The Manhattan Times

MONEY & SUCCESS

Minimum wage goes up. Are businesses ready?

When Production Staffing Manager Carmen Pascual informed her workers that the minimum wage would be going up, she got a mixed response. Read More

ELECTION WATCH

Deadline passes for contesting petitions; Lenny Cendano drops out of Council District 10 race; Aborn to reform juvenile justice system, if elected

Since early June, candidates for city office and their volunteers have been out in the streets asking for constituents' support by signing a petition to have them included on the September primary ballot. Read more

A writer’s life begins to pay off

For years, local author Paul Griffin would wake at 3:30 every morning and write his novels, short stories and screenplays well into the afternoon. Read more

UPTOWN DINING

Life is chill in the Bleu

On a hot summer day the garden space behind Bleu Evolution on W. 187^th Street and Ft. Washington Avenue offers welcome shade and a cool drink. Read more

REAL ESTATE

As credit crisis eases, New Amsterdam tries to start over

With the worst of the credit crisis hopefully behind us, Stein-Perry Real Estate and the New Amsterdam, one of just a handful of newly constructed condominiums in Northern Manhattan, is gearing up its marketing again. Read more

Shhhh!

Shhhh!

Demonstrating once again how music communicates in many different ways, Marjorie Eliot, the impresario of Parlor Jazz, has put together a Sun., Aug. 2 concert to celebrate the life of City Council Member Stanley Michels, who died last year. Read more

Neighborhood Blogwatch

Subject to Change

Inwood resident Gabriel Dunn is a self-proclaimed “geek living in NYC” who likes to collect and display tidbits of somewhat random Internet information on his site “Subject to Change,” which features anything from movie trailers to poems, philosophical quotes to funny photos. Read more