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Melvin Dean, Patrick Gomes and Larry Washington have been a part of Coogan’s Salsa, Blues, and Shamrocks 5K race for almost as long as there has been a race.
Police have arrested the man they believe killed a 43-year-old woman in the Richard F. Sayler House, a supportive housing project on W. 165th Street. The victim, who was not identified, went missing over the Feb. 27 weekend. Police found her dead on March 1 with what 33rd Police Precinct Commander Joseph Dowling called a “pretty severe neck wound” in the apartment of Miguel Ramierez, 59.
Raw, unintelligible shouting is what Schools Chancellor Joel Klein was met with during his Mon., March 1 visit to District 6 during a public meeting at P.S. 48/ P.O. Michael J. Buczek School on Broadway and W. 185th Street.
Hamilton Heights School raises money to replace arts funding cuts
Several times a week students at the Hamilton Heights School on W. 153rd Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue would have special arts instruction – projects that were woven into the curriculum of the class. The instructors came from two groups, the Children’s Arts Carnival, a local organization, and Studio in a School, who would sit down with teachers and plan out lessons that complemented what the students were already learning.
Shhhh!
Erik Roberto, owner of Erik Barbershop on W. 207th Street, thought he was paying too much rent. At the end of each day, which sometimes didn’t end until two or three in the morning, he said he only earned just enough to pay his bills.
Rocky Mount Baptist Church and a new developer have come up with a new, more conservative plan for a new building at the church’s site at 37 Hillside Avenue.
Artist: Christine, a student of Linda Smith and the Through the Eyes of Hope Project
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Eyes peacefully closed, a young Rwandan girl in a hot pink dress stands praying behind a small building. To whom she prays, and for what, is a secret to us. But a small smile playing across the girl’s lips makes us wonder. The hot pink dress may well be one of only a few dresses the girl owns, and a sadness that lies beyond the faint smile indicates that there is more to her story than we can know by simply looking at the photo.
Starting in Inwood, a Brooklyn blogger has set out to eat his way through every pizzeria in the city. He goes only by Colin, lest pizzeria owners catch onto his identity and begin to serve him a “dishonestly good slice.”
Obesity, a plague in Northern Manhattan and in the Latino population in general, comes from a lack of exercise and poor food choices. A new campaign from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is hoping to change those ingrained habits with a new social marketing campaign, which kicked off on Sat., March 6.
This past Monday, March 1 I was joined by my daughter Mayra on a train ride to Washington D.C. for a White House briefing to commemorate Dominican Independence Day. As we arrived, we found an impressive and diverse group of Dominican-American leaders from a number of states, including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The Hon. Dr. Roberto B. Saladin, Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United States of America, was also there as a special guest.
What About the Plastic Animals?
The “About” section of this site says that blogger Joe lives in Harlem, but much of his site crosses the much debated border of Harlem and Washington Heights where Joe “walks around a lot and takes pictures of what he sees.” Most recently that has meant an antique television disposed of in the snow on Ft. Washington Avenue and a photo tour of Sylvan Terrace (one of the most underrated architectural areas of the city, in my opinion). Word to the wise: Should you come across Joe while on one of his walks, he writes he will befriend if you feed him ice cream.
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