by | Jul 8, 2020 4:39 pm | Comments (12)
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Duc Nguyen shows off Vietnamese street food at his now-closed restaurant.
After four years of serving up lemongrass tofu banh mi and other Vietnamese street food downtown, Duc’s Place has closed for good, the latest commercial casualty of the Covid-19 economic crisis.
Continue reading ‘Pandemic Permanently Shutters Banh Mi Shop’
by | Jul 6, 2020 11:05 am | Comments (4)
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New Haveners flocked to Edgewood Park to stock up on fresh veggies, fruit, and flowers Sunday at the opening of CitySeed’s annual farmers market.
by | Jul 3, 2020 5:46 pm | Comments (1)
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The Community Soup Kitchen served 237 visitors an Independence Day meal of grilled hotdogs, rice and beans, bread, and ice cream on Friday.
by | Jul 3, 2020 5:27 pm | Comments (1)
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With the printed red flames from a fiery chicken wing visible on the glass storefront behind him, as if protruding from his head, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal delivered a message for the state’s small businesses: there are still federal dollars waiting to help them.
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by | Jul 3, 2020 12:07 pm | Comments (1)
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A Newhallville grocery giveaway Thursday afternoon provided 320 New Haveners with food as part of a mission to nourish Newhallville with health, wealth, and leadership.
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by | Jul 3, 2020 12:05 pm | Comments (1)
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Barbara Redding.
Barbara Redding came in search of some fresh zucchini and eggplant and left with a handful of locally grown veggies.
Continue reading ‘Farmers Market Returns, Tailored To Pandemic’
by | Jul 3, 2020 10:19 am | Comments (6)
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Beer Collective co-owners Sklar and Davis.
A Court Street craft beer bar has shut off its taps and closed its doors for good — becoming downtown’s latest small-business casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Jul 2, 2020 3:25 pm | Comments (10)
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The Hamden Stop & Shop.
As Americans across the country this weekend celebrate 244 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Stop & Shop workers will mourn a different milestone: the end of their extra Covid-19 pay.
by | Jun 30, 2020 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Zhi Yong Wang, tends to customer at Million Asian Market.
For a week now, more than a dozen customers have asked Tom Zhang when the kimchi will arrive.
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by | Jun 26, 2020 11:02 am | Comments (1)
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Alejandro and Andres Cordido at their newly opened eatery.
Alejandro and Andres Cordido dreamed for years of starting a restaurant of their own devoted to the Venezuelan recipes they grew up with. They never imagined that opening week would comes amidst a pandemic.
They never pictured tables spread six feet apart. Floor stickers spaced out to help customers keep their distance. Plexiglass barriers between employees behind the counter and the customers they feed. Surfaces sanitized extra frequently. Customers’ smiles undetectable behind their protective masks.
by | Jun 25, 2020 8:10 pm | Comments (2)
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Kamery Melendez gets tested.
Kamery Melendez was one of many who, after picking up free groceries at a neighborhood pop-up pantry Thursday, went and got tested for Covid-19 for her first time.
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by | Jun 17, 2020 3:20 pm | Comments (1)
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The Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen food pantry.
Crosswalks can wait. People have lost jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic and are hungry now.
That logic drove the Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team on Monday to reverse a previous vote and give all $20,000 of their Neighborhood Public Improvement Project (NPIP) dollars to the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK).
Continue reading ‘Downtown Democracy Dollars Directed To Food, Not Crosswalks’
by | Jun 1, 2020 12:42 pm | Comments (1)
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Heidi Thorsen, Paul Young, David Kuperstock, Darryl Kuperstock at Sunday’s giveaway.
Chapel on the Green, a program of Trinity Church on the Green, teamed up with a local synagogue to distribute masks Sunday in conjunction with a nearby soup kitchen.
Continue reading ‘Homemade Masks Added To Sunday Meals-To-Go’
by | May 30, 2020 10:45 pm | Comments (1)
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Devin Smith.
Four hundred families got food Saturday morning, and about 50 people got Covid-19 tests, at the Lincoln Bassett Community School in Newhallville, which has been hit hard both by the virus and its economic fallout.
by | May 28, 2020 3:01 pm | Comments (19)
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Wahlburgers chef Paul Wahlberg (right) and Crescent Capital’s Mark Devincentis at Thursday’s burger giveaway.
A Massachusetts-based burger restaurant, a Los Angeles-based investment firm, and the state treasurer’s office teamed up with local clergy, politicians, firefighters, and labor organizers to distribute 750 free hamburgers with a side order of Covid-19 racial consciousness in Dixwell, the Hill, and Fair Haven.
by | May 27, 2020 3:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Lamont, Elicker polish off mozzarella, tomato, and basil.
Gov. Ned Lamont and Mayor Justin Elicker took advantage of the state’s recent resumption of outdoor, sit-down dining to partake in a time-honored tradition among state Democratic politicos: a power meal at Portofino’s.
by | May 25, 2020 9:45 am | Comments (6)
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Ihsan, Ismail and Salwa Abdussabur and Ayanna Bakiriddin at the traditional meal, with a pandemic twist.
On the one hand, the family was together and the grilled lamb was so tender it was falling off the bone. On the other, lost opportunities and the dangers of Covid-19 had brought them there.
by | May 23, 2020 10:05 pm | Comments (2)
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During a Saturday morning rainstorm, around 20 masked volunteers huddled under tents, collecting drop-off donations for a food drive organized by the Hamden Republicans and sponsored by the food collective Home Cooking in America.
All donations, whether in the form of cash or non-perishables, directly supported St. Ann’s Soup Kitchen and the Connecticut Food Bank.
by | May 22, 2020 6:31 pm | Comments (4)
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A neighborhood pop-up pantry in the Hill handed out 250 grocery packages to Hill residents like Roberta Lombardi, who “went from nothing in the house to a full cart.”
by | May 22, 2020 4:52 pm | Comments (3)
Peterkin: “Up for the challenge.”
Two paths led Brent Peterkin to his present challenge — steering New Haven’s green brigades into a new era of equity.
by | May 21, 2020 8:05 pm | Comments (7)
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Tonja Colvin and Zhanelle Douglass, both volunteers from Varick Memorial AME Zion Church, with Caleb Davis.
Caleb Davis would not normally rely on a food pantry to keep his shelves at home stocked. These are not normal times.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Pantry Feeds Hundreds Of Neighbors, Many Newly “On The Edge”’
by | May 20, 2020 7:01 pm | Comments (15)
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Enjoying a lunchtime beer and waiting for steak tips to arrive, Al Casagrande (pictured) felt safe sitting outside Temple Grill on the first day of Connecticut’s “phase one” reopening — safer than he feels on his construction job.
by | May 20, 2020 5:18 pm | Comments (12)
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Lighthouse Point Park in the pre-pandemic days of 2019.
Local beachgoers can stretch out in the sun this Memorial Day weekend — so long as they keep their blankets 15 feet apart from one another — now that the city has decided to partially reopen Lighthouse Point Park for the summer kick off holiday.
People who love to celebrate this country’s independence by watching colorful explosions in the sky, however, are out of luck: The city has canceled the annual July 4 fireworks display.
by | May 20, 2020 12:08 pm | Comments (5)
Susan Bysiewicz on WNHH’s “Dateline New Haven,”
Susan Bysiewicz has looked at the numbers, looked at the long food-giveway lines — and sees a role for state government to help keep families fed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
by | May 19, 2020 12:20 pm | Comments (2)
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From left, Virginia Percy, son Todd Percy son, Earl Percy, Rev. Morton Percy, daughter Natalie Oliver (seated).
Reverend Morton and Virginia Percy and the NAACP teamed up to prepare a “family” dinner for 20 people — with a side of protective masks.