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The year was 1952. Robert Prendergast was a medical student at Columbia University and a member of the heavyweight rowing crew team.
Below is a summary of the monthly Community Board 12 General Meeting, held Tue., Nov. 23 at the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood.
Assembly Member Herman “Denny” Farrell, State Senator-Elect Adriano Espaillat, and Assembly Member-Elect Guillermo Linares will speak about the economic issues of New York State at the next Washington Heights and Inwood Chamber of Commerce meeting.
Whether you feel the need to give away your “gently worn” winter coat because you are moved by the holiday spirit, you ate so much for Thanksgiving it no longer fits, or you’re looking for an excuse to buy a new one, drop it off at the toy and coat drive be staged around Ft. Washington Avenue.
Over two dozen scouts and adults from the Washington Heights-based Troop 729 and Venture Prep for Girls spent a weekend in November in Fredericksburg, VA where they visited the historic town of Fredericksburg and the Civil War battle sites of Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg (including the Chatham House pictured here). On their return they also visited Fort McHenry in Baltimore, where Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the “Star Spangled Banner” during the War of 1812.
The annual turkey drive by the 34th Precinct Community Council and Inwood Community Services, Inc. passed out 210 turkeys to families in Washington Heights and Inwood in the lead up to Thanksgiving.
Martin Collins has joined the staff of City Council Member Robert Jackson. FILE PHOTO
Martin Collins had as much to juggle in the days leading up to Thanksgiving as anyone preparing for the holiday’s traditional mix of food, family and football. The coordination between himself and his relatives was such that it required a conference call for a plan of attack.
Local blogger Manhattan’s Peak is urging Northern Manhattanites to decorate their buildings for the holidays in the second annual “Inwood
Shines Bright.”
Here are a few ways you can ring in the holidays in Washington Heights and Inwood over the coming weeks.
Justin, 8, and Jason, 12, show off their hand puppets after performing
“Hercules” at J. Hood Wright Recreation Center.
Socks never seemed so entertaining.
They came in stripes and spots. Some sported feathers. One even had a shining mane. At a makeshift puppet stage at J. Hood Wright Recreation Center, several sets of arms and fingers worked long and hard to bring the otherwise unappealing garments to life.
Tucked into theback of Nostylgia’s men’s boutique is a tea room that complements
the “Ivy League meets lumberjack” the store’s fashion sense.
Nostylgia men’s boutique has a new business partner: tea. The soothing, calming and comforting properties of a hot cup of tea will soon enhance the shopping experience at the west Dyckman Street fashion shop.
Tony Perlata’s Inwood Hill Park poster
will be available for purchase at the “Of the Map” holiday market.
The tri-color spectrum of artist Tony Peralta’s newest poster print has a calming effect. The blues and greens offer a soothing reminder of the little piece of paradise that is just steps away for many in the neighborhood: Inwood Hill Park.
by Matt Cutugno
This is the book my father would have written.
It is the winter of my content. Who said that? Doesn’t matter, things are said. It is winter where I am, and I am content.
News that Good Shepherd School is in danger of closing has sent ripples of disquiet throughout Inwood and far beyond, igniting an active, sometimes emotional discussion on the future of the local institution at Isham and Cooper Streets founded in 1925.
November 22 – November 27
We began the week with a story by Uptown Collective contributor and Columbia Journalism School student Chiara Sottile on the possible closing of Inwood’s Good Shepherd Catholic elementary school. One parent and Good Shepherd alumna, Regina Christoforatos, has launched the “Help us Help Good Shepherd School” Facebook page to try and save the venerable neighborhood institution.
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