The Shabazz Center Celebrates the 87th Birthday of Malcolm X this Saturday
For more info: http://theshabazzcenter.net/ Check out: Freedom’s Sisters – The Untold Story Uptown Gem – The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Center
Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives
The New York City Municipal Archives recently released a database of almost 1 million images from its vast collection of NYC images of the 20th century. Click here for 53 amazing photographs handpicked from the archives by Alan Taylor of The Atlantic. Check out: New York City Municipal Archives We invite you to like our [...]
Cornerspotted: Paterno Castle of Washington Heights – Curbed NY
by Dave Hogarty Yesterday’s Cornerspotter puzzle featured a close-up image of a castle with a greenhouse and a driveway. What it didn’t feature and would have given everything away is the heights upon which it was perched, high above the Hudson River in Inwood just north of present location of the George Washington Bridge. Paterno [...]
Throw Back Thursdays: Jason Minter & Indian Road Café
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Photography by Paul Lomax (@PaulLomaxPhoto) For this week’s Throwback, I chose one of my fave posts, Daily Grind: Jason Minter & the Indian Road Café. First of all, Jason is such an awesome guy and has shown the Uptown Collective love from the beginning. Secondly, Indian Road Café (218th and Indian [...]
Ghost Light: Illuminating Our City’s Theaters: RKO Coliseum | NYPL
By Jeremy Megraw A thing of beauty is a joy forever… — Keats (quoted in opening night program, B. S. Moss’ Coliseum Theatre, 1920) The end of 2011 also brought the quiet demise of the last movie theater in Washington Heights, Coliseum Cinemas. Known to most residents as the RKO Coliseum, the large theater, occupying the [...]
Tourists Step Through Time in Trinity Cemetery
By Andrew Seaman and Tahiat Mahboob Tourists come to the Trinity Church cemetery and mausoleum in Washington Heights to learn about upper Manhattan’ s past. The 168-year-old burial ground provides the final resting place for many celebrated New Yorkers: John James Audubon, Clement Clarke Moore, Ralph Waldo Ellison, and Jerry Orbach, to name a few. [...]
A Trek Through the Timeless Treasure that is Inwood Hill Park
BY Lauren Dockett Photography by Briana E. Heard (@beheardphoto) I am in the realest place in Manhattan. A spot at the absolute top of the island where landscaping and development stop and in a dissonant fusion, city and wild world meet. This place is home to a living Native American history and to Manhattan’s only [...]
The City Concealed: High Bridge
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) If you ever wanted to know the history of the actual High Bridge, which is NYC’s oldest standing bridge, then this Channel Thirteen video is just the ticket. The High Bridge just like the rest of Uptown is experiencing a renaissance and is slated to re-open in 2013. The High Bridge [...]
Smoke on the Hill
BY Tony Gonzalez (@TonyCreative) There is truly nothing as rewarding as being called upon to serve, in some unique way, the very place you have called home for decades. For me, this came one wintry morning in January 2007. At the time, I was a draftsman for a small architecture firm in Brooklyn, studying part [...]
HIDDEN CITY: WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Photography by Trish Mayo Yesterday, NBC New York online posted an amazing video that delved into the remarkable hidden history of Washington Heights. New York Nonstop’s Lynda Baquero and Rolando Pujol of AMNewYork dig into the rich historical background of this neighborhood from the colonial era Morris Jumel Mansion to a [...]
BRIDGES – AN ODE TO WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
Poetry & photography by Tony Gonzalez I grew up in a city within a city, A town bordered by rivers. The city was on a hill. Actually spanned two hills, nestled, warm. This city was small, separate, cozy. The place was filled with laughter and song. There were soldiers in this city, Some who fought [...]
HEIGHTS HISTORY – HILLTOP PARK
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Did you know that on the location where Columbia University Medical Center (165th Street and Broadway) now stands there was once a baseball stadium that was the clubhouse for the team that would go on to become the NY Yankees? That’s right, before the Yankees were the Yankees, they were the [...]
UNDER THE BRIDGE, UPTOWN!
By: M.Tony Peralta In 1989, I was a freshmen at George Washington H.S. aka DUBS. That year Manny Ramirez was a senior and in my weight training class. Rumors of the Notorious Decepticons making there way to Dubs to start some trouble would circulate, members of the Wild Cowboys would come after school in there [...]
THE HEIGHTS – EARLY HIP-HOP HOTBED
BY Led Black This is a rare audio recording of Grandmaster Flash & The 4 MC’s at the Audubon Ballroom on December 23rd, 1978. A short time after, Raheim joins the group and it becomes Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. This is a testament to the fact that way before Hip-Hop became a national [...]
The Washington Heights Riots of 1992 Remembered – Part 1
BY Led Black (@Led_Black July 1992 As soon as we stepped out of the 1 & 9 train station at 191st street, I could feel the electricity in the air. This was not unusual in the Washington Heights of that era but this was something different. It seemed to be pulsating. Magnetically, that energy seemed [...]
CAN'T LIVE WITH OUT MY RADIO
By: M.Tony Peralta I have come across this photo while doing research on the web numerous times. I’ve seen this image on t-shirts, event flyers and other graphics that have required that 80′s nostalgic feel and I had never really noticed the background until recently. A couple of months ago, I was doing research, looking [...]
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) My pops likes to refer to Father’s day as “el día de los perros” (The Day of the Dogs) because fathers don’t get the same kind of love and respect as mothers do. With that in mind, this piece is dedicated to all the dads who deserve the title of father, felicidades. [...]
CLINT & COOGAN'S: WHATS THE CONNECTION?
BY: DeJesus Only connection I can confirm is that in 1968 world renown actor, Clint Eastwood, starred in a film known as, COOGAN’s BLUFF. The plot of this film is as follows: There’s a disruption in the activities of Sheriff Walt Coogan (Clint Eastwood) as a crack tracker and ladies’ man when he is ordered [...]
ALAN "HUSTLE-NOMICS" GREENSPAN WAS AT HOME IN THE HEIGHTS
BY DeJesus: That’s right, Mr. Federal Reserve himself is from our neck of the woods. Considered by many to be the second most powerful man in the United States at the time…which might explain why he rolls around looking like he’s packing some heat. But seriously when it comes to recognizable names in the history [...]
ART IS NOT A CRIME…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) When I was a kid growing up in Washington Heights, NYC in the mid to late 80’s, Graffiti was all the rage. The first thing Graffiti writers would say to one another when they met for the first time was “what you write”. Graffiti, the artistic element of Hip-Hop, was truly [...]
CONFESSIONS OF A SNEAKER FIEND
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) My life-long addiction to sneakers began innocently enough with Kangaroos. You remember Roos; those were the sneakers that had a pocket with a zipper on the side. My friends and I would all keep a dollar in there just in case you had to buy a slice or some lemonheads or [...]
TIME CAPSULE: WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
We found this YouTube clip of how Washington Heights looked in the days of yesteryear. The Funny thing is that in many ways the neighborhood has not changed. It is still a place where people come from all over the world to begin chipping away at the American Dream.
