plan OK’d; Grand, Affordability Dropped’
by | Nov 21, 2019 2:35 pm | Comments (7)
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Dixwell rezoning skeptics Jayuan Carter, Jonny Shively, Patricia Solomon, Lillie Chambers, Carla Chappel, Lisa McKnight.
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.