by | Dec 10, 2018 8:41 am | Comments (2)
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Sickle Cell Disease Association’s new HQ and community center.
Rawlings at 1389 Chapel, which thieves had stripped down to studs.
A first-of-its-kind community center for those who battle sickle cell anemia will be named for former First Lady Michelle Obama and, according to plans, open for business by the new year.
Continue reading ‘“Michelle’s House” Will Tackle Sickle Cell’
by | Nov 2, 2018 1:36 pm | Comments (2)
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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy kicks off his GOTV blitz at the Courtyard by Marriott on Whalley Ave. …
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy had two goals during a trip to New Haven on the Friday before Election Day: meet business owners and encourage people to get out and vote.
by | Oct 29, 2018 12:14 pm | Comments (0)
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Antillean Manor.
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Architect Henry Schadler provides overview of plan.
The planned new buyer of another failed Dwight housing co-op is lining up state money to rebuild it, with the same number of homes plus added common space.
Continue reading ‘Antillean Manor Inches Closer To New Life’
by | Oct 24, 2018 8:50 am | Comments (4)
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Chyrise Holmes and daughter Riley, who can now move.
The health department dragged its feet, failed to follow up. Then the housing authority swept in and took action.
Now a West River mom can move to a new apartment where she needn’t worry about her toddler getting lead paint poisoning.
Meanwhile, her current landlord is asking why she never got notice of a lead problem in the first place so she could fix it.
by | Oct 9, 2018 7:58 am | Comments (13)
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260 Humphrey St.
A three-family East Rock house sold for more than twice what it cost in 2005, while a nonprofit dropped a decaying Newhallville single-family home that it couldn’t find enough money to rebuild.
by | Oct 8, 2018 8:00 am | Comments (1)
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DeLauro, Dillon, Harp, Cole, and Kevin Lembo at APNH’s Saturday gathering.
Pride spilled off a small porch on Chapel Street as New Haveners gathered to celebrate the past and the future of APNH – formerly AIDS Project New Haven, newly rechristened “A Place to Nourish your Health.”
Continue reading ‘AIDS Pioneer Group Gets New Name, Mission’
by | Oct 3, 2018 1:40 pm | Comments (1)
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West Hills graffitied wall before and after.
The following was submitted by LCI Neighborhood Specialist Jillian Driscoll
Every fall, incoming freshman are expected to participate in a Day of Service at Southern Connecticut State University and this year about 200 fanned out over the city to make an impact.
by | Sep 28, 2018 12:08 pm | Comments (11)
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The Walter Camp house as it exists today.
After more than a year of back and forth with the City Plan Department, the historic home of Walter Camp will be converted from office space into apartments. But only 13 apartments.
Continue reading ‘Apartments Coming To Historic Walter Camp Home’
by | Sep 26, 2018 2:16 pm | Comments (3)
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Foot and ankle surgeon Dr. Ray Walls and operating room nurse Jessica DeLucia celebrate the new OR digs.
When she was an undergraduate on the women’s crew team back in 1976, Mary O’Connor and her 18 teammates one day became sick and tired of shivering after practice. Yale University had not gotten around, under Title IX, to provide women their own lockerroom.
So one day they marched up to the powers that be at Yale athletics, stripped off their sweats to show just what shivering, cold, and naked looks like.
The next semester and a New York Times story later, women had their own locker room at Yale, and O’Connor had learned the power of team work.
by | Jul 30, 2018 4:12 pm | Comments (4)
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James Rawlings at 1389 Chapel.
A house at the corner of Chapel and Orchard streets stood lifeless for years before Yale New Haven Hospital invited a community group to breathe new life into it, for a cause.
by | Jul 17, 2018 1:43 pm | Comments (0)
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City to tenant: don’t chew on the lead paint.
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Inspector Jomika Bogan.
The city’s Health Department has found lead paint hazards at three different city apartments, all of which currently house children with elevated blood lead levels.
by | Jun 4, 2018 9:02 am | Comments (0)
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When Jervon Ogman, 8, agreed to go to the Dwight Community Fair, he didn’t realize scaling a 50-foot rock wall was part of the deal.
by | Apr 27, 2018 8:05 am | Comments (0)
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The Little Free Library at Dwight Substation is installed and open for business.
The Dwight police substation at 130 Edgewood Ave. is sandwiched between a school and the “A Walk In Truth” bookstore — two places where a kids can find a good story. Now substation, too, will be a hub that encourages the love of reading.
by | Apr 20, 2018 7:48 am | Comments (3)
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596-598 George.
The city’s anti-blight agency now owns and has a plan in place to convert a vacant, historic duplex at the corner of Orchard Street and George Street into six units of new housing as part of a larger effort to bring new affordable housing to vacant lots.
by | Apr 17, 2018 3:35 pm | Comments (25)
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189 Dwight St., target of LCI fine.
Scott Healy.
The owner of an historic Dwight Street home that has sat empty and derelict for two years has teamed up with a local architectural designer and historian to restore the property to its architectural roots.
by | Apr 10, 2018 2:59 pm | Comments (20)
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The backyard at 68 Mechanic St.
The city found a Mechanic Street home owned by two Guilford-based landlords to be “unfit for human occupancy” due to an absence of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, unpermitted and uninspected interior renovations, and the illegal conversion of a two-family dwelling into five separate rental units.
by | Apr 5, 2018 8:45 am | Comments (39)
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Alders hear public budget testimony Wednesday night.
Doyens slashes away.
Opposed to a tax increase, Gary Doyens slashed New Haven’s proposed city budget Wednesday night. He zapped a new social media expert. Canceled the “Escape” teen center’s lease. Killed a health clinic expansion. Took an axe to the police force.
by | Apr 4, 2018 4:34 pm | Comments (7)
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Antillean Manor.
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Walker: “Optimistic,” “proud” of deal.
The resident-owners at one of the city’s last cooperative housing developments have reached an agreement to sell the crumbling property to a Meriden-based real estate company, which plans to temporarily relocate them, demolish and rebuild the housing complex, and retain the same number of subsidized affordable housing units for anyone interested in returning to the new facility.
by | Feb 26, 2018 8:46 am | Comments (0)
Community groups staged a march in the New Haven’s Dwight neighborhood Sunday aimed at bringing attention to gun violence in the city’s neighborhoods.
Continue reading ‘Marchers Say “Never Again” To Gun Violence’
by | Feb 1, 2018 8:43 am | Comments (0)
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Dr. Stephen Stanley.
Stephen Stanley braced himself for a barrage of student questions. And, sure enough, came this one: “What’s the grossest part of being a dentist?”
by | Dec 6, 2017 1:13 pm | Comments (28)
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Alders prez Walker-Myers breaks news to neighbors Tuesday night.
New Haveners will receive a slightly higher mid-year car tax bill in January 2018 as the city looks to stay within budget without cutting social services, in the face of reduced state aid.
by | Oct 4, 2017 8:10 am | Comments (28)
Chair Florita Gillespie: Tonight we’re voting for this.
The city’s Redevelopment Agency won hard-earned community support on Tuesday night for its bid to use eminent domain to hold slumlords accountable in the Dwight neighborhood.
by | Sep 23, 2017 12:41 pm | Comments (47)
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Green smoke from the flash bang officers used in the capture of the shooter Saturday.
A 51-year-old New Haven man is in custody and being treated for his injuries after shooting and critically injuring his wife and shooting two police officers Saturday.
by | Sep 18, 2017 8:05 am | Comments (19)
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Antillean Manor residents Rupert Muriel, Gideon Alikor, Jaclyn Hanson and Cola Harrington at coop board meeting.
A developer’s plans to raze and rebuild the rent-subsidized Antillean Manor complex will take place a year later than originally planned and no longer include market-rate units.
by | Aug 28, 2017 3:04 pm | Comments (17)
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Isaac Kinity at his home, which he could lose.
Isaac Newton Kinity has learned firsthand what happens when big banks decide to force homeowners to buy expensive extra insurance — and dig them into deeper and deeper holes that may lead them to lose their houses.