The block party organizers, including Ward 3 Democratic co-chair Lisa Velasquez-Torres, Alder Angel Hubbard, Neil Richardson, and Jewu Richardson. They were the OGs of Baldwin Street and Davenport Avenue, the elders. At the first annual Baldwin Street Reunion and Block Party on a recent Saturday, the two were packing book bags with school supplies alongside Jewu Richardson, whose organization, Building IT Together CT, hosted the event. The block party, he said, “is for the ones that didn’t make it and for the elders like Miss Frances and Miss Bridget that helped us along the way to make it.” Not far away, Sharon Jones, Ward 26 co-chair, settled on a bench with her husband.