Time Travel Tuesdays: Crack’s Destructive Sprint Across America | NY Times
By Michael Massing Published: October 01, 1989 AS BROADWAY CUTS UP through the Upper West Side of Manhattan and into Washington Heights, it gradually turns into a giant Caribbean bazaar. The avenue abounds with bodegas, farmacias, unisex beauty salons, bargain clothing outlets, restaurants serving pollo and platanos, and travel agencies offering bargains to the Dominican [...]
Time Travel Tuesdays: Washington Heights Journal – The 191st Street Tunnel | NY Times
By JOSH KURTZ Published: August 12, 1991 Earlier this year, the Transit Authority closed some long, dark pedestrian tunnels in the subways. One of the longest and darkest, the three-block tunnel connecting Broadway and 190th Street with the 191st Street IRT station at St. Nicholas Avenue, stayed open. In one of those only-in-New York bureaucratic [...]
Entrance To The Past: Broadway & Isham Streets | Forgotten New York
While meandering aimlessly in upper Manhattan in February 2013 I came upon a single intersection, Broadway and Isham Street, where there are several leftover relicts from several different ages that still survive. Before getting into those, I’d like to dispute the pronunciation of the name Isham, which, I’m told, is EYE-sham. This is plainly ridiculous. [...]
Flashback Fridays: 1 Train Memories
“This pic was taken in 1988 on the 1 train. We had just won the alternative High School Co-Ed Championship. There we were; kids from different backgrounds, neigborhoods and even gender and we came together. We didn’t even like each other outside of the field. Three of the kids in the pic have since passed [...]
Travel Back Into Time @ Indian Road Café on January 8th
Indian Road Café 600 West 218th Street @ Indian Road Tuesday, January 8th 2013 @ 7:30 pm Never before seen images of Inwood will be re-united with the neighborhood for the first time in over a century. Here’s the back-story: In the late 1800’s grocer Robert Veitch opened a store on Dyckman Street in an [...]
Juan Rodriguez Way: Uptown Dominicans Take Pride in Early Immigrant | The Uptowner
By Marielle Mondon About three miles of northern Manhattan will soon honor a man who, until recently, was unknown to most of the people who live there. Juan Rodriguez Way will be the name of Broadway from 159th to 218th Streets, after an early settler from Santo Domingo who reportedly arrived in New York in [...]
Historic Inwood: “Goodbye to Glocamorra” (1968)
“Goodbye to Glocamorra” (1968) is a documentary film originally made for broadcast on Irish television and is a fascinating look at the predominantly Irish Inwood of yesteryear. The film takes an unflinching look at the forces of transformation at work in the late 1960′s in the neighborhood. Inwood at the time was one of the [...]
Postcards from the Edge | My Inwood
The always-informative My Inwood site recently posted a series of Postcards of the Uptown of yesteryear. Cleverly entitled “Postcards from the Edge”, the series captures an Uptown that seems, at first glance, so different from the one of today but upon further inspection it reaffirms the notion that this is a place that is in [...]
#InstawalkNYC – The Uptown Edition
By Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy Instameet is a meetup put together initially by Instagram. People from different parts of the world and all walks of life meet up with one thing in common, the love of photography and Instagram. Here is a recap video of one of the New York City ones that took [...]
Flashback Fridays: The Post DR Parade Party Uptown 2010
Photography by Briana E. Heard (@beheardphoto) Being that the Dominican Day Parade is this Sunday, we thought it would be cool to take a trip through memory lane and take a gander at the Post DR Parade festivities that took place Uptown in 2010. The awesome images are courtesy of Uptown’s own Briana E. Heard. [...]
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 [...]
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