Pressure Tightens “Loosie” Prohibition
by | Nov 25, 2016 3:15 pm | Comments (11)
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The counter at Dix.
The operators of a Newhallville corner store have agreed to stop selling single cigarettes. But they’re not happy about it.
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Renewed Sex Stings: Community Policing?
by | Nov 4, 2016 8:20 am | Comments (29)
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Face got into the pick-up truck. The driver ordered a “half and half.” They agreed on a price; Face doesn’t remember if it was $50 or $60. He shifted into gear. Then they heard a siren.
White House Honors Miya’s
by | Oct 31, 2016 1:12 pm | Comments (1)
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DeLauro presents Miya’s founder Yoshiko Lai, whose son was named a White House Champion of Change for Sustainable Seafood, with a Congressional cookbook.
Two of Rosa DeLauro’s grandchildren and one of their friends had the day off from school, but they got schooled nonetheless — in sustainable food sourcing and how to make sushi — while meeting a woman who is making business history.
Indian Small Bites Come To Howe
by | Oct 14, 2016 12:08 pm | Comments (4)
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Chef Indar at House of Naan readies the bites for the Tandoori oven.
The small nuggets of chicken went into the bowl, followed by a garlic and ginger paste. Then a basil spice mix made of olive oil, fresh basil and chili followed.
Eminent Domain Call Sparks Doubts in Dwight
by | Oct 6, 2016 12:07 pm | Comments (9)
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Schiavone: Neighborhoods can take control.
A developer who revived downtown New Haven sparked a ruckus with his neighbors when he suggested reviving other parts of town with the help of eminent domain.
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At 25, Dwight Management Team Hails “Difference Makers”
by | Oct 5, 2016 11:46 am | Comments (0)
Harp: “It’s really all of you who make a difference for our city.”
A Dwight community management team meeting Tuesday night filled the air with gratitude — and pizza.
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Now There’s Room At The “Inn”
by | Sep 15, 2016 8:07 am | Comments (3)
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Fellowship Place Board Chair Pat Luddy, Guerrera, State Rep. Pat Dillon, Soli Johnson, daughter of Birgitta, and clients.
There’s a lot of shame in being homeless, and it’s hard to talk about, said Morgan Harrison. He knows firsthand: He’s overcoming homelessness and on his way to a degree and a job as a railway engineer.
Talking honestly with a counselor — the first step in a solution — can be difficult, too, if you’re crammed with maybe another person into a broom closet-sized office with storage shelves above you, walls so thin everybody hears, and a door that can’t open without banging into a washer and dryer.
Brick Buffed; No Vampires Spotted
by | Aug 19, 2016 2:55 pm | Comments (12)
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Eliudh Rodriguez repoints bricks at 224-6 Edgewood (below).
Millions of dollars are pouring into reviving old buildings along Dwight’s stretch of Edgewood Avenue — with guarantees that low-income families will remain there for decades.
“We Messing Up”
by | Jul 26, 2016 7:40 am | Comments (1)
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Nearly 30 New Haveners stood in the pouring rain to once again proclaim that Black Lives Matter — including when it’s not a cop who pulls a fatal trigger.
Dwight Apartment Expansion Runs Into Opposition
by | Jul 13, 2016 7:35 am | Comments (19)
Attorney Kone (at right).
Ocean Management has taken over properties from local slumlords with the stated intent of doing better — but, at least on Chapel Street, had trouble shedding previous owners’ bad reputations.
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More Contractors Hit With Stop-Work Orders
by | Jun 9, 2016 1:18 pm | Comments (5)
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The orders posted at Dwight Gardens.
The state has slapped contractors working at a second New Haven building project with stop-work orders based on claims of failure to follow worker’s compensation rules.
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Legal Aid Sets Up Shop In School
by | Jun 8, 2016 7:24 am | Comments (1)
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Wayne Silvera, front, thanked the clinic for help with rats and leaks at home.
This past academic year, families of children enrolled at the Troup School had an unconventional setting when seeking legal counsel: a classroom at the school itself.
Hundreds Flock To Dwight Family Fest
by | Jun 6, 2016 7:00 am | Comments (0)
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Flannery at work at the fest.
“What would you like today?” volunteer Cindy Flannery greeted each person in line, handing out free hot dogs and burgers.
Dwight Picks It Up
by | May 16, 2016 7:24 am | Comments (1)
Dancing and chanting, “Pick It Up,” a pioneering crew of future members of the venerable African-American Omega Psi Phi fraternity helped launch the biggest community clean-up of the Dwight neighborhood in a generation.
Sheetrocker Brings It All Back Home
by | May 13, 2016 2:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Smith (right) with Williams on the job at Dwight Gardens.
Newhallville’s Smart at work.
Darren Smith found his way back to the old Dwight Co-ops with a drill and a T‑square in hand so he could help give his childhood housing complex a second chance — along with his own carpentry dreams.
Road Clears For Cycletrack
by | May 5, 2016 2:56 pm | Comments (27)
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Hausladen and Zinn (center, center-right) with neighbors.
Team Hausladen-Zinn might have designed their way into full-on community support for a two-way protected-bike-lane “cycletrack” linking the west side to downtown.
Eureka! Zinn Discovers Bike-Lane Fix
by | Apr 14, 2016 7:32 am | Comments (28)
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Dwight Alder Frank Douglass and Olivia Martson inspect the proposed cycletrack design.
New Haven’s city engineer found a way to please opposing sides in Westville with an updated plan to build two-way protected bike lanes — then moved on to absorb a different flavor of public feedback up Edgewood Avenue in Dwight.
Cofield’s Heroic Acts Of Compassion Remembered
by | Mar 26, 2016 8:47 pm | Comments (3)
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Former AIN clients Lonnie B. Groom and Alonzo Harvin both had tears in their eyes at Elsie Cofield’s wake.
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AIDS pioneer Elsie Cofield, who was laid to rest this weekend.
Alonzo Harvin remembered a “mother figure” who got him off drugs. Mabel Mincey remembered the caring pioneer who came to the hospital when her daughter was suffering with AIDS, back when most people didn’t know or want to know how to help.
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Alders OK “DISTRICT” Deal, Cycle Corridor
by | Mar 8, 2016 8:24 am | Comments (9)
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James Street developersSalinas and O’Brien, at right, with East Rock Alder Jessica Holmes and City Hall’s Matt Smith Monday night.
The Board of Alders gave final approval to a deal to transform the defunct CT Transit bus garage on James Street, and it gave the OK for the city to accept a $1.2 million grant to advance bike ridership on the west side of town.
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Papa’s Comes Down; What Next?
by | Mar 8, 2016 8:20 am | Comments (4)
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A crew bulldozed a condemned former longtime produce market and adjoining apartment house Monday, as the owner and the city debated what should take its place.
Troup’s Troupe Black & Proud
by | Feb 25, 2016 4:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Troup’s Black History troupe
A troupe of Augusta Lewis Troup School middle schoolers took their cues from a 1967 speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr., in which he declared, “I come here tonight and plead with you, believe in yourself and believe that you’re somebody. Be proud of our heritage.”
Fed Up With Slumlord, Dwight Neighbors Quash $2M Grant Quest
by | Feb 4, 2016 4:32 pm | Comments (4)
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Marcus Paca, with Draughn: The community spoke.
Dwight neighbors said thanks but no thanks, for now, to seeking federal millions for a comprehensive revitalization plan — because the plan included a notorious slumlord.
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Tenants Wooed In Land Grab
by | Dec 24, 2015 3:20 pm | Comments (2)
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Ashe at Antillean Manor: No thanks for the fruit basket.
The management company that oversaw the destruction — then partial rebuilding — of Alice Ashe’s apartment complex asked her to sign a petition the other day. She wasn’t buying.
Chapel West 2.0
by | Nov 10, 2015 1:02 pm | Comments (6)
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Oct. 20 ribbon-cutting at the luxury Novella apartments at Chapel and Howe, former red-light district epicenter.
Chapel West has done a remarkable job. Basically replacing the city as much as possible and providing services to us property owners. May I suggest the next step?
Clean-Up Crews Descend On Antillean Manor
by | Nov 2, 2015 4:56 pm | Comments (6)
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A crumbling government-subsidized housing complex in the Dwight neighborhood crawled with power-washers, construction workers and hazmat-suited cleaners Monday in response to an emergency order from the city’s building official.
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