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Laura Glesby |
Mar 15, 2024 2:03 pm
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An all-boys charter school is gearing up to open this fall in a stately Dixwell Avenue building that neighbors stopped from becoming a methadone clinic two years ago.
Developers returned to the City Plan Commission with a promise: If they get permission to transform a Shelton Avenue industrial building into self-storage units, the artists currently working there can stay.
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Lisa Reisman |
Feb 5, 2024 2:10 pm
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(Updated) You can speak all you want into somebody’s ear. If their stomach is growling, they can’t hear it.
Those were the words of Marcus Harvin, the visionary founder of Newhallville fREshSTARTs, at Pitts Chapel Unified Free Will Baptist Church on Friday night. The occasion was the grand opening of the fREsh-taurant, a food recovery initiative that will provide free hot, nutritious meals for the community, either eat-in or take-out, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening. Everyone is welcome.
An abandoned lighting manufacturing hub will soon transform into 150 below-market apartments a block from Union Station, if a development plan comes to fruition.
As Science Park developers presented renderings of a housing complex soon to rise on Winchester Ave., Carlota Clark wondered if one of the 283 apartments would someday be hers.
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Laura Glesby |
Jan 30, 2024 3:13 pm
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A tire swing. A skate park. “A lot of butterflies.” And toys promoting “sensory play.”
Neighborhood children eagerly offered those visions for a planned redesign of Kensington Playground, following years of adult-dominated debates over the future of the park.
Formerly unhoused activists, Ninth Square business owners, and city officials agree: New Haven needs a downtown public restroom that actually gets cleaned.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 22, 2023 8:32 am
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Geneva Pollock and Pearlie Napoleon were friends who both dedicated their lives to their students and their Newhallville community. So it’s fitting that the street corners soon to be named after them will be located just one block apart.
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Lisa Reisman |
Nov 15, 2023 7:30 am
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For nine weeks, they painted, enduring darkness of night, thick humidity, and driving rain.
The result: Las Flores de Esperanza, a mural color-saturated with flowers that spans 50 feet of concrete wall at the corner of Blatchley and Grand, and the latest street-beautifying creation of the Ghanaian-American visual artist and muralist Kwadwo Adae.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 14, 2023 9:16 am
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Ten-year-old Cristian Estrada and his brothers Joshua, 9, and Jeremiah, 5, took turns plunging a shovel into the dirt on Kimberly Avenue to bring more beauty to their neighborhood park — this time in the form of installing a Friends of Kimberly Park sign.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Nov 9, 2023 4:25 pm
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Prospective builders of 112 new apartments have gotten the go-ahead to help fill a blighted stretch of western Grand Avenue — despite opposition from neighbors convinced that a six-story complex would wreck the corridor’s character rather than revitalize it.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 3, 2023 2:31 pm
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Every day last spring, Latoya Armstrong dropped her daughter off for camp at the Q House.
One day in April, on her way out she scanned a flyer QR code to learn about the programs at the Dixwell community center and found a perfect fit for herself: GED classes by the New Haven Adult & Continuing Education Center.
“Given the increasing likelihood of more frequent and severe storms, should we as a city pull back from the shoreline, or should we allow more development in coastal areas?”
Westville Alder Adam Marchand posed that question to his fellow local legislators — and successfully urged his colleagues to choose the latter vision and rezone Long Wharf to become more walkable and densely built.
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Lisa Reisman |
Aug 22, 2023 4:45 pm
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On a picture-perfect Sunday afternoon, kids moon-bounced, Fats Domino crooned, and Barbara Montalvo was dancing in the middle of Glen Road.
“This is a fun, joyous event, neighbors loving neighbors, this is the community coming out embracing everybody, regardless of age, gender, color, creed, background,” she said, mid-swivel, amid the aroma of grilled hotdogs and burgers and the air of late-summer revelry in the tree-lined shade.
Days after a rainstorm flooded Tweed airport and left passengers temporarily stranded, mayoral candidates conveyed varying takes on the airport’s economic value and environmental impact to its neighbors.
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Mia Cortés Castro |
Jul 13, 2023 9:28 am
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The Grand Avenue Special Services District voted to partner with a sister business improvement organization downtown to try to raise funds to cover the costs of everything from cleaning graffiti off of buildings to power-washing sidewalks to improving the area’s trash collection, all with the goal of making Fair Haven a safer and cleaner place to shop.
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Mia Cortés Castro |
Jun 21, 2023 9:07 am
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A New York-based landlord plans to knock down two vacant Grand Avenue commercial buildings and build 112 new apartments in their stead on the northern end of Wooster Square.
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Lisa Reisman |
Apr 17, 2023 3:33 pm
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Amid a riot of pink blossoms, the scent of spring in the air, and the sounds of Airborne’s “Groovin’ on a Sunday Afternoon,” Valentina Simon leapt and spun and twirled in front of the bandstand, prompting others to join her.
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Laura Glesby and Thomas Breen |
Mar 24, 2023 3:23 pm
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When seven gunshots popped from a car outside a Lewis Street rental home, the children next door wailed and trembled, and their parents scrambled to explain away the sounds as fireworks.
Should Whitney Avenue hold onto the name of the cotton-gin inventor who played a key role in the expansion of slavery?
Not according to a Yale business student, who’s pointed to the university’s first African American doctorate holder as an alternative namesake for the East Rock corridor.