Morehead aims to unify Ward 22
For several hours Wednesday night, Ward 22 visited Timothy Dwight College.
Residents of Timothy Dwight are, in fact, residents of Ward 22 — but when push comes to shove, that’s more a technicality than anything else.
From a bird’s-eye perspective, Ward 22 has been one of the more impoverished and hopeless neighborhoods in New Haven — living proof of how the city disappointed many blacks following a surge of redevelopment in the 1960s and ’70s. Shops are rundown. Public perception of the neighborhood is poor. Jobs are scarce. Health care is rare. Leadership is...
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