The Manhattan Times

by Daniel P. Bader

When classes start in the fall of 2011, Washington Heights will have a new school building – the Community Health Academy of the Heights. The $38 to $40 million middle and high school, which is focused on the medical professions, will be built nestled into a lot in the open space strapped lower Heights.

by Adam Garrett Clark

Back in the days when you couldn’t “burn a disk” without a match and lighter fluid, record stores like Quisqueya Records on Sherman Avenue between Arden and Thayer Streets did good business. They specialized in Latin music – famous and obscure merengue, bachata, salsa and pop – all imported from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. They were specialists, providing access to music you couldn’t easily find in the U.S.

by Adam Garrett Clark

On the back wall of Jimmy Oro Restaurant on W. 181st Street near Bennett Avenue, a flat screen television displays a slideshow of the faces of Washington Heights: old women smiling, young men surprised, children with their thumbs up, stoic fathers with their families – it’s a catalogue of the neighborhood captured by Owner Jimmy Lee while his customers dine.

Long time community resident/activist, Gladys Hyman, passes at age 92.

by Adam Garrett Clark

When parolee Juan Gonzales was caught with “dirty” urine a few months ago, he was given an alternative to being sent back upstate to prison – 30 days at an intensive drug treatment program in Washington Heights.

by Daniel P. Bader

When I first met Janifer Wilson, she recruited me to pull a television out of her car’s trunk and carry it back to her store, Uptown Sister’s Bookstore and Cultural Center on W. 156th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

These are a few of the Web sites and blogs that are helping to build online communities in Northern Manhattan.

March Community Board 12 Meetings