Dixwell Café Opens Smooth-ly

"We are uniting Broadway and Dixwell, aren't we, Jeanette?" Harp added.
Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison agreed.

They are uniting Broadway and Dixwell already.Right into the hands of the Gentrification Vampires.

"I got a lot of constituents who have been down here," she said, "and they say, 'Jeannette, this place is good.' … We are bridging the gap, and we're going to continue to eat together."

I wonder how many of those constituents can afford the rents to live there?


He also cited the "amazing support" from Yale, from having the mayor at the opening to marketing the café generally. Yale has done "everything," Stojanovski said, "without even asking." Yale university Properties is the landlord; the new store expands Yale's footprint beyond an invisible border that for generations has divided the campus from the Dixwell neighborhood.

Yale is the kiss of death.

posted by: New Haven Taxpayer on January 6, 2015 11:05am

Average taxpayer-
You said it.
I run a bar/restaurant that has been in business for decades, and although I have always loved the Anchor and am pretty sure I could run it successfully under normal circumstances, I would not think of entering into a contract with Yale properties.
My guess is they want that bar to go away anyway. Yale does not want any liquor licences in any of their properties unless they serve expensive french food with it.
Keep an eye out for some chain to replace the Anchor. One more reason to stop going down town, Toads is next, Yale has been lawyer-ing up to remove that New Haven institution, go now and enjoy it before it is gone.

Here is a partial list of forced out LOCALLY OWNED businesses Yale has killed:
Yale Co-op (80 years serving the community!)
the Liquor Store on Broadway(forgot their name)
Demery's
Copper Kettle
Yankee Doodle
Gentry's
Rhumba
Bespoke
I know there are a lot more but these are a few that came to mind immediately. Others I forgot

This is something I can really sink my teeth into!

I don't think the Dixwell neighborhood is in any danger of immediate gentrification. 15 Dixwell Ave is like... 10 feet into Dixwell Ave, which goes on for miles and miles and stretches into Newhalville. Luckily for Threefiths, there are plenty of liquor stores and pawn shops left, though I suspect Threefifths doesn't live in that neighborhood based on his/her access to post on New Haven Independent 24/7.

That whole area will take decades to change. Perhaps Threefifths will miss the great benefits we'll lose from gentrification, like all of the adorable little broken nip bottles outside the Taurus Cafe or the gun violence we see most summers.

Gentrification may be happening, but if it is, it's happening at a glacial base into the Dixwell neighborhood and I seriously doubt we'll see any enormous changes in the Dixwell/Newhalville neighborhood based on this smoothie shop.

posted by: Josh Levinson on November 10, 2015 4:53pm

I don't think the Dixwell neighborhood is in any danger of immediate gentrification. 15 Dixwell Ave is like… 10 feet into Dixwell Ave, which goes on for miles and miles and stretches into Newhalville. Luckily for Threefiths, there are plenty of liquor stores and pawn shops left, though I suspect Threefifths doesn't live in that neighborhood based on his/her access to post on New Haven Independent 24/7.

I do not have to live in that neighborhood ,But I pay taxes to New Haven that goes to that neighborhood .So that gives me the right to complain. Also I donate money to this paper every month. There are liquor stores downtown.


That whole area will take decades to change. Perhaps Threefifths will miss the great benefits we'll lose from gentrification, like all of the adorable little broken nip bottles outside the Taurus Cafe or the gun violence we see most summers.

Gentrification may be happening, but if it is, it's happening at a glacial base into the Dixwell neighborhood and I seriously doubt we'll see any enormous changes in the Dixwell/Newhalville neighborhood based on this smoothie shop

I have said that gentrification happens in stages. New Haven is in the First stage. I will give it five more years and you will see the full effect.
As Karl Marx wrote in Capital almost 150 years ago:

Part One.

Part two

@ Josh Levinson

My bad I forgot you said this.

Perhaps Threefifths will miss the great benefits we'll lose from gentrification, like all of the adorable little broken nip bottles outside the Taurus Cafe or the gun violence we see most summers.

And look at the new benfits when gentrification does comes in.


Whites who gentrified Oakland are calling the police on innocent Black residents.

East Oakland is one of the last locations in the Bay Area with reasonable prices for housing. The area, which is historically Black, is being gentrified by White residents. But like most cases of gentrification, the new White residents are viewing the existing Black residents as menaces to the neighborhood.According to reports by East Bay Express, Whites are calling the police on innocent Blacks in Oakland at an alarming rate. Taking data from the website Nextdoor.com, Whites have called the police on Blacks for walking down the street, knocking on a door, and. The White residents have also called the police on Black salesmen and postal workers who were delivering items.

http://rollingout.com/2015/10/16/whites-gentrified-oakland-calling-police-innocent-black-residents/

These cops are tired of white people getting freaked out by their black neighbors.

The stories pile on. A white security officer tells of the year he and his black wife lived in an apartment complex. "She got cops called a total of 9 times in the year we lived there I got zero," he says. A retired cop recalls the time a "lady called scared to death because some black guy was sitting in his truck across from her house" -- it was the water meter reader

This article omits:

AverageTaxpayer, any evidence to back up your first point? Just curious.

Property owners (even Yale) can't take their property off the the tax rolls - only the city can. I thought the city and Yale had come to an agreement years ago under which Yale pledged not to expand its tax-exempt footprint.

@Bradley -- I assure you that the assemblage is real, and that the majority of the parcels have come off the tax rolls.

Take a peek for yourself by visiting the tax assessor's database, or the tax accounts at the tax collector's office.

Yale can take a property off the tax rolls by claiming an educational use. How these vacant, land-banked parcels qualify is a question for the City Assessor.