Dixwell’s New Top Cop Is New Haven Made
by | May 20, 2016 12:13 pm | Comments (1)
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Hoyte checks in on Stetson.
Sgt. Jacqueline “Jackie” Hoyte is no stranger to Dixwell Avenue.
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U.S. Attorney Pledges Civil-Rights Action
by | May 20, 2016 7:08 am | Comments (3)
Daly at Wednesday’s summit.
Can the Muslim community really count on the FBI to protect it in mosques, schools, and neighborhoods as racial profiling and counterterrorism efforts escalate across the country?
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Tax-Break Gifts Could Boost 34 Nonprofits
by | May 18, 2016 2:29 pm | Comments (0)
As much as $4 million may be headed the way of dozens of local not-for-profits, including six separate organizations controlled by Edgewood Rabbi Daniel Greer, in the latest round of an annual state tax-credit sweepstakes.
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Highway 34 Revisited
by | May 13, 2016 7:36 am | Comments (11)
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Sign that appeared this week across from Alexion HQ.
Mayor Dick Lee in Life Magazine amid rubble in 1958.
Few people can be seen these days walking around the last remaining vestige of the Oak Street Connector mini-highway separating the Hill neighborhood from downtown. Sixty years ago, the area was home to a thriving immigrant neighborhood full of local shops and multi-family homes.
Today On WNHH
by | May 11, 2016 7:55 am | Comments (0)
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Miller.
Today’s programs on WNHH radio give a teary sendoff to one of New Haven’s top cops, pursue new solutions for old cities, and look at the newly conserved and reopened Yale Center for British Art.
Asthma On The Rise
by | Apr 28, 2016 1:16 pm | Comments (0)
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Santilli, Charles Thursday at WNHH radio.
Asthma is on the rise among low-income New Haveners, especially among women in the city.
Bike Month Sets Off On Two Wheels
by | Apr 22, 2016 12:02 pm | Comments (6)
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Smith details plans.
Parking spots filled up quickly as people arrived to the party — resulting not in a line of cars, but rows of bikes U‑locked to sign poles down Bradley Street.
Today On WNHH
by | Apr 20, 2016 7:30 am | Comments (0)
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Yarboro and Rawls-Ivy.
Bethea.
The gloves are coming off in the WNHH studio. Today’s broadcasts explore the ins and outs of the upcoming Connecticut Democratic presidential primary with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters, ask tough questions about racially motivated violence in New Haven, do battle with some intensely masculine fiction, and more.
New Data Shows New Haven’s Promise
by | Apr 18, 2016 1:36 pm | Comments (3)
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Okafor: We’re ready to tackle disparities.
In January, the City of New Haven submitted its second application for a federal “Promise Zone” designation, one year after its original application was selected as a finalist but not advanced to be one of the six designated zones that year.
Arts & Ideas Still Evolving, 20 Years In
by | Mar 29, 2016 4:11 pm | Comments (6)
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Aleskie with WNPR’s John Dankosky and Catie Talarski and A&I’s Alex Ripp at last year’s lineup announcement.
When Mary Lou Aleskie took over the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in September 2005, she didn’t know that much about New Haven. She’d moved to the Elm City from San Diego for the position, so everything was new to her. Neighborhoods sprang up, full of possibility, performance venues popped out of the woodwork. She was greeted by a local arts scene that, for a city of just over 130,000 people, was more “jam-packed” than she ever could have anticipated.
Aleskie hasn’t stopped trying to nail down the rhythm of New Haven, or satiate its hunger for local and international arts. Over 11 years, she has seen — and enacted — considerable change, taking the community into account whenever possible.
As she prepared to announce on Tuesday the festival’s year 21 programming, the Independent had the chance to talk about how Arts & Ideas has changed, what truly involving community looks like, and what new steps have her excited looking ahead to summer 2016 and beyond.
Neighbors Weigh How To Use LCI Money
by | Mar 14, 2016 7:40 am | Comments (4)
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Fekieta pitches his plan.
Joe Fekieta offered an idea for how he and his Hill neighbors can spend a $10,000 windfall from City Hall. The idea starts with a little R‑E-S-P-E-C‑T.
New Haven Rising Rallies For Local Job Commitments
by | Feb 29, 2016 6:10 pm | Comments (4)
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Organizer Idelier Pettigrew-Watson calls for more jobs.
Community organizers called on Yale-New Haven Hospital to boost its commitment to providing jobs to local people, as Yale graduate student allies announced a new tactic for unionization.
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What Happened Today On WNHH Radio
by | Jan 7, 2016 5:26 pm | Comments (0)
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Schneider.
Krikko Obbott.
Thursday’s broadcasts on WNHH looked at the best films of 2015, artists in New Haven, and more.
Public Art Sweeps The Village
by | Jan 5, 2016 1:28 pm | Comments (5)
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Swoon’s latest.
Even when the sun is not shining, there are shadows: Wheels, spokes, and unmistakable shapes of bike frames that seem to be cast by colorful light, stretch across the sidewalk just outside Westville’s Manjares Restaurant. They’ve inspired many a double-take at the base of a yarn-bombed, U‑style bike rack — especially when no bikes are parked.
Krikko Sketches An Expansion
by | Dec 22, 2015 4:15 pm | Comments (7)
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Boyd and Krikko pitch the dream.
A world-renowned Nigerian pencil artist working in the Hill is thinking big again.
New Music Skills, Same Music Haven
by | Dec 22, 2015 1:14 pm | Comments (0)
Prince Davenport lifted his arms artfully over the taut, tan skin of a pint-sized drum, looking out determinedly out into the audience as he positioned it gingerly between his knees. Having just finished a wild, rousing rendition of “O Tannenbaum,” he needed a moment to rest. He adjusted the crisp sleeves of his blazer. The music to “Joy to the World” began. And Davenport — all three feet of him — went to town.
What Happened Today On WNHH
by | Dec 16, 2015 4:51 pm | Comments (1)
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Abdussabur, Ginsberg, Webster, Lewis at WNHH Wednesday.
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Haufe and Bennick.
New Haven’s school-reform drive, five years in, needs a new jolt of energy and refocusing.
Alders Press Yale On Parking
by | Dec 2, 2015 4:09 pm | Comments (23)
Should Yale University and Yale New-Haven Hospital give all their employees free off-street parking, so neighbors can reclaim street spots?
Hear What Happened Today On WNHH
by | Nov 17, 2015 3:50 pm | Comments (0)
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Clendenen at WNHH Tuesday.
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Today’s programs aired on WNHH radio covered those in need of legal assistance, a local musician’s career, and what New Haveners can do to support those who may be cold or hungry come winter.
Dixwell Café Opens Smooth-ly
by | Nov 11, 2015 2:03 pm | Comments (8)
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Zarko Stojanovski was beaming as Tropical Smoothie Café at 15 Dixwell Ave. flooded with city and Yale officials and press — in addition to its usual clientele — for the store’s official grand opening on Tuesday.
Chapel West 2.0
by | Nov 10, 2015 1:02 pm | Comments (6)
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Oct. 20 ribbon-cutting at the luxury Novella apartments at Chapel and Howe, former red-light district epicenter.
Chapel West has done a remarkable job. Basically replacing the city as much as possible and providing services to us property owners. May I suggest the next step?
Gentrification Vampires, Beware!
by | Oct 27, 2015 2:53 pm | Comments (5)
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Jim Paley found a way to fix up rundown houses for working families and improve New Haven neighborhoods without pushing people out.
Newt Schenck Praised, Plaqued
by | Oct 23, 2015 7:56 am | Comments (2)
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Clark with Schenck’s widow Ann beside the unveiled plaque.
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The late C. Newton “Newt” Schenck III returned once more — this time for good — to the arts district he helped create from falling-apart historic factory buildings and surface parking lots.
Gun Violence Hits Home
by | Oct 15, 2015 11:40 am | Comments (0)
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There was a point in the 1980s when Barbara Fair, neighborhoods advocate and founder of My Brother’s Keeper, stopped going to funerals. Her son was young. His friends were dying. She was tired, so tired, of seeing small black bodies in boxes.
On Broadway
by | Oct 9, 2015 12:58 pm | Comments (8)
There’s a picture of Robert Moses tucked behind Book Trader Café on Chapel Street. His arms are crossed and he’s smiling, though there’s something a little uneasy about his pose: his tie is slightly off-center, his face half-hidden in shadow. He looks eager to get back to work.