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Farewell, flicks: Middletown Ave.'s Ciné 4, now shuttered.
Start the early ed: Friends Center's Schiavone, who plans to convert cinema into childcare campus.
The lights are off and the popcorn’s all gone from a decades-old independent movie theater on Middletown Avenue — which new nonprofit owners aim to convert to a bustling campus for affordable early childhood education.
by | Jun 9, 2022 1:29 pm | Comments (24)
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City officials join Quinnipiac Gardens tenants and tenant union organizers for Thursday press conference. According to LCI, Quinnipiac Gardens has no outstanding housing code violations.
(Updated) The mayor and top City Hall housing officials traveled to an apartment complex on the east side of town to promote a newly proposed law empowering tenant unions — and to encourage renters to band together to advocate for fair rent and safe living conditions.
by | Jun 3, 2022 9:15 am | Comments (4)
Brent Peterkin in action at preserve, in prep for Black Birders Week walks.
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Local Osprey makes use of Quinnpiac nest platform.
Large winged Ospreys circled overhead. Coupled Mourning Doves sang to each other on a thin leafless tree. Hunting Tree Swallows sped through the air in blue flashes.
That was the scene this week at the Quinnipiac Meadows Nature Preserve, a local Narnia-esque green space owned by Gather New Haven (GNH).
GNH Executive Director Brent Peterkin was scoping out the preserve, and pointing out its beauty, in advance of leading community bird walks on Friday and Saturday.
by | Feb 14, 2022 4:02 pm | Comments (0)
The word on Foxon Boulevard Monday was: Love lives on Valentine’s Day.
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Abby Cadet with the new book she wrote with her mom.
A mom who started seeking to fill her daughter’s home library with more books featuring Black characters has begun publishing some of those books herself — with her daughter.
by | Feb 3, 2022 12:54 pm | Comments (1)
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Cesare Downing answers knock.
A knock came on the door of Cerese Downing as she was in the process of enrolling her 9‑year-old in an after-school program coming to her neighborhood. It was a team of recruiters for that very same program.
“I’m filling out the application right now!” Downing responded. “That’s spooky. I’m upstairs right now on my phone doing it. It’s a confirmation from God!”
by | Oct 7, 2021 4:43 pm | Comments (1)
A student brought a bb gun to Bishop Woods Architecture and Design Magnet School Thursday morning.
Continue reading ‘Bishop Woods Student Brought BB Gun To School’
by | Sep 17, 2021 2:22 pm | Comments (2)
Students at Ross/Woodward School spent Friday across town at Hillhouse High School’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse after bats were discovered inside their building.
by | Aug 26, 2021 3:59 pm | Comments (15)
Rafael Romano: Soap can temporarily solve a tight fix, but it doesn’t get the landlord out of one.
Yvonne Anderson: “I wanna get out of here, sir.”
“I wanna get out of here, sir. I need to get out of here,” Yvonne Anderson pleaded from the living room of her Quinnipiac Gardens apartment.
Anderson was making her plea to Rafael Ramos, the deputy director of the Livable City Initiative (LCI), a city government housing inspection agency.
Ramos and three other city employees arrived Thursday at Quinnipiac Gardens, the apartment complex where Anderson lives at 1314 Quinnipiac Ave. They showed up the morning after a new tenant union protested living conditions there and demanded that landlord Pike Intentional resolve longstanding maintenance issues.
Continue reading ‘Q Gardens Goes 16 For 16 — For Violations’
by | Aug 25, 2021 12:20 pm | Comments (37)
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Quinnipiac Gardens tenant union crashes Pike Int’l HQ.
Kay Pittman: Rats chewed through vents and get in through here.
A new tenant union put a landlord on notice that it plans to fight back unless conditions improve at their Quinnipiac Meadows apartment complex.
by | Jul 14, 2021 9:56 am | Comments (3)
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Yul Watley: “Laid back, and ready to serve.”
Housing authority tenant advocate / street hot dog vendor / construction contractor / youth counselor Yul Watley is looking to add a new title to his civic resume: alder for an “isolated” neighborhood on the far east side of town.
Continue reading ‘Public Housing Activist Launches Alder Run’
by | Mar 16, 2021 5:00 pm | Comments (2)
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570 Whitney Ave., where Mandy Management recently purchased 16 condos.
For only the second time in two and a half years, the megalandlord Mandy Management purchased market-rate rental housing in East Rock — picking up 16 condos on Whitney Avenue as part of a monthlong, $4 million, 45-unit buying spree.
by | Feb 4, 2021 1:56 pm | Comments (9)
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Marottoli on the Q Avenue beat.
Clamper in hand, Vin Marottoli watched cars roll in and out of the El Mexicano Hand Car Wash across the street as he picked up a receipt and a black ice car freshener from the ground.
by | Jan 29, 2021 6:44 pm | Comments (2)
An off-duty Meriden police officer who formerly worked for the New Haven Police Department was shot at Thursday night outside of the Essex Townhouses on Quinnipiac Avenue.
by | Dec 2, 2020 5:45 pm | Comments (38)
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Ornes outside his (for now) apartment: “We’re struggling.”
Connecticut has a pandemic eviction moratorium in place.
That’s not helping Willis Ornes, who lost his job and now faces losing his home.
Continue reading ‘Amid “Moratorium,” 31 Eviction Cases Filed’
by | Nov 23, 2020 5:09 pm | Comments (7)
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Customers wait to check out Sunday.
Walmart passed a surprise test issued by the city, though some shoppers remain wary of their safety at the superstore.
Continue reading ‘Walmart Passes Pop Quiz, Told To Spread People Out’
by | Nov 8, 2020 4:28 pm | Comments (2)
Facing a city shutdown, Walmart met a 72-hour city deadline to show it’s taking Covid-19 more seriously.
by | Nov 5, 2020 4:35 pm | Comments (26)
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Adjoa “Monday” Ofosu-Adu sprays down customer’s cart Thursday.
Shopper Rose: Leaves house only to go to the store.
New Haven’s health department gave the Foxon Boulevard Walmart outlet 72 hours to clean up its Covid-19 act or shut down.
Shoppers were upset to learn about conditions at the store, but also concerned about where else they would buy food and clothes.
by | Nov 3, 2020 9:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Harriet Welfare is ready for Ward 25 voters.
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Gabriell Matos: Young person’s turn to step up.
Twenty-year-old Gabriell Matos, dressed in full PPE gear, was stationed outside Bishop Woods School Tuesday morning. He held the door open to voters and pumped out hand sanitizer to all.
by | Oct 18, 2020 1:25 pm | Comments (3)
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Bishop Woods third-grade teacher Alena Roberts preps lessons in her empty classroom.
Yellow-and-black striped tape divides the hallways. Stickers remind students to wear masks and stay six feet apart from one another. Zip ties keep each locker closed and off limits. Gallon-sized pumps of hand sanitizer wait at each school entrance.
These are some of the changes to Bishop Woods Architecture & Design Magnet School that await students when they are scheduled to start some in-person classes on Nov. 9.
Continue reading ‘Bishop Woods Air Filters Are In, Lockers Locked’
by | Sep 11, 2020 10:53 am | Comments (2)
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Barbour at deposit spot.
New Haven’s landfill might have had 139,000 pounds more waste it in it — if not for 2,600 mattresses that have been recycled since January 2019.
Continue reading ‘Bed-der Method Found For Handling Old Mattresses’
by | Sep 3, 2020 12:12 pm | Comments (2)
City police arrested two 26-year-old New Haveners and charged them with criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, as part of the department’s efforts to crack down on a recent surge in local gun violence.
by | May 28, 2020 10:13 pm | Comments (26)
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Officer prepares to mace alleged shoplifter.
(Updated) A tense encounter between a police officer and an alleged shoplifter at the Walmart off Exit 8 ended with two officers injured and the suspect charged with assault on a police officer and larceny in the fifth degree.
Newly released police body camera footage shows the officer approaching the 29-year-old man as the latter is engaged in a verbal dispute with a store employee, spraying him with mace after a brief foot chase through the store, and holding him to the ground and arresting him as the man shouts in disbelief.
by | May 18, 2020 3:15 pm | Comments (1)
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A celebratory drive-by for New Haven’s American Medical Response (AMR) workers was the first of its kind for communications response operators (CRO) Conswella Sessions and Maria Luna.
by | May 8, 2020 3:24 pm | Comments (3)
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Lesleh Galvin, a mother of two, was met with the pleasant surprise of two free kids’ books while visiting Bishop Woods School to pick up free breakfast and lunch meals-to-go after having a hectic week.
