Tiasia Jones is heading to Morgan State University with help from her Dwight, West River and Edgewood neighbors.
The Hillhouse senior won $500 from the Dwight Central Management Team’s DeBorah E. Davis Scholarship with her essay on bagging groceries for food insecure families on Thanksgiving.
The first court hearing in a months-long dispute over the future of Kensington Playground raised a broader question: Can the city be accused of “taking” land that it already owns?
Acting Police Chief Renee Dominguez and Mayor Elicker on Tuesday.
A 44-year-old Waterbury man was shot and killed Tuesday morning near Orchard Street and George Street — becoming the second person murdered in the city in four days, and just the latest victim of a recent surge in local gun violence.
Bottle deposit machines on every corner. Breezes free of incinerated trash particles. No litter in sight.
Climate activist Louis Rosado Burch painted this idyllic picture to Dwight neighbors as the outcome if the Connecticut General Assembly passes a new version of the bottle bill.
Protesters round corner Monday from Kensington Playground.
A city-commissioned report concluded that converting Kensington Playground into affordable apartments will not harm the environment. A group of neighbors strongly disagreed and took to the streets Monday to say so.
Construction beginning at corner of MLK Blvd. and Dwight.
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Planned Cambria Hotel.
KBE Building Corporation has selected the large steel and concrete contractors for a six-story hotel that will complete development of the “Route 34 West” superblock. Now, it’s time to select subcontractors and fulfill city expectations of minority hiring.
Top city attorney Pat King: City working through 450 active cases.
The city appears on the brink of settling a lead paint lawsuit, while preparing to argue who has the right to sue whom over the fate of a Dwight playground and a retired fire union president’s pension.
One of three PurpleAir sensors set up to monitor air.
Three small, white domes will soon be able to tell Dwight neighbors exactly how much pollution is floating around their neighborhood as they brace for an influx of up to 1,000 new cars a day.
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Apr 5, 2021 9:56 am
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Organizers and participants at Saturday’s basket giveaway with top neighborhood cop Lt. John Healy (second from right.)
Friends of Kensington Playground and Upon This Rock Ministries distributed 45 Easter baskets and 30 bags filled of canned goods to Dwight residents on Saturday.
The giveaway was a part of Friends of Kensington Playground’s ongoing mission to save the pocket park on Kensington after the city sold the property to The Community Builders, INC. (TCB) to build affordable housing.
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Mar 31, 2021 6:34 pm
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Olivia Davis receives her J&J vaccine Wednesday at Immanuel Baptist.
One hundred people were “one and done” Wednesday thanks to the latest grassroots effort to stay ahead of a new Covid-19 surge — as a church, a funeral home, and health center teamed up in Dwight.
Roth (left): Carabetta can and should pay more tax. Walker-Myers (right): Rain was coming down into apartments.
Alders overwhelmingly approved a 17-year tax break for a failed Dwight housing co-op on the brink of demolition and reconstruction, amid objections that the affordable housing deal is too generous for the project’s developer.
Lashonda Toon (right): Daughter was eager to return.
Eighth grader Brian McClain was the only student back in his classroom Thursday. And it made a difference: He mastered a lesson in eight minutes after struggling remotely for months with pre-algebra.
Sharon Jones McCann, Malcolm Welfare, Jorge Lopez, Theodore Brooks, James Flaherty, and James Rawlings outside Michelle’s House, the renovated, once-abandoned Victorian at 1389 Chapel St.
A pitch for support for government money turned into a rapid-fire virtual grassroots fundraiser, with Dwight neighbors deciding to dig into their own pockets to help prevent sickle cell disease.
Carabetta’s Muniz: Tax break makes project “pencil out financially.”
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Roth: Builder should pay more.
A proposed tax break for a failed Dwight housing co-op on the brink of demolition and reconstruction moved ahead — after debate about how it fits into efforts to promote affordable housing and avoid a local tax hike.
Besides tax forgiveness, the overall project includes a $1.5 million “development fee” for the co-op’s buyer and $400,000 in federal anti-poverty block grants along with a building contract for a construction affiliate.
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Feb 16, 2021 12:57 pm
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Devil’s Diet beet salad with goat cheese panna cotta.
Leave it to Alba Estenoz, widely known in these parts as the celebrated pastry chef at Zinc, to feature a beet salad with goat cheese panna cotta as a way of introducing The Devil’s Diet, the new dessert bar on the Howe Street side of The Novella apartment complex at the corner of Chapel.
Lino Monge gets his vaccination shot at the Casa Otonal senior apartment complex.
Long wait times to book vaccination appointments by phone. Transportation difficulties. Lack of information about how to sign up.
Dwight neighbors raised these observations as they considered why nonwhite seniors in particular seem few and far between at Covid-19 vaccination sites in New Haven.
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Commissioners Radcliffe, Mattison, Marchand pictured at meeting before the pandemic (so please don’t yell at them for not wearing masks).
The City Plan Commission has approved a tax abatement deal for the new owners of Antillean Manor, a 1960s-era, failed former co-op and affordable housing complex in the Dwight neighborhood.
But commissioners don’t know how big an abatement they approved.
