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The former Walt Cleaner’s at 310 Dixwell, now owned by the city.
The city has purchased the former Walt’s Cleaners building on Dixwell Avenue for $150,000 as part of a broader plan to revitalize that commercial corridor’s small business landscape — a plan that a top city official said is now all the more critical, and all the more uncertain, as the Covid-19 pandemic has shut down wide swaths of New Haven’s economy.
Trillions of dollars are flowing from Washington and through the state Capitol to help keep struggling families and businesses afloat amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Will they flow all the way down into urban neighborhoods like Dixwell and Newhallville?
Rodney Williams is watching closely — and is skeptical.
Farnam Center IT Manager James Mitchell at that organization’s new computer lab.
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Thursday night’s CSEP meeting.
The city is accelerating plans to set up free Wi-Fi in Newhallville in an attempt to provide high-quality Internet access to New Haveners stuck at home during the Covid-19 pandemic, and as part of a broader goal of bridging the city’s “digital divide.”
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Mar 27, 2020 10:31 am
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Childcare organizer Georgia Goldburn: Covid-19 could kill up to half the centers.
If child care centers stay closed to slow the spread of Covid-19, one-fifth to one-half may never reopen.
Georgia Goldburn offered this dire forecast on Wednesday evening as she asked for local support for the nonprofit providers association she cofounded, Cercle.
In particular, she was hoping the crisis would prompt the Board of Alders to allocate the organization a larger share of federal Community Development Block Grant (CBDG) dollars than originally planned.
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Mar 26, 2020 7:37 pm
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Frank and Angela Bernardo decided that as the city’s ambulance workers and ER nurses put their lives on the line to treat Covid-19 pandemic patients, they would help keep them fueled in the classic New Haven style.
At work: Abe St. Pierre checks Hygrade CNC milling machine.
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Pedro Soto Wednesday on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.”
A local manufacturer continues driving to his “essential” job amid the Covid-19 lockdown — and is working with his colleagues statewide to help hospital docs and nurses have enough face masks to stay safe.
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Mar 25, 2020 1:14 pm
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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal took a quick break from helping negotiate the largest financial relief package in American history to describe for hundreds of concerned New Haven business owners how the roughly $2 trillion prospective deal seeks to keep them, their workers, and the entire economy afloat amid the Covid-19 shutdown.“We’re trying to add engines to the airplane while we’re flying it, to change the wheels while we’re driving,” he said about Congress’s response to the unprecedented urgency of the dual public health and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
With chairs stacked on tables after Gov. Ned Lamont ordered all dine-in restaurant service closed on March 16, most Hamden restaurateurs have managed to stay afloat for now with deliveries and takeout. But they’re scraping the bottom of the pan, they said, and some may soon be baking their last batches and flipping their last pies.
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Mar 17, 2020 10:19 am
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Rendering of proposed 101 College tower.
The city’s parking authority unanimously voted in support of a proposed deal that would grant the developer of a planned new downtown biosciences tower between 400 and 550 monthly parking permits at two publicly-owned garages for upwards of 80 years.
The vote, and the meeting, took place via teleconference in what one of the authority’s attorneys predicted might be “the new normal for a while” — public meetings rendered virtual to stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Qulen Wright at Ninth Square Market II Caribbean Style, one of the restaurants pivoting to take-out.
A local professor has begun a Google Doc to help inform people how to support restaurants that are pivoting to take-out and delivery amid a statewide order to close dine-in service.
Movie theaters, restaurants, bars, and all other local establishments that can fit 16 more people inside at a time have been ordered by the mayor to cut their occupancy levels in half starting Sunday in the city’s latest efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
The emergency order will remain in place through April 15.
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Mar 13, 2020 8:29 am
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Free bowls of ramen at Menya-Gumi.
Customers line up outside of the new Orange Street restaurant.
Three hundred free bowls of ramen at a new Japanese restaurant on Orange Street trumped local lunch-goers’ concerns about going out to eat during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, as local restaurateurs scrambled to prepare for tough months ahead as people hunker down at home and public events are canceled.
Questioners at Tuesday night’s meeting (clockwise from top left); Dawn Wright, Kerry Ellington, Deniqua Washington, Prakeen Doodala.
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One proposed layout for a new Dixwell Plaza.
Dixwell neighbors, business owners, and community organizers pressed the local developers behind Dixwell Plaza’s planned $200 million overhaul to prioritize affordable housing and to minimize the displacement of existing retail, in a project that will be led in part by an architect who helped design Washington D.C.‘s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
New stoplights on George Street, lights that sync with each other on MLK, new walk signals with countdowns on Derby Avenue: These are parts of a suite of upgrades that could come to Dwight with the Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned neuroscience center.
It happened about nine years ago — - three months after Dominick Splendorio opened his dream eatery, Zafra, a Cuban-themed restaurant and rum bar on Orange Street just above Elm.
The place was packed, having already developed a word-of-mouth following. A warm, gracious feeling spread among the guests, between the servers and the customers.
Amid the hectic serving of mojitos and ropa vieja, Splendorio’s then bartender tapped him on the shoulder and said, “Stop. Look up. See what you’ve created?”
Dwight neighbors have fleshed out details of a plan to avoid growing pains with the Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned neuroscience center: smooth traffic flow and welcome more employees to the neighborhood
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Mar 5, 2020 3:22 pm
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Industrial Flow Solutions’s newly acquired Fair Haven site. Below: Director of Operations Matt Blackwell promises capital investment.
An industrial pump manufacturer plans to make at least $385,000 in capital improvements and hire 14 new employees at its recently acquired Fair Haven factory in exchange for the city giving up its right to take back a 1.84-acre undeveloped parking lot on the site.
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Mar 4, 2020 9:03 am
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New Haven newcomer Siiri Luukkonen scours the CVS shelves.
Siiri Luukkonen sheepishly grabbed a few bottles of hand sanitizer from a nearly empty shelf at the CVS Pharmacy downtown.
She was one of the lucky ones, as fretful shoppers cleared store shelves citywide of products that may — or, according to experts, may not — help them avoid coming down with the virus now called COVID-19, aka coronavirus.
For the next three months, New Haveners can buy leggings and sports bras in Wooster Square created by a Quinnipiac student –- and help reuse plastic waste in the process.
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Feb 27, 2020 1:17 pm
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(Opinion) —Sitting in a primary school classroom in rural Nicaragua during a week of 98 degree days, one thinks a lot about climate change and the future. Just how hot will it get? Will these children be here or will their families need to flee increasing heat, flooding and droughts?
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Feb 26, 2020 2:25 pm
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The current dirt pile at 87 Union St.: Soon to transform into nearly 300 apartments (below).
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The New York City-based developers of a planned new 299-unit, mixed-use Wooster Square apartment complex recently closed on a $50 million construction loan that should allow them to resume work at the site later this week.
