Real Estate This week marks the second year that the tenants at 452 Ft. Washington Ave. living in the 2-line have not had bathrooms in their apartments. In January 2008 water soaked the floors, walls and beams in the building. Tenants say the water came from a hole in the roof. Landlord Dorothea Levine believes a broken pipe on the fifth floor is to blame. No matter what caused the damage, contractors entered each bathroom in the line and completely removed the fixtures and floors, leaving little besides wall studs and plastic sheeting in their wake. Read More
Community News A Taxi and Limousine Commission pilot program that will establish street-side livery cab stands probably won’t come to Northern Manhattan. Read More
Community News A controversial nightspot on W. 207th Street has been effectively shuttered by the State Liquor Authority. According to a statement issued by the SLA the Dec. 30 suspension was ordered after receiving reports from the 34th Police Precinct of a number of violent incidents at the basement pool hall, on W.207th Street near Nagle Avenue. Read More
 Community News Northern Manhattan’s politicians have pledged tougher punishment for those who sell potent alcoholic mixes dubbed “nutcrackers.” Read More
Community News Police say a 17-year-old teen was followed by four other teens into his building at 25 Cooper Street and jumped. Read More
Community News The Riverside Oval Association announced on Jan. 6 that they have sold out the first 300 -calendar run of 2010 neighborhood calendars with rarely-seen photographs from the turn of the twentieth century to the late 1930's of the neighborhood between W.155th and 158th Street between Broadway and the Hudson River. Read More
Community News Thai, Dominican-French, couch potatoes and other food for thought Perhaps it is the ongoing spat between the Food Network and Cablevision, or Bloomberg’s new plan to cut the salt content of what New Yorkers eat, or the collective craving of 200,000 Northern Manhattanites who suddenly find themselves on New Year’s resolution diets. Whatever the reason, most of the Shhhh! items that came over the wire last week were food related. Read More
Money & Success To get to the broadcast booth of 95.9 MetroFM, producer Juan Alberto Mercado has to walk past the barber chairs and hair clipping at GLJ Hair Studio in Inwood, go down the stairs and through a door into an electric green sound studio. Read More
Health & Fitness by Adam Garrett-Clark Columbia University Medical Center is currently contacting patients who participated in a controversial drug study conducted ten years ago that was reported in a lengthy investigative news story on the Huffington Post this fall. Read More
Uptown Dining Standing behind the bar on a slow Tuesday afternoon, teacher-turned-restaurateur Sally Recio laments at the rough treatment her three-month-old menus have received. In between replacing button and rope latches on her handmade menus she rushes outside to the sandwich chalk board after she realizes one of the workers incorrectly penned the “pepper steak” special as the “Pepe steak.” Read More
Health & Fitness Fit in the City Pilates has been on the periphery of my fitness life for decades. I knew it had a glamorous past –the original studio was a magnet for elite dancers, actors, and athletes who wanted to heal, condition, and re-align their bodies using “the method.” Today, it’s got the bling again, with celebrities and athletes including Jennifer Anniston, Madonna, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sally Field, Ben Stiller and Gwyneth Paltrow singing its praises. Read More
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