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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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Laura Glesby |
Feb 11, 2022 10:42 am
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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.
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.
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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Oct 31, 2021 7:15 pm
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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.
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?
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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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Allan Appel & Thomas Breen |
Sep 28, 2021 1:14 pm
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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.
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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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Sep 8, 2021 12:05 pm
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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.
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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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.
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Natalie Kainz |
Jul 16, 2021 9:43 am
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Asani Hall receives the Pfizer vaccine at St. Paul’s pop-up.
Some finally had enough information to feel comfortable. Others wanted to travel safely. Some came for the free pizza.
Whatever the reason, 30 people got their first Covid-19 shots Thursday, after six months of waiting, at a church pop-up that’s part of New Haven’s race to stay ahead of the Delta variant and contain the pandemic by reaching the unvaccinated.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 25, 2021 2:03 pm
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ConnCORP’s Clemons, McCraven: Rebuilding Dixwell Plaza (below).
Dixwell Plaza’s redevelopers are one key storefront closer to gaining site control of the decaying mid-century shopping strip — after paying $1.3 million to buy out a Black-business support agency that can now relocate to Chapel Street.
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Jun 17, 2021 6:29 pm
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Sign posted in Kensington Playground.
A state judge threw out half of a lawsuit about the future of Kensington Playground, after agreeing with the city that a Dwight resident and a neighborhood parks group do not have legal standing to sue the city for selling the public greenspace.
Alder Sabin test rides a new Chapel Street bike lane.
Construction has begun on the Edgewood Cycletrack.
A newly-striped bike lane has appeared on Chapel Street for cyclists to use as they seek to dodge downtown car traffic — and, a few blocks to the west in the Dwight neighborhood … could it be? … the long-delayed Edgewood Cycletrack has finally begun construction (!).
