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Kimbrough's supporters include her grandson Warren Kimbrough, local business owner Jesse Crespo (of ADT Auto-Body), her niece Sonya Scott-Campbell, Hamdenite Sonia Powell, and Newhallville resident Brother Born.
“I want a stop sign right there by that school,” said Lossie Gorham. “And a speed bump.” She pointed at Lincoln-Bassett Community School, which stands across the street from where she’s lived for two decades.
Addie Kimbrough, the alder candidate who had knocked on Gorham’s door, nodded and repeated a refrain she’s often voiced on the campaign trail: “Newhallville is being neglected.”
Liam Brennan (right) with Keith and Yolanda Harper talking through ...
... fewer empty lots, more housing, on Starr Street.
Keith Harper can still remember the three-family house that stood a few doors down from his own family’s Starr Street home. It’s now a vacant city-owned lot.
Mayoral challenger Liam Brennan visited Harper’s Newhallville block to make his pitch for why a house should be standing there again today — and what rules need to be changed to make that denser land-use vision a reality.
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Jul 24, 2023 12:53 pm
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Omar Kh with Mohamad Hamasa on Saturday: Looking to flip or rent.
Three months after prevailing at a West Hills foreclosure auction for a house he had planned to move his family into — but which he now intends to rent or flip — Omar Kh came back to New Haven to help a close friend and fellow New Yorker try to get his own foot in the door of investing in rundown, tax-foreclosed local real estate.
Jeanette Sykes, center, to political hopefuls: "Sometimes you're gonna have to stand alone."
With gentrification and adult education on their minds, Newhallville Democrats endorsed a political newcomer for alder while casting their support with the incumbent mayor and splitting on a school board seat.
Remidy Shareef: White supremacy "is the root cause of all of our problems here in America."
Call out exclusionary suburbs. Stand up for undocumented immigrants. Help boost Black small-business contractors. And always “speak truth to power.”
New Haven’s four Democratic candidates for mayor offered those responses when asked on the debate stage about what they have done and will do to combat systemic racial prejudices that benefit people who are white and harm those who are not.
Brennan, Goldenberg, and Mayor Elicker on the debate stage Thursday.
Abddusabur: "If we're not prioritizing taking care of our own community, how the hell are we going to have housing for somebody else that just got here?"
A hypothetical “bus of immigrants” rolled up to a Newhallville school auditorium Thursday night — revealing a divide among the city’s four Democratic mayoral candidates over just how much of a haven New Haven should be for new arrivals in need.
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Jun 26, 2023 2:08 pm
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Ward 21 Alder Troy Streater with Madgalene Campbell and granddaughter Makayla on the campaign trail.
Maceo “Troy” Streater was on a mission.
To win his first full term in aldermanic office. And to gather enough support to rename a stretch of Thompson Street in Newhallville for a long-time former neighborhood English teacher.
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Jun 26, 2023 12:04 pm
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Doreen Abubakar (center) helping a senior attendee pot her plant.
“Everyone, be quiet! I want to know which one I got.”
A hush fell over the roughly 30 seniors gathered on the second floor of the Q House community center as the gardeners-in-training attempted to find the flower that corresponded to the leafy sprouts in front of them.
256 Shelton: Potential candidate for eminent domain?
A mayoral challenger embraced the idea of claiming blighted properties for city ownership by way of eminent domain, as part of a campaign push to use local government’s powers to support new housing and deter dangerous building decay.
Abdussabur (right) passing Dope N Delicious lunch ...
... as campaign supporters pass Black-business-boosting business cards.
As takeout containers filled with fried rice, mac and cheese, chicken wings, and salad changed hands — along with business cards promoting the work of New Haven-raised Black entrepreneurs — Shafiq Abdussabur detailed his vision for bringing back the small-business glory days of the Dixwell Avenue of his youth.
Key ingredients to the revival he pitched include collaboration, public safety, local hiring, and making sure City Hall supports locally sourced ventures as soon as they get off the ground.
Newhallville-Hamden Strong Chair Jeanette Sykes: APT pushback brought community together.
A hundred Newhallville and southern Hamden community members celebrated news that the APT Foundation methadone clinic nonprofit is still open to selling its recently-purchased Dixwell Avenue building to a local children’s mental health nonprofit.
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Jun 5, 2023 10:54 am
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Hamden Academy of Dance and Music dancers ...
... and quads and motorcycles ...
.. help fill the streets for the Freddy's festive return to Dixwell Ave.
Thousands of people filled Dixwell Avenue to march and mingle in a revived Freddy Fixer parade, marking a moment of community celebration following an extended pandemic-prompted pause.
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May 19, 2023 2:38 pm
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Pilar Sanzari leads the flower planting at the newly built Kathy Carroll Playground at 660 Winchester.
Charla Nich and Kathy Carroll's daughter Kate Chivian on Friday.
Pilar Sanzari dug her gloved hands in some freshly poured soil to plant a colorful array of Shasta daisies, azaleas, petunias, and marigolds — as a vibrantly hued new playground took root behind her in honor of a beloved late Yale professor and substance use treatment researcher.
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May 18, 2023 11:16 am
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Felicia Howard and Faydre Phillips: "We just want to move and have a clean place to live and a landlord that fixes" what needs to be fixed.
Another roach down, plenty more to go.
Felicia Howard pointed a spray bottle at yet another cockroach crawling above her kitchen stove — and tried to snuff out a pest that has plagued a dilapidated Newhallville apartment from which an out-of-state landlord is trying to evict her and her daughter for no fault of their own.
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Laura Glesby |
May 8, 2023 2:53 pm
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The Harding Pl. apartment building where Jacqueline Frett (pictured below) once lived.
Frett at her former kitchen table on Harding Place: "When you don’t have a stable home and household, it’s hard to maintain something outside."
Two years after an eviction lawsuit left Jacqueline Frett and her four kids with no place to live in New Haven, the 35-year-old former Harding Place tenant and her family are now trying to make their way back to the city they once called home.
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May 2, 2023 2:08 pm
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Landlord Raphael Badouch and attorney Jeffrey Weisman in court on Tuesday.
A state judge turned down a New Jersey landlord’s bid to evict a nonpaying West Hazel Street tenant after finding that her apartment’s persistent housing code violations justified the temporary withholding of rent.
Reese Green and Rodney Williams with photos of Reese's late brother, Javan.
For a sense of why Reese Green isn’t ready to bless his brother’s killer’s quest for a second chance outside of prison, accompany him on a visit to Beaverdale Memorial Park.
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Apr 26, 2023 3:27 pm
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Landlord attorney Eliana Schachter and property manager Arie Yehonatan Richenberg in eviction court: "I want to do my job."
Raphael Badouch got his day in housing court Tuesday in his company’s effort to evict a nonpaying tenant. He didn’t personally show up.
Raphael Badouch also had a day scheduled in housing court on April 11, to be arraigned in a separate case involving 24 code violations at the same property. He didn’t show up then, either.
That led the judge to ask: Where in the world was Raphael Badouch?
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Apr 24, 2023 8:38 am
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transformation.
The painting, titled transformation, is literally visceral, but fantastical at the same time. It is an act of carnage, though not necessarily one of violence. Are we witnessing creation or destruction? Are they part of the same thing?
Schools Supt.-to-be Madeline Negrón greets Lincoln-Bassett students Thursday morning.
New Haven’s first-ever Latina schools superintendent greeted Ecuadorian-born student Bryan Panata with an “Hola,” made a Puerto Rican geography connection with Wilbur Cross junior Lunaa Omar, and remarked on how bilingual education has advanced since her childhood days working to learn English in a basement classroom.
