Northern Manhattan Restaurant Week Kicks Off Today
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) That’s right folks; Northern Manhattan Restaurant Week kicks off today and that means a bunch of great deals at some of your favorite restaurants. The promotion also gives you a reason to try some of the spots you haven’t patronized yet. So from an Uptown institution like Coogan’s, to the lighter [...]
Major expansion of business improvement districts is planned for northern Manhattan | NY Daily News
By Douglas Feiden / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A major expansion of business improvement districts — the self-taxing, public-private partnerships that provide services for retail districts across the city — is about to take place in northern Manhattan, the Daily News has learned. One new BID is being developed along a booming, 12-block stretch of [...]
Travel with Val: Tourism push encourages visitors to explore city’s hidden gems – YNN
By: Valarie D’Elia NEW YORK CITY — Inwood, the last stop on the A train at 207th Street, is the comely den for the Columbia Lions football stadium across from Inwood Hill Park, the unsung location of the big rock marking the spot where Manhattan was purchased for a song: $24 worth of beads. “There’s such [...]
Washington Heights Business Improvement District unveils ‘Explora’ marketing campaign | NY Daily News
By Michael J. Feeney / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Washington Heights’ newest marketing campaign was designed with one goal in mind: To motivate people to visit upper Manhattan and explore it. “The bottom line is to drive foot traffic to northern Manhattan,” said Angelina Ramirez, director of the Washington Heights Business Improvement District, which is [...]
Washington Heights Business Group Unveils New Marketing Campaign | DNAinfo
By Nigel Chiwaya, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer The Washington Heights Business Improvement District is launching a new marketing campaign that it hopes will drive customers to uptown shops, restaurants and cultural sites. The initiative, “Explora,” will be a full-on uptown marketing blitz, with light post signs, neighborhood wayfaring maps, discount cards and smartphone apps, all designed to [...]
Dynamic NYC: Off the beaten track – and on the right path | Manhattan Times
By Debralee Santos and Adrian Cabreja For many who come as tourists to New York City, the sights and sounds sought are more likely to be associated with Times Square, Central Park or a window-shopping jaunt down Fifth Avenue – the city as captured by Woody Allen, focused only on Manhattan Island, and only from [...]
Briana’s Postcards From Paradise: Belize
Belize it or not (Twenty countries in my twenties) Words & Photography by Briana E. Heard When I was 22, I was in college in San Francisco and working as a waitress in a Mexican restaurant. Of course in the moment I am never aware of this, but I think I was content. Life was [...]
Briana’s Postcards From Paradise
Just Another Day In Paradise Words & Photography by Briana E. Heard I am here. In Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and, at 10 minutes to 9pm, I believe I am staying in for the night. Not because I am tired or scared, but because I occasionally take heed of what loved ones say to me, and [...]
NYC JOB MARKET ON THE RISE…THANKS UPTOWN PRETTY GIRLS THAT CAN DANCE!
By DeJesus OK…the U.S. Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims unexpectedly rose for two straight weeks, but New York is a whole different story. According to Bloomberg News, “New York City’s unemployment rate fell to 10 percent in March from 10.2 percent in February, the third consecutive monthly decline, with job growth in education and health [...]
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