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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.
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by | Jun 14, 2021 9:00 am | Comments (1)
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James Cramer, at left, with Beatrice at DuBois-Walton meet-and-greet.
James Cramer popped a question Sunday that will help him — and perhaps other undecided voters — figure out which mayoral candidate to vote for this year.
by | Jun 11, 2021 5:47 pm | Comments (15)
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Qinxuan Pan (right) with attorney William Gerace in court on June 1.
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Whyte: Why shoot my house?
• Runs 96 pages.
• Blood evidence cited to support murder charge.
• Pan linked to other, nonfatal shootings in town, including of deputy school superintendent’s house.
• North Haven cops let Pan go — even though they knew license plate on his car was stolen.
• New Haven dispatcher later sent out incorrect bulletin for “Black” suspect.
• New details of Jiang murder revealed.
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by | Jun 4, 2021 11:50 am | Comments (0)
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Shooting scene on Lilac Street Thursday night.
During a night when two more New Haveners got shot, two mayoral candidates invoked different years to criticize each other’s handling of violent crime.
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by | May 25, 2021 9:48 am | Comments (5)
New Asst. Supt. Viviana Conner.
The Board of Education approved the hiring of two top educators — after debates on the right time to hire administrators, and whether New Haven is being proactive enough for English learners.
by | May 18, 2021 9:25 am | Comments (3)
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Sophomores tune into their virtual class from their Hillhouse classroom.
Hillhouse sophomore Jazmin Townsend leaned forward in her desk to whisper an observation from the text into her microphone.
Half the class was sitting in the room with her. Half was online. They all contemplated how to keep the virtual conversation going after they heard her say: “I think one interesting fact is that after it was cooked, the dumpling became alive.”
by | Apr 13, 2021 8:29 am | Comments (6)
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Shafiq Abdussabur on the campaign trail with grandchild Aminah.
$8,358 in six weeks.
by | Mar 31, 2021 3:13 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
by | Mar 12, 2021 6:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Beecher gym teacher explains a game at Friday’s assembly.
Exactly a year after New Haven schools closed in response to Covid-19, L. W. Beecher students and staff Friday reflected on all that happened — and celebrated the fact that they made it through.
by | Feb 15, 2021 4:00 pm | Comments (7)
Shafiq Abdussabur.
A diverse cast of neighbors from one of New Haven’s most diverse neighborhoods gathered virtually Monday to help formally launch an alder candidacy.
by | Feb 9, 2021 6:41 pm | Comments (18)
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Shafiq Abdussabur, visiting voters Tuesday on Moreland Road.
One of the lawn signs Abdussabur has helped distribute in Beaver Hills. This one was on Ellsworth Ave.
Shafiq Abdussabur, an outspoken advocate for community policing during his two decades as a New Haven cop, has launched an aldermanic campaign centered around public safety and community cohesion in a crime-rattled neighborhood.
by | Feb 8, 2021 2:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Chief Reyes (center) at Monday police presser.
Police are following leads in two of the violent episodes that have rattled the city over the past week — a school carjacking and the shooting up of a school official’s home.
by | Feb 7, 2021 11:05 am | Comments (21)
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Asst. Superintendent Whyte, at a September back-to-school presser.
New Haven Public Schools Asst. Superintendent Paul Whyte was in his living room Friday night when, “all of a sudden, we heard the pops.”
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by | Jan 25, 2021 5:27 pm | Comments (4)
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Lee Chamberlain gets vaccinated by retired doc Soni Clubb (below).
Retired emergency medicine doctor Soni Clubb spent part of last March in bed sick with Covid-19.
Ten months later, she’s back on the front lines of the pandemic — helping vaccinate the elderly against the novel coronavirus at the newly opened Floyd Little Athletic Center mass vaccination site next to Hillhouse High School.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Mass Vaccination Begins With 250 “Soft Opening” Appointments’
by | Jan 22, 2021 6:33 pm | Comments (6)
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The police academy’s latest graduating class.
Sixteen recruits graduated from the city’s police academy to become rookie cops during a ceremony held partly online, partly in-person at Hillhouse High School.
by | Jan 22, 2021 12:30 pm | Comments (26)
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Health Director Maritza Bond shows off new mass vaccination site.
Vaccination stations set up in the fieldhouse’s corridor.
A new gym-turned-vaccination site co-run by the city and Yale New Haven Health is slated to open Monday at Hillhouse High School’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse — where nurses and medical volunteers will administer up to 1,400 shots each day, seven days a week.
by | Jan 13, 2021 10:15 am | Comments (3)
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Health Director Bond gets vaccinated on Meadow Street.
Sixty shots per hour.
That’s how quickly the city anticipates it will be able to administer Covid-19 vaccines as the immunization rollout pushes ahead, according to the New Haven Health Department’s (NHHD) newly released Covid-19 mass vaccination plan.
by | Jan 6, 2021 10:11 pm | Comments (8)
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Natreece Mayes with shot-up car; shattered back window (below).
Hours after a daylight shoot-out in Beaver Hills, cops across town arrested a gun-toter they believe fired some of the bullets.
The dozens of flying bullets shattered not only car windows, but neighbors’ feeling of safety.
by | Nov 20, 2020 2:41 pm | Comments (32)
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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.
by | Nov 1, 2020 6:51 pm | Comments (21)
Neighbors Abdussabur, Fenton, with new sign: We stand together.
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Synagogue president Sandman: “The entire community is shaken up.”
A Sabbath encounter with a machete-wielding man outside their synagogue has Orthodox Jews wondering if it’s safe to walk their streets — and neighbors of all backgrounds vowing to work together for change.
by | Oct 30, 2020 1:21 pm | Comments (15)
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Bartlett (left), Winfield campaigning in Beaver Hills.
A high-profile crime wave brought a State Senate campaign to Beaver Hills, as candidates made their final pitches to voters in the run-up to Tuesday’s election.
by | Oct 28, 2020 5:39 pm | Comments (17)
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Nir Bongart with state legislators Fasano and Candelora at Wednesday presser. Yeshiva students, below, attended as well.
Send us more cops.
Crime-weary Beaver Hills neighbors sent that message loud and clear at a Norton Street press conference that sought to keep the spotlight on a recent uptick in violence.
Continue reading ‘Lawmakers Amplify Beaver Hills Crime Call’
by | Oct 23, 2020 2:42 pm | Comments (17)
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Avi Meer: This has to stop.
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Nir Bongart, after Thursday night’s attack.
A day after after Beaver Hills pleaded with the mayor and top cops for help, two more crimes unsettled the neighborhood — and the police announced two arrests they consider tied to a spike in violence.
Those were the latest developments in a simmering confrontation between one of the New Haven neighborhoods hit by increased violence this year and officials struggling to contain it with a reduced police force.
Continue reading ‘2 Arrested, Crimes Continue In Beaver Hills’
by | Oct 22, 2020 5:46 pm | Comments (0)
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Superintendent Tracey gets tested at King Robinson.
“It doesn’t hurt, but it just felt funny, like the test shouldn’t be all the way up my nose,” New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey said with a smile after getting swabbed for Covid-19.
by | Oct 22, 2020 11:32 am | Comments (14)
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Neighbors at Sunday’s initial gathering.
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Reyes at Wednesday meeting.
Police Chief Otoniel Reyes told 100 Beaver Hills residents worried about an uptick in violence not to go out patrolling the neighborhood themselves, but instead to keep pushing his department to do better.