The Manhattan Times

Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat was named Chair of the Assembly’s Standing Committee on Small Business by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Thu., March 4.

Due to a less than expected number of entries, the local nonprofit Artists Unite has extended its deadline for local artists who want to contribute to its Subway Elevator Poster Project. Artists now have until March 19 to submit their work for the exhibition, which starts in April. It’s the second phase of the project – work from Community District 12 artists is displayed in poster form in the W. 181st Street and W. 190th Street A-train station elevators.

Six posters selected by an Artists Unite panel and approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will be displayed in the elevators starting in April.
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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.

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. 165^th Street. The victim, who was not identified, went missing over the Feb. 27 weekend. Police found her dead on March 1 with what 33^rd Police Precinct Commander Joseph Dowling called a “pretty severe neck wound” in the apartment of Miguel Ramierez, 59.

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.