BY Led Black (@Led_Black) “Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise We know that there’s always tomorrow Lean on me, when you’re not strong And I’ll be your…
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By Josmar Trujillo Yesterday, the City announced the departure of Police Commissioner Jimmy O’Neill after three years at the helm of America’s largest police force. O’Neill leaves amid attacks from police unions, a series of police brutality incidents and…
BY Liann Herder On 181st Street and Broadway, a line of green scaffolding surrounds the former Coliseum Cinema. A movie poster from 2005 for “Mad Hot Ballroom” still hangs, faded by the sun. Washington Heights and Inwood have been…
We need your help fellow Uptowners. The Uptown Collective is in the process of developing a new digital tool to better connect our awesome audience to the news, information, events and goods & services in the Uptown community. There’s…
Get ready to be transported to the Middle Ages! The 35th Annual Medieval Festival returns to Fort Tryon Park on Sunday, September 29, 2019 from 11:30 am to 6 pm. The already majestic Fort Tryon Park is magically transformed…
Tom Wright of the NY Daily News penned an excellent opinion piece on how immigrants have resuscitated New York City and the nation repeatedly. Mr. Wright posits correctly that contrary to the ramblings of Tyrant Trump, immigrants are…
Ibram X. Kendi is brilliant. The scholar, activist and author recently penned a must-read piece in The Atlantic that goes to the heart of the patently racist comments made by Tyrant Trump about the four tenacious Congresswomen known as…
Okay, what you are about to read might make you really mad. But the MTA has decided to upset the apple-cart in a big way. Please do not read any further if you easily fly off the handle. This…
By A J Sidransky Shortly after the massacre that occurred last week at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Led Black asked me to write a piece about my thoughts relative to this terrible tragedy. I have to say…
Porfirio Mejia has been the owner of 128 P&L Deli Grocery on Audubon Ave for over six years. Nearly 40 percent of his customers were SNAP recipients. SNAP is the government assistance program that was formerly known as food…