by | Jul 25, 2019 7:56 am | Comments (3)
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Inside Rainbow Park. Below: Volunteers Marion Frazier, David Firestone, Ken Grimes, Zane Olmer, Pat Wallace, Charlotte Sabovic.
Dwight neighbors have transformed a “tiny sample of paradise” — which had fallen on hard times — into a vibrant, lush, open-air space for gardening and cookouts and peaceful meditation.
by | Jul 18, 2019 8:13 am | Comments (11)
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Developers and their attorneys on Wednesday night: Adam Haston; Carolyn Kone; Jim Segaloff; Michael Massimino.
New Haven’s market-rate apartment boom kept chugging Wednesday night as seven different developers looking to build over 200 new apartments won key city sign-offs
by | Jul 11, 2019 4:29 pm | Comments (17)
Dwight Alder Frank Douglass said a dispute that led to his arrest began with him trying to stop his wife from buying drugs.
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by | Jun 12, 2019 1:29 pm | Comments (30)
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Before and after: Plan for Winthrop-Edgewood stretch.
The city has finally gone out to bid to build a 2.1‑mile cycletrack along Edgewood Avenue after receiving all necessary project sign-offs from the state Department of Transportation.
by | Jun 5, 2019 12:26 pm | Comments (2)
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DeBorah E. Davis Scholarship winner Anthony McKnight Bowles.
The Dwight Community Management Team awarded its annual book fund cash scholarship to an 18-year-old neighborhood local who has dedicated his young life so far to community service.
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by | Jun 5, 2019 8:14 am | Comments (48)
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49 Howe today, before planned teardown.
The owners of a Howe Street gas station plan to knock down the fuel pumps and mini-mart and build in their stead … wait for it …
… dozens of new market-rate apartments!
by | Jun 4, 2019 8:12 am | Comments (7)
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YNHH architect William Brothers presents plan for 150 Sargent primary care hub (pictured below.)
Yale New Haven Hospital received its final needed city sign-offs Monday night for two major planned renovation projects, including for the Long Wharf building it has proposed to fit out as a new primary care hub.
The hospital now needs only a final approval from state regulators before it can start making that centralized primary care vision a reality.
by | May 24, 2019 12:42 pm | Comments (25)
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Tom Giardino and Ricardo at home on Howe Street.
After facing a gentrification-sparked 65 percent rent hike he couldn’t afford, 81-year-old Gaetano “Tom” Giardino will remain in his Howe Street studio apartment after all now that his landlord has agreed to a compromise.
His cat Ricardo won a reprieve as well.
by | May 21, 2019 4:19 pm | Comments (81)
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Gaetano Giardino in his studio apartment at 100 Howe.
Come August, Gaetano “Tom” Giardino may have to leave the first-floor studio apartment he has called home for 21 years if he can’t meet a 65 percent rent hike from a new landlord looking to build up the block.
by | May 21, 2019 7:44 am | Comments (14)
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Proposed neuroscience center at Sherman and George.
Buoyed by three approvals Monday night, Yale New Haven Hospital plans to move a 60-child daycare center to George Street and to expand a church-turned-medical office building on Sherman Avenue in order to make way for a new $838 million neuroscience center at its St. Raphael’s Campus.
by | May 20, 2019 7:32 am | Comments (6)
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Fifty years ago today, Black Panthers took a man they had tortured in this basement room, drove him to a swamp, and shot him dead — thrusting New Haven into a national confrontation over race and justice that resonates today.
by | May 1, 2019 2:39 pm | Comments (8)
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LCI deputy Rafael Ramos (above) and top neighborhod cop Lt. John Healy (below) on Wednesday’s “clean and safe” tour.
The sign said United Illuminating planned to terminate service at a 28-unit apartment complex by May 6.
A whole complex without electricity? Livable City Initiative’s (LCI) Rafael Ramos pulled out his phone.
by | Apr 19, 2019 1:58 pm | Comments (9)
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Officers Perrotti and Dash at 1 Union Ave.
Dash’s spare tourniquet that he uses to practice.
Officer Joseph Perrotti and another officer were at the District 4 substation on Edgewood Avenue wrapping up their work on a domestic violence incident when Perrotti heard gunshots.
by | Apr 18, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (26)
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Proposed designs for new 95-97 Howe apartments.
97 Howe St. today.
The Feldman brothers development team received a key city sign-off for a proposed new six-story, 30-unit apartment complex on Howe Street.
But not before City Plan commissioners received an admonition from a local preservationist that the project is possible only because of the “demolition by neglect” of two existing vacant, dilapidated, historic buildings that will be knocked down to pave the way for the new apartments.
by | Apr 16, 2019 11:26 pm | Comments (10)
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Amity Stop & Shop strikers during picket duty Tuesday.
Manganello and St. Clair.
Personal stories from the picket line.
by | Apr 5, 2019 4:27 pm | Comments (29)
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Neighborhood preservationist Olivia Martson. Below: 97 Howe.
The Feldman brothers development team plans on knocking down not one but two historic Howe Street buildings to make way for 30 new market-rate apartments. The brothers, along with the city’s preservation trust, say the buildings are rotted and beyond repair.
A Dwight preservationist concerned about the impact on an historic district is mounting a campaign to save the buildings by encouraging the developers to practice adaptive reuse instead.
by | Apr 3, 2019 4:28 pm | Comments (38)
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104 Howe St. today (above) and in preliminary plans (below).
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A local developer has submitted plans to build a seven-story, 97-unit apartment complex atop a Howe Street surface parking lot — while intending, he said, to end up building more like 60 apartments.
by | Mar 8, 2019 1:27 pm | Comments (5)
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Amistad Middle School Principal Victoria McCall (right) with Director of School Operations LaShell Rountree.
The new principal of Amistad Academy Middle School told neighbors that the Edgewood Avenue charter school will no longer prioritize “compliance for compliance’s sake,” instead promoting student safety, independent thinking, and a well-rounded, liberal arts education.
by | Mar 6, 2019 8:53 am | Comments (15)
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MOD Equities developers Jacob and Josef Feldman at Tuesday night’s meeting.
The Feldman brothers plan to build a new 30-unit, market-rate apartment complex on Howe Street.
When the New York developers break ground this summer, neighbors want to see those construction jobs staying local.
by | Mar 5, 2019 8:43 am | Comments (0)
Yale New Haven Hospital is adding to its Saint Raphael campus in a move expected to boost city revenues in the coming fiscal year.
Continue reading ‘YNHH Plans New Construction On St. Raphael Campus’
by | Feb 20, 2019 5:42 pm | Comments (13)
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100 Howe St.: $10 (not a typo) in 1994; $11 million in in 2019.
New Haven’s apartment market continues sizzling:
• Developer drops over $15 million on six Dwight properties, including apartment tower and surface lot near Yale.
• Feldman brothers shell out $6 million-plus on two East Rock apartment complexes that hadn’t changed hands in over three decades.
by | Feb 5, 2019 6:19 pm | Comments (33)
“Dave’s Double” served Tuesday at new Whalley Wendy’s.
Happy customers: Naila Smalls and Wenona Hollby.
Above: tax solution for NYC investor.
A new restaurant has opened on Whalley Avenue. No officials cut a ribbon. No jubilant developer hired a p.r. firm to celebrate a multimillion-dollar private investment, the creation of dozens of jobs, and the boost to the tax rolls.
by | Jan 14, 2019 8:44 am | Comments (0)
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A hearse, manufactured in 1888, carries Bishop Stalllings’ body Sunday from Beers Street to Dixwell.
Bishop Robert Henry Stallings Jr.
He was a young pitcher in the Negro Leagues when the New York Yankees came to his door to recruit him.
No way, his father, Bishop Enoch Stallings, of the Church of God and Saints of Christ in the Dwight neighborhood, told the scouts. “This boy is going to sing in the choir.”
by | Jan 11, 2019 11:56 am | Comments (10)
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Christine Scheller heard a bang outside her Edgewood Avenue window around 9:30 Friday morning.
“I hope,” she thought as she rushed to look, “it’s not my car.”
by | Dec 20, 2018 9:02 am | Comments (2)
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Architect Boroson explains the new Mid Block Development on Chapel Street …
The City Plan Commission advanced plans that will bring more than 200 apartments to New Haven in the next three years and put a rental car and truck facility in Wooster Square.