Around 4:25 p.m. on Mon., Oct. 25, a teenage couple sits on a bench on the W. 207th Street A-train platform sharing ear buds while listening to music. A woman carries her baby while walking from an arriving train. A couple of transit workers take a rest break.
If Dan Russo lived in, say, Iowa, he’d likely be considered a centrist Democrat. But since he lives in the liberal bastion of Manhattan – for the last four years in Inwood – his political views skew him right of the majority of his neighbors who are bathed in Democratic blue.
Northern Manhattan got three mentions in the Village Voice’s Best of NYC 2010 issue, which hit the streets on Wed. Oct, 20.
While they’re positive “best of” mentions, the three paragraphs in the 164-page glossy-covered issue are each a off by just a little bit, highlighting, again, how unknown Northern Manhattan’s neighborhoods can seem to folks downtown.
Job seekers from Washington Heights, Inwood and the Bronx line up outside the Palace Theater in Washington Heights waiting for their turn to meet the 40-plus employers inside. PHOTO: Daniel P. Bader
Frank Guevara has been out of work since July. He’s one of hundreds of people waiting in line at a job fair outside the United Palace Theater- Christ Community Church hoping a job might be waiting inside.
“What’s my job function?” Guevara says, clicking into interview mode. “My job was to clean the parts.”
The Hudson River Group breaks ground at the Dyckman Marina. PHOTO: Daniel P. Bader
When the Hudson River Group, a lawyer, marina expert and a chef, won the contract to redevelop the Dyckman Marina they thought by this time they’d be finishing their second season in business. They were wrong.
Giants defensive lineman Chris Canty helps paint a mural at P.S. 4.
On Tue., Oct. 19, nearly 150 National Football League employees, NY Giants player, Chris Canty, and United Way of New York City brought life to an overlooked schoolyard by installing a new track, painting murals, improving green space, and running a fitness clinic.
Broadway Housing Communities plans to break ground before the end of the year on a $70 million, 13-story affordable housing complex on W. 155th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.
Broadway Housing Communities (BHC) is moving ahead with its plan to build a $70 million, 13-story, 124-apartment affordable housing complex complete with space for a children’s museum on W. 155th Street at St. Nicholas Place.
The hardest part about running the children’s program at the Cloisters is keeping the kids from touching the art.
by Corinne Ramey
Inside a dark room in the Cloisters, 10 small children crowded around tapestries of men hunting unicorns. Their instructor, Britt Eilhardt, led them in a discussion of dogs, unicorns and why the Cloisters has a plant that is also in the Harry Potter books.
“The art we have here is really old,” she said, “and it’s really full of dog pictures!”
According to news Web site DNAinfo.com, police have arrested three men in connection with the recent stabbings of two victims at 736 W. 181st Street. On Oct. 12 police were called to the building when Omari Munroe was found dead with multiple stab wounds to his head and chest. Another man, who survived a stab wound in the torso, has not been identified by police, DNAinfo.com reported.
Cantor Eric Freeman belts out the tune “Anything Goes,” encouraging Paulette Weill (right) and Grace Neidish to dance during lunch at Moriah Senior Center on Wed., Oct. 20. Freeman is launching a new Music Mondays program at the Bennett Avenue center.
For people of a certain age, Moriah Senior Center is best known for the salmon lunches it serves many Tuesdays and the hot soup offered just about every day (even in July!). But beginning in November, two new programs are aimed at attracting new seniors to the Bennett Avenue facility: Music Mondays and Worldwide Adventures on Thursdays.
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A faceless woman rests on large, brightly colored boxes, tied with ribbons. The scene is festive. A red beret sits atop her head, and though her face is featureless, the turn and tilt of her head say her gaze is focused on something in the distance. The painting in its entirety brims with expression, though her countenance reveals nothing.
I like to consider myself a fairly reasonable parent – no breakfast cereals where the first three ingredients are sugar, no processed foods with a dozen cryptic ingredients, et cetera – but when it comes to Halloween, all bets are off.
One of the child life playrooms for younger children and their siblings. There is one of these playrooms on each floor.
by Emily Liedel
When one-year-old Quinn Faerdy has to be hospitalized, which has been every two weeks since his heart transplant 10 months ago, his parents bring him to Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at NewYork-Presbyterian, a one-and-a-half-hour drive from their home in Connecticut.
It has been an honor serving the people of the Upper West Side, Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill and Riverdale as a lawmaker for the last 12 years.
We began the week with a recap of the inauguration of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute’s Art Gallery, the only exhibit space in New York City devoted to works of art by and about people of Dominican descent, on Fri., Oct. 15 in the Dominican Studies Institute Archives and Library on the campus of The City College of New York.
The Manhattan Times, WorkSpace and Manhattan Mini Storage Second annual Trick or Treat / El segundo anual Truco o Regalo Where /Donde: The Inwood Center enter at 5030 Broadway by W. 214th Street. When / Cuando: Fri., Oct. 29 from 3-5 p.m. Cost / Costo: Free/gratis
