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Inwood
Fifth-grade students place first in national chess competition
Six fifth-grade students from P.S. 98, located on W. 212th Street in Inwood, won first place in the Burt Lerner National Elementary Chess Championship, held on May 7-9 in Atlanta, Georgia. Although the students have competed in local tournaments throughout New York City, this is the first time that they've traveled to a national tournament. There were 2,059 chess players from around the country at the event.
The view looking out from the windows in the stairwell of I.S. 52 on Academy Street looks a lot better than it used to. Where an old, temporary building once stood blocking the view for so many years, there is now an unencumbered view of the middle school’s brand new track and field.
There are political battles brewing in Northern Manhattan's delegation to state and federal government that voters will decide during the Democratic Primary in September. It seems that the Congressional seat will experience a real primary election, after almost two decades a new Assembly person will be elected and a state Senate race is on the horizon. In this political atmosphere, even Assembly Member Herman “Denny” Farrell appears likely to face his first primary opponent since 1992. As of yet, no major Republican candidates have been announced to challenge any of the seats in these heavily Democratic communities.
Police report that Elias Peguero, 18, was found shot inside a bodega on 10th Avenue around 11 p.m. on Wed., May 5. The victim, a Bronx resident, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are investigating. This is the first reported homicide in the 34th Police Precinct this year.
According to sources familiar with the negotiations, the future of the Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda Post Office on W. 180th Street is secure for at least two more years. The Postal Service has a verbal agreement with the landlord of 555 W. 180th Street to extend the lease for the space for 26-months.
The Partnerships for Parks and the New York City Parks Department have declared Isham Park as a site for it’s My Park Day 2010 Volunteer activities on Sat., May 15 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Volunteers from Bruce’s Garden, Yes We Can Inwood and Volunteers for Isham Park will clean-up, grading and soil preparation for planting on the eroded, southeast-facing hill of the Isham Park, the entrance walk near Isham Street and Park Terrace West, as well as paint the tool shed in Bruce’s Garden on Park Terrace East west of the cul-de-sac or northern entrance to Isham Park.
W. 181st Street looking west. The Washington Heights Business Improvement District encompasses the street and a large portion of St. Nicholas Avenue.
The committee investigating the operations of the Washington Heights Business Improvement District wants to sit down with area shop owners to talk about the services the BID provides.
The pair of storms in February and March that felled over 200 trees in Northern Manhattan hit Ft. Tryon Park particularly hard. To heal some of the damage to the 75-year-old park, the Fort Tryon Park Trust is hosting a fundraiser on Thu., May 27 from 6-9 p.m. The trust will honor local resident and New York Times Reporter Jim Dwyer at the event.
It’s about 14 miles from South Ferry to Inwood, via Broadway, and in one day a group of people, brought together by the Upper Manhattan Experience, took every step. We walked the length of Manhattan.
If you’ve walked through Inwood Hill Park on a recent Sunday afternoon, you have probably noticed a bunch of hoops in different colors lying against a tree. If you don’t see them, you can’t miss the people of all ages from the neighborhood hula hooping in unison to music.
In a city brimming with arts and culture, attention tends to focus on events happening under the shimmer of Midtown Manhattan. But for Rich Stout, musical director of the Cornerstone Chorale, the markedly dimmer lights of Washington Heights-Inwood are a comfortable home for the only classical community chorus north of W. 125th Street.
Jakob Hostetter and his winning design for the Uptown Arts Stroll Poster Contest. PHOTO: Mike Fitelson
The Food Palace is a unique place. The shelves are stocked with items from all over Europe and beyond. There’s cheese from Paris, buckwheat from Levonia, kosher bread from Israel. The refrigerated cases house a sizable selection of homemade Eastern European meals, sides and desserts. Labels with Cyrillic writing abound.
I think I’m going to have to get a spray bottle.
Artist: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923)
Title: “Visión de España” (‘Vision of Spain’), 1911-1919
Exhibited: The Hispanic Society of America, 613 W. 155th St. (entrance on Broadway)
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by Gail Gerber with Tom Lisanti
Peter Fonda showed up at the carriage house on East 36th Street one rainy night in November of 1967. Terry had known Peter from the time he arrived in Hollywood in 1964 when it was a sleepy town in the doldrums between cinematic highs, and the children of the great stars of another era were trying to develop careers … or not. Terry and I would spend time at the Malibu home of Bobby Walker where we met and became friendly with Peter.
May 3 – May 8
The week began with the Uptown Collective (UC) highlighting a Wall Street Journal article on Lou Dobbs’ recent trip to the Christian Academy on W. 205th Street. Lest you have forgotten, former CNN anchorman Lou Dobbs’ daily televised tirades against immigrants help to lay the groundwork for the heavy-handed new immigration law in Arizona. Well, now that he is contemplating a Senate run in 2012 in neighboring New Jersey, he has decided to re-invent himself, a la Madonna, as a friend of the Latino community.
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