For over seven years now Victor Acevedo has been finding food in the Hudson River. Striped bass, bluefish, sturgeon, herring, blue crabs and even eel can all be yanked from these waters he assures, all for the price of a $10 fishing license and a couple of night crawlers from a bait shop on W. 125th Street.
The chess team at Inwood’s P.S. 98 had a reporter in its midst. The chess-savvy fifth graders were setting up a chessboard in the school library for a photo op and deliberated over the precise positioning of the pieces so that one side didn’t appear weaker than the other. Twelve little hands reached for chess pieces, arguing over strategy and debating each move.
Department of Small Business Services Commissioner Robert Walsh checks to see if a payphone is working on W. 181st Street. Walsh toured the Washington Heights Business Improvement District on May 11 ahead of a report from a committee reviewing the administration of the BID. PHOTO: Daniel P. Bader
Broken payphones, old or missing street signs, graffiti. These were just a few eyesores Department of Small Business Services Commissioner Robert Walsh pointed out during a Tue., May 11 walk along the Washington Heights Business Improvement District with area merchants and appointed and elected officials.
It could be funny, but mostly falls flat, and is certainly inappropriate. A video posted on YouTube on May 2 shows a group of eight or nine teens and boys running past people en-mass in the block-long, dark and musty 190th Street 1-train station tunnel trying to scare people.
Land line telephones in Hudson Heights were off the hook for about three days, along with Verizon Internet service during the last week of April. A contractor for energy provider ConEdison working on Ft. Washington Avenue accidentally cut through a cable responsible for 600 telephone lines, requiring replacement cable and the tedious task of splicing each individual line by a Verizon technician to restore service. For some Verizon customers, like Simone Song Properties wedged between Pinehurst Avenue and Cabrini Boulevard at W. 187th Street, service was out for over a week.
For the 13th year, Isabella Geriatric Center has given local students money for college through its McFadden Scholarship Fund, named after Isabella’s retired CEO and president Edward J. McFadden. The dozen students were honored Thu., May 13 during a dinner at Isabella on Audubon Avenue and W. 190th Street attended by family members and community leaders.
A delicate fan, a crystal perfume bottle, an ornate clock. These handful of personal items are a small window into the 18th century life of Eliza Jumel, one-time owner of the Morris-Jumel Mansion on W. 162nd Street and Edgecombe Avenue.
The Yoga and Drumming Class at Bread and Yoga on W. 207th Street and Broadway adds the traditional Indian Tabla drum into the experience of yoga. PHOTO: Landa M. Towns
by Nancy Bruning
Usually, during a yoga class all you hear is the instructor’s soothing voice and the sound of your own breathing and perhaps that of your neighbor’s. If you’re lucky, you might take a yoga class that includes drumming. Drumming adds a whole new dimension to the experience and practice of yoga.
The longer I’ve lived in New York, the more I’ve added to my collection. Not bric-a-brac, mind you – although that “vintage” stool in our kitchen was rescued from the street. No, I tend to collect people, characters, supporting cast members that help fill out my ongoing sitcom of a life. I never realize how much I rely on these characters until they are written out of the show or go missing – like Fidel-the-Watchdog. Rain, snow or shine, Fidel sits in his fourth floor window across the street from our Washington Heights brownstone chain smoking cigarettes and shouting at violators of parking regulations. But about a month ago, he mysteriously disappeared. I’ve been beside myself ever since.
When someone gets married, they don’t only get a spouse – they get a whole family of in-laws, good or bad. Same goes for buying apartments – you buy into the whole building.
Things are changing Uptown. Business as usual can no longer be business as usual. The businesses that will thrive in the new Uptown are the ones that will meet the demand for more amenities, more variety and better service. The Uptown Collective (UC) began the week highlighting two such businesses that understand the paradigm shift that is taking place.
anhattan will be unionized.
