by | Feb 28, 2023 4:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Tuesday’s snow day gave Huân Ngô time to catch up on grading papers and preparing his students for New Haven’s jobs of tomorrow.
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by | Feb 16, 2023 3:41 pm | Comments (9)
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The current Edgewood Park Mid Bridge, on tap to be replaced.
It may not match the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, but it “looks pretty decent.”
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by | Feb 14, 2023 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
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Misha Harris was on the hunt for dazzling new footwear Tuesday in order to celebrate Valentine’s Day in style.
by | Feb 8, 2023 1:54 pm | Comments (3)
Nathaniel Britton had boots on the ground Wednesday. He could feel the soles and toes start to split.
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At Tuesday's online book talk for Revolution in Our Time.
A dive into the history of the Black Panthers once again reverberated loudly into the present — from the Black Lives Matter movement to the backlash against critical race theory to the killing of Tyre Nichols — as educators and community members gathered online to hear award-winning author Kekla Magoon talk about her new book, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People.
by | Jan 12, 2023 12:42 pm | Comments (18)
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The view from the soon-to-be-replaced Mid Bridge.
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn at Tuesday’s Zoom meeting.
A dance venue. A community garden. A set of lights for the skate park. A … West Rock-bound gondola?
Those were a few of the ideas that made it onto a community-built wish list for $800,000 worth of improvements for Edgewood Park, as put together by roughly 100 parkgoers.
by | Dec 20, 2022 6:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Detectives finding shell casings at the blocked-off intersection of Maple and Brownell.
An exchange of gunfire in the Edgewood neighborhood Tuesday afternoon ended with a driver getting hit by a bullet, crashing his car, then fleeing.
by | Nov 29, 2022 12:33 pm | Comments (2)
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Luciano Reyes slipped on a Carhartt sweatshirt and a second pair of gloves Tuesday to rescue a paint job on Brownell Street before the temperatures turned colder.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Brownell Street: Call Luciano’
by | Nov 17, 2022 2:52 pm | Comments (1)
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Jacinto DaGraca overseeing curb and sidewalk work on Winthrop.
The word on Winthrop Avenue Thursday was: sidewalks.
by | Nov 15, 2022 8:59 am | Comments (6)
Trekking with the New Haven Bioregional Group through Edgewood Park.
Sunday marked the first cold morning of the year, with rain, and at the Edgewood Farmer’s Market, people hurried from stall to stall. But another group of people gathered at the gazebo and soon headed farther into the park, unharried by the weather. The occasion was a walk of the New Haven Bioregional Group, into a part of the city where trees and moving water had something to do with preparing the Elm City, and the region, for the future.
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by | Nov 10, 2022 11:35 am | Comments (5)
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The house at 1377 Ella T. Grasso Blvd.
A three-story Edgewood mansion is on its way to becoming an expanded Montessori preschool classroom and housing complex for early childhood educators.
by | Nov 3, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (0)
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The former CVS building and future MCCA treatment center on Whalley.
New Haven residents make up three-quarters of the patients served by a substance use disorder treatment center that currently operates out of a rented Whalley Avenue office building — and that plans on moving to the former CVS site at the corner of Whalley and Orchard.
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by | Nov 1, 2022 4:00 pm | Comments (9)
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Sandra and her four kids stop by Trunk or Treat for second year.
Five year old Thiago Arichabala dressed as Chucky.
The light at the end of a spooky spider- and cobweb-filled tunnel at Edgewood Park was a hefty bag of Halloween treats.
Continue reading ‘Edgewood Park Transformed By Halloween Haunted Ride’
by | Oct 25, 2022 3:27 pm | Comments (1)
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A queen returned home from walking her 3‑year-old to school Tuesday morning — and reflected on the time back in her own school days when she learned her name’s royal origins.
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State Reps. Dillon and Scanlon and State Sen. Looney (right) with Brian Murphy at Wednesday's presser.
An extra $500 from the state this summer helped Brian Murphy cover the costs of piano lessons and lacrosse equipment for his two kids as he and his partner sought to get back to “normal” after years disrupted by the pandemic and a sudden layoff.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Dad, State Legislators Tout Child Tax Rebate Boost’
by | Oct 7, 2022 3:02 pm | Comments (8)
Thursday's City Plan Commission meeting.
Three city parks and a flood-prone west side road are slated to receive millions of dollars worth of upgrades thanks to a bevy of state and federal aid coming New Haven’s way.
Continue reading ‘Parks Upgrades En Route Thanks To State, Federal $’
by | Sep 12, 2022 1:49 pm | Comments (25)
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Mayor Elicker (right) biking in the new Wall St. contra-flow lane.
Cyclists heading west across downtown towards Yale’s campus won’t have to take as many one-way-street detours, thanks to a new “contra-flow” bike lane on Wall Street that was the scene Monday of an official inaugural ride.
by | Sep 1, 2022 3:36 pm | Comments (15)
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Properietor Lauren Anderson with regulars Makayla and Janeska.
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Visitors at Wednesday's open house.
Middle-schoolers Janeska and Makayla have found a new neighborhood hangout spot — and a new hobby, reading — inside Edgewood’s Possible Futures.
Continue reading ‘Indy Bookstore Brings New Life To Edgewood’
by | Aug 29, 2022 12:23 pm | Comments (10)
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City-owned buildings slated to become community hubs.
The Elicker Administration plans to convert eight underused parks buildings into youth, senior, and recreation hubs — with programming provided by both city staff and nonprofits.
by | Jul 25, 2022 9:17 am | Comments (2)
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The main stage at Seeing Sounds.
The concrete made the temperature seem twice as high at Edgewood Park’s skate park Saturday, but skateboards still flew through the crowd — and music filled the air at the first annual Seeing Sounds music festival.
Continue reading ‘Seeing Sounds Heats Up Edgewood Skate Park’
by | Jul 14, 2022 2:48 pm | Comments (3)
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Youth@Work crew Thursday painting retaining wall in Edgewood Park.
Edgewood Park’s trails got easier to navigate — and nicer to view — this week with the help of a crew from the city’s summer Youth@Work program.
by | Jun 2, 2022 9:48 am | Comments (7)
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Concrete Creations crew at work Wednesday.
Park regulars keep eye on renovations by the "Lyin' Tree."
As a crew repainted the fencing of Edgewood Park’s tennis courts, park regulars like Byron Breland, Ernest Newton, Billy Bostic, and Kerry Ellington watched from a distance cheering on long-awaited renovations to one of New Haven’s communal gems.
Continue reading ‘Court Upgrades Reinvigorate People's Park’
by | May 26, 2022 5:28 pm | Comments (27)
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Participants in Thursday's "Children's March" to Edgewood Park.
One hundred and fifty New Haven middle and high school students put their pencils down and posters up Thursday to give the city a lesson on solidarity, passion, and leading through action.
by | May 3, 2022 8:45 am | Comments (4)
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The Edgewood yeshiva at 765 Elm St.
Eliyahu Mirlis won’t be able to gain control of the former yeshiva building at Elm and Norton streets anytime soon, after a state judge ruled that an automatic “stay” should remain in place as a nonprofit controlled by imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer pursues an appeal in a five-years-and-counting foreclosure case.
by | Apr 26, 2022 1:19 pm | Comments (3)
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The Edgewood yeshiva at 765 Elm St.
Five years after winning a sexual assault case against the rabbi who ran his yeshiva, Eliyahu Mirlis faces yet another potential delay in gaining control of the building — and beginning to collect some of the $22 million owed him.
Continue reading ‘Appeal Could Keep Yeshiva Building Out Of Sex-Assault Victim's Hands’
