1 Corner, 2 Days, 2 Crashes
by | May 9, 2022 3:58 pm | Comments (17)
Sven Martson sent in these videos of crashes that took place this weekend at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Dwight Street.
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Battle Of The Chefs Promotes Community In Dwight
by | May 2, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (2)
Eat Up's Isaiah Pinion, Bryan Burkett-Thompson, and Kristen Threatt.
It was a battle of Afrotina’s Latin-flavored southern cuisine versus Eat Up’s Italian-inspired soul food cuisine: Chef Ohioma Odihirin’s Sazon chicken took on Chef Bryan Burkett-Thompson’s mumbo chicken, and Chef O’s homemade Voodoo sauce vied with Chef BB’s pineapple salsa.
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Today’s Special: Skyler’s Rice Noodles In Garlic Chili Sauce
by | Apr 28, 2022 1:00 pm | Comments (1)
Co-owner and head chef Skyler Melton at work inside the newly opened vegan-vegetarian Cannon pub on Dwight Street.
Cannon's vegan rice noodles in garlic chili sauce.
This is the story of a vegan-vegetarian, Arsenal-loving, English-style pub featuring rice noodles in garlic chili sauce.
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Grandpa Boyd's Toes Froze
by | Mar 28, 2022 4:38 pm | Comments (2)
Robert Boyd and Dasani Scott.
Robert Boyd stepped into his Dallas Cowboys slippers and took his granddaughter out on Orchard Street to the school bus stop — unaware they’d be staying there for close to an hour.
When the bus arrived, Boyd was grateful for another day that Dasani can attend Nathan Hale across town.
"Lapse" Eviction OK'd After Sec. 8 Debate
by | Mar 25, 2022 1:10 pm | Comments (10)
Johnathan Cruz outside his Beers Street apartment building.
Johnathan Cruz is ready to leave Connecticut and return to New York City.
He just wishes that a state judge had given him and his 3‑year-old son a bit more time to vacate their Beers Street apartment.
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Park Case Q: Might Trees Remain Standing?
by | Mar 10, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (7)
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Draft rendering of new apartment building.
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Kensington Playground.
Maybe the developer will build around the trees?
A city-hired attorney offered that defense in state court during the latest hearing about whether or not New Haven violated a state environmental law by agreeing to sell a Dwight public greenspace.
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Sickle Cell Civil Rights Call Renewed
by | Mar 2, 2022 2:44 pm | Comments (0)
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SCDAA CT/Michelle's House President and CEO James Rawlings with Board Chair Sharon Jones at poster unveiling.
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TCB Pressed On Preserving History In Kensington Redo Phase 2
by | Feb 11, 2022 10:42 am | Comments (3)
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Kensington Park: decidedly not the subject of Thursday night's meeting, despite efforts of some attendees
A second set of Kensington Square subsidized apartments is one step closer to renovations, as the city reviews the project’s effects on the Dwight neighborhood’s historical memory.
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Grill Goes Cold After Inspector's Visit
by | Feb 9, 2022 3:23 pm | Comments (5)
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Black Corner Store owners Kenia and Michael Massey with temporarily sidelined "Afrotina" fusion chef Ohioma Odihirin.
The word on Edgewood Avenue Wednesday was: The health department was here. Now the grill is cold.
Dwight Neighbor Seeks Help Mending Fences
by | Feb 4, 2022 4:16 pm | Comments (11)
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Linda Gilliams and Westin Robinson in their home of 20 years.
Last bits of back fence not stolen or demolished.
When Westin Robinson heard the whir of a power drill coming from her backyard earlier this week, she walked outside to see a stranger scampering off with the second-to-last remaining slab of her back fence.
She didn’t bother shouting after him. She sighed.
Robinson has replaced that back wall of her fence three times since the start of the pandemic. Each new fence costs thousands of dollars. She can’t afford to redo it another time.
Her neighbors and their friends kick down the fence, section by section, again and again — removing most of the boundary between her neighbors’ yard and the house at 157 Edgewood Ave. that she has owned for 20 years.
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Dwight Neighbors Resolve To Take Leadership On Making Community Safer
by | Dec 2, 2021 12:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Dwight neighbors at Wednesday’s community meeting.
“We are the cavalry,” Dwight neighbors decided at a community meeting called to address safety concerns.
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Troup Students To Troop To Fieldhouse After Fire
by | Nov 8, 2021 8:16 pm | Comments (4)
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Firefighters attend to business at the front of Troup Monday …
… while students enjoy an outdoor rest-of-the-day behind the building.
Augusta Lewis Troup students will spend Tuesday at the Hillhouse Fieldhouse, not at their regular Edgewood Avenue school, after a fire left smoke damage throughout the building.
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Block Party Claims Crime-Haunted Corner
by | Oct 31, 2021 7:15 pm | Comments (3)
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At a Halloween party Sunday night, dozens of kids were enlisted to dress as skeletons and zombies and superheroes to help usher away the real-life horrors that transpire throughout the year at the corner of Ferry and Chambers Streets.
Luxury Living, Rents Arrive On Howe
by | Oct 27, 2021 2:45 pm | Comments (33)
Chapel West’s Anthony Giano, developer Nick Falker, Mayor Justin Elicker, and city economic development deputy Steve Fontana at Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting.
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The Elm at 104 Howe St.
Looking to spend between $1,595 and $4,995 per month on a shiny new apartment in Dwight?
Troup Tastes From The Garden
by | Oct 21, 2021 10:34 am | Comments (2)
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Troup first-graders deliver verdict on the taste of fresh veggie as part of a Common Ground schoolyards initiative.
Troup elementary students this week picked lettuce and parsley they grew and found out how great they taste in a tortilla snack.
Fighting Lawsuit, Builders Cancel Donation
by | Oct 8, 2021 8:42 am | Comments (5)
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The Kensington playground.
As a lawsuit drags on over a Kensington Street Park playground, an affordable housing developer has canceled a promise to donate apartments to a neighborhood nonprofit.
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Dwight Lands $600K To Expand Infant-Toddler Programs
by | Oct 7, 2021 2:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Dwight Montessori Class of 2017 on the graduation march.
The Dwight neighborhood is primed to create 46 pre-school slots for infants and toddlers and 20 full-time jobs thanks to a $600,000 federal grant.
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Newhallville, Dwight Get New Top Cops
by | Sep 28, 2021 1:14 pm | Comments (6)
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Lt. Dana Smith: Now the top cop for East Rock/Newhallvillle.
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Newly minted Dwight/Beaver Hills top cop Lt. Ryan Przybylski.
Newhallville, East Rock and Cedar Hill have a new neighborhood top cop — Lt. Dana Smith, who has stepped into the district manager role as Lt. Manmeet Colon moves over to Internal Affairs.
And a little further west in Dwight and Beaver Hills, Lt. Ryan Przybylski has risen to the role of district manager, replacing recently promoted Capt. John Healy.
Drug-Filled Fanny Pack Led To Dux Gun Arrest
by | Sep 27, 2021 4:16 pm | Comments (6)
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Interim Police Chief Renee Dominguez on Monday.
The gun was stashed beneath a nearby mop bucket. It was not inside an unzipped, drug-filled fanny pack.
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Playground Protection Quest Stalls In Dwight
by | Sep 9, 2021 1:34 pm | Comments (2)
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A protest sign at Kensington Playground.
The Dwight Community Management Team tabled a proposal to prohibit the city from ever giving up the only public park in a neighborhood — out of a concern that such a policy might interfere with the city’s legally-contested sale of Kensington Playground to an affordable housing developer.
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Yale Doc: Covid, Not Vax, Is What’s Dangerous
by | Sep 8, 2021 12:05 pm | Comments (3)
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Shahkim Khalil gets vaccinated on the Green in July.
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Dr. Venkatesh at Tuesday’s Dwight management team meeting.
Asked yet again about whether or not the Covid-19 vaccine causes more harm than good, a Yale emergency medicine doctor pointed to an Iowa hospital inundated with patients.
Those patients are suffering from Covid-19, he said, and not from vaccine side effects.
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Carlson Backs Neighbors On Parks, Airport
by | Aug 3, 2021 2:13 pm | Comments (20)
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Kensington Playground (for now).
New Haven’s Republican mayoral candidate Tuesday came out in support of neighbors organizing to save a neighborhood playground and to kill a deal to expand Tweed New Haven Airport.
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Teen Crews Brighten City’s Fire Hydrants
by | Jul 23, 2021 5:53 pm | Comments (4)
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Azaria Green.
Azaria Green took a break Friday from maintaining and brightening New Haven’s fire hydrants, to watch Mayor Justin Elicker try his hand.
Cycletrack Construction Start Celebrated
by | Jul 23, 2021 9:45 am | Comments (7)
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Cyclists, get ready. A protected bike track is on the way.
The long-delayed Edgewood Cycletrack spun a wheel or two closer to fruition, as city staffers and cycling advocates gathered to celebrate the construction underway on the new 2.1‑mile protected bike path.
Ward Wonders: Why Bother With Committee Votes For Mayor?
by | Jul 19, 2021 9:54 am | Comments (21)
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Bike co-op-turned-committee space for existentialist rumination.
East Rock and Downtown Democrats voted — then wondered why.
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