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 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. We invite you to like our [...]
STANLEY M. LEIBER, MARVEL-OUS MAN OF THE HEIGHTS
BY DeJesus Our friendly neighborhood web-crawler has been seen on occasion, swinging uptown. Coincidence? Probably not! See, the GW Bridge was the backdrop to a young Jewish kid that resided on Ft. Washington Ave., Washington Heights in the earlier part of the 20th Century. This kid, born Stanley Marting Leiber mutated into the “Master of [...]
THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH WENT TO SCHOOL UPTOWN
So if you went to IS 132 (Juan Pablo Duarte), at Wadsworth Ave. and 183rd Street, then you ran the same hallways that Legendary Yankee Man, Lou Gehrig, did, back in the early 1900′s. That’s right…”The Iron Horse” spend his formative years Uptown, right up in “the Heights”. He attended IS 132 when it was [...]
CYPRESS HILL, HIGH UP IN THE HEIGHTS
In the early 1990s, Hip Hop was just starting to break through the ceiling that was keeping it tethered to its underground status. The music was in the process of achieving that mass appeal that put it on the path to become the global phenomenon that it currently is. Hip Hop introduced mainstream America and [...]
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