The Manhattan Times

Uptown Look

Black and white coat: Thrift store in North Carolina while visiting family. Red mock turtleneck/cable knit wool sweater: A gift from my mom. Read More

Pols consider tolling bridge, but how would it work?

It can be difficult to get across the University Heights Bridge during rush hour. The 100-year-old, 264-foot span connecting W. 207^th Street with the Bronx sees an estimated 2,000 vehicles cross every hour. Some state lawmakers view each one of those cars, trucks and taxis as a drop in the bucket toward shoring up the teetering Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Read More

41 alleged gang members nabbed in drug sweep

Roughly 200 law enforcement officers flooded the blocks between W. 171^st and W. 174^th Streets west of Broadway during the overnight hours of March 3 to 4, arresting 41 individuals on charges related to drug dealing, weapons and the alleged attack on a rival dealer in January. Read More

The Diners’ Journal – Plenty to do, and eat in Inwood.

The Diners’ Journal is an occasional series about the happenings in and around the restaurant world. Read More

Walking for peace, Buddhist group stops in Washington Heights

On a relatively balmy Sun., March 8, after walking six hours from New Rochelle, a group of nearly 15 people which calls itself Nipponzan Myohoji – The New England Peace Pagoda – took a break at the Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center around 3 p.m. Read More

Northern Manhattanites line up to file their taxes early

News agencies from all over the United States are reporting on what appears to be a national rush to file 2008 income tax forms by a public that faces one of the worst economic crises in decades. Read More