The NYPD released the above video of three males believed to have staged a home invasion robbery on W. 176th Street in July, the second one within a week in the immediate area.
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This week the NYPD released information about a Fri., July 23 robbery where victims were tied up in their home near W. 176th Street and Wadsworth Avenue that was less than a week after a similar crime took place several blocks away.
A report to City Council members on the findings of the Committee on Ethics and Standards regarding Northern Manhattan Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez has been delayed.
Time Warner's Inwood payment center at W. 219th Street and Broadway (top photo: Orubba Almansouri) will be closed on Sept. 3. After that date uptown customers will have to visit the new center on W. 96th Street and Broadway (bottom photo courtesy of Time Warner) to pay their bill in person or to exchange equipment
Eddy Cadena had just spent four hours waiting to swap his old cable box out for a new one at the Inwood Time Warner Cable Customer Service Center on Broadway and W. 218th Street.
On Aug. 13, candidates running for state office reported the campaign contributions they had received since July, the second of three official accounting reports before the Sep. 14 Democratic Primary.
Watch out bikers and rollerbladers: there are new kids on the block, and they are coming fast and are here to stay. What started as a widely recognized sport below 14th Street has now become an adrenaline rush in Washington Heights.
Robert Martinez (in front, wearing glasses) teaching Tai Chi. PHOTO NAncy Bruning
by Nancy Bruning
Sometimes you just have to go for it and try something whether you fully understand it or not. Such was the case with me and the free Tai Chi and Qi Gong classes in Fort Tryon Park.
When Greenwell Produce opened its doors June 17, at the corner of Broadway and W. 193rd Street, customers began arriving. Most saw the new store from the street and wandered in. As the summer rolled on, word spread and some customers began arriving from farther away.
The spirit of the law SB1070, promulgated recently in the state of Arizona, has sunk into the mind of the most conservative, or reactionary persons, at the political and social level. If we relate the effects of this xenophobic law in the City of New York, we will understand, though we do not justify, the atrocities perpetrated in the last days against Mexican immigrants, particularly in Staten Island.
Editor’s note: This op-ed is being reprinted from the blog http://williecolon.com with the permission of the author.
A special ethics subcommittee charged Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) with 13 counts of violating House rules and federal laws, including conduct reflecting discreditably on the chamber.
According to a recent article in the New York Times, the most frequently opened fire hydrant in the city is in Uptown, the one at Thayer Street and Sherman Avenue to be exact. I am not sure if we are to be proud of that dubious distinction but when I was a kid, there was nothing like frolicking in an open fire hydrant on a scorching day.
