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Antillean Manor on Day Street.
The State Bond Commission has approved a $3.1 million loan to help fund the redevelopment of Antillean Manor, a failed former co-op and 31-unit affordable housing complex owned by the Meriden-based landlord Carabetta Management.
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by | Dec 17, 2020 6:15 pm | Comments (6)
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Ronald Taylor: Sign me up
Yale infectious disease doctor Onyema Ogbuagu gets vaccinated Tuesday.
In the aftermath of his brother-in-law’s sudden death from the Covid-19 virus last week, Ronald Taylor isn’t taking his health for granted. He’s ready for his Covid-19 vaccine shot when it becomes available.
Continue reading ‘On Street, Vaccine Enthusiasm, Caution Mix’
by | Dec 7, 2020 1:49 pm | Comments (0)
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Pataka co-founders and brothers Romy and Harry Singh.
If you ask for a Chana Kulcha, Harry Singh will give you two pockets of homemade pita, overflowing with a fruity mix of sweet chutney and warm spiced chickpeas. The pomegranate seeds on top will burst with tart flavor like the fireworks after which Singh’s restaurant, Pataka, is named.
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by | Nov 30, 2020 4:27 pm | Comments (20)
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Haci Catalbasoglu: Back home, and at work.
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Instead of creating PowerPoints in New York about potential corporate mergers, Hacibey Catalbasoglu has spent the pandemic months splitting logs, throwing dough, and memorizing the Napoletana recipe at Brick Oven Pizza on New Haven’s Elm Street.
by | Nov 25, 2020 4:53 pm | Comments (0)
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The new Together New Haven Marketplace website.
Shop online, if you can. Shop in-person, if you must.
But no matter what, city officials implored, during this Covid-heavy holiday season, please shop local.
by | Nov 19, 2020 10:46 am | Comments (9)
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A protest sign opposing the Kensington Playground sale.
New Haven’s mayor joined a national coalition seeking more money for urban parks — while a group seeking to save an urban park in his backyard sued the city for selling it.
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by | Nov 16, 2020 4:23 pm | Comments (2)
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Testing at Murphy’s former Day Street Park site.
A Greenwich doctor who sparked controversy by cashing in on New Haven’s Covid-19 testing has seen his problems and fights broaden as new revelations emerge about his practice.
by | Nov 11, 2020 6:23 pm | Comments (4)
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New Haven Public Schools comes knocking.
Gemma Joseph-Lumpkin and Kermit Carolina were ready to give an Augusta Lewis Troup School student everything he needed to connect with his remote classes.
There was just one problem. They had to find him.
by | Nov 10, 2020 6:00 pm | Comments (7)
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Dwight neighbor Pat Wallace posts flyer at Pizza House on Howe.
Pat Wallace and Jane Comins have been walking the rescue beat, going address by address to save historic houses in the Dwight neighborhood before developers buy them and knock them down.
by | Oct 31, 2020 8:52 pm | Comments (1)
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Despite heavy rain, the show went on for families in need and volunteers at a pop-up food distribution at Troup School.
by | Oct 21, 2020 5:06 pm | Comments (3)
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City social services chief Mehul Dalal: “This is going to be a tough winter.”
City plans to protect the homeless from the cold and Covid-19 this winter involve working with the state to find 150 hotel beds for the housing insecure, and opening up two overnight warming centers and one daytime drop-in center by late November.
The city has also ended its Covid-19 testing agreement with Greenwich-based doctor Steven Murphy — who is two weeks away from opening a new office in the Dwight neighborhood, where he plans to keep his local testing operation going.
Continue reading ‘Covid Updates: Homeless Plan Previewed; City Drops Dr. Murphy’
by | Oct 20, 2020 12:25 pm | Comments (4)
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Final dots filled in; finished product outside Brick Oven Pizza (below).
Redbootsali leaned in to paint his 34,000th black dot (give or take a few hundred) on an Elm Street pizzeria wall — and brought the late boxing great Muhammad Ali to life among newly-forged neighborhood friends.
by | Oct 20, 2020 9:44 am | Comments (37)
A protest sign from a neighborhood demonstration against the sale.
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The Board of Alders voted overwhelmingly in support of trading a Kensington Street park for 15 new affordable apartments — but only after an impassioned debate about the relative merits of building low-income housing atop public green space.
by | Oct 13, 2020 12:37 pm | Comments (13)
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The grassy triangle at the corner of MLK and Orchard Street.
What if the city subdivided a vacant six-acre stretch at the intersection of Orchard Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard and let neighbors purchase lots to build their own townhomes there?
by | Oct 8, 2020 9:15 am | Comments (45)
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Activists confront mayor in College Woods.
East Rockers pelted the mayor with demands to address deadly driving — before the sky pelted them all with thunderstorms that sent them scurrying.
by | Oct 1, 2020 11:44 am | Comments (32)
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Dwight neighbors gather in Kensington Park to testify at virtual hearing against land swap for new apartments (below).
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City plans to trade Kensington Playground for 15 new affordable apartments won a key aldermanic approval — but not before over a dozen Dwight neighbors gathered in the public greenspace to voice their live-streamed, virtual opposition to replacing urban parkland with housing.
by | Sep 25, 2020 4:28 pm | Comments (9)
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Sign at Day Street testing site.
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Warshall: “Cheated.”
Andrew Warshall has been receiving threatening letters for over a month from a North Carolina-based laboratory conglomerate looking to collect $314 for a “free” Covid-19 test at a city-sponsored site in Day Street Park.
by | Sep 25, 2020 2:36 am | Comments (35)
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Protest dance party breaks out at Whalley and Sherman.
Marching on Chapel Street near Park Street.
Two dozen young Black women jumped and danced and sang in the middle of the intersection of Whalley Avenue and Sherman Avenue as several hundred fellow protesters sat in the street and blocked traffic on all sides.
“Black women matter!” the group cheered, a portrait of Breonna Taylor held aloft nearby. “Black women matter!”
by | Sep 24, 2020 4:41 pm | Comments (4)
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Aili Maimaiti at work outside Brick Oven Pizza.
Dot by dot — by tens of thousands of dots — a public portrait of the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali is coming into focus at the corner of Howe and Elm, at the hand of a warehouse worker looking to take the art world by storm.
Continue reading ‘On Dwight Corner, Aili Brings Ali Into Focus’
by | Sep 14, 2020 1:09 pm | Comments (1)
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Six Dwight scholars heading to college have received scholarships from The Firebirds Society of the Greater New Haven, Inc. in honor of keeping alive the influence of George Sweeney, the first black firefighter to serve in a New Haven firehouse.
Continue reading ‘Firebirds, Dwight Help Students Launch College Careers’
by | Sep 3, 2020 8:22 am | Comments (6)
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Rashana Graham at Troup.
Troup middle school teacher Rashana Graham is feeling calm again.
After a turbulent and uncertain summer, remote school is set to start Thursday. And she’s ready.
by | Sep 2, 2020 12:26 pm | Comments (23)
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Kensington Park, as a park. Below: Soon to become apartments?
THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS, INC.
An affordable housing developer’s plans to build 15 apartments atop Kensington Park moved ahead — on the condition that the developer invest $80,000 in improving a nearby park in Dwight, and that the city set aside a comparable amount of new public park space in Newhallville.
by | Sep 2, 2020 8:45 am | Comments (1)
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Aiden Palmer, 4, tries on his new backpack on Tuesday.
Preschooler Aiden Palmer wants to go back to school to see his friends.
Although his classes at Augusta Lewis Troup School will be remote this September and October, his teachers have plans to encourage the social connections he misses.
by | Sep 1, 2020 7:28 am | Comments (1)
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Nazareth Vyraven: I like to give students something of their own.
Nazareth Vyraven is on a mission: To give a new backpack and two new face masks to every student in the schools that surround her Dwight church.
Continue reading ‘Free Backpacks, Masks Ready For Dwight Schools’
by | Aug 3, 2020 10:11 am | Comments (15)
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Kyasia Parker with aunt and youth advisor, Tynicha Drummond.
Kyasia Parker is a wanderer who loves Justin Bieber music, dancing, and is dyslexic. She likes to sing her math problems and has a hard time focusing when other students are around. But the biggest challenge she faced when she had to take online classes during the pandemic was the unstable internet at home.