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Ma's House owner Cherisa Lloyd at new restaurant at former Lena's spot.
Ma's Favorite.
When Cherisa Lloyd enjoys the “Margie Special” at her new Westville soul food restaurant, she’s reminded of the love, strength, strong family values, and passion for cooking of her late mother, and best friend.
by | Jun 8, 2022 5:11 pm | Comments (22)
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Hasmukh “Harry” Patel outside his shuttered store: Not giving up.
The state has shut down a problem liquor store on Whalley Avenue, but its owner has hopes of reopening — and winning over his neighbors.
by | May 19, 2022 3:34 pm | Comments (1)
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Timmy Turner.
Timothy Turner was walking across the Stop & Shop on Whalley Avenue in the pouring rain sporting a Chicago Bulls Bucket hat, a sweatshirt, and jeans. He didn’t have an umbrella, but he still wore a bright smile across his face.
by | May 6, 2022 4:40 pm | Comments (15)
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The rotting metal drum lay on the grass near the curb. How did it get there?
Cynthia Rivera vowed to find out — and get it removed.
by | Apr 15, 2022 11:01 am | Comments (11)
Still from video presented at liquor control hearing, capturing customers entering employee counter area.
The owner of a trouble-spot liquor store made a pitch about the challenges he faces with sometimes violent customers — and some promises to improve his operation — in hopes of keeping his liquor permit in the face of neighborhood opposition.
Continue reading ‘Liquor Proprietor Details Threats, Challenges’
by | Apr 15, 2022 10:34 am | Comments (0)
Anthony Chapman at work on Whalley.
Anthony Chapman was setting up his shop at the corner of Ellsworth Avenue and Whalley Avenue — a spot he didn’t always expect to feel like home.
Continue reading ‘Former Downtown Vendor Finds Sea Moss Sells Just Fine In The Neighborhood’
by | Mar 24, 2022 3:41 pm | Comments (4)
Jay Jordan.
Jay Jordan arrived two hours early for his first day working at McDonald’s, hoping to make a good first impression — and create new opportunities.
Continue reading ‘Jay Jordan Shows Up Early For First Day At Mickey D's’
by and | Mar 10, 2022 3:43 pm | Comments (0)
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Majesty Whitaker talks Ukraine and barbershop talk Thursday morning.
The word at Transformerz barber shop Thursday was Ukraine — along with some other topics that had to stay in the shop.
Continue reading ‘Word At The Barber Shop: Ukraine Needs Our Help’
by | Dec 21, 2021 11:55 am | Comments (3)
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Anita Mclean and Cedric Emery at this dream donut emporium.
Anita Mclean and Cedric Emery will ring in the new year celebrating the six-month anniversary of Many Donuts, their mom and pop donut shop nestled between Fitch and Jewell streets at the Whalley Exxon.
by | Dec 17, 2021 9:07 am | Comments (3)
After an outpouring of community resistance and a denial of a request for approval of a parking plan, the final kibosh was put on a proposal for a BYO nightclub or “assembly hall” on upper Whalley Avenue.
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Shopping strip at 1330 Whalley Ave. where Kenneth Redding had pitched opening an “assembly hall” (in the right corner commercial space above).
The kibosh came in the form a vote against a special exception for Kenneth Redding’s proposed “assembly hall” at 1331 Whalley Ave. at Tuesday night’s Board of Zoning Appeals meeting.
Redding was not present at the gathering. He attended a zoning hearing a month earlier when neighbors came out in force with concerns not only about parking, but about late-night carousing and drinking, and vagrancy in neighbors’ yards.
“I recall an overwhelming negative community presence based on very late hours, bad behavior,” BZA Acting Chair Alexandra Daum said. “I would concur and move to deny, based on community pushback and the City Plan recommendation.
The vote was unanimous. (Read a previous story on the subject here.)
by | Nov 18, 2021 11:06 am | Comments (3)
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The shopping strip at 1330 Whalley Ave. where Kenneth Redding has pitched opening an “assembly hall” (in the right corner commercial space above).
A proposed BYOB nightclub on Upper Whalley hit another administrative roadblock Wednesday, as City Plan Commissioners unanimously recommended rejecting the venue’s request to share parking with its shopping strip neighbors.
Continue reading ‘City Plan Rejects Upper Whalley Nightclub Proposal’
by | Nov 14, 2021 2:58 pm | Comments (4)
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Downed wire at Whalley and Winthrop.
A balloon flew into electrical wires on Whalley Avenue Sunday — and caused a power outage that temporarily closed blocks worth of businesses.
by | Oct 24, 2021 10:27 am | Comments (13)
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Crowd Saturday outside Elicker HQ.
Touting results and warning against complacency, federal, state, and local Democratic officials descended upon New Haven on a crisp fall Saturday to boost the mayor’s campaign in the final stretch leading up to the Nov. 2 general election.
Continue reading ‘At Elicker Reelection Rally, Statewide Dems Chant, “We Got It Done”’
by | Oct 1, 2021 12:04 pm | Comments (15)
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Kadir Catalbasoglu: “I’m just asking: What I have, I want to make legal.”
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161 Whalley: Upper-story apartments can’t be renovated, because building lacks density.
A new city zoning rule is aimed at creating more housing on Whalley Avenue.
In a bid to uphold the spirit and the letter of that law, the city’s zoning board may have … caused the removal of housing from Whalley Avenue.
by | Sep 27, 2021 8:19 am | Comments (0)
The collage on the walls of the bookstore is a riot of changing shapes, swimming text, faces melting in and out of form, like water in a stream. Around the collage, a series of faces, offering expressions that are both confident and challenging. They invite you in, but with an edge. You may be tested. You may be challenged. But you will be accepted. On one of the paintings is a statement hovering somewhere between a mandate and a mantra: “Be heard.”
by | Aug 31, 2021 12:30 pm | Comments (29)
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Police seal off shooting scene (above); immediate aftermath (below).
(Updated Wednesday 11:06 a.m.) A man is in critical condition after someone shot him near the corner of Norton Street and Whalley Avenue Tuesday afternoon.
Continue reading ‘Man Critical After Daylight Norton-Whalley Shooting’
by | Aug 27, 2021 3:22 pm | Comments (41)
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Officers Richard Burgos, Jason Jackson, and Christian Carfora in action at Whalley & West Park.
As he zoomed down Whalley Avenue, Hunter thought about arriving on time to his new job six blocks away at A‑1 Oriental Kitchen. He thought about sending his daughter to college this weekend. He wasn’t thinking about the speed limit.
by | Aug 13, 2021 4:39 pm | Comments (3)
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WNBA’s Tanaya Atkinson at Friday’s giveaway.
Barber Brian MacCalla give 5-year-old Jayce Smith a shape-up at Friday’s back-to-school event.
As basketball star Tanaya Atkinson prepared to fly out of the country, she passed the rock to kids back home in New Haven to ensure they have filled book bags and free fresh hair cuts in time to return to school.
by | Jul 19, 2021 2:53 pm | Comments (4)
Owner Josue Santana at his new restaurant across from Stop & Shop.
Inside a new fast-food Puerto Rican restaurant on Whalley, Chef Raul Santiago combines richly seasoned pork fried rice, pinto beans, and oven-marinated pork onto a plate. He then tops the entire dish off with a large serving of sweet plantains.
“That’s it!” said Santiago, holding out a plate of Arroz con Gandules.
Continue reading ‘Today’s Special: Mambo Arroz con Gandules’
by | Jul 19, 2021 9:58 am | Comments (3)
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Whitaker giving Scott Martin a cut during nurses’ pitch: “I don’t want my opinion to be everyone’s opinion.
Two city Health Department nurses set up class in a barbershop. The topic at hand — Why should we trust the Covid-19 vaccine? — elicited straight talk about why people choose to remain unvaccinated.
by | Jul 2, 2021 3:12 pm | Comments (28)
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Nadine Horton with Steve Fontana: Helping businesses find solutions.
Two Whalley Avenue restaurant owners have noticed a lot of business taking place outside their new storefront. Unfortunately, it’s not the kind of business they had hoped for.
Continue reading ‘Whalley Businesses Tackle Loitering, Drugs’
by | Jun 29, 2021 3:05 pm | Comments (10)
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New Haven Abatement & Demolition crew on scene Tuesday.
A demolition crew tore the crumbling former home of Newt’s Cafe into rubble on Whalley Avenue Tuesday as passersby watched and wondered what will come next to the spot.
by | Jun 16, 2021 3:42 pm | Comments (9)
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Alder candidate Shafiq Abdussabur detailing his 10-point policing plan at Wednesday event.
Landlords are ready to offer cops discounted rents to live in the city, according to a political candidate who unveiled a 10-point plan to address New Haven’s red-hot gun violence.
Continue reading ‘Abdussabur Pitches Stop-The-Violence Plan’
by | Jun 8, 2021 8:35 am | Comments (0)
The latest in a wave of shootings in town took place Monday on Ella Grasso Boulevard near the intersection of Whalley Avenue.
by | Jun 6, 2021 4:51 pm | Comments (4)
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New DuBois-Walton mayoral headquarters at Whalley and Sherman.
Fifty supporters entered the door to Karen DuBois-Walton’s mayoral campaign headquarters Sunday — then were dispatched back out to knock on doors throughout the city.
Continue reading ‘DuBois-Walton Campaign HQ Opens With Call To Hit The Doors’
