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Science teacher Susan Chea walks down the hall of Muscota New School, her arms full with wooden blocks and colorful paper. She’s headed to Victoria Dallas-Stephenson’s combined second- and third-grade classroom.
When Almirca Santiago, her skin butterscotch brown, sits down to fill out the 2010 census form she’ll likely get snagged at questions eight and nine – race and Hispanic origin.
It’s hard to make a living without citizenship. So hard that Altagracia Ortega and her sister, Miguelina, woke up at 6 a.m. to get on a bus and head to Washington, D.C. in the hopes that Miguelina might someday become a citizen.
The teen who allegedly stabbed a bully 16 times on the George Washington High School campus earlier this month had set off the metal detector while carrying in a steak knife, but a security officer using a hand-held metal detecting wand failed to locate the weapon and allowed him to pass through.
A group of three teenagers have accosted at least three women in the vicinity of Bennett Avenue and the W. 184th Street A-train entrance.
Washington Heights
Residents of 450 Audubon Ave. have not had heat or hot water for eight months
It was a cold winter for residents of 450 Audubon Ave. The roughly 400 people who live in the building have been cooking and heating bath water on hot plates and electric burners for eight months.
Shhhh! For the inaugural Manhattan Times “Where’s My Peeps?” contest, we invited readers to treat the seasonal marshmallow candies called Peeps as if they were tourists to Northern Manhattan, photographing them visiting the area’s sites.
Artist: Domique Gonzalez-Foerster
Title: chronotapes & dioramas
Exhibited: The Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace, Broadway between W. 155th and W. 156th Streets
Despite the local trend, the owners of Bangkok Heights, the new Thai restaurant on W. 181 Street and Pinehurst Avenue (what was formerly Jesse’s Place), have no interest whatsoever in fusion. A cook in New York restaurants for nearly 40 years, co-owner Noy Tongchareon remembers 10 years ago when everyone was obsessed with mixing Asian ingredients with American or European cooking methods. “Everything was fusion, fusion, fusion,” he said.
Parkland. An amphitheatre. Restaurants. Residents brainstormed ideas for the unused industrial stretch of Inwood shoreline known as Sherman Creek at a workshop on Sat., March 20.
Everyone lives within a budget. Some budgets are tighter than others. Of the 28,000 people over 60 living in Northern Manhattan, it is the elderly, on the tightest of budgets, who are able to benefit from the meals, social services, and activities at the nine senior centers in our neighborhood.
April 1 is Census Day. The short, 10-question forms – which will show up in your mailbox this March – must be postmarked and mailed by the April 1 deadline.
As we approach another budget season, my goal is clear - to protect your money, plain and simple. What New York State truly needs rights now is a serious effort to find fresh ways to get our fiscal house in order. In an effort to help close the substantial state budget shortfall in the governor’s proposed budget for the coming year, I've been working to uncover inefficient government spending and develop productive solutions to put taxpayer dollars to better use.
Inwood Heights
Some blogs feature original work while others serve as aggregators of information about a certain topic. Inwood Heights is the latter, culling information about the neighborhood while also “gifting” it with a new name: Inwood Heights.
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