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Community News
After teaching for four years in Northern Manhattan, Christina Reyes was frustrated. She saw students she had mentored and taught being accepted to college, and then dropping out after one semester. Her students, whose first language is Spanish, couldn’t write well enough in English to perform at the college level. Reyes thinks the problem is institutional, that the students were being failed by the school system, one that is too difficult to change. Read More
Community News
For some Northern Manhattan residents this spring’s census count might mean a paycheck. Read More
Community News
Residents and electeds pack the house for Ydanis Rodriguez’ inauguration
Notable politicians, community leaders and supporters totaling about 800 guests, filed past the construction paper projects of students at the Salomé Ureña I.S. 218 School on Broadway and W.196th Street for the inauguration of District 10 City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez on Sun. Jan. 31. Read More
Community News
On races yet to be run
Shhhh!
Even though the area around W. 168th Street is called the Columbia University Medical Campus it doesn’t feel very campus-like with its heavy traffic and crowded sidewalks. That discrepancy has been on the mind of Dr. Lee Goldman, the University’s executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences and dean of the faculties of health sciences and medicine. Read More
Community News
Last year Nos Quedamos lawyer Pedro Rivera fought for tenants at 4441 Broadway, a building with over 400 safety and Department of Buildings violations, and won a year’s free rent for all 26 tenants. Read More
Community News
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has announced he will sue Vantage Properties, a major landlord in Northern Manhattan. Read More
Real Estate
Northern Manhattan’s building boom was never much more than a pop when compared to the rest of the city. But there are several projects in various states of development, or stalled altogether, that will bring new office, commercial and residential spaces to Northern Manhattan. Read More
Uptown Dining
With the exception of a new Thai hot spot, the latest crop of restaurant openings brings parity to Northern Manhattan’s expanding menu of food options. Hudson Heights’ beloved Sushi Yu II on W. 181st Street saw a new sushi place open across the street. A coffee shop with aspirations of becoming a wine bar was closed and replaced by a coffee-shop-wine-bar in Inwood, and the new Spanish tapas restaurant opening in Washington Heights is focusing on regional cuisine from Galicia, Spain – coincidentally the focus of the neighborhood’s existing Spanish restaurant, Galicia Restaurant, a few blocks south on Broadway and W. 172 Street. Read More
Health & Fitness
Do you awaken at night to help your husband to the bathroom? Do you arrange your schedule to fit your mother’s doctor’s appointments? You are not alone. You are a caregiver, and there is help available. Read More
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