With the nation’s economic downturn continuing with little relief in sight, Manhattan Times Video Journalist Zully Ramirez explored how the recession is affecting how local residents shop for groceries at several local supermarkets.
From left to right: Patricia Eakins, Paquita Suarez-Coalla, Sandra Garcia Betancourt, Lola Koundakjian.
Northern Manhattan is a mix of various cultures and languages. As part of June's 8th Annual Uptown Arts Stroll Author and host of the Sunday Best Reading Series Patricia Eakins curated the event Uptown Voices: Writing Across our Cultures, an evening of short stories and poetry read by authors in their native languages. The authors agreed to repeat their performances for the Manhattan Times, which recorded their readings and developed this podcast.
Watch out bikers and rollerbladers: there are new kids on the block, and they are coming fast and are here to stay. What started as a widely recognized sport below 14th Street has now become an adrenaline rush in Washington Heights.
Manhattan Times Video Journalist Zully Ramirez attended two of the closing events of the 2010 Uptown Arts Stroll at the Manhattan Times office and Garden Café in Inwood, documenting the ongoing growth of the local arts community.
Read Mike Fitelson's Op-Ed on the Uptown Arts Stroll here.
A limo was parked outside. Young women in elegant dresses and young men in sharp suits entered the dance floor through gold and burgundy curtains. Parents milled around outside, perhaps staying a beat longer than their sons and daughters would have liked them to.
On Sat., May 15 teens attended a prom much like other proms around the country, with one caveat: the teens were long-term-stay patients at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian, and the prom was being held inside the hospital’s doors.
Teens worked with hospital staff to organize a “Moonlight Masquerade” themed prom.
According to Toni Millar, the hospital’s Director of Childlife, the idea of a prom emerged when the teens were talking about life milestones they miss while being in the hospital.
The first prom was held in 2009. The teen who came up with the original idea of having a prom at the hospital passed away before the second prom in 2010. Millar spoke of the second prom as “a kind of honorarium” to the teen that passed away.
After 40 some-odd years, Peter Walsh, the co-owner of Coogan’s Restaurant on Broadway at W. 169th Street and one-time Columbia Records recording artist, returned to the stage Fri., May 14 in a benefit concert for his wife Suzanne’s summer arts camp for youth.
For the 13th year, Isabella Geriatric Center has given local students money for college through its McFadden Scholarship Fund, named after Isabella’s retired CEO and president Edward J. McFadden. The dozen students were honored Thu., May 13 during a dinner at Isabella on Audubon Avenue and W. 190th Street attended by family members and community leaders.
On the first Thursday of every month the Manhattan Times celebrates Art in the Northern Manhattan Community.
Meet artists, business owners, residents, and opther like minded folks as we explore whats happening in Washington Heights and Inwood. First Thursday Stroll are an outgrowth of the Uptown art Stroll, and sponsored by the Manhattan Times and Northern Manhattan Art Alliance.
Join us on March 4th for our next First Thursday Stroll, we will celebrate Women's History month and devote this stroll to local female artists and entrepreneurs.
During a November tour across the High Bridge, New York City’s oldest bridge that has been closed to foot traffic for decades, Esther Leeming Tuttle remembered the 1920s when the bridge over the Harlem River was where New Yorkers dressed up to promenade in their finery.
After reopening from fire damage, owner Jose Luis Peralta takes us inside his St. Nicholas Avenue kitchen to see the process behind his unique wood-fired chicken.
The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) recently awarded $50,000 in grants to 55 individual artists and cultural organizations based uptown. Watch a montage of animation, short film, paintings to music, and interpretive dance, the previous work of these grantees.
Mangu con los tres golpes, the full Dominican breakfast, is a specialty at El Presidente, on Broadway near W. 165th Street. Watch Chef Fausto Perez reveal the secrets behind this popular plantain mash.
The team that formed L.A. Dodgers slugger, Manny Ramirez and sent two players to the MLB draft last year is once again on the road to becoming "City Champs."
This small pizza shop on Dyckman Street has been in business for six decades, enjoying a loyal following of customers in Inwood and beyond for generations.
New York's largest Balkan music event held at Good Shepherd School in Inwood on Jan. 16 and 17. The event is sponsored by the Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band, an internationally known group of American-born musicians playing traditional music of the Balkans.
