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What are some of the greatest films made in and about the Bronx? A Bronx Tale, The Warriors, Summer of Sam come to mind. But the Boogie Down is becoming a growing home for filmmakers focusing on bringing film to a place often overlooked. A few weeks ago during Bronx Week, the 3rd Annual Bronx Week Film Festival featured several inspiring up-and-coming independent filmmakers from my home borough. Hannah Leeshaw was amongst the lineup of filmmakers showcasing her first short film, “Fictional Me, Fictional You”. While I have an undying affinity for filmmakers because of their abstract vision to compliment a writer’s words – Leeshaw proves that as writer, director, and editor, her first attempt at storytelling is nothing short of a strong one.
By Michael J. Feeney / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
(Photo: Richard Harbus | NY Daily News) Yamil Martinez, the designer, concept creator and partner of the gastropub.
Washington Heights and Inwood have been booming with trendy lounges and restaurants, and now the neighborhood’s most popular strip has its first sports bar.
Uptown Social, located on the bustling Dyckman St. strip at Vermilyea Ave., is the newest addition to a block that has become synonymous with food offerings and nightlife. Sports fans can now add a place to catch Yankee games — and a host of others — to the list.
“It’s the only sports bar on Dyckman…When we had a Knicks game, it was chaos,” said Yamil Martinez, the designer, concept creator and partner of the gastropub. “You don’t have to go downtown to have a drink…We have a great feeling here.”
Martinez, 30, grew up in Washington Heights and remembers when there was “nothing” in the neighborhood but fast food joints, 99-cent shops and cheap clothing stores.
Now, he’s pleased to see the area continue to evolve with numerous trendy restaurants and lounges. And he’s been a key part of many of them.
Read more: ‘Social’ studies … Sports bar is newest addition to trendy Dyckman strip – NY Daily News.
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That’s right people, the next installment of the photography exhibit, Message Delayed, returns to the Carnaval del Boulevard on June 1st from noon to 4pm. The exhibit will feature 87 portraits taken last year and the photo booth will be up and running to create a new set of images. It will be one of the first events of this year’s 10th annual Uptown Arts Stroll.
The portraits will also be exhibited at ARC XVI Fort Washington Senior Center from June 10-28 during business hours (4111 Broadway, enter on W. 174th Street).
The artist talk and reception will be at ARC on Wednesday, June 26 from 6-8pm.
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In the Series Premiere Episode of Destination Harlem TV, local culinary experts and professionals speak about the Farm to Table movement at an Earth Day event sponsored by Harlem Park to Park and held at My Image Studio (MIST) on W 116th Street; show Historian and Tour Guide, Lavelle Porter, provides insight on the early history of Harlem; the owners of the latest edition to Lenox Avenue’s growing restaurant scene, Harlem Shake, speak to us about their sure to be iconic restaurant; and finally Marcia Sells, a long time resident of Harlem who works at Columbia University in Government and Community Affairs, speaks about working and living in the community of Harlem. Enjoy the show.
Check out: http://destinationharlem.net/
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Story and photos by Robin Elisabeth Kilmer
Elected officials, community leaders and residents gathered for the “Juan Rodríguez” co-naming ceremony.
Four score and three hundred and twenty years ago, a man came to this country and settled on the northern tip of Manhattan.
Only it wasn’t a country yet, or even a city.
What is notable, however, is the fact that his 1613 arrival makes Juan Rodríguez the first recorded non-native resident of Inwood, Manhattan, and all of New York City.
Rodríguez came on a boat—bypassing customs, quarantine, and Ellis Island.
It is likely that Rodríguez was an interpreter who worked on a Dutch trading ship.
In historic Dutch documents, Rodríguez is described as a mulatto man who lived on the island of Hispaniola, and it is known that he spent time in Santo Domingo, in what is the present day Dominican Republic, making Juan Rodríguez the first Dominican immigrant to New York City.
400 years after the fact, Rodríguez was honored with the co-naming of a stretch of Broadway from 159th Street to 218th Street in his name.
Read more: First New Yorker back on Broadway.
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