Time Travel Tuesdays: Lin-Manuel Miranda – In the Heights | NY Times
By MELENA RYZIK Published: March 14, 2008 TO be perfectly clear, Lin-Manuel Miranda did not grow up in Washington Heights, the physical and spiritual setting of his musical “In the Heights,” which opened on Broadway this week. He was raised in Inwood, an area some blocks north with a similar landscape of immigrants, Spanish speakers [...]
In Washington Heights, 4 Mayoral Candidates Woo Hispanics | NY Times
By KATE TAYLOR Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, ventured a few sentences of Spanish. Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, called on Congress to pass immigration legislation. William C. Thompson Jr., a former comptroller, reminded the audience that his grandparents immigrated from the Caribbean. Adolfo Carrión Jr., a former Bronx borough president, simply [...]
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: Exploring Inwood Hill’s Urban Wilderness | NY Times
By ANDREW L. YARROW Published: May 01, 1987 SEVERAL months ago, the northern Manhattan community of Inwood was abuzz about one of the city’s more bizarre acts of thievery in recent memory. Four large trees known as Paulownia tomentosa mysteriously vanished one night from Inwood Hill Park. ”Arborcide,” declared the Parks and Recreation Commissioner, Henry [...]
Uptown Fashion Week Goes Down On February 14th
Uptown Fashion Week The Triangle Building in Washington Heights 530 w. 166th St. Thursday February 14th, 2013, 6:45 P.M. Check Out: http://uptownfashionweek.com/ We invite you to subscribe to the Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us at UptownCollective@gmail.com
Intersection Video: Creatively Inspired Style in Washington Heights | NY Times
By SIMONE S. OLIVER For this Intersection video, we went uptown last week to Washington Heights, to 165th Street and Broadway. The late fall has brought myriad weather patterns to the New York area in recent weeks, and we were curious to see not only what the neighborhood styles might be, but also how people [...]
Attached to the Bronx, but Legally in Manhattan | NY Times
By SARAH HARRISON SMITH When the construction of the Harlem River Ship Canal separated Marble Hill from the rest of Manhattan in 1895, the little neighborhood, perched on a high mound of Inwood marble, was suddenly surrounded by water as if by a moat. Two decades later, when Spuyten Duyvil Creek, to its north, was [...]
Honoring Juan Rodriguez, a Settler of New York | NYTimes
By SAM ROBERTS Juan Rodriguez is not a household name — not yet, at least. In fact, the name has been so lost to history that people cannot agree even on how to spell it. Nonetheless, one version will soon grace street signs on three miles of Broadway in Upper Manhattan, and the honor may [...]
Coogan’s 5K in Jeopardy as Organizer Steps Aside | NY Times
By KEN BELSON The Coogan’s five-kilometer race, a fixture on the New York road running scene for more than a decade as it evolved into a neighborhood party in Washington Heights, may have run its course. Peter Walsh, who started the run 14 years ago, has decided to step aside, citing personal reasons and rising [...]
The U.S. Open Chronicles: Summer in the City | NYTimes
By IRINA FALCONI Irina Falconi, who is playing at the United States Open this year, will write posts throughout the tournament for Straight Sets. She has her own tumblr page, and can be followed on Twitter. On Tuesday, she lost in three sets to Olga Puchkova in the first round of the women’s singles competition. [...]
The U.S. Open Chronicles: Listen to the Music | NYTimes
By IRINA FALCONI Irina Falconi, who is playing at the United States Open this year, will write posts throughout the tournament for Straight Sets. She has her own tumblr page, and can be followed on Twitter. On Tuesday, she lost in three sets to Olga Puchkova in the first round of the women’s singles competition. [...]
The U.S. Open Chronicles: No More Tennis Ghost Town | NYTimes
By IRINA FALCONI Irina Falconi, who will be playing at the United States Open this year, will write posts throughout the tournament for Straight Sets. She has her own tumblr page, and can be followed on Twitter. I’ve been thinking about a solid introduction to my first New York Times blog all morning but haven’t [...]
At La Marina, South Beach Meets Inwood | NYTimes
By LIZ ROBBINS A misty, not-quite-full moon hung over the railroad tracks on Tuesday and peered quizzically onto an expansive new waterfront spot in Upper Manhattan, featuring candlelit cocktail tables, twinkling lights, a beach bar with beds and a covered 200-seat restaurant. La Marina in Inwood, open for a month, seems to be trying for [...]
Thousands March Silently Down Fifth Avenue to Protest Stop-and-Frisk Policies | NY Times
By JOHN LELAND and COLIN MOYNIHAN In a slow, somber procession, several thousand demonstrators conducted a silent march on Sunday down Fifth Avenue to protest the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policies, which the organizers say single out minority groups and create an atmosphere of martial law for the city’s black and Latino residents. Two [...]
At Saggio, a Day of School Revelry, Capped by Wine | NY Times
By ALAN FEUER The neighborhood restaurant plays a limited, but critical, role in New York’s culinary life: It is the place one goes not to be surprised, but satisfied. It’s always a little surprising, then, to find one that’s more than satisfactory. Saggio, a homey, full-flavored trattoria at 829 West 181st Street, is one of [...]
In Washington Heights, a Neighborhood Fellowship Deepened by Tragedy | NY Times
By JOHN LELAND NO one on the floor can say how or why it happened, what made them different from other residents in the building. Maybe it began with a small thing: a cup of coffee brought from across the hall, a phone call at night to make sure the day’s demons were not filling [...]
For Dafnis Prieto, Sunday Is a Time for Meditation, and His Sticks | NY Times
By NATE CHINEN Dafnis Prieto, a Cuban-born drummer and composer, has spent the past 12 years working with some of jazz’s most demanding bandleaders — the Latin-jazz pianists Eddie Palmieri and Michel Camilo, the avant-garde saxophonists Henry Threadgill and Steve Coleman — and forging his own voice as an artist. The recipient of a MacArthur [...]
My Mom Was My Roommate | NY Times
By GISSELLE PEREZ The last time I slept alone, it was in a crib. Ever since then, I shared a bed with my mother. And this was in Washington Heights, a Manhattan neighborhood known for its relatively affordable and spacious apartments. I guess our place, with its four bedrooms, is considered big by many standards. [...]
Scholar and Sculptor, Working Inside the Head and Out | NY Times
By JIM DWYER Snapping open a violin case, Peter Bulow reveals a line of clay heads — fellow passengers from his subway rides, carved on the fly. They fit in the palm of the hand they were born in. This is the sketch work of a sculptor shaping at the speed of the A train [...]
AUTUMN UNFOLDS – Week 14 @ Inwood Hill Park | NY Times
By MARIELLE ANZELONE Four hundred fifty million years ago, seismic forces transformed shale from the ocean floor into the schist that makes up most of Manhattan today. The geologic results are easily seen in the leafless forest. From the high vantage point of our site, we can survey the rise and fall of the island’s [...]
AUTUMN UNFOLDS – Week 13 @ Inwood Hill Park | NY Times
By MARIELLE ANZELONE On Tuesday morning, the woods are sparse and still, reduced to their most basic elements: trees, rocks, terrain. The scene is a frugal study in browns and grays against a big blue sky. The low-angled sun casts sharp light and extended shadows. It feels like December. My fingers are cold, despite my [...]
AUTUMN UNFOLDS – Week 12 @ Inwood Hill Park | NY Times
By MARIELLE ANZELONE A heavy mist shrouds the park on Monday, knitting together the gaps left behind by fallen leaves and restoring our site’s earlier intimacy. The forest appears two-dimensional today. The trees are veiled and ghostly. With the distant landscape hidden, it is easy to focus on what is in front of me. Now [...]
AUTUMN UNFOLDS – Week 11 @ Inwood Hill Park | NY Times
By MARIELLE ANZELONE First, snow in October. Now, at the end of November, unseasonable warmth. On Monday, it reaches 70 degrees in New York, a record for the day. The mugginess is unwelcome; the air feels thick and woolly. A musky, earthy scent hangs in the woods. For an instant when we first arrive at [...]
AUTUMN UNFOLDS – Week 10 @ Inwood Hill Park | NY Times
By MARIELLE ANZELONE A thin layer of clouds filters the sunlight, which casts a muted haze on the forest. The sky is dove gray, the air crisp like a tart apple. This week we expected change, and on Monday morning we were not disappointed. The leafy canopy is gone, both at our site and now [...]
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