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Photos by Mike Fitelson
After a holiday weekend, Northern Manhattan businesses and residents started the work week Mon., Dec. 27 by digging themselves out of over 20 inches of snow, the sixth laregest snow storm to hit the city since recordkeeping began in 1869.
City University of New York senior vice chancellor Jay Hershenson said he hopes the CUNY in the Heights campus currently located at Good Shepherd School will move two blocks north to the Inwood Center at 5030 Broadway “as soon as possible.”
CB12’s new slate of officers are (from left) Pamela Palanque-North, chair; Geroge Fernandez, first vice chair; Cheryl Pahaham, second vice chair; and Edith Prentiss, treasurer. PHOTO: Mike Fitelson
Below is a summary of the monthly Community Board 12 General Meeting, held Tue., Dec. 21 at Isabella Geriatric Center.
CB12 recommends against liquor license renewal for Monkey Room
CB12 members followed the lead of its Economic Development Committee in five of six cases, voting to recommend five establishments for new or renewed alcohol licenses but deciding against renewal for long-time establishment Monkey Room on Fort Washington Avenue near W. 187th Street.
City Council Members Robert Jackson and Christine Quinn during a unanimous Council vote requiring greater disclosure of safety and criminal activities in the public schools.
The city’s Department of Education and New York Police Department will be required to increase the amount of information they disclose on school safety activity and student discipline after City Council unanimously passed new legislation on Dec. 20.
People's Theatre Project, which just won a Union Square Award, is about to launch two new programs for local teens who have an interest in writing, performing, or social justice issues.
A block of W. 189th Street will soon bear a new name. Merlin German was born and raised on W. 189th Street between St Nicholas and Audubon Avenues. That section of the street will be co-named in his honor after the 22-year-old died in 2008, several years after suffering fatal burns from an explosion in Iraq where he served as a sergeant in the Marines. Turning his tragedy into something positive, German dedicated the rest of his life after the injuries to creating a foundation called Merlin’s Miracles to help children who are burn victims.
Many local hardware stores, like 4476 Hardware Inc. on Broadway, are stocking more green supplies due to customer demand.
text and photo by Laura Gabby
“Greening” an apartment may now be as simple as making a trip to the local hardware store.
Five years ago it may have been a different story. Washington Heights and Inwood residents interested in making their homes more environmentally friendly may have had to do more legwork – going to more distant neighborhoods for environmentally friendly products and doing more research on their own into green practices.
Maria Magdalena Pichardo and her bottles of ponche, also known as coquito.
text and photos by Debralee Santos
If your preference in holiday beverages does not include a thick concoction poured out of a dusty, round canister from the supermarket that your uncle waves under your nose at Christmas dinner, who can blame you?
Rafael Santos works at the container shipping company Embarque San Miguel on 10th Avenue. The busiest season for sending goods and gifts to the Dominican Republic is just before the holidays.
text and photos by Debralee Santos
Forget pining for the sight of someone in the brown UPS uniform at your door, or the flash of white as the FedEx truck double parks at your corner this holiday season.
Think blue.
Contributed by Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, president & co-founder
In concert with the Manhattan Times’ 10-year anniversary issue where community stakeholders were asked to both look back at Northern Manhattan’s last decade and imagine what changes are in store for our future, the Hudson Heights Owners Coalition has reflected on its nearly 20-year role in responding to the community’s needs.
by Richard Pastor
1918-1928
The Good Years
My growing up years were spent in that part of Manhattan known then and now as Inwood. Dyckman Street, its main thoroughfare, was just being paved while most others were still waiting. We lived at 17 Post Avenue, just a few doors north of Dyckman Street, numerically 200th Street, and one block west of Nagle Avenue, above which the now-elevated IRT, which emerges from its tunnel at Dyckman Street, runs. Nagle Avenue was quite built up and populated mainly by the fairly recently arrived Irish who worked as motormen, trackwalkers, conductors, switchmen and changemakers in the subway.
December 20 – December 25
We began the week with a Street Action Profile of one of the skateboarders on the local skate scene, Isaac Jaquez, by our very own Rainey Skates. You may have seen Isaac and his iconic afro skating by the George Washington Bridge. Uptown has a thriving skate scene and the Uptown Collective is there to cover it.
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