Time Travel Tuesdays: In a Shirt-Sleeve Neighborhood, It’s a Wrap Party, With Spirit | NY Times
By SETH KUGEL Published: July 24, 2005 It was not a wrap party you might find in TriBeCa. The red carpet, more of an off-red, actually, was set at an angle so as not to block the sidewalk. The entrance was covered in scaffolding. And the stars showing up at Viva Lounge in Washington Heights [...]
It’s The F***ing Catalina Wine Mixer @ Arka Lounge
Ok people, the Uptown Collective is teaming up with the good folks at Privileged MG for an über-cool after work soirée appropriately entitled It’s the F***ing Catalina Wine Mixer . The magic happens on Friday, June 28th at pioneering establishment Arka Lounge (4488 Broadway). The event is free but RSVP is an absolute MUST! Space is [...]
Put You On: Onomatopeyas Dominicanas
Check out: I Am A Dominican York Dominicanese 101: A Primer 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.
Time Travel Tuesdays: Washington Heights Journal – Where Boundaries Are Melting, a Place to Celebrate Differences | NY Times
By EVAN ABRAMSON Published: March 20, 2009 As he does two Tuesdays a month at 7:30 p.m., Gregory Nuñez lugged a small soundboard and a mic stand down the stairs of his fourth-floor apartment on Post Avenue in Inwood, east of Broadway. Outside, his gray-flecked mohawk was barely noticeable under the street lamps, as young [...]
In Washington Heights, a Bookstore That Knows How to Make the Show Go On | NY Times
By JIM DWYER One evening, Veronica Liu arrived to find all the lights out at Word Up Community Bookshop, the completely implausible store that she and others ran as volunteers in Washington Heights, which is upstate Manhattan. There was no power. They chased down the super, but at the end of it all, not a [...]
Pics From The People: Uptown Nostalgia
Check out: The 2012 Medieval Festival In Pictures Coogan’s Run 2012 In Pictures Uptown Artist – Wallace Flores 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.
Long Ago, a Pilot Landed on an Uptown Street. That’s Where the Bar Was. | NY Times
By COREY KILGANNON Surprise airplane landings always make headlines. Who will forget Capt. Chesley Sullenberger steering a US Airways jetliner onto the Hudson River in 2009? Then there was a Long Island man who touched down on Rockaway Beach in 2011 and, more recently, a stunt pilot who coasted down safely onto a Suffolk County [...]
Word Up Community Bookshop is Back!
Dear friends, colleagues, and neighbors, I am over-the-top excited to let you know that Word Up Community Bookshop—volunteer-run by residents of Washington Heights and Inwood—has signed a lease for a sunny corner storefront at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue, at 165th Street! An official opening date has not yet been set. Stay tuned for updates. I’m not [...]
Time Travel Tuesdays: New Winds at an Island Outpost | New York Times
By MANNY FERNANDEZ Published: March 4, 2007 STANDING behind the cramped counter of Los Guarinos, his bodega in Washington Heights, Joel Olivo deals not in big money but in small change. Jolly Ranchers candies, at a nickel apiece, are among his biggest sellers. Los Guarinos also sells cold beer and cigarettes, but on most days [...]
UC Certified: Art & Protest @ The Shabazz Center
Shabazz Center at the Audubon presents ART & PROTEST June 3 – August 18, 2013 Images of Peace, Protest and Human Rights Photo Exhibit A dynamic collection of images detailing the Social and Civil movements in America through the lens of the camera. This exhibit brings together critically acclaimed photographers to tell a story of [...]
Genesis Restaurant: A Taste of Ecuador in Inwood
BY Karen Silva (@ClassicKaren) Once in a blue moon you’ll bump into a place that will capture not only your heart but your appetite as well. For me, this is Genesis, the Ecuadorian restaurant that has resided in 207th as far as I can remember and has another location in 181st Street. From the Julio Jaramillo [...]
The Uptown Tweet of the Week
Presenting the Uptown Tweet of the Week, our pick that represents the good, the bad, and the lovely in this week’s UC Twitterverse…
Inwood starts to embrace bizarre Columbia athletic classroom building near Baker Field | NY Daily News
Steven Holl-Chris McVoy-designed building looks like a spacecraft — and people like it. By Stephanie Lacy / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS TO SOME, it looks like it landed in upper Manhattan like an alien craft. To others, it’s a praying mantis devouring its young. To others, it is the proverbial sore thumb that sticks out. [...]
The Uptown Tweet of the Week
Presenting the Uptown Tweet of the Week, our pick that represents the good, the bad, and the lovely in this week’s UC Twitterverse… Related: July 4th in the Heights – The Recap The Uptown Tweet of the Week – Hot As Balls Summer in the Heights We invite you to subscribe to the Uptown Love [...]
Uptown Video: I am Ivan (most of the time)
Video by Arlene Schulman (@ArleneSchulman) Meet 27 year old Ivan Perez, a guidance counselor by day and a drag queen by night. I am Ivan (most of the time) is a shorter version of a work in progress. The longer version expects to include Ivan in performance at Mamajuana Dyckman on Monday, June 3, 20132 [...]
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