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Morehead aims to unify Ward 22

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, April 13, 2007

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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