Uptown Talk: Humorist Felipe Galindo blends the cultures of Mexico & Manhattan in his artwork | NY Daily News
The Washington Heights-based Galindo’s works will be on display in ‘Manhatitlan: Mexican and American Cultures Intertwined’ at the Gallery at the City College of New York BY Clem Richardson Unlike a lot of artists, you won’t find Felipe (Feggo) Galindo Gomez agonizing over a blank canvas in his Washington Heights studio, wondering what he will [...]
After living a nightmare 552 Academy St. tenant sees her street of dreams on horizon | NY Daily News
BY Clem Richardson Iris Bertoni has known 552 Academy St. in Inwood since she was a child growing up in a building across the street. “It was a beautiful building, comfortable and safe,” she recalled. “The owner was South African. He had relatives living in the building. He lived on Webster Ave. in the Bronx.” [...]
Pitbull rescuers use Fort Tryon Park as a bully pulpit to teach owners how to train their pitbulls | NY Daily News
BY Clem Richardson A couple dozen pitbulls are going to get together in Fort Tryon Park on Sunday, and this is a good thing for the much maligned dogs, their owners and the neighborhood. That’s because certified dog trainer Ann King will be teaching the muscular canines — and their owners gathered around the Sir [...]
Claudia De La Cruz’s outreach work helps teens and young women soar like ‘Urban Butterflies’ | NY Daily News
BY Clem Richardson When Claudia De la Cruz explains how she drew on the 2003 Iraq War, the 1960 slaughter of four sisters in the Dominican Republic and urban adolescent angst to create an award-winning organization for teenager girls of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent, it makes sense. De la Cruz, 30, is founder and [...]
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