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 Community News
The ancient Mayans and Aztecs of Mexico made books called “codex” out of tree bark and vellum to document their lives and history in pictures. Artist Felipe Galindo wants to make his own codex, by hand. Titled “Manhatitlan,” the book’s images will be about the Mexican experience of living in Manhattan. Read More 
Community News Washington Heights was a different place back then. An adolescent Frank Butera would walk out of his 6th floor apartment across the street from his pop’s shoe store, brushing past a group of girls playing potsy on W. 181 Street, with a mitt in one hand and his mother’s broom stick in the other. Then he’d set out to round up 11 other neighborhood boys to chip in for a 20-cent Spaldeen ball. Read More
Community News As the brouhaha over City Council Member Robert Jackson’s endorsement of district leader Mark Levine to replace State Senator Eric Schneiderman – should he decide to run for another office – enters a second week, the senator appealed to all sides to stop bickering until he decided whether or not to run for attorney general, a post now held by Andrew Cuomo. Read More
Community News Northern ManhattanMan killed on Audubon Avenue, Northern Manhattan’s first for the yearAccording to the Daily News, an early morning brawl led to the stabbing death of a 23-year-old near Vibe Lounge on Audubon Avenue between W. 175th and W. 176th Street on Jan. 24. Read More
Community News On tourism “In the Heights” It’s a question that local community and business leaders have long asked each other: Why don’t our neighborhood institutions, businesses and restaurants enjoy the benefits of a more robust tourism industry? Read More
Community News Strauss Auto, the auto parts store with a long history in Washington Heights on Broadway and W.175th Street, is liquidating its merchandise and closing for business. Read More
Real Estate The official name of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s new 120,000-square-foot, $250 million building is the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center, but the staff are already calling it “The Heart." Read More
Uptown Dining On a whim in the winter of 1985, 18-year-old Shamin “Sammy” Ahmed and his wife hopped into his beat up Audi Fox and headed north on Broadway from his father’s Indian Restaurant on Sixth Street. Read More
Health & Fitness Fit in the City If you liked playing “red light, green light” when you were a kid, boy are you going to like the “30-Minute Express” workout at the new Planet Fitness on Dyckman Street. As the name implies, if you’re in a hurry, you’ll like it even more. Read More
Opinions Perhaps it’s the grind of having to return to work and all of the responsibilities of the mundane day-to-day dealings of ordinary life not interspersed with holidays every other week. Or, perhaps it’s the cold weather and lack of sunshine on the psyche of our collective Northern Manhattanite minds, but when it comes to making it through the doldrums of winter online, I find myself turning to bright, vibrant photos on Flickr and various blogs. The saturated colors, interesting subjects, and the fact that the sun is now setting after 5 p.m. make the dead of winter a bit more palatable. Read More
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