by | Sep 26, 2007 2:05 pm | Comments (11)
Fortunately, the sprawl is contained to the inside of one building, in photos like the one above. Immediately outside, in real life, a different story has developed, an answer to sprawl, as Dolores Hayden observed on a walk inside the block.
by | Sep 26, 2007 1:52 pm | Comments (5)
Eric Traester said he feels like he’s living in a prison. Despite the quaint, well-kept brick front of his Dwight apartment building, every time he looks out his window he’s confronted with a looming, shiny metal fence he feels is more suited to a “white-collar prison complex” than a residential neighborhood. When he slips out his back door and through the Miya’s‑adjacent parking lot to Howe Street, he’s confronted by another fence with three rows of razor wire.
by | Sep 12, 2007 10:36 am | Comments (8)
One side had paid workers as well as veteran vote-pullers practically dragging people to the polls. The other relied on volunteers, some greener and more timid. That made the difference in a dramatic rematch between the Democratic machine and New Haven’s unions in the Dwight neighborhood Tuesday.
by | Sep 5, 2007 10:13 am | Comments (3)
Two candidates seeking to become Dwight’s next alderman offered contrasting views on the Yale-New Haven Hospital dispute at a candidates’ debate.
by | Aug 20, 2007 9:19 am | Comments (0)
by | Jul 30, 2007 9:27 am | Comments (4)
A network of green spaces. Long-distance bike paths. A facelift for Whalley Avenue. These were some of the ideas architects concocted after listening to Dwight residents describe the neighborhood of their dreams.
by | Jun 11, 2007 7:44 pm | Comments (0)
The woman on the right came from Washington, D.C., to the produce section of the Whalley Avenue Shaw’s to declare New Haven an “Urban Market Pathfinder.”
by | Jun 6, 2007 10:39 am | Comments (1)
The main topic on the table at Tuesday’s meeting of the Dwight Central Management Team was security. Residents listened to Alderman Yusuf Shah talk about how New Haven can temper the recent rash of shootings and to Eugenie V. Schwartz from Yale New Haven Health about emergency preparedness during hurricane season.
by | May 2, 2007 1:21 pm | Comments (0)
This Boston real estate developer said he wants to redevelop a plot of land along Legion and Howard Avenues, but would not tell Dwight Community Management Team members exactly what he wants to build there.
by | Feb 7, 2007 9:29 am | Comments (0)
The cops had progress to report on crime, but others at a Dwight community meeting, like West River Alderman Yusuf Ibn Shah (pictured), focused on the continuing “chaos.”
by | Dec 7, 2006 11:00 am | Comments (2)
Mayor DeStefano was in Nevada yesterday, and look what happened: This Timothy Dwight School second-grader took over his chair. His classmates, meanwhile, invaded the Board of Aldermen and passed a law banning the sale of chocolate in New Haven.
by | Dec 6, 2006 7:53 am | Comments (0)
“We don’t want people telling us what’s good for our community,” declared Florita Jones, chair of the Dwight Central Management Team, at Tuesday’s monthly meeting on Edgewood Avenue. Jones leveled the comment in pointed response to a program outlined by a consultant from the neighborhood next door, Jerry Poole of the West River Neighborhood Services Corporation.
Continue reading ‘Dwight to West River: We Have Our Own Ideas’
by | Nov 9, 2006 10:24 am | Comments (0)
She lives on Winthrop Avenue and attends Troup Middle School. He goes to Yale Drama School. They met Wednesday at a festive pre-opening night party for a new play about competitive high-school girls — her new play. Click here to read about a delightful comedy, and an inspiring backstory.
by | Oct 20, 2006 8:14 am | Comments (3)
“Wooo, Ralphie!” cried a local fireman as New Haven’s perennial underdog candidate, Ralph Ferrucci, appeared on the plasma screen at Rudy’s Bar & Grill — aka campaign headquarters — in a nationally watched U.S. Senate debate broadcast Thursday night.
Continue reading ‘Hey, Ralph: How Can You Be Two Places At Once?’
by | Oct 4, 2006 8:29 am | Comments (3)
Moving ahead with plans to revitalize the wasteland (pictured) where the Oak Street neighborhood once stood, city officials unveiled a conceptual plan for the abandoned Route 34 corridor Tuesday night that includes a mix of housing, retail space, biomedical/ office space, and three parking garages.
Continue reading ‘Now, An Automotive Wasteland. Tomorrow, A Neighborhood?’
by | Sep 22, 2006 4:16 pm | Comments (4)
Here’s what some young people spent Friday morning in New Haven doing: attending funerals, one hour and two blocks apart, for two more young men killed in the city’s recent spree of gun violence. Barbara Fair (pictured) and her children knew both boys; she had this to say.
Continue reading ‘2 Shooting Victims Buried 2 Blocks, 1 Hour Apart’
by | Sep 13, 2006 8:38 am | Comments (5)
This rundown Dwight Street building has been empty for over a decade, attracting nighttime vagrants and creating a pocket of darkness on a bright and pleasant street. Now, to the delight of neighbors, Neighborhood Housing Services wants to fix it up.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Repair Could Repel The “Creepy-Crawlies”’
by | Sep 11, 2006 7:02 am | Comments (1)
E.J. Evans brought his game face to the Timothy Dwight School basketball courts Saturday. After a loss in the semi-finals of last year’s Dwight Neighborhood Youth Explosion tournament, he came back ready to go all the way. But Evans recognized that the tournament was not all about winning: “I like it because when there’s nothing else to do, it keeps us out of trouble,” he said.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Teens “Explode”—on the Basketball Court’
by | Sep 5, 2006 9:35 am | Comments (1)
Sunday isn’t just church day at Immanuel Baptist at Chapel and Day streets. It’s also soup kitchen day. Every Sunday volunteers assist Immanuel Baptist Church’s soup kitchen with serving dinner to the homeless and underprivileged from the New Haven area.
by | Aug 15, 2006 4:28 pm | Comments (0)
As students let tears flow for 13 year-old Justus Suggs at a funeral service, preachers brought young men into the spotlight with two messages: Teens, we believe in you; and parents, stand up to the teens — fight the “devil” — in your homes.
by | Aug 10, 2006 5:08 pm | Comments (0)
Sixteen-year old Jaleesa Freeman certainly got the attention of Lattrel Jones and Ja’leah Swift as she helped transform the vest pocket park at Chapel and Day streets into an outdoor learning center about the New Haven watershed.
Continue reading ‘Solar Youth Bring “Wheel of Water” To The Park’
by | Aug 8, 2006 4:17 pm | Comments (0)
In the first hour after the polls opened at 6 a.m., things were pretty quiet at Dwight School in New Haven, polling place for the 23rd ward. Poll workers Carletta Sanders, Aliva Mabry and John Jones (left to right) prepared for what they hope would be a steady stream of voters. But one man came by who knew the importance of the day.
by | Aug 8, 2006 3:22 pm | Comments (0)
When Gina Jackson (at right) encountered Daniene Cordy on Howard Avenue Tuesday morning, she made an impassioned pitch to head to the polls to vote for Ned Lamont for U.S. senator. Read on to see how Jackson ended up there — amid a statewide race that has uncharacteristically focused on the black vote — and how Cordy reacted to the pitch.
by | Aug 4, 2006 9:20 am | Comments (1)
After Steve Tarquino (left) moved from a shelter to his own apartment, buddies like Benny the Bum (top photo) moved in with him. Tarquino gave the public a tour of his apartment as part of an announcement about the next step in New Haven’s ambitious quest to end homelessness.
by | Jul 6, 2006 1:17 pm | Comments (0)
The city’s teens just got a new place to hang out this summer as part of the city’s Open Schools initiative: The Dwight neighborhood YMCA.