New Haven’s street outreach workers had a new challenge: dealing with kids as young as 11 caught up in community trouble.
They also took on the new challenge of focusing on teenaged girls whose group spats could lead to bigger trouble.
Those two challenges reflect the growing mission of the CT Violence Intervention & Prevention (VIP) project as it passes its fifth anniversary hitting the streets to defuse beefs and mentor young people in New Haven and Hamden.
ConnCORP's Ian Williams, with ConnCAT's Steve Driffin: This redevelopment project represents "a total transformation" of the corridor.
At work on Monday.
Nearby, underground, in the Construction Academy's new classroom.
As a construction crew worked to lay the foundation for “ConnCAT Place on Dixwell,” redevelopers behind the neighborhood-transforming effort gathered in an underground classroom a few hundred feet away to lay the foundation for a more diverse, locally rooted construction workforce.
Fair Haven Health's Dr. Tejada Arias: Medicaid affects every generation.
Politicians and healthcare providers gathered to send a message that cutting Medicaid is a matter of life and death.
They made the case that at stake is the well-being not only of those insured by the program — including roughly 60,000 New Haveners — but of their families and communities as well.
Furlow (at mic): “This is one step towards a more healthy and vibrant city.”
New Haven officially has room for one last smoke shop — which will have to obtain a municipal license, alongside all of the city’s 212 existing tobacco retailers — thanks to new zoning and public health regulations passed by the Board of Alders.
More apartments, fewer bedrooms, coming to Henry St.?
The new owner of a pair of historic Dixwell row houses is seeking permission to reconfigure them into more apartments — raising concern from at least one neighbor about the impact on neighborhood parking.
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Hillhouse juniors observe the reaction of sodium chloride and heat.
Hillhouse chemistry teacher Corazon Libao-De Leon’s lesson on the Bohr model and applying heat to atoms looked different for each of her 12 students — thanks to her embrace of a teaching method that prioritizes individuality and skill mastery rather than just completion.
The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade filled New Haven’s streets Sunday with music, spectacle, and high stepping, including from LBS Spinnerz Arts fire breathers (top photo), Penny Farthing bicycle riders from Freewheeling Connecticut (middle), and (at bottom) Woodland String Band, which was founded in 1926 and made it all the way up from Philly.
Perlich, at 414 Chapel: "Somebody just has to do it."
Former mill building. Future apartments?
Jonathan Perlich walked down the vast, empty fourth floor of a 19th-century mill building — beneath wooden beams and beside exposed brick walls interrupted by window after window after window.
Outside the sun shone on the newly built warehouses and boarded-up factories that stand east of Wooster Square.
Despite a years-long delay, Perlich insisted, this industrial-turned-office-turned-vacant building near the Mill River will be converted into 87 new places to live.
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Samuel Douglas and Nomè SiDone in The Inspector.
The Inspector Yale Repertory Theatre 1120 Chapel St. Through March 29
When you walk into the Yale Repertory Theatre for its production of The Inspector, the first thing you’ll probably notice is the giant streetlamp. Perched just behind orchestra left, the lamp holds up a vast clothesline above the audience’s heads, connecting to an identical streetlamp deep within the whitewashed facade of the stage. The floor itself is covered in a couple inches of poly-fill snow that you just know is destined to get everywhere.
Kica Matos and Rabbi Herb Brockman (at left) with Nury Chavarria in 2017 at Fair Haven's Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal, where she was being housed to prevent federal agents from arresting and deporting her.
Donald Trump is back at raiding immigrant communities and deporting people. So Herb Brockman is back at working with other religious leaders to step in to help targeted immigrants and their families.
Atticus expansion rendering, now rendered obsolete.
The Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) unanimously rejected Atticus Market’s bid to build a second bathroom at its East Rock grocery and convenience store — citing concerns that the proposed 600-square-foot addition would be “incongruous with the neighborhood.”
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A dozen dirt bikes and ATVs seized by city police in May 2020.
Police arrested a 21-year-old who participated in a Long Wharf street takeover — just days after Mayor Justin Elicker testified before the state legislature in support of a bill that would expand penalties for street racing.
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Carlos Reyes-Couvertier with his daughter Andrea 25 years ago.
When Carlos Reyes-Couvertier found his long-lost daughter after 25 years of searching, he felt a surge of joy — while sensing a long road toward healing ahead.
“We have some sense of happiness, but the chapter is not closed yet,” he said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
Farnam's Carol Horsford (right) with CT Tenants Union Prez Hannah Srajer: Don't protest the wrong people.
1455 State's Lauren Palulis (at mic): "Our electric bills have been insanely high."
(Updated) “We have bills here that are sky high,” Lauren Palulis said, as she confronted her temporary landlord with a copy of her apartment’s $702.38 electric bill for the month of January.
“Call the electric company and PURA” if you have complaints about the cost of electricity, replied her landlord for-now, Farnam Realty’s Carol Horsford. Make sure the city’s Building Department properly inspected the complex’s insulation. But don’t protest a group that has no power over the price of power.
That scene — and reckoning over rising utility costs — played out during a protest on the sidewalk in front of Farnam Realty’s downtown office at 107 Whitney Ave.
