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| Apr 10, 2024 2:46 pm |Magarvey Josie was on the ball Wednesday.
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| Apr 10, 2024 2:46 pm |Magarvey Josie was on the ball Wednesday.
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| Mar 6, 2024 4:26 pm |A two-alarm fire interrupted renovations at Dwight’s Kensington Square apartments while sending two firefighters to the hospital.
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| Mar 6, 2024 12:30 pm |Quick: Name the New Haven location where a platinum-selling Grammy-nominated hip hop superstar and coffee entrepreneur joined an award-winning cupcake maker, an up-and-coming cigar collective, and a community-minded lemonade company.
That was Dwight Street’s Cambria Hotel last week, where area entrepreneurs showcased their wares before 100 people in a coffee-tasting event featuring Kiss Cafe and sponsored by Gorilla Lemonade in celebration of Black History Month.
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| Feb 23, 2024 12:44 pm |A panel of doctors lauded the recent approval of CASGEVY, a gene therapy for sickle-cell disease, but called for advocacy to make the treatment affordable, especially for people on Medicaid.
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An affordable housing group has spotted space for nine new nests to accommodate Firebirds and lower-income renters on Orchard Street — but hopes the city will find room in its zoning regs for the dense development.
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The corner of Dwight Street and Edgewood Avenue has become car-crash central since the traffic light stopped working right.
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| Jan 30, 2024 3:13 pm |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.
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| Nov 30, 2023 9:59 am |The Black Corner Store on Edgewood Avenue isn’t closing. For now. But it is up for sale, as Kenia and Michael Massey try to find a way to keep their neighborhood storefront afloat as both a for-profit business and a nonprofit hub for classes in financial literacy and other community resources.
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| Oct 6, 2023 9:18 am |Thanks to a combination of foot traffic and web traffic along with deep neighborhood roots, the newest entrepreneur on lower Edgewood Avenue is about to hit his 1,000th customer and has a new six-month lease in hand.
That entrepreneur, Rashaan Boyd, breathed new life into a vacant storefront at Day and Edgewood with his A Hustler’s Vibe clothing outlet and is going strong.
He is among the merchants the Independent is interviewing who are figuring out how to make small business work along largely residential stretches of Edgewood Avenue.
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| Aug 14, 2023 12:14 pm |How about an upgraded splash pad — one where there’s not only refreshing spray, but the really cool kind where buckets of water fall on your head?
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Fifteen-year-old Queenie Nkrumah penned a letter to her future self five years from now detailing her goals to buy a home for her mother, become a real estate agent, and work toward making $1 million by age 21.
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| Jul 27, 2023 11:32 am |Board of Education President Yesenia Rivera returned to her alma mater middle school on Edgewood Avenue — and then traveled with the help of a children’s book back home to the beaches of Puerto Rico — while reading to second graders at one of the public school district’s summer programming sites.
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| Jul 3, 2023 11:14 am |The sound of rustling leaves merged with squeals of joy and the gurgling of the Kensington Playground splash pad as a light mist wafted through the heavy heat. Despite the stifling smog that hung in the air, neither the Friends of Kensington Playground clean-up volunteers nor the neighborhood’s kids let it deter them from rejoicing in the beauty of a recently saved public park.
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| Jun 28, 2023 11:00 am |Six members of the Artship Artists’ Cooperative at Fellowship Place, an agency that provides therapeutic support and rehabilitation services for adults living with mental illness, sat in a circle of chairs in front of a butterfly mural. Each person had a large container in front of them and a pair of drumsticks in their hands. As the Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” played on the loudspeakers, dance instructor Kristie Entwistle led the group in seated dance filled with hand-clapping, swaying, and beats on the drums.
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A Boston-based affordable housing developer has dropped its plans to buy a Kensington Street public park and construct 15 new apartments in its stead — prompting the Elicker administration to move to end a related years-long lawsuit on the grounds that the contested public greenspace will remain public and green.
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| May 31, 2023 5:09 pm |Carlos Eyzaguirre hustled to squeeze in some family shopping while conducting city business Wednesday on Dwight Street.
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| May 18, 2023 9:13 am |A car was driving the wrong way down the street yet again. Christopher Nguyen knew that can mean trouble.
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| May 11, 2023 5:44 pm |“Semi-retired” carpenter Michael Blackman was out working, as usual, on Platt Street helping his son create community.
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| May 11, 2023 8:45 am |With shovels and rakes in hand, roughly 30 Dwight neighbors took to the streets for a neighborhood cleanup.
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| May 5, 2023 4:07 pm |School board student representative Ma’Shai Roman is on track to graduate from Hillhouse High School in less than two months to pursue a college degree in political science with the goal of one day becoming a U.S. congresswoman.
If you had read her that sentence two years ago, Roman likely wouldn’t have believed it — as she was in the midst of transferring to her third high school while struggling with her mental health, all against the backdrop of the isolating and education-disrupting effects of a global pandemic.
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| May 2, 2023 11:17 am |Rashaan Boyd has returned to the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Day Street to reclaim a piece of the block.
Don’t rely just on bashing Yale and begging the state when it comes to raising enough money to fill city budget gaps.
Liam Brennan offered those words of caution as he pitched his mayoral campaign’s vision for how best to craft a “fair share,” pro-housing budget that rethinks the bounds of permissible local government action.
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| Mar 22, 2023 2:46 pm |John Onoforio had on a Milwaukee hoodie, not a golf shirt, as he emerged from his Toyota Sienna minivan Wednesday morning.
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| Mar 13, 2023 2:15 pm |While expounding on the near-perfect symmetry of his outfit, David Weselcouch paused mid-sentence.
“Wait, hey — St. Patrick is going by,” he called out from his station on Chapel Street.
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| Mar 1, 2023 2:37 pm |In their fathers’ footsteps, Robert Picagli and Matt Bleything picked up the tools to prepare a century-plus-old Dwight building to house new generations of renters.
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