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Community News Manhattan’s two top cops, Deputy Inspectors Joseph Dowling, who leads the 33rd Police Precinct, and 34th Police Precinct Commander Andrew Capul, have both been at their commands almost as long or longer than the men they replaced. Read More Community News In the face of the utter destruction that last week’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake wrought on Haiti and its capital, Port-au-Prince, Northern Manhattanites have spent the week since Jan. 12 mobilizing and collecting donations. Read More
Community News Last summer a “nutcracker” business operating out of a Northern Manhattan bodega made $20,000 in sales, according to its owner. And that was with a direct competitor and former business partner operating next door out of a barbershop. Read More
Community News
 Washington Heights
Last step for Joseph’s ShoesAfter 89 years of business, Joseph’s Foot Comfort Center, a pillar in Washington Heights on W. 181 Street near Bennett Avenue, is going out of business. But according to Owner Joseph Butera, whose father named the store after him when it opened in 1921, this isn’t another gentrification or recession story. Read More
Real Estate The real estate market in Northern Manhattan finished the year off better than expected. After a reported 50 percent sales volume drop when comparing the third quarter to 2008’s numbers, the local market rebounded in October, November and December, equaling the number of sales from the same period last year, and, in a sweet deal for sellers, reporting increased prices on co-op sales. Read More
Health and Fitness
Halfway up the jagged rocky incline, slick with ice, you can see the snow pattered across the forest floor below. The trees are bare, perfect for seeing a red tailed hawk spread its seven-foot wing span, a sight that “makes you forget about the cold,” Urban Park Ranger Rob Mastrianni says. Read More
Uptown Dining Every weekday morning for the last 10 years or so a little after 8:30 a.m., George Conk ties up his yellow Labrador Retriever, James, outside Vicky’s Diner on W. 187th Street, takes his usual seat in the corner by the door and has the usual: a bowl of oatmeal, glass of grapefruit juice and a coffee. Read More
Community News A political grenade was lobbed onto YouTube yesterday although the size of the explosion won’t be measured for some time. Democratic District Leader and Barack Obama Democratic Club founder Mark Levine posted a 4-minute, 22-second clip of City Council Member Robert Jackson throwing his support behind Levine in a possible run for the State Senate seat now occupied by Eric Schneiderman and coveted by Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat. Read More
Opinions As a result of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, on January 15, Secretary Napolitano announced that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has designated TPS status to Haitians. Read More
Opinions If the Internet is a great place for communities to virtually meet and talk about common interests, it should be no surprise that volunteer groups, thrift shops (so-called “social enterprise businesses) and traditional small businesses are bolstering their physical shops with a virtual presence while contributing to the communities where they live. Read More
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